Russia Today: Record-breaking numbers of Americans have lost support for Congress, according to a survey. Eighty-three per cent of respondents said they disapprove of the job its doing, while 57 per cent said they would replace every member of Congress if they could. The poll (link to poll), conducted jointly […]
Huff Post: LITTLE FALLS — An Islamic civil rights group is calling for the Little Falls school district to not host a speaking event with a woman who they call an anti-Muslim speaker. Brigitte Gabriel is scheduled to speak Monday at Little Falls Community High School at a Central Minnesota […]
Source: mercurynews.com More than 300 guests gathered during an annual Ramadhan celebration dinner Saturday evening at Baitul Baseer Mosque, under the rolling hills in Milpitas, hosted by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community […]
There is no realistic political infrastructure in place for fair negotiations and neither the time nor conditions are right for revival of the two-state solution By Abdel Bari Atwan | […]
Source: The Columbus Dispatch By JoAnne Viviano Muslims in central Ohio are inviting their non-Muslim neighbors to learn more about the Islamic holy month of Ramadan by partaking in one of […]
Source: The Daily Beast After a month straight of eating food from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, this must be welcome news for Edward Snowden. The fugitive leaker reportedly was granted key immigration documents from Russia on Tuesday, according to local media—meaning he can finally leave the airport. Snowden has been in […]
Source: BBC The White House is urging Congress to reject an attempt to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting Americans’ phone records.With a key vote coming up, President Barack Obama’s spokesman said curbs on the NSA would “hastily dismantle” a vital counter-terrorism tool.NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander spent Tuesday […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics packed the beach of Copacabana on Tuesday for the start of a weeklong religious event in Rio de Janeiro that includes gatherings with Pope Francis. Rain clouds cleared in time and pilgrims from around the world waved flags, sang […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As if politics in Washington and the United States isn’t divisive enough, Hindus and Muslims from the subcontinent have brought their decades-old partisan feud to America. A tactically leaked letter by 65 Indian lawmakers, many of them Muslims, to US President Barack Obama, pressing him not to […]
todaycatholicnews: By Zoey Di Mauro WASHINGTON (CNS) — Panelists at a religious freedom session on Pakistan called for reform of the nation’s laws, calling the situation for minorities dire. In June alone, 47 religious minorities were killed in Pakistan, according to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. The victims […]
Huff Post: What is this country coming to? Anyone who pays attention to religion in America can see monumental changes and conflicts affecting the present and looming in the future. And anyone with a smidgen of historical awareness knows that religion has always been at the core of American society. […]
Source: BBC New York mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner has admitted sending explicit messages to a woman, two years after he left Congress over a similar affair. An unnamed woman told […]
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examiner.com: Ramadan is the holy month of fasting and spiritual renewal for Muslims worldwide. It will commence Wednesday, July 10th and end on August 8th. Tens of thousands of American Muslims belonging to one of the nation’s oldest Muslim organizations, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA are observing Ramadan across 73 chapters nationwide this year. […]
Source: Asia Times: So what’s next? It’s not far-fetched to imagine the EU totally forgetting about a pipeline that will ultimately benefit its citizens and issuing – under US pressure – a directive branding Iran-Iraq-Syria as a terrorist axis; lobbying for a no-fly zone applying to all; and recruiting jihadis […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Pope Francis got a rapturous welcome from tens of thousands of pilgrims on Monday as he arrived in Brazil on his first foreign trip as pontiff, but violent protests later swept the streets. The 76-year-old Argentine rode in a open-top jeep through the center of […]
Source: jsonline.com Inside the Bait-ul Qadir mosque on Fond du Lac Ave., a small group of men gather before the midday prayer. They speak of the weather and their families, […]
Source:Examinor.COM Under the “Meet Your Neighbor, An Interfaith Adventure” program organized by the Faith Alliance of Metro Atlanta (FAMA), the Congregation Or Hadash opened their doors to a group of about thirty guests belonging to different local Christian and Muslim denominations to their Sabaath Service in Sandy Springs on July 20. The Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Cancer is more common than flu in the Iraqi city of Najaf, about 160 km south of Baghdad, one local doctor told RT. After the start of the war rates […]
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari While growing up, I thought certain things in life were not for sale – that no amount of money could buy them. These included a democratic country? its national interest and its highest offices, the reputation of internationally admired men and women, Nobel laureates, […]