A People’s History Of Muslims In The United States
Yemen Times: When I teach history related to Islam or Muslims in the United States, I begin by asking students what names they associate with these terms. The list is […]
‘Chaos’ reigns as deadly tornadoes slam several states
By Ed Payne, Joe Sutton and Devon Sayers Mayflower, Arkansas (CNN) — A brutal band of severe weather battered the central Plains and mid-South late Sunday, killing at least 16 people in Arkansas and […]
Muhammad the Messenger of Peace: A Successful Conference, In Dayton, Ohio
By Mirza Mahmood Ahmad The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Dayton recently took a bold step in organizing a conference in the University of Dayton this year on April 8th. The theme […]
Obama responds to alleged racist comments by Clippers’ Don Sterling
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the […]
Circumcision Can Prevent Prostate Cancer If Performed After The Age Of 35
The Huffington Post: There’s good news and bad news, chaps. The good news is that researchers at the University of Montreal and the INRS-Institut-Armand-Frappier have shown that circumcision can hep […]
Robert Fisk: Yet another betrayal of the Palestinians ‘Barack Obama becomes the latest US President effectively to give up on the peace process’
Dead in the water. Just as the entire world predicted – with the exception of Messrs Barack Obama and John Kerry and, I suppose, our favourite “peace” envoy Tony Blair […]
Robert Fisk: Yet another betrayal of the Palestinians ‘Barack Obama becomes the latest US President effectively to give up on the peace process’
Dead in the water. Just as the entire world predicted – with the exception of Messrs Barack Obama and John Kerry and, I suppose, our favourite “peace” envoy Tony Blair […]
‘Terrorist name’ bars Swiss passenger from US
A French woman was left stunned this week when she was barred from boarding a Swiss airlines flight to New York from Geneva airport after being told she was blacklisted. […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Miami Talks to Jewish Congregation
Report by Khalid Minhas | Public Affairs and Outreach Director – Miami I was invited by Rabbi Barry Silver to deliver a talk to his congregation- L’Dor Va Dor in Lake […]
New York: Film at 9/11 Museum Sets Off Clash Over Reference to Islam
Film at 9/11 Museum Sets Off Clash Over Reference to Islam By SHARON OTTERMANAPRIL 23, 2014 Photo A film at the soon-to-open National September 11 Memorial Museum on the roots of the attacks has been denounced by an advisory group made up of clergy from different faiths. Credit Damon Winter/The […]
Obama Suffers Setbacks in Japan and the Mideast
Source: NY Times: President Obama offered a toast to Empress Michiko and Emperor Akihito of Japan during a state dinner at the Imperial Palace. CreditStephen Crowley/The New York Times TOKYO — President Obama encountered setbacks to two of his most cherished foreign-policy projects on Thursday, as he failed to achieve a […]
Brampton: Offensive flyers single out Sikh community
Immigration Watch, which published the flyers, insists the “from this … to this” message, with photos of white Canadians and Sikh protesters, isn’t racist. Share on Facebook NICHOLAS KEUNG / TORONTO STAR Order this photo, April 25, 2014 Brampton resident Jamal Jones holds an anti-immigration flyer that was delivered to […]
Book Review: The Moor’s Account by Laila Lalami
About the Book The Moor’s Account is the story of the first black explorer of America—a Moroccan slave who was left out of the history books. In 1527, the conquistador […]
The antibiotics that could kill you
Source: CNN (CNN) — In 2010, Americans were prescribed 258 million courses of antibiotics, a rate of 833 per thousand people. Such massive usage, billions of doses, has been going on year after year. We have few clues about the consequences of our cumulative exposures. We do know that widespread antibiotic treatments make […]
Facebook Knows Everything About You, And If You Don’t Believe Us Here’s Proof
Huff Post: by Taylor Casti — A marketing stunt for the upcoming Ubisoft game “Watch Dogs” is inadvertently allowing users to check how well they’ve set up their Facebook privacy settings. The campaign called “Digital Shadow”, which currently is available only in the US, requests permission to access a user’s account […]
Ottawa: Paramedics respond to Prime Minister’s House
Amid reports of a severely drunk 18-year-old woman, Ottawa paramedics responded to the prime minister’s residence at 24 Sussex Drive early Sunday. Share on Facebook, Toronto Star April 24, 2014 JONATHAN HAYWARD / THE CANADIAN PRESS file photo Last Saturday the prime ministers’ residence at 24 Sussex Drive in Ottawa […]
Obama runs China’s pivot gauntlet
Source: Asia Times. This new Asian security regime is due to be celebrated as the successful implementation of the “pivot to Asia” during President Barack Obama’s visit to the region. (Obama leaves the US on Tuesday for a week-long tour, taking in Malaysia the Philippines, Japan and South Korea.) The question […]
Muslim Man Gives Needy Bus Rider The Shoes Off His Feet And Walks Home Barefoot — Because There Is Good In The World
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — Surjit Singh Virk has been driving buses for sixteen years and has seen it all. But what he witnessed on Saturday on the No. 341 route touched his soul in a way that he’s never experienced before. A man sat alone on the bus […]
Alcohol blamed for thousands of new cancer cases annually in Ontario
Epigraph: They ask thee concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater than […]
Jewish scholar lectures on ‘How Islam Saved the Jews’
AL.com: by Greg Garrison — David J. Wasserstein, a professor of Jewish History at Vanderbilt University, will lecture on “How Islam Saved the Jews” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April […]