Salon.com: When Nelson Mandela died last month, I envied South Africans who had worked alongside him for freedom: Americans haven’t gotten to see many of our icons of justice get that old. My immediate thought was of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., assassinated at 39, though Bobby and John Kennedy, […]
Source: muslimwriters.org My column last month entitled “Focus on God should not be split” generated a few letters in response. You can read my Dec. column here. One letter came from Mr. George C. in Ontario and another from Mr. Tom V. in Chino Hills. Thank you both for your letters — […]
Source: muslimwriters.org Originally published in Zion-Benton News It is unfortunate that Islam is a misunderstood religion. As a practicing Muslim living in America, I feel it is my responsibility to clear […]
Germany and the US appear to be edging closer to political confrontation. The Federal Prosecutor says there is sufficient evidence to open a politically explosive investigation into NSA spying on […]
By Gary F. Zeolla What do the Bible and the Book of Mormon have in common? They both claim to be the Word of God. Also, major portions of both describe supposedly historical events. The Histories The historical portions of the Old Testament in the Bible primarily focus on the […]
JERUSALEM POST If the pro-peace camp take on the struggle with the same messianic zeal that the settlers and the peace spoilers have displayed until now, perhaps there is still […]
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Immigration appeal delays separate couples for years Indrani Banerjee waited three years for a decision from immigration on her spousal sponsorship. Now, she must wait two years for an appeal hearing. Toronto Star, Jan 20, 2014 Indrani Banerjee wants to bring her husband, Mazhar Elahi Khan to Canada. She’s […]
Epigraph: O ye people! be mindful of your duty to your Lord, Who created you from a single soul and created therefrom its mate, and from them twain spread many […]
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(Reuters) – President Barack Obama banned U.S. eavesdropping on the leaders of close friends and allies on Friday and began reining in the vast collection of Americans’ phone data in a series of limited reforms triggered by Edward Snowden’s revelations. In a major speech, Obama took steps to reassure Americans […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/6.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2013/09/03/n-cost-of-college-rising-education-middle-class-jobs.cnnmoney Yale, Harvard and some of the nation’s other most expensive and prestigious colleges are unveiling plans to boost enrollments of low-income students. At a White House summit on college […]
examiner.com: An important U.S. Congressional hearing onPlight of Prisoners of Conscience was held by the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at Capitol Hill today, it is reported. The Chairman of the […]
By Daniel Pipes: The Washington Times, December 27, 2013 The year 2013 marks the centenary of the reported founding of the Canaanite Temple in Newark, New Jersey. That was the very earliest form of an indigenous African-American Islam, one completely distinct from normative Islam, the 1,400 -year-old religion from Arabia founded by […]
Source: Huffington Post By Tom Krattenmaker: Author, ‘The Evangelicals You Don’t Know’ Do you “believe” in evolution? A new survey reveals that your answer can be predicted in large part by your […]
The Huffington Post | By Jaweed Kaleem If you pray and wear your underwear inside out, will your team win the big game? Two weeks ahead of the Super Bowl, […]
Source: The National Memo By Cynthia Tucker Last week, Republicans marked the 50th anniversary of Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty by denouncing it as an abject failure. Rep. Steve Southerland (R-FL), performed a mathematical sleight of hand in declaring that “more people are living in poverty than ever before.” The […]
Source:CNN.COM (HLNtv.com) — “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson is ruffling feathers again, this time for comments he made years ago about how girls should marry when they’re still teenagers. “They got to where they’re getting hard to find, mainly because these boys are waiting ’til they get to be about 20 […]
By Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson Had he lived to see January 15th, 2014 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would have been 85 years-old. He would have witnessed the death of […]
Source: CNN I am sure that many marriage equality opponents reading this are shouting “I told you so!” as their predictions that plural marriage would follow same-sex marriage come nightmarishly true. Many grew up as I did, in a time and place where the single-wage-earner nuclear family was the unquestioned […]