The Secret Faith of Washington
Source:The daily Beast. A godless city? Please. President Obama’s former religious adviser on the surprising number of believers in D.C.’s corridors of power. More:
Israeli yellow card for US on Iran
Source: Asia Times: Israel is standing up to American pressure to leave the Iranian nuclear program to Washington, despite recent reciprocal high-level visits and an “unprecedented” US$10 billion arms deal. Its intensions appear to be two-track: to push the US into more decisive action and to prepare world opinion for […]
USA: Islam’s Top Peace Advocate to Visit Los Angeles May 4-15 this Year
Ahmadiyya Times: Source/Credit: Baitul Hameed Mosque: By Baitul Hameed Mosque | April 29, 2013 The news often highlights calls for Jihad against America, Israel and the West made by politically or religiously extremist […]
The importance of Keith Ellison: Patriot who’s also a Muslim is our best defense against Islamic extremism and violence
Salon.com: Progressives loved seeing Rep. Keith Ellison smack down his GOP congressional colleague Peter King on “Meet the Press” Sunday, insisting that profiling Muslims in the wake of the Boston bombing is not only wrong but “ineffective law enforcement.” As Ellison warned: “Once you start saying, we’re going to dragnet or surveil […]
Writing as a Spiritual Practice
Huff Post: by Pat Schneider. Sometimes when things are so real they hurt, words come that T.S. Eliot called “what we know and do not know we know.” I said, “Fred, I bet God is delighted! For the first time in your life, you talked to God in your native […]
Kimberly Rivera Pleads Guilty To Desertion Charges (refused to go on a second tour to Iraq)
FORT CARSON, Colo. — A female soldier in the U.S. Army pleaded guilty Monday to two counts of desertion after fleeing to Canada to avoid a second tour of duty in the Iraq war. Pfc. Kimberly Rivera was sentenced to 10 months in prison and a bad-conduct discharge after entering […]
I gotta admit: I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be,” Obama said
Source:CNN Obama went for it anyway, joking about his appearance — “These days I look in the mirror and I gotta admit: I’m not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be,” he said — and his recent “rookie mistakes,” one of which being his remark about California […]
“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistanwas the United States.”
Source: The daily Beast: For over a decade the CIA has been delivering money to the offices of Afghanistan’s president, Hamid Karzai, in the shadiest ways possible: suitcases, backpacks, and plastic bags full of cash. The New York Times reports that tens of millions of dollars have gone to Karzai’s […]
Meet the neoliberal Adam
Source: Asia Times: Now for post-history’s favorite weapon: war neoliberalism. The best analysis these past few years by far is to be found in French geostrategist Alain Joxe’s book Les Guerres de L’Empire Global. Joxe mixes it all up, because it is all interconnected – the eurocrisis, the European debt […]
Outreach director for Edmonton mosque says Islam helps give meaning to his life
Source: Edmonton Sun BY CATHERINE GRIWKOWSKY ,EDMONTON SUN FIRST POSTED: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013 09:42 AM MDT | UPDATED: SUNDAY, APRIL 28, 2013 02:18 PM MDT As a teenager, Mohyuddin Mirza would lay beneath the […]
Living on the Lake: Provide a refuge for bees with native plants
By Sue Schneider April 29, 2013 Bright green leaves, flowers, birds, sunshine, rain… but spring wouldn’t truly be spring without the soft humming of bees. When people speak of bees, […]
Religion and Politics: A Combustible Concoction
Huff Post: by Michael Rohrer. Believing in God is a personal choice. One should be able to display it or not. Much the same as there are people who don’t feel comfortable with public displays of affection, there are people who don’t feel comfortable participating in public displays of religious […]
Can You Respect a Religion You Disagree With?
Huff Post: In my last post, I implied that one of the reasons we may wish to perceive religious choices to be solely about methodology — and not substantive theological and ethical concerns — is because it is much more uncomplicated thereby to accept the value of freedom of religion. […]
Simplicity of Islam attracted me – Colonel Donald S. Rockwell
Source: ARABNEWS Colonel Donald S. Rockwell was born in Illinois, United States. He completed his studies in universities of Washington and Columbia where he received many honorary degrees. He was a poet, literary critic as well as editorial director at Radio Personalities. He gained the rank of colonel while participating […]
A new study:
Source: Mondoweiss Brown University has released a new study: The cost of wars in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan are estimated at 225,000 lives and up to $4 trillion in U.S. spending, in a new report by scholars with the Eisenhower Research Project at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. […]
Liberty Was Also Attacked in Boston
By Congressman Ron Paul Source: Texas Straight Talk Forced lockdown of a city. Militarized police riding tanks in the streets. Door-to-door armed searches without warrant. Families thrown out of their homes […]
Success Depends on Finding the best Version of Yourself.
Source: Bussiness Insider: Sounds simple, I know. It is a simple concept. The problem is, it’s very hard to do, it takes a lot of work, and it can take a lifetime to figure it out.Nothing worth doing in life is ever easy. If you want to do great work, […]
Merkel gave Obamas golf putts and wine
Source:The Local. What do you buy a multi-millionaire who also happens to be the leader of the free world? Angela Merkel gave him a set of golf putters – and presented his wife with six bottles of wine. More:
Al Sharpton: Profiling Helps the Terrorists
Source: The Huffington Post By Rev. Al Sharpton, President, National Action Network, Talk show host on MSNBC In the 1990s, National Action Network and I worked on a case with […]
Muslims! Are You Awake Yet?
Huff Post: by Ani Zonneveld. Step aside Islamophobes, this is between me and my Muslim community. Let me help. Here’s a laundry list of all the miss-guided interpretations of Islam: Leaving Islam is an act of apostasy punishable by death; Sharia is a set of laws that brutally punish women, […]