Source: Huffington Post By Jade Walker; Overnight Editor, The Huffington Post Three scientists — Tomas Lindahl, Paul Modrich and Aziz Sancar — won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Chemistry on Wednesday for “mechanistic […]
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan IBRAHIM NAFFEE Published — Wednesday 7 October 2015 JEDDAH: The Kingdom is hosting for Umrah the American student who was recently wrongfully arrested after a teacher at his school in Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan, who is of Sudanese […]
Carson Calls on IRS to Terminate CAIR’s Tax-Exempt Status Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said CAIR ‘brazenly violated’ IRS rules, noting it is ‘not the first time that CAIR has disrespected U.S. laws.’ BY RYAN MAURO Sun, October 4, 2015 Ben Carson (Photo: CNN Video screenshot) Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is calling […]
Huff Post: by Paul Brandeis Raushenbush — “We know that no religion is immune from forms of individual delusion or ideological extremism. This means that we must be especially attentive to every type of fundamentalism, whether religious or of any other kind.” Two weeks ago I was privileged to report […]
America’s Oligarch Problem: How the Super-Rich Threaten US Democracy An Essay By Markus Feldenkirchen SPIEGEL.DE AFP Poking fun at the über-oligarch: Donald Trump pinatas are displayed in the window of a store in San Francisco’s Mission District. The sky’s the limit when it comes to […]
2015 Nobel prize in physics: Canadian Arthur B. McDonald shares win with Japan’s Takaaki Kajita Physicists win for discovery showing neutrinos have mass CBC News Posted: Oct 06, 2015 5:56 AM ET Last Updated: Oct 06, 2015 7:27 AM ET Arthur McDonald, a professor emeritus at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., is […]
Federal court rejects Ottawa’s bid to suspend niqab ruling SEAN FINE – JUSTICE WRITER OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Monday, Oct. 05, 2015 5:32PM EDT Last updated Tuesday, Oct. 06, 2015 7:09AM EDT https://apis.google.com/u/0/se/0/_/+1/fastbutton?usegapi=1&size=medium&annotation=bubble&width=&hl=en&origin=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fnews%2Fnational%2Ffederal-court-rejects-governments-bid-to-put-niqab-ruling-on-hold%2Farticle26670106%2F&gsrc=3p&jsh=m%3B%2F_%2Fscs%2Fapps-static%2F_%2Fjs%2Fk%3Doz.gapi.en.u_d_RDDKHus.O%2Fm%3D__features__%2Fam%3DAQ%2Frt%3Dj%2Fd%3D1%2Ft%3Dzcms%2Frs%3DAGLTcCOeT4rZ6zm_SePtvWqiOhnN-d5mzQ#_methods=onPlusOne%2C_ready%2C_close%2C_open%2C_resizeMe%2C_renderstart%2Concircled%2Cdrefresh%2Cerefresh%2Conload&id=I0_1444131251951&parent=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com&pfname=&rpctoken=38646473 Print / License AA The Conservative government’s bid to stop a Muslim woman from wearing a face veil […]
By Simran Jeet Singh | October 5, 2015 | 6 Comments (RNS) Chris Harper Mercer who gunned down nine students and faculty at Oregon’s Umpqua Community College disdained religion. According to a classmate […]
Oct 05,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – CHRISTOPHER R. HILL The scenes of desperate refugees making their way through a gauntlet of impediments — including hastily unfurled barbed-wire fences, ill-tempered border guards and angry residents — have been horrific, reminiscent of Europe’s darkest decades. They are a stark reminder that Europe can never […]
Source: Gulf News By Sarah Algethami, Staff Reporter Dubai: Tim Hortons looks to open at least 100 stores annually in the Middle East in the coming years, according to the […]
The neurosurgeon-turned-Republican candidate is spreading absurd lies about the world’s second-largest religion QASIM RASHID (Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus) In his recent anti-Muslim crusade, Ben Carson promoted a disturbing form of religious segregation, claiming that a Muslim should only be president if he or she “renounces the tenets of Islam.” Sadly, just as racial segregationists long […]
Andre Mitchell 05 October 2015 One of the worksheets given to students in Walton County, Georgia, shows Allah referred as the ‘same god worshipped by Jews and Christians.’ Public schools in Georgia have been teaching young children about the basic beliefs of Islam, and their parents are furious about it. […]
Source: Washington Post Canada will hold its federal election in less than two weeks. For months, the contest has been viewed as a three-horse race between the ruling Conservative party of Prime […]
Source: The Globe and Mail Her roots in Canada stretch back through her francophone mother to the 1600s. Last week, wearing her Islamic face veil – the niqab, which has […]
BY Paula Simons, Edmonton Journal Back when my daughter was in elementary school, I accompanied her class on a field trip to Snow Valley. I noticed a group of older […]
Epigraph: Allah sends down water from the sky, so that valleys flow according to their measure, and the flood bears on its surface swelling foam. And from that which they […]
Justin Trudeau vows to ‘bring Canadians together’ at Brampton rally Liberals will release their full platform on Monday, which will include some new commitments CBC News Posted: Oct 04, 2015 2:45 PM ET Last Updated: Oct 04, 2015 10:22 PM ET Play Media Justin Trudeau to ‘bring Canadians together’ 1:56 Justin Trudeau makes […]
Source: Huffington Post By Dominique Mosbergen; Senior Writer, The Huffington Post The extinct creature is believed to have roamed the Earth between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago. When farmer James Bristle and […]
BY MEGHAN WALSH RISING STARS WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because this guy could change the way we think about evolution — and faith. On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s Palo Alto campus and more than 5,000 miles from his home, an […]