An Open Letter to Bill Maher From a Muslim American
The problem isn’t Islam. It’s your movement to demonize Islam in the liberal left. Source: Time By Rabia Chaudry, She is an attorney and the founder and president of the Safe Nation […]
We Wasted a Year
Source:Daily Beast: The international community’s failure to coordinate on aid and weapons for the rebels dramatically set back efforts to fight the regime, the secretary of state told opposition leaders. In a private meeting with Syrian opposition leaders, Secretary of State John Kerry said he believed the international community “wasted […]
Muezzin’s call is as deep as lull in the ocean
Kari Ann Owen (Penomee) is a US-based former Jew, who due to various experiences in her life, felt a lack of belonging to American and Western Society and looked elsewhere for guidance. She ultimately found peace in Islam: THERE is no god but God, and Muhammad (peace be upon him) […]
The Radical History of Mother’s Day
Thedailybeast.com: This week, the world’s eyes turned toward Nigeria. While the news that hundreds of young woman had been kidnapped from their schools by the terrorist group Boko Haram was slow to gain our attention, over the last ten days, that changed. Everybody from world leaders to Kardashians have joined the social media outcry. […]
Here are the world’s best and worst countries for mothers
Global Post: by Jess Zimmerman — Just in time for Mother’s Day, Save the Children has released its annual State of the World’s Mothers report, which includes a list and a map of the best and worst places to be a mother. The report collates maternal health, infant mortality, educational opportunity, per […]
Islam and Motherhood
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
What Prophet Muhammad would say to Boko Haram
Source: Fox News By Qasim Rashid: I found myself awake at 3 am, reading the names of my Nigerian daughters—hundreds of them. Some shared the same name as my wife, Ayesha. […]
U.S. Officers Kill Armed Civilians in Yemen Capital
Source: NY Times: WASHINGTON — A United States Special Operations commando and a Central Intelligence Agency officer in Yemen shot and killed two armed Yemeni civilians who tried to kidnap them while the Americans were in a barbershop in the country’s capital two weeks ago, American officials said on Friday. […]
Nigeria abductions: Michelle Obama ‘outraged’
Epigraph: And help one another in righteousness and piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah; surely, Allah is severe in punishment. (Al Quran 5:3) […]
Dr Aziz Hafiz – the new director of international disaster relief Humanity First
Source: thetelegraphandargus.co.uk Dr Hafiz – is heading to Jordan to see if the organisation can help desperate refugees in Syria – will meet UN and British Embassy staff in Amman, and visit a refugee camp. A Keighley-born GP has been appointed to a top post with a charity providing help to disaster […]
US forces ‘on the ground’ in hunt for 276 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls
Source: TOI US First Lady Michelle Obama and human rights campaigner Malala Yousafzai are among high-profile figures to join worldwide calls for the return of the schoolgirls on Twitter. A US task force set up to help find the 276 schoolgirls abducted by the Islamist militant group Boko Haram has […]
Stephen Colbert Warns America: ‘There’s A War On Religion,’ And Satan Is Coming To The Oklahoma Capitol
Source: The Huffington Post Stephen Colbert addressed viewers on The Colbert Report to solemnly say, “I don’t have to tell you, that there is a war on religion in America.” […]
Show This Video To Your Friend Who Is Always On His Phone
Huff Post: Alexis Kleinman — “I have 422 friends, yet I’m lonely.” That’s how writer and director Gary Turk starts his poetic tirade against technology, “Look Up.” He calls his very popular video “a spoken word film for an online generation.” With more than 11.6 million views on YouTube in only 10 days, […]
Issa Condemns Donnelly Comments on Islamic Law
SACRAMENTO, Calif. May 9, 2014 (AP) By JULIET WILLIAMS Associated Press Republican U.S. Rep. Darrell Issa on Thursday strongly condemned comments by GOP gubernatorial front-runner Tim Donnelly, in which the state lawmaker has tried to tie his Indian-American rival to fundamentalist Islamic law, calling his statements “hateful and ignorant garbage.” […]
Shot in Missoula: The Tragic Death of a German Exchange Student
By Karin Assmann, Marc Hujer, Fidelius Schmid and Andreas Ulrich Diren D., a German high school student from Hamburg, wanted to get a taste of American freedom during an exchange […]
Celebrating America’s National Day of Prayer in California
By Jonathan M.A.Ghaffar – BMH News Service The first Thursday in May is designated as America’s National Day of Prayer and all across the country representatives from across the spectrum […]
A follow-up: Islam embraces gender equality
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee Part of the feedback to my April 6 Local View column, “Quran forbids men from hurting wives,” indicated a mistaken inference by some […]
I’ve Seen People Turn Garbage Into Some Cool Stuff. But THIS…. This Is Absolute Brilliance.
The Mind Unleashed — Gregory Kloehn goes dumpster diving, but not for the reason that most people would think. He isn’t homeless. In fact, he is an artist from Oakland that is trying to help the homeless and develop his craft at the same time. Instead of building sculptures that he would sell to […]
Scientists Create First Living Organism With ‘Artificial’ DNA
Huff Post: For billions of years, the history of life has been written with just four letters — A, T, C and G, the labels given to the DNA subunits contained in all organisms. That alphabet has just grown longer, researchers announce, with the creation of a living cell that […]
Boko Haram does not represent Islam
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]