The Huffington Post | By Jacqueline Howard It’s been called the most important ancient human skeleton ever unearthed in North America. But “Kennewick Man”–so named because it was found in […]
Source: msn.com Saudi Arabia is the world’s second-largest producer of crude oil. So the news that the country’s King Abdullah has died certainly has the potential to shake up global oil markets. Already, there are signs of (small) jitters: Shortly after Abdullah’s death was announced on state television, the price of […]
Source: mykawartha.com The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association hosts an open house on Jan. 24 at the Lindsay library as part of a nationwide campaign to promote understanding of Islam Kawartha Lakes This Week By Mary Riley (LINDSAY) A Muslim Youth Association is hosting an open house to further a better understanding […]
The Texas Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Organization is putting on an event titled ‘Stop The CrISIS’ at the UT campus. The event will focus on guarding against radicalization and feature topics like beheadings, terrorism and the recent attack on Charlie Hebdo. The public is invited to attend. The event will be […]
Source: baltimoresun.com | Sinaan Younus, Perry Hall As an American Muslim, I was surprised and angered by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal’s recent comment: “…you’ve got people who want to come to our country but not adopt our values.” I think he confused American values like freedom, justice and individualism with American culture like […]
Source: stabroeknews.com | Maqsood Ahmad I’ve been watching the news about the Paris attacks and their responses. Someone rightly said that if you respond to ignorance with ignorance it will only cause more ignorance. The problem is twofold. Some of the Muslims’ reaction to “blasphemy” is completely un-Islamic, while insulting/mocking is being carried […]
Source:NY Times: The powerful speaker of the New York State Assembly, Sheldon Silver, was arrested on federal corruption charges on Thursday, sending shock waves through the political establishment and upending the new legislative session. Mr. Silver, a Democrat from the Lower East Side of Manhattan who has served as speaker […]
Huff Post: by Ahmed Khan — The dust is beginning to finally settle down from all the chaos that ensued after the Charlie Hebdo attacks with people now intellectually trying to analyze what happened. The initial response, however, included significant vilification of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. It seemed for […]
ET: Let’s say you had a new neighbour. You knock on their door and say, “Hey there, welcome to the neighbourhood. I live next door. Oh, and by the way, you look like a pig. And is that your mother behind you? She looks like a fat old donkey. Dinner […]
The event is so UCR students and others realize that ISIS’s murders “do not represent Islam.” Source: pe.com UC Riverside’s Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Association is hosting a forum Jan. 28 that […]
Source NY Times: Key Democrats have reached agreement on a set of policies known as “inclusive capitalism”: a forceful market-oriented economic agenda intended to counter inequality, restrain the accrual of vast wealth at the top and provide the working and middle classes with improved economic opportunities. More:
Here we reproduce the last third of President Obama’s State of the Union Speech of 2015, delivered on 1/20/2015: There’s one last pillar to our leadership — and that’s the example of […]
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) — President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address slighted foreign policy in favor of touting domestic progress and proposing new domestic initiatives. But there were some foreign policy highlights worth underlining. 1. Obama pushed back hard against hawks like Senator John McCain, who […]
The Koran Does Not Forbid Images of the Prophet. (SAW) By Christiane Gruber 1/9/15 at 4:43 PM NEWSWEEK.COM http://www.newsweek.com/koran-does-not-forbid-images-prophet-298298 The Charlie Hebdo killers were operating under a misapprehension. Topkapı Palace Library Filed Under: Opinion, Islam, Religion, freedom of speech In the wake of the massacre that took place in the […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is siding with a Muslim prison inmate in Arkansas who sued for the right to grow a short beard for religious reasons. Read further […]
Source:CNN I Report via Bushra Mahmood Je ne suis pas Charlie. I am Muslim, and I am hurt. Dear terrorists, jihadists, extremists, Assalamo Alaikum (Peace be upon you) I greet you with the traditional Islamic greeting because the Prophet Muhammad (may the peace and blessings of God be upon him) […]
Editor’s note: Please locate a 5 minute, very recent video in CNN, about this issue. Does Christianity cause children to die, like Islam promotes terrorism? It is a rhetorical question; […]
edition.cnn.com: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent book is “Masters of Mankind.” His web site iswww.chomsky.info. The views expressed in this commentary are solely his. (CNN)After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 […]
By: Emily Steel, New York TimesPublished: 13:10 January 19, 2015Gulf News New York: The veteran CNN anchor Jim Clancy has left the network after a series of Twitter messages he […]
Brookings: by Richard V. Reeves and Edward Rodrigue —- What would Martin Luther King Jr. think of America in 2015 if he’d lived to see his eighty-sixth birthday today? No doubt, he’d be pleased by the legal and political advances of black Americans, crowned by the election and re-election of President Obama. […]