Americas

Get ready for the ‘blood moon’

By Ben Brumfield (CNN) — Prophecy loves signs from the heavens, and they will deliver Tuesday with a moonlight spectacle. What will happen could sound sort of like this: The moon will turn to blood as it aligns with Earth and sun Then do so thrice more ere a year and […]

US and Saudi Arabia drift apart

Global Post: RIYADH — President Barack Obama’s recent visit to Saudi Arabia was low-key, business-like and bereft of scenes that would indicate the country’s almost 70-year-old special relationship with Washington is back on an even keel. Obama was not received at the airport by a senior prince. The president and King Abdullah […]

The Beginner’s Mind and the Mind of God

Huff Post: by Rabbi Geoffery A. Mitelman — Duquesne University in Pittsburgh is a Catholic university with schools of both theology and sciences, which means that people in different departments often develop friendships across disciplines. Joyce Konigsburg, a doctoral student in theology, got to know Dr. Kevin Tidgewell, a professor of Medicinal […]

First international Holy Qur’an and Science Conference in Toronto Today

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Brandeis Gets It Right on Islam

Huff Post: by Eric H. Yoffie — The task of American Jews and all Americans is to join with our Muslim friends in the fight against religious fanaticism in Islam and in all other religious traditions; it is to promote the values of justice, love, and moderation that are common […]

Extremist Chaplains, Literature Flooding U.S. Prisons

The high number of former prison inmates involved in Islamic terrorism shows inroads the Saudi ‘Wahhabi machine’ in the U.S. By Ryan Mauro Wed, March 26, 2014http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/extremist-chaplains-literature-flooding-us-prisons Related Stories The Virginia-based Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center, an extremist mosque attended by three of the 9/11 hijackers with extensive links to Hamas […]

Palestine’s false friends

April 05, 2014 12:09 AM The Daily Star U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry listens during a news conference with Moroccan Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar following a bilateral strategic dialogue at the Foreign Ministry in Rabat, April 4, 2014. (REUTERS/Jacquelyn Martin/Pool) As the Middle East peace process again appears in […]