The two Muslim narratives
JewishJournal.com: by Qasim Rashid – The Muslim world finds itself amidst a battle of two narratives — one of oppression and one of justice. The oppressive narrative enforces death for […]
Why Jews win so many Nobel prizes
Forget the genius genes or bookish culture hocus pocus. Jewish achievement in the sciences is a modern phenomenon, but the passions that drove it are now ebbing away. Haaretz, By […]
Breast Milk Donated or Sold Online Is Often Tainted
Source: NY Times: A cottage industry has sprung up facilitating the sale and donation of human breast milk on the Internet, but a study published Monday in the journal Pediatrics confirms the concerns of health professionals over this unregulated marketplace. More:
Assessing the Slave Trade
The Voyages Database The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database comprises nearly 35,000 individual slaving expeditions between 1514 and 1866. Records of the voyages have been found in archives and libraries throughout the Atlantic world. They provide information about vessels, enslaved peoples, slave traders and owners, and trading routes. A variable (Source) […]
B.C.’s largest mosque opens its doors: Hopes to teach community about Islam
vancouversun.com: The Ahmadiyya Muslim community started out in the basement of a small house in Burnaby in the mid 1960s. Now prayers are said in a new $8-million mosque in […]
USCIRF to President Obama: Raise Religious Freedom Concerns with Pakistani Prime Minister
Source: Press Release During his October 23 White House meeting with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, USCIRF urges President Obama to raise concerns about the dire religious freedom situation in […]
U.N. tells U.S. to release drone assassination data
Salon.com: A report by a UN expert urges the US to ‘release its own data on the level of civilian casualties’ caused by drone strikes and attacks the lack of transparency surrounding CIA and US special forces drone operations. Ben Emmerson, a British barrister and UN special rapporteur on counter-terrorism, […]
Women Make Better Doctors Than Men
Time: At least that’s what a recent study of diabetic patients found. But the boys shouldn’t pack up their doctor kits yet. In a new report released by the University of Montreal, investigators found that women outperformed men on certain metrics of patient care. Valérie Martel, a masters candidate in […]
Man Picks Up Restaurant Tab After Overhearing Strangers Getting Diagnosis (PHOTO)
The Huffington Post | By Rachel Tepper A waiter at a Boston-area restaurant witnessed an act of kindness on Tuesday night that’s warmed hearts across the internet. “While waiting tables […]
Why I Will Never, Ever, Go Back to the United States
Huff Post: by Neils Gerson Lohman – After a year of traveling, I had planned a last, short trip. I was going to take the train from Montreal to New Orleans. The travels I had been undertaking earlier this year had brought me to places that were meant to form […]
More American Jewish Students Are Studying the Arab World
NY Times: Miriam Berger studied Arabic at Wesleyan University, lived twice as a student in Jordan, did thesis research in the West Bank and, after graduation, worked in Cairo. And like many of the Americans she has met each step of the way, she is Jewish. “I don’t see it […]
Federal workers back on the job
WASHINGTON (CNNMoney) With the 2013 government shutdown ended, President Obama has ordered all federal workers to get back to work Thursday. But it’s especially tricky getting the word out to all 450,000 employees, who have been home on furlough during the shutdown. Federal law prohibits workers on furlough from accessing […]
Women Are the Only Adults Left in Washington
Time: At one of the darkest moments of the government shutdown, with markets dipping and both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue hurling icy recriminations,Maine Republican Susan Collins went to the Senate floor to do two things that none of her colleagues had yet attempted. She refrained from partisan blame and proposed a […]
Muslim Americans more popular than the Tea Party
Tea Party favorites Rand Paul, Ted Cruz, Sarah Palin and Larry Klayman spent most of last week bashing Muslims and introducing the “Quran” and “Allah” to the shutdown and debt ceiling debate that they are losing in Congress. Unfortunately for them, Muslims are in fact more popular and viewed more […]
Interfaith discussion aims to build bridges
Participants at UCI event seek greater understanding of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. By Hannah Fry October 16, 2013 | 5:49 p.m. Experts in Judaism, Christianity and Islam recently discussed the similarities and differences among their religions during an interfaith panel at UC Irvine. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Student Assn. hosted Love […]
Pennsylvania, US: Hundreds attend Muslim festival in Bensalem
Source: phillyburbs.com Hundreds of Muslims gathered in Bensalem on Wednesday for services marking the festival of Eid-ul-Adha where the faithful remind themselves of the necessity of self-denial and submission to […]
Fear and loathing in House of Saud
Source: Asia Times: Every sentient being with a functional brain perceives the possibility of ending the 34-year Wall of Mistrust between Washington and Tehran as a win-win situation. Here are some of the benefits: The price of oil and gas from the Persian Gulf would go down; Washington and Tehran […]
Senate reaches deal to end shutdown, avoid default
Source: CNN Washington (CNN) — Senate leaders on Wednesday worked out a deal to reopen the government and avoid a potential U.S. default as soon as midnight, sources told CNN’s Dana Bash and Ted Barrett. Formal announcement of the agreement will come at 12 noon ET on the Senate floor, a […]
Asia: What’s at Stake for America
Source: The Conservative Papers: The Heritage Foundation’s Asian Studies Center recently released “A New View of Asia: 24 Charts That Show What’s at Stake for America,” an annual publication highlighting the critical importance of U.S.–Asia relations. The report documents in graphic form important economic, geographic, military, and political trends in the region […]
Sheriff: Taunting post leads to arrests in Rebecca Sedwick bullying death
By Steve Almasy. Kim Segal and John Couwels, CNN Winter Haven, Florida (CNN) — The attorney for a 14-year-old Florida girl charged with aggravated stalking that allegedly led to the suicide of a 12-year-old classmate told CNN that her client isn’t responsible for a controversial Facebook post that led to the […]