Reuters International OCT 3, 2015 – 15:58 By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir Baitul ul Jam-e-Mosque, Glen Ellyn, IL Contact Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir at: Address Masjid Bait-ul-Jaamay 2 S 510 IL Rte 53 Glen Ellyn,IL. 60137 Email: […]
Global Post: WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon seeking the Republican presidential nomination, drew fire last month when he said he would not “advocate” for a Muslim president, but it turns out that most Republicans agree with him. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 23-30, 75 percent of Republican voters […]
Trudeau, Mulcair go on the offensive over niqab issue in 2nd French-language debate NDP Leader Tom Mulcair and Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau went on the offensive over the issue of […]
Huff Post: by Christian Chiakulas — That’s right, I am a Christian, and I don’t believe that Jesus was God. I don’t believe Mary was a virgin, or that God exists as a “trinity.” I certainly do not believe Jesus died for my sins or those of anybody else, and […]
Woolly mammoth bones uncovered in Lima Township By Daniel Bethencourt, Detroit Free Press5:51 p.m. EDT October 2, 2015 Bones to be cleaned and researched (Photo: Courtesy of the University of Michigan) After a full day of digging through a soybean field near Chelsea, researchers at the University of Michigan confirmed […]
Oct 01,2015 – BY RAMI G. KHOURI JORDAN TIMES The bizarre, often make-believe, world of the United States’ fight against dangerous terrorist organisations and militants has suffered a bad few weeks, and there are no signs of things getting better soon. This is a critical moment in that tug-of-war […]
This is disgusting and it is time for us to say stop it’: Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi blasts Tories’ niqab ban COLLEEN DE NEVE / CALGARY HERALDCalgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi and Jason Kenney, federal minister of National Defence and minister for Multiculturalism, in Calgary on July 24, 2015. Twitter National Post […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and of infinite value. Killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:33) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief […]
Bahamas: Watch helpful dolphin retrieve woman’s iPhone from bottom of Atlantic Ocean By Alfred Joyner October 1, 2015 12:23 BST, IBTimes.co.uk An incredible video has been released showing a helpful dolphin retrieving an iPhone that a woman had dropped in the Atlantic Ocean and returning it to her. Teressa Cee, […]
Report by Mirza Mashood Interfaith meetings are always good – they promote better understanding & remove many misconceptions against each other. -Imam shamshad An interfaith program held in west Chicago […]
Source: Salon BY RAYMOND WILLIAM BAKER American propaganda exaggerates the power and moral depravity of the Islamic enemy, in the service of our empire Excerpted from “One Islam, Many Muslim Worlds: […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:33) (CNN) Preliminary information indicates 10 people were killed and more than 20 others injured […]
Americas Niqab row: Canada’s government challenges ruling Zunera Ishaq can wear veil while taking oath of citizenship Stephen Harper’s ruling Conservative party, prone to linking all things Islamic to ‘security’ fears, is going to the Supreme Court to stop the Pakistani-born teacher keeping her niqab on while receiving citizenship. Robert Fisk reports on a […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir Baitul ul Jam-e-Mosque, Glen Ellyn, IL Contact Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir at: Address Masjid Bait-ul-Jaamay 2 S 510 IL Rte 53 Glen Ellyn,IL. 60137 […]
Barbara Kay: Ten reasons to ban the niqab — in the public service Republish Reprint Barbara Kay | September 30, 2015 10:52 AM ET More from Barbara Kay | @BarbaraRKay Allen McInnis/Postmedia News Libertarians […]
BY PAUL WEINBERG | SEPTEMBER 29, 2015 The award-winning journalist Robert Fisk is a rare breed. A lover of the English language, his reporting and analysis of the world’s hotspots cannot resist going after theOrwellian phrases and talking points that are the stock-and-trade of the world’s most awful politicians and […]
Some Stand with Ahmad Economist: AN OUTSIZED Stars and Stripes; a giant car park; a children’s playground prettily flanked by hayfields, whitewashed clapboard houses glistening nearby. Ossama Bahloul’s building has many of the regular accoutrements of southern houses of worship. On his desk inside there is another, miniature, American flag, […]
By Khaled A Beydoun is an assistant professor at the Barry School of Law and an affiliated professor of the University of California-Berkeley Islamophobia Project. Source: BBC Republican presidential candidate […]
“True Islam is of peace, tolerance, respect and brotherhood — Not the one presented or practiced by ISIS or Boko Haram or Al Qaeda or Taliban…“ -Imam Shamshad Members of […]