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What a West Oak Lane building’s transition from synagogue to church to mosque says about religious nonviolence: ……….. A local beacon of hope It started 66 years ago when a […]
BBC: With more than 50 million Hispanics living in the US, the Latino community is now the country’s biggest minority. While most are brought up within the Catholic Church, a […]
Source: Undivided US Blog In the ongoing debate over Islam and democracy, Bangladesh, the eighth largest country in the world, with 164 million people—90 percent of them Muslim—is, oddly enough, seldom discussed. Yet Bangladesh has been a democratic, parliamentary republic since 1991. The country will hold new general elections no […]
August 17, 2013 – 10:14 Record numbers of United States expatriates, including those resident in Switzerland, are turning their backs on their home country as the side-effects of aggressive anti-tax […]
By Editorial Board, WASHINGTON POST IN THE spring of 2011, Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad responded to the first massive protests against his regime with unrelenting violence. Security forces opened fire on unarmed civilians who joined demonstrations. Proposals by Western governments and neighbors for democratic reforms or negotiations with the opposition […]
The Huffington Post: In early June, the Indonesian government erected a 16-foot gleaming white statue of Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of knowledge, on Washington’s Embassy Row. Indonesia’s ambassador to the […]
Global Christian Post: John Piper, founder and teacher of desiringGod.org and retired senior pastor of Bethlehem Baptist Church, was asked recently in a WORLD magazine interview for a solution to what he framed as the “God-ignoring, God-belittling frame of mind” that has gripped the nation. Piper spoke on camera with […]
Documents Provide New Details on Mosaddeq Overthrow and Its Aftermath National Security Archive Calls for Release of Remaining Classified Record National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 435 Posted – […]
Source: BDNews 24 By Suliman Niloy Dhaka: Barrister Tureen Afroz, a prosecutor in former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam’s case in the war crimes tribunal, has harshly criticised New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) for questioning the trial process in the most sensational war crimes case in Bangladesh. In a statement on Friday, […]
Salon.com: I’d like to comment on topics that I think should regularly be on the front pages but are not — and in many crucial cases are scarcely mentioned at all or are presented in ways that seem to me deceptive because they’re framed almost reflexively in terms of doctrines […]
(Reuters) – U.S. lawmakers are once again taking advantage of their summer recess to race around the globe on privately financed tours to places like China, the Middle East and Scotland – trips watchdog groups cite as evidence that congressional ethics reforms are unraveling. Critics of such trips say it is […]
Featured Seminar for Law Enforcement Leaders Designed for police chiefs, sheriffs and other command-level personnel and senior administrators, this seminar provides valuable information and resources for increasing awareness, enhancing cultural competency skills and developing relationships with American Muslim communities. This seminar provides valuable information and resources for increasing awareness, enhancing […]
Source: onislam.net CAIRO – Offering Americans a deeper look into the life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), a leading US television network will start airing a documentary on the […]
(Reuters) – The United States urged Japan on Monday to open its auto and insurance marketsmore to foreign companies as the two countries pursue bilateral talks linked to a broader free-trade agreement that covers two-fifths of the globe. The United States hopes to make a proposal to Japan on its […]
By Erika Mahoney August 18, 2013Updated Aug 19, 2013 at 12:16 AM EDTVestal, NY (WBNG Binghamton) Some residents are upset over the placement of a pig’s head near a mosque […]
Source: jconline.com Born into the Ahmadiyya sect of Islam, Saeed Ahmad was part of a religious minority in Pakistan, where mostly Sunni Muslims reside. “It’s difficult to be a (religious) minority in Pakistan,” […]
By: Yazan al-Saadi Published Saturday, August 17, 2013 alakhbar English The Western media have double standards when it comes to “terrorism.” Within hours after two bombs were detonated at the Boston Marathon last April, many in the media had christened it a “terrorist attack.” Meanwhile, the August 15 bombing in […]
By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK, PETER BAKER and MICHAEL R. GORDON Published: August 17, 2013 THE NEW YORK TIMES As thousands of Islamist supporters of the ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, braced for a crackdown by the military-imposed government, a senior European diplomat, Bernardino León, told the Islamists of “indications” from the […]