The State of Kuwait has donated one million Canadian dollars (approximately USD 807,000) for construction of an Islamic centre in Toronto, the Ambassador to Canada Hussein Al-Sammak announced. Al-Sammak […]
ENLARGE U.S. army trainers instruct Iraqi army recruits at a military base in Taji, Iraq, in April. PHOTO: JOHN MOORE/GETTY IMAGES By YAROSLAV TROFIMOV Updated June 25, 2015 8:11 a.m. ET 113 COMMENTS BAGHDAD—In a tent city under a highway overpass in Baghdad, refugees from Iraq’s Sunni province of Anbar […]
After Charleston, sorrow for our defiled houses of worship Members of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church engage in a moment of silent prayer Sunday for Charleston shooting victims and their families. | Dillon Deaton ddeaton@charlotteobserver.com BY SUNEET KAUR Last Wednesday, a young man sat with members of a Bible study group […]
Washington (CNN) Obamacare has survived — again. In a major win for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision that the Affordable Care Act authorized federal […]
Source: BBC In the wake of the shooting death of nine African-American churchgoers in Charlestown, South Carolina, many politicians and public figures called for a public conversation on race and […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaedacarried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants. But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may […]
The Holy Month of Ramadhan is a spiritual month for over a billion Muslims around the world who are encouraged to show appreciation and remembrance to their Lord and offer sacrifices for the good of mankind. In this spirit, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Metro Detroit will conduct the following programs […]
Women are making major strides in the military, rising to leadership positions and breaking boundaries like never before. But there’s still a scary undercurrent of sexism and sexual assault, and it starts early, according to a new op-ed in the New York Times. Ashley Anderson and Elizabeth Deutsch, two Yale […]
Stephen Harper holds Ramadan meal at 24 Sussex for Muslim leaders Prime Minister Stephen Harper may have made Canadian history Monday night, inviting Muslim leaders to 24 Sussex to break […]
The Huffington Post | By Paige Lavender June 26, 2015 President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s funeral. According to a White House official, Obama and […]
The Huffington Post | By Paige Lavender June 26, 2015 President Barack Obama will deliver the eulogy at Rev. Clementa Pinckney’s funeral. According to a White House official, Obama and […]
The Huffington Post | By Carol Kuruvilla Posted: 06/22/2015 4:43 pm How White Christians Used The Bible — And Confederate Flag — To Oppress Black People On Jan. 4, 1861, […]
The Associated Press | By DEB RIECHMANN Posted: 06/23/2015 WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans stand united in rejecting the targeting of any religious or ethnic […]
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posttv/c/embed/76129302-1950-11e5-bed8-1093ee58dad0 Source: Washington Post President Obama hosted an Iftar dinner Monday night to mark the Muslim holiday of Ramadan and to reach out to the roughly 1.5 billion Muslims around […]
By Catherine E. Shoichet, Ashley Fantz and Holly Yan, CNN Charleston, South Carolina (CNN) A day after thousands mourned the slayings of nine black worshippers at Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal […]
Washington (CNN)—President Barack Obama used the n-word to make a point about the reality of racism in America during an interview released Monday with comedian Marc Maron. Obama weighed in […]
Washington (CNN)—President Barack Obama used the n-word to make a point about the reality of racism in America during an interview released Monday with comedian Marc Maron. Obama weighed in […]
Source: The Guardian Lawsuit brought by Muslims rounded up after 9/11 gets go-ahead from court In all, 762 detainees were swept up across US, including 491 in the New York […]
The prayer in Chino, coinciding with Ramadan — which from its Arabic root means scorching heat or dryness — included clergy from Christianity, Sikhism, Hinduism and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Source: sbsun.com Prayer for rain is actually common across different faiths, said Dr. Ahsan M. Khan, president […]
Source: thespec.com To educate and dispel some of the myths about Islam, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community launched a Canada-wide campaign on Wednesday called Fast with a Muslim Friend. Participants register online […]