China calls on U.S. to scrap meeting between Obama and Dalai Lama
Hong Kong (CNN) — China has urged U.S. President Barack Obama to call off a meeting at the White House with Tibetan spiritual leader the Dalai Lama that’s scheduled to take […]
Islamic Roots of America
Summary of book al’America by J. Curiel Islamic Roots of America, Zakaria Virk, Toronto, Canada Sometime ago I had the pleasure of reading a book al’America by Jonathan Curiel. The book is fascinating, jam-packed with astonishing facts about Islam in America. Columbus knew that without Arab knowledge, his discovery of […]
Atheist And Muslim Presidential Candidates Face The Most Bias
Huff Post: While ninety percent of Americans would vote for a black, a woman, Catholic, Hispanic, or Jewish presidential candidate, only 54 percent would vote for an atheist and only 58 percent would vote for a Muslim according to a Gallup poll below. Gallup first asked this question in 1937 referring to […]
‘Religious Understandings Of Science’ Study Reveals Surprising Statistics
Huff Post — The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) recently released a large-scale study on the “Religious Understandings of Science,” and it’s findings might surprise you. The survey of 10,241 respondents investigated views on religion, science and faith and took particular interest in the responses from evangelicals and people working […]
SOWELL: Galling betrayals in Iraq, Afghanistan American sacrifices lost in return to tribal violence
by Thomas Sowell. The Afghanistan government’s recent release of dozens of imprisoned terrorists, many of whom had killed Americans, was a galling betrayal of those Americans who died defending Afghanistan […]
American Ahmadi Muslim Students on faith & Racism
Source: muslimwriters.org | Mirza Haseeb I am an American Ahmadi Muslim middle school student. I was born in America and will never leave it. I love this country, America, because this country is my […]
Islam’s mark on racial equality
Source: muslimwriters.org A white has no superiority over a black nor does a black have any superiority over a white except by piety and good action. -words of Prophet Muhammad during […]
5 Reasons to Be Religiously Literate
Huff Post: by Andrew Shwartz, M Div. — There’s a big move by millennials — and Americans in general — to move away from religion. Religion, it seems, is nothing but trouble. Religion seems responsible for war and violence, it continues to be the driving force behind the persecution of […]
At Newark Airport, the Lights Are On, and They’re Watching You
Visitors to Terminal B at Newark Liberty International Airport may notice the bright, clean lighting that now blankets the cavernous interior, courtesy of 171 recently installed LED fixtures. But they probably will not realize that the light fixtures are the backbone of a system that is watching them. Using an […]
US under fire in global press freedom report
Daily Times: PARIS: Conflicts continued to weigh heavily on the media last year but press freedom was also under increasing threat from abuses by democracies like the United States, Reporters Without Borders said on Wednesday. In its annual World Press Freedom Index, the Paris-based media rights watchdog warned of the […]
The Dangers of Lost U.S. Credibility in the Middle East
The Diplomat: by Bobby Woods — As Iran’s newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, undertakes a major charm offensive that seeks to woo U.S. President Barack Obama, many Americans are left to wonder whether Iranian promises of greater cooperation are valid or simply a stall and ruse. Obama has repeatedly said […]
Canada Welcomes Mossad Assassin, Offers Him New Identity
By Richard Silberstein Canadian media offers a shocking new development in the intelligence wars. This involves a honeypot security officer working for Canadian immigration. Her assignment was to romance an alleged Iranian spy. Sometime during their year-long romance, one night after having a few drinks too many, she told him […]
“Princeton Mom” is back with the same terrible advice: Ladies, plan for your husbands, not your careers!
Salon.com: Susan Patton wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion column that is so intentionally terrible and goading that I kind of want to pinch its cheeks. It really is that adorable. “Smarten up, ladies,” the Princeton Mom begins. And by “smarten up,” Patton means land a man while you are still in college, because […]
Man and woman die while trying to retrieve a cellphone from Chicago river
By: Sarah Weiss (Scroll down for video) Three people fell into an icy river while trying to retrieve a cellphone. Two people have lost their lives and one is hospitalized, […]
NSA Australia allies ‘spied on US law firm’ in Indonesia row
Source: BBC Australian spies tapped a US law firm representing Indonesia in a trade dispute with the US, new leaks say. The 2013 document obtained by the New York Times does not […]
The Redeemed Church of God preaches the gospel in US
Source: BBC By Jason Margolis The Redeemed Christian Church of God was founded in Nigeria in 1952, and is now spreading across North America Continue reading the main story Related Stories African church spreading Gospel in US Watch For centuries, European and American missionaries have gone to Africa to spread […]
Meteorological madness.
Source: CNN There is method to the meteorological madness. And it has served to spread the weirdness around the world, from the American West all the way to Russia, a climate expert from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said. The drought parching California; those two snowpocalypses in the South; […]
Understanding Why Americans Seem More Religious Than Other Western Powers
Huff Post: This article first appeared in Sacred Matters housed at Emory University. Many Western Europeans think of Americans as hopelessly, bafflingly, and dangerously, religious. Many Americans think of Western Europeans as distressingly, inexplicably, and unrelentingly, secular. In 2009, the German sociologist Hans Joas observed that “it is widely accepted that the […]
USA: The Black’s History Month event at Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque
Source: post-gazette.com | ADNAN AHMED | Imam Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Pittsburgh | Wilkinsburg February is the Black’s History Month. This month provides us an opportunity to recognize the contribution of black Americans to American history. […]
The politics of religious liberty: Joining forces for freedom
Economist: PEOPLE can usually recognise an egregious violation of religious freedom when they see one. Take two cases that were mentioned in a recent speech by Barack Obama on freedom of conscience round the world. Kenneth Bae is a Korean-American missionary who has been sentenced to 15 years’ hard labour by the […]