Demonstration Against Terrorism at Queens Park – Toronto, Canada
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden: Click HERE for the video.
Andrew Bennett, Canada’s Ambassador of Religious Freedom Voices Support for Kazakh Ahmadiyya Muslims
FOREIGN AFFAIRS New religious-freedom watchdog faces uphill battle STEVEN CHASE OTTAWA — The Globe and Mail Published Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 6:00 AM EDT Last updated Friday, Jun. 07 2013, 6:12 AM EDT After he was released from more than a week of detention by Sri Lankan police last month, Muslim leader Azath Salley […]
Allen West’s Bigotry: Muslims Are All ‘Honor Killings, Beheadings, Suicide Bombings’
Huff Post: Former Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) boiled down the entire religion of Islam to “honor killings, beheadings [and] suicide bombings” in a message tweeted Monday night in response to a column by comedian Bill Cosby. Last week, Cosby wrote an op-ed in the New York Post encouraging African American communities to […]
Drinking as bad as smoking – warning labels needed for booze
Epigraph: “They ask thee (Muhammad) concerning wine and the game of hazard. Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is greater […]
Anti-Muslim protests lead to Dearborn Arab festival cancellation
Claire Brownell THE WINDSON STAR Jun 10, 2013 – 6:48 PM EDT Organizers of Dearborn’s Arab International Festival, which draws many Windsor families and hundreds of thousands of people every year, have cancelled this year’s event in the face of escalating anti-Muslim protests. Festival director Fay Beydoun said in a […]
S&P revises U.S. credit outlook to ‘stable’ from negative
(Reuters) – Standard & Poor’s on Monday removed the near-term threat of another credit rating downgrade for the United States by revising its outlook to stable from negative, citing an improved economic and fiscal outlook. The change effectively means there is less than a one-third chance of a downgrade in […]
Civil activists ask: Are you posting too much or too little on social media? (In 5 star hotel, paid for by USAID)
BEIRUT: Journalists, activists, bloggers and marketers gathered Saturday in Beirut to discuss the best ways for groups to make their voices heard through social media. An all-day conference at the […]
A quiet waiver for Pakistan from the Obama administration
CS Monitor: On Sept. 13, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton quietly, and without explanation, issued a “national security” waiver on conditions for Pakistan military aid. While in years past the Obama administrationasserted that Pakistan had made progress in combating terrorism, thereby meeting aid conditions set by Congress, that apparently simply wasn’t possible after recent events: Osama bin […]
Unity and fun at Islamic Heritage Festival on Saturday at Penn’s Landing
Source: articles.philly.com Halal Hustler T-shirts and Muslim Princess tote bags were for sale, as were funnel cakes and fried chicken. At the Islamic Heritage Festival on Saturday at Penn’s Landing, […]
Spending cuts likely deeper in 2014
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) There’s been a lot of concern about the effects of the spending cuts under the so-called sequester this year. But it’s likely that federal spending will soon go down even further in many ways. That’s because, barring action by lawmakers, the cap on total defense and domestic […]
Ellsberg: NSA Defector did a big service
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NSA leaker holed up in Hong Kong hotel, running low on cash
By Jethro Mullen and Matt Smith, CNN updated 5:09 AM EDT, Mon June 10, 2013 Hong Kong (CNN) — The man behind of one of the biggest leaks in the […]
Santa Monica Shootings
Source: CBS News: The man suspected of a shooting rampage that left six people dead and shattered the calm of Santa Monica, Calif., allegedly began his spree of violence by killing his father and brother, and then setting their home on fire, a law enforcement source told ABC News. The […]
Obama rocks foreign-policy pundits
Source: TOI How far the cabinet appointments in the United States reflect ideological considerations or how merely subjective and whimsical they could be on the part of the president remains a matter of debate. Perhaps, the president largely chooses the men (or women) he is comfortable with as cabinet colleagues. […]
Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
Washington Post: The whistleblower who disclosed classified documents regarding NSA surveillance to The Washington Post and the Guardian has gone public. He is Edward Snowden, 29, an employee of defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. Edward Snowden (The Guardian) Rather than face charges in the United States, Snowden has fled to Hong Kong. […]
San Francisco Airport’s garage now Muslim house of worship
Here’s a sign of the changing times — Muslim cabbies now have their very own place at San Francisco International Airport to wash their hands and feet before they pray. […]
Otherizing
Epigraph: “Has the story of Abraham’s honored guests reached thee? When they entered upon him and said, ‘Peace!’ he said, ‘Peace!’ They were all strangers. And he went quietly to his household, […]
How to destroy the future: From the Cuban missile crisis to a fossil fuels frenzy, the US is intent on winning the race to disaster by Noam Chomsky
What is the future likely to bring? A reasonable stance might be to try to look at the human species from the outside. So imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer who is trying to figure out what’s happening here or, for that matter, imagine you’re an historian 100 years from […]
NSA’s Prism surveillance program: how it works and what it can do
Slide from secret PowerPoint presentation describes how program collects data ‘directly from the servers’ of tech firms James Ball guardian.co.uk, Saturday 8 June 201 The slide details different methods of data collection under the FISA Amendment Act. Since Prism was first revealed by the Guardian and the Washington Post, there […]
Bible- New Testament is a Jewish Book?
Huff Post: The New Testament in Historical Context When I’m invited to teach in churches, I often invite questions from the group before I begin my planned presentation. I call this “building an agenda,” a process that helps me understand where people are coming from and helps the audience pursue […]