Huff Post: It has been a difficult year around the world with wars, conflicts and disease afflicting far too many people. Religion has too often played an unhelpful or even harmful role. However, throughout the year there have been stories of people of all different religions standing up for what […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rabbi Geoffrey A. Mitelman, Founding Director, Sinai and Synapses During my seven years in the congregational rabbinate, I had so many people say to me, “I don’t believe […]
Part 1 – Hijab in Christian Denominations By Aisha Stacey- The literal meaning of hijab is to veil, to cover or to screen. It encompasses more than just a dress […]
The Washington Post: by Abby Phillip — Anna Stoehr, 114, uses her iPad at her retirement home in Plainview, Minn. Stoehr made headlines for needing to lie about her age to set up an account on Facebook. Anna Stoehr was 113 years young when she decided it was time for […]
Source: BBC By Michelle Roberts, Health editor, BBC News online Our brains are adapting to touchscreen smartphone technology say researchers who have carried out a study on human volunteers. The scientists […]
Epigraph: And thou (Muhammad) shalt assuredly find those who say, ‘We are Christians,’ to be the nearest of them in love to the believers. That is because amongst them are […]
Upworthy Malala Yousafzai has inspired people all over the world with her activism and advocacy for girls, education, human rights, and peace. But as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever, there’s something special about the impact her story has on teens her own age. When U.S. teens watched a news […]
Source: The Times December, 2014 By Eric Yoffie, he was President of the Union for Reform Judaism from 1996 to 2012. We Americans need to teach about Islam in our […]
libsyn.com: CJ Werleman and Kashif N. Chaudhry discuss fundamentalism of all stripes: Islamic, Christian, and Atheist. Chaudhry is a Pakistani-American physician, journalist, former chairman of the Muslim Writer’s Guild, and recipient of the Presidential Service Award. Listen:
Source: N Y Times: LOS ANGELES — Sony Pictures said on Tuesday that it had secured a limited theatrical release for “The Interview” on Christmas Day. Last week, about 80 percent of the theaters in the United States and Canada refused to show “The Interview” in the face of a […]
The newly appointed Pastor Jeremiah of St. Thomas Methodist church of Glen Ellyn, visited Masjid Bait-ul-Jamaay. He was accompanied by 24 members from his congregation. The visit was specially arranged […]
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITYGLEN ELLYN, IL. CHAPTER Masjid Bait-ul-Jamaay 2 S 510 Route 53 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 For Immediate release: December 18th, 2014 PRESS RELEASE Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Glen Ellyn […]
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazakallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Economist: KAREN ARMSTRONG believes that religion “does lots of different things”. It can inspire people to altruism or ruthless cruelty, and can have both effects at different times. Dissecting this paradox should come naturally to Ms Armstrong. British-born and a former Roman Catholic nun, she has written more than a […]
Liberal America: by Tiffany Willis — The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration. The organization has accused CIA director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes and they’ve called for a German prosecutor to conduct an immediate investigation. This move […]
Related Stories Muhammad Ali gloves fetch $400,000 In pictures: Muhammad Ali Former three-time heavyweight champion boxer Muhammad Ali has been taken to hospital with a mild case of pneumonia, his […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Juergen Todenhoefer’s journey was a tough one: dangerous, but also eye-opening. The author TRAVELED deep into ISIS territory — the area they now call their “caliphate” — visiting Raqqa and Deir Ezzor in Syria, as well as Mosul in Iraq. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was taken by ISIS […]
The Daily Star Judging by the White House’s policy on battling ISIS militants, one might conclude that U.S. officials believe that the Middle East has been afflicted with mass amnesia. If one can remember as far back as World War II, one of the world’s mightiest armies, belonging to Nazi Germany, was defeated by […]
Source: The Express Tribune Blogs By Ahson Saeed Hasan, The writer is a Washington DC based journalist who has written extensively on US foreign policy and South Asian affairs. He tweets @tweetingacho […]
by Rami G. Khouri SUMMARY: Summary Is the global war on terror (GWOT) that the United States launched in 2011 after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks succeeding or failing? After 13 years of GWOT, events this year emphasize the significant development of militant and terror groups who now carry out […]