Muslim daughter and Christian mother celebrate unity on Mother’s Day
By Colleen O’Connor For The Denver Post When Alana Raybon converted to Islam, her mother, Patricia, — a devout Christian — was devastated, feeling that she had failed her faith […]
Muslim daughter and Christian mother celebrate unity on Mother's Day
By Colleen O’Connor For The Denver Post When Alana Raybon converted to Islam, her mother, Patricia, — a devout Christian — was devastated, feeling that she had failed her faith […]
Agents of Provocation
Huff Post: Analysts and researchers have recently begun to study “sacred values” that are basically deeply-rooted ethical or moral precepts that we hold dear regardless of whether they are political, religious or personal. When these values are provoked, even offering incentives to compromise over them is likely to backfire as […]
Muslim-Bashing Can Be Very Lucrative
Source: The Daily Beast Pmela Geller et al. do it? Sure, they believe it. But they get bankrolled to do it—and on a major scale. People keep asking me why does Pam Geller spew so much anti-Muslim crap? Is it part of her work as a pro-Israel activist? Did she […]
Video shows Delaware police officer kicking man in head
(CNN) Police in Dover, Delaware, have released dashcam video showing one of their officers kicking a man in the head, allegedly “rendering him unconscious.” Cpl. Thomas Webster was indicted Monday […]
Video: Teen accepted by all 8 Ivy League schools chooses Yale
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2015/04/06/new-york-teen-accepted-ivy-league-schools.cnnmoney Source: CNN Money The New York high school senior who was accepted to all eight Ivy League colleges has made his decision. He’s heading to Yale. Harold Ekeh actually […]
USA: Ahmadi Response to Garland Shootings, "Inflammatory Speech No Excuse For Violence"
Zahir Mannan, Meriden The writer is education and devotion director for the Connecticut Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Source: courant.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA urges calm after the deadly […]
USA: Ahmadi Response to Garland Shootings, “Inflammatory Speech No Excuse For Violence”
Zahir Mannan, Meriden The writer is education and devotion director for the Connecticut Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Source: courant.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA urges calm after the deadly […]
The Muslim Times Building its Portfolio on Free Speech and its Limitations
Epigraph: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) […]
Obama hosts anxious Gulf leaders as sands shift in Mideast
Source: ET With Iran emboldened and the United States seen in retreat, President Barack Obama faces the vexed task of restoring lost trust and influence when he hosts Gulf leaders at Camp David next week. It is a meeting that Gulf officials privately describe as “a welcome gesture,” “thrown together” […]
What Is The Future Of Faith? These 10 Millennials May Hold The Answer
What will religion and spirituality look like in the future? We asked 10 millennials to envisioned the future of their tradition or area of interest. We didn’t ask them to predict, but rather to share their hopes for the direction spirituality might take and inspire us to imagine a world […]
The jihad of Pamela Geller (COMMENTARY)
Source: Religion News Service By Bruce B. Lawrence | May 6, 2015 | 35 Comments (RNS) Can poetry be an antidote to poison? Can it provide an alternative to the jihad of Pamela Geller? A life without His love is nothing but slow death. The sum total of love is but three […]
Free Speech vs. Hate Speech
Source; New York Times By The Editorial Board There is no question that images ridiculing religion, however offensive they may be to believers, qualify as protected free speech in the […]
Canada: Bill C-51 passes in House of Commons
CBC: The federal government’s controversial new anti-terrorism bill has won the approval of the House of Commons. The Anti-Terrorism Act, also known as Bill C-51, easily passed third reading by […]
Court rules NSA program illegal
Washington (CNN) A federal appeals court ruled Thursday that the National Security Agency’s controversial collection of Americans’ phone records, first revealed by Edward Snowden, is not legal under the Patriot […]
Poll: Republicans want religious system in U.S
World Bulletin / News Desk A Public Policy Polling (PPP) national survey conducted between February 20th and February 22nd of Republican voters, found that an astonishing 57 percent of Republicans […]
What Pamela Geller Advocates Is Not Free Speech
Source: Time By Qasim Rashid is an attorney, author of EXTREMIST, and national spokesperson for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. There’s an important history behind America’s free speech laws to which […]
NDP wins in Alberta ending Conservative 40 year rule
Rachel Notley rides stunning orange wave in Alberta: Tim Harper Alberta goes NDP in a sweep that ranks with the most seismic shifts in Canadian political history. Share on Facebook Alberta’s premier-elect Rachel Notley was almost giddy in her victory speech, promising new ideas and a fresh start after making […]
The Calgary mother fighting radicalisation in Syria
Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent 5 May 2015 From the sectionMagazine Christianne Boudreau: Searching for answers Canada is thousands of miles away from the war zone in Syria and Iraq – yet the self-styled Islamic State has recruited young fighters to join its cause. Can the lessons from the death of […]