Buzzfeed: The Supreme Court’s rulings in favor of same-sex marriage Wednesday were greeted with excitement by polygamists across the country, who viewed the gay rights victory as a crucial step […]
KUWAIT CITY: ARAB NEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The death toll from the civil war is now 100,191 people, it said. Violence raged as US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out […]
Examiner: By Mansura Minhas. Father James Quinn of St Matthew Catholic Church in Hallandale Beach first met Regional Missionary Imam Muhammad Saeed Khalid and Mr. Munawar Chaudhry, President of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community-Miami at the National Day of Prayer Observance at the Hallandale Beach City Hall on May 2. During the […]
Source: Asia Times: The geopolitics of Central Asia has begun shifting in anticipation of the NATO forces ending their combat role as well as their pullout from Afghanistan and the proposed establishment of the nine American military bases in that country. Kyrgyzstan today gave the final touch to its strategic […]
Source: BBC News Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of […]
Source: Dawn.com WASHINGTON: The US Supreme Court on Wednesday handed a significant victory to gay rights advocates by ruling that married gay men and women are eligible for federal benefits and paving the way for same-sex marriage in California. The court, however, fell short of a landmark ruling endorsing a […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid: Muslim Writers Guild of America In her recent Wall Street Journal opinion-editorial, Irshad Manji claims that not just Muslims, but the Quran and Islam itself […]
newswork.org: For the fourth consecutive year, Harrisburg will host the nation’s longest-running American Muslim Convention. More than 10,000 attendees are expected at the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA national conference, which will be held this weekend. The group’s national spokesperson, Qasim Rashid, spoke about the event with NewsWorks Tonight’s Dave Heller. […]
Source: Asia Times: While the attention of the world community is almost entirely on the travel itinerary of the ex-CIA whistleblower Edward Snowden, there is a far more important side to the affair — what he has been doing with his spare time in China and Russia, who he’s been […]
Posted June 19, 2013 by Ishaw Thorpe for Global Grind Staff An industrial mechanic, who is also a self proclaimed member of the United Northern & Southern Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, has been arrested after planning to create and distribute a mobile radiation device he planned to sell to a southern branch of the clan, […]
Torture by masters who claim the moral high ground, declarations they’ve won their war despite being in retreat, and insistence on a dignified exit after negotiation On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only […]
Russia Today: The CIA and US special operational troops and have been secretly training Syrian rebels at bases in Jordan and Turkey since November 2012. Up to 100 from all over Syria have gone through courses in the last month alone, according to US media reports. At the two-week courses […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar HONG KONG – So it’s going to be Our Man in Quito. The narrative may not be as elegant as Graham Greene’s, but the plot certainly beats the Bourne trilogy – because it’s happening live, in real time, right in front of our eyes. […]
Source: Conservative Papers: On Andrea Tantaros radio show last week, conservative columnist and author Pat Buchanan warned of an unintended consequence of the immigration reform bill, a bill which doesn’t place a high priority on assimilation. According to Tantaros, her previous guest, former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, said that the immigration legislation funnels […]
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Source: CNN I read an article a few months ago that had a profound impact on me. This article shared the observations of a nurse who had cared for dying patients on their deathbed. She documented their regrets as they reflected upon their lives and their impending demise. Did these people […]
Source: CNN Edward Snowden left Hong Kong on Sunday for a third country “through a lawful and normal channel,” the Hong Kong government said. And he left with the help of WikiLeaks, who assisted with Snowden’s “political asylum in a democratic country, travel papers (and) safe exit from Hong Kong.” the […]
Source: ET US Secretary of State John Kerry put the onus on the Taliban to revive stalled efforts to end Afghanistan’s 12-year-old war and warned the ultraconservative militia on Saturday they might lose their new office in Qatar if the peace bid collapsed. US officials were due to hold preliminary […]
Source: CNN Godless congregations For Epstein, who started community-building at Harvard nearly 10 years ago, the idea of a godless congregation is not an oxymoron. “We decided recently that we want to use the word congregation more and more often because that is a word that strongly evokes a certain […]