Washington Post: Which intoxicating substance is associated with the most lethal violence? Devotees of the Wire might presume that cocaine or maybe heroin would top the list, especially if you asked the […]
Source: ET A Canadian imam known for his pacifist sermons warned Friday that militant group IS was actively recruiting in Canada and said one member issued him a death threat. Syed Soharwardy, founder of the Islamic Supreme Council of Canada (ISCC), called on Canadian and Western authorities to intensify the […]
Fareed Zakaria| The Daily Star Hillary Clinton was expressing what has become Washington’s new conventional wisdom when she implied, in her interview with Jeffrey Goldberg in The Atlantic, “moderates” might have prevented the rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS). In fact, America has provided massive […]
Watch the video in CNN Source: The Huffington Post A group of dinosaurs roamed across a patch of ground in southeastern Utah around 125 million years ago, leaving behind more […]
Epigraph: “So go on reminding; surely, reminding is profitable.” (Al Quran 87:10) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times In the Sermon on […]
A profile of the top students from around Greater Toronto. Toronto Star 2014/08/23 PHOTO COURTESY OF NATISA JEYAKANTHAN Natisa Jeyakanthan is a top student in the Durham District School Board. By: Kristin Rushowy Education Reporter, Published on Sat Aug 23 2014 Meet the brainy bunch. The top graduating students […]
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/us/2014/08/23/ctn-pkg-valencia-suspended-officer-video-comments.cnn By Greg Botelho, CNN updated 5:56 AM EDT, Sat August 23, 2014 (CNN) — A Missouri police officer involved in maintaining security in troubled Ferguson was put on administrative […]
The President came the nearest he has come yet to rivalling George W Bush’s gormless reaction to 9/11 by Robert Fisk, The Indepedent The “caliphate” has some pretty tough theatrical producers. They write a bleak and savage script. Our job is now to respond to each line, and they understand […]
Christine Fair, a security affairs professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, has written extensively on Pakistan’s powerful army. Her new book, “Fighting to the End: The Pakistan Army’s Way of War,” analyzes the ideological culture of the country’s security establishment. In an interview with RFE/RL correspondent Malali Bashir, Fair said Pakistan’s […]
Source: Stratfor: Their 35-year-old mutual enmity notwithstanding, the United States and Iran have cooperated against a common jihadist enemy in the past, such as when they worked together to topple the Taliban regime following the 9/11 attacks. Relations quickly soured again when U.S. President George W. Bush’s administration declared the […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2014/08/15/ferguson-missouri-race-economic-divide-poverty-income-unemployment-segregation.cnnmoney NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The protests in Ferguson, Missouri, have laid bare America’s ongoing racial divide. One source of that tension is the large financial gap between black and white Americans. […]
Kindly click on the images to zoom them. 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
Source: BBC Macy’s is to pay $650,000 (£390,000) to settle claims it racially profiled and detained ethnic minority shoppers at its flagship Manhattan shop. Under a deal with New York’s […]
Posted by Salma Javid Khan Source: examiner.com Amidst the continued unrest in the Middle East and many other parts of the world, a group of Muslims came together for a three-day convention […]
Question: As-salamu `alaykum. It’s that I need some hope for the hereafter. I am going to be committing suicide in the coming days, and I just want to know if there is hope for me in the Day of Judgment and the hereafter. I have been considering suicide for years […]
Global Post: BERLIN, Germany — European leaders reacted to the execution of an American journalist with shock and horror Wednesday. A spokeswoman for German Chancellor Angela Merkel said she was “horrified” by the video depicting James Foley’s beheading by members of the militant group Islamic State, or IS, released on YouTube on […]
President Barack Obama spoke Wednesday on the execution of American journalist James Foley at the hands of Islamic State militants, warning the group that they have “no place in the […]
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Macy’s must pay a $650,000 fine to settle complaints that it’s staffers wrongfully accused minority shoppers of stealing. New York’s Attorney General Eric Schneiderman started to investigate Macy’s, which has 42 stores in New York State, in February 2013 after receiving complaints about racial profiling. “The office […]
Source: The Star OTTAWA—Khurram Syed Sher smiled outside the courthouse Tuesday after being reminded he had been acquitted a few moments earlier on terrorism charges by a Superior Court Justice […]
Huff Post: by Karl Wilder — When I was a little boy, I was taught to love Jesus. Jesus would save me from sin and guarantee my place in heaven. Early on my mother’s husband “Bob” gave me a picture of Jesus with a wooden frame. At the time I […]