City Forced To Allow ‘Reason Station’ Alongside ‘Prayer Station’
Huff Post: A Detroit suburb that allows a “prayer station” set up in city hall must also permit an atheist to set up a “reason station,” a federal judge ordered. […]
9 Facts On The Shifting American Religious Landscape
The Huffington Post | By Antonia Blumberg Posted: 02/26/2015 The United States has long been a majority-Christian country, but it is by no means religiously static. In 2007, Pew Research found […]
You still can not become Canadian without her
Oath Of Allegiance To Queen Stays As Requirement To Obtain Canadian Citizenship Would-be Canadians will have to keep taking an oath to the Queen after the Supreme Court of Canada […]
Muslims for Peace hand out roses in wake of negative news stories
CBC: Muslims for Peace will be handing out white roses in downtown Edmonton Don’t be surprised if a stranger hands you a white rose today. In the wake of a […]
The beekeepers dream: No mess No fuss – Just pure & fresh honey from the Flow Revolution
Source: youtube.com A news update @ entrepreneur.com Support our Crowdfunding Campaign, and be one of the first in the world to experience Flow™ Technology : http://bit.ly/1zZlnj8 It’s the beekeepers dream, […]
ISIS recruit ‘Toronto Jane’ on front line of Iraq, Syria war
Experts trying to piece together identity and role of female jihadi By Nazim Baksh, Adrienne Arsenault, CBC News Posted: Feb 25, 2015 1:13 PM ETLast Updated: Feb 26, 2015 12:57 AM ET Canadian woman recruited to join ISIS 4:40 A Toronto women who left Toronto last year to join ISIS has […]
Lower gasoline prices dampen U.S. consumer inflation
(Reuters) – U.S. consumer prices in January posted their biggest drop since 2008 as gasoline prices continued to tumble and underlying inflation rose modestly, which could allow a cautious Federal Reserve more room to hold off on raising interest rates. Other data on Thursday showed a rebound in business investment […]
Sex education debate at Queen’s Park gets nasty
A Progressive Conservative leadership hopeful is facing accusations of homophobia after criticizing Premier Kathleen Wynne’s revamped sex-education curriculum. As about 300 social conservatives loudly protested Ontario’s new health syllabus outside […]
Ontario Releases Updated Health & Physical Education Curriculum
Ontario is releasing updated Health and Physical Education curriculum to give students accurate information that will help keep them safe and healthy. The province is also providing parents with resources […]
Canada: Edmonton teenage girl headed to fight for ISIS
Young Canadian woman recruited by ISIS 2:42 Nancy Clancy Natalie Clancy Investigative Reporter | CBC News Vancouver Natalie Clancy is an award-winning journalist with a 20+ year track record for breaking stories from coast to coast. Recently, she won several awards for breaking the story about sexual harassment in […]
Don’t blame Snowden for the ISIS fiasco
Summary It was only a matter of time before an American official would use the ISIS stick against the former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden. Whether Snowden had leaked on U.S. surveillance capacities or not, ISIS would certainly have assumed that such capacities existed, and adapted accordingly. What Rogers […]
NY Times Op Ed: Unshackle the United Nations
LONDON — Glance at any newsstand or catch any rolling news channel, and you will be confronted by a seemingly unrelenting tide of horror. Limp bodies pulled from rubble, shells and barrel bombs pounding once leafy neighborhoods. Refugees huddled for warmth or risking life and limb for survival. Mass abductions […]
House Republicans Press Janet Yellen on Stimulus Campaign
WASHINGTON — House Republicans on Wednesday peppered Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, with pointed questions about the central bank’s stimulus campaign and its responsibilities as a financial regulator. Republicans, who control Congress but not the agencies that interpret and execute legislation, appear frustrated with the course of economic […]
Breaking News: US Supreme Court appears in favor of headscarf claim
Source BBC A majority of US Supreme Court justices appear to be supportive of an argument that Abercrombie & Fitch discriminated against a Muslim teenager. Samantha Elauf argued she was […]
The Muslim Times Closely Following Developments in Hijab Case in US Supreme Court
Epigraph: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech.” — First Amendment to the United States […]
Five children hospitalized in possible poisoning in Fort McMurray, Canada
Source: Edmonton Journal BY MARTY KLINKENBERG AND ANDREA ROSS, EDMONTON JOURNAL, FEBRUARY 22, 2015 EDMONTON – Five young children were taken to the hospital in Fort McMurray on Sunday after possibly being poisoned. Officers from Wood Buffalo RCMP received a call shortly after 3 p.m. from firefighters who requested help […]
Muslim’s case takes ‘look’ at Abercrombie & Fitch policy
Source: USA Today By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY8:40 a.m. EST February 24, 2015 WASHINGTON – Samantha Elauf didn’t look like a typical Abercrombie & Fitch sales associate, or “model,” when she […]
US Supreme Court to hear hijab case
WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court will make a rare foray into popular clothing Wednesday to weigh in on accusations that Abercrombie & Fitch illegally rejected a Muslim job applicant because of her hijab. Abercrombie argued that its store policy forbids sales staff — whom it calls “models” — from wearing […]