President Obama Recognizing the Dignity and Inalienable Rights of Everyone
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. Indeed, the […]
Indiana: Ahmadiyya Blood drive has a dual purpose
Source: jconline.com Its goal is to collect 12,000 pints of blood nationwide by Oct. 11 for the“Muslims for Life” blood drive campaign. After five hours outside Stewart Center at Purdue University the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns Terror (Nairobi mall & Peshawar Protestant Church) Attacks
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President Obama Extends an Olive Branch to Iran in his Speech at the U.N.
By Washington Post Staff, Updated: Tuesday, September 24, 11:21 AM President Obama delivered the following address at the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Sept. 24, 2013. Here is […]
THE AMERICAN FILMMAKER WHO BECAME A FREEDOM FIGHTER IN LIBYA
By Greta Hofmann Matthew VanDyke has had an interesting few years. In 2008, the Baltimore-born filmmaker set off on a three-year motorcycle expedition around North Africa and the Middle East, […]
Abercrombie settles Calif. suits over head scarves
By By PAUL ELIAS MSN MONEY SAN FRANCISCO (AP) – Trendy clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch has agreed to make religious accommodations and allow workers to wear head scarves as part of a settlement of discrimination lawsuits filed in California, lawyers announced Monday. The retailer will now allow hijabs, the […]
Teen prodigy with autism finds home at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute
Teen prodigy finds home at Waterloo’s Perimeter Institute Toronto Star, 22/9/2013 After a month at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Jacob Barnett is thrilled. The young genius, diagnosed with autism at age two, is happy to have found a place where he can do what he loves, reports […]
Pakistan Church Bombings and Nairobi Mall Attack are Al-Qaida’s retaliation for Obama’s Syrian military proposal?
Source: The Daily Beast Pakistani Church Bombing Kills Dozens http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/09/23/pakistani-church-bombing-kills-dozens-photos.html#0414f32e-1388-47e0-8d46-01ba0ea355b6 Were Americans Among the Al-Shabab Nairobi Mall Attackers? by Jamie DettmerSep 23, 2013 5:45 AM EDT Somalia’s al Qaeda affiliate says three Americans joined its assault on an upscale shopping mall in Nairobi that left at least 68 dead. Jamie […]
‘Two Americas’ — now more than ever – 46.5 Million Poor in US
Chicago Tribune: There were two great speeches at the 2004 Democratic Convention — and, in a way, they complemented each other. The first, by a young state senator from Illinois, rejected the notion that America is hopelessly divided politically into blue states and red states: “There is not a liberal […]
Prabhjot Singh, Sikh Columbia Professor, Attacked In Possible Hate Crime
Source: The Huffington Post A Columbia University professor was assaulted on Saturday night in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. According to a New York Police Department source, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who is Sikh and wears a turban and a beard, was attacked at 8:15 p.m. […]
Official: Peru Bishop Removed Amid Abuse Charges
By FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press Associated Press Pope Francis has removed a Roman Catholic bishop in Peru who an influential former prelate says is suspected of sexually abusing minors. Gabino […]
Syria: The propaganda blitz
More than a decade after the war in Iraq, have global media outlets learnt to look beyond the spin? View video here: http://aje.me/1exlBbW This week on the Listening Post: Presidents, propaganda and channelling the media to get the message out: a look at the similarities and differences between Syria in […]
Diesel Burqa Ad: Islamophobic Or Empowering?
Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey Posted: 09/21/2013 8:08 am EDT Huff Post: (RNS) Islamophobic or empowering? Those are among the reactions to a new Diesel jeans ad featuring a heavily tattooed, white woman wearing a redesigned, denim burqa. The slogan next to her: “I Am Not What I Appear To […]
Demand for US-born imams up as mosques struggle to retain new generation of American Muslims
Washington Post: NAHEIM, Calif. — Mustafa Umar, an imam in Southern California, is popular with the Muslim teenagers who attend his mosque. They pepper him with questions about sensitive topics like marijuana use, dating and pornography. Umar, 31, is a serious Islamic scholar who has studied the Quran in the Middle […]
Prayer Alone Heal Mental Illness, Say One Third Of Americans In LifeWay Research Poll
The Huffington Post: A recent study by LifeWay Research has found that a “third of Americans – and nearly half of evangelical, fundamentalist, or born-again Christians – believe prayer and […]
Indiana: Ahmadiyya Muslim group hosting blood drive
Source: jconline.com As part of a national initiative, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Indiana has organized a blood drive from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday in the parking lot of Stewart Center, 128 […]
Farrakhan Delivers Stern Warnings to Obama, the Muslim World and Israel
Louis Farrakhan speaks at the state capitol steps in Montgomery, Ala. on Friday June 14, 2013. Farrakhan and others are holding a caravan across Alabama to encourage the U.S. Supreme […]
From praying to preying? Pastor accused of raping
Source: CNN (CNN) — It would not be surprising for an associate pastor to pray with his parishioners. But Jorge Juan Castro wound up preying on them instead, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday. He is accused of raping more than 20 women, many of whom are Spanish-speaking, undocumented […]
Trafficking case against Saudi princess dismissed
Source: Gulf News Image Credit: MCT Saudi princess Meshael Alayban (right) listens to Arabic interpreter Ahmed Mekhemar during her appearance in Santa Ana, California court on July 11, 2013. Santa Ana: A human-trafficking case against a Saudi princess in the US has been dismissed. The surprise announcement came on Friday […]
U.S. House OKs religious liberty envoy
WASHINGTON (BP) — The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a bill requiring appointment of a special envoy for the promotion of religious liberty in such countries as Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan and Syria. The head of the Southern Baptist Convention’s religious freedom entity hailed passage of the “forward-thinking […]