By MATTHEW LEE — Sep. 24 2:02 PM EDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — American officials say Secretary of State John Kerry will sign a landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting this week. The officials said Kerry will sign the Arms […]
Source: Toronto Sun BY SHAWN JEFFORDS ,TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 11:10 PM EDT | UPDATED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 05:51 AM EDT TORONTO – The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable status of an Islamic group after it says it distributed over $280,000 to an agency allegedly linked to a terrorist organization […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]