Do You Even Hear Muslims When We Condemn Violence?
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid: Author, ‘The Wrong Kind of Muslim’ It took 9,000 officers, five days, and roughly $1 billion in lost revenue for Boston, but suspect […]
A tiny minority of Canadian Muslims, Ahmadiyyas make their presence felt
The Vancouver Sun: They are a small religious sect in Canada. But I receive more emails and news releases from the Ahmadiyya Muslims than I do from the rest of […]
Conflating Religion and Race.
Source:The daily Beast. The day after last week’s attack in Boston, David Sirota wrote a column for Salon entitled “Let’s Hope the Boston Marathon Bomber Is a White American,” arguing that this would limit the resulting crackdown on civil liberties. At first, conservatives were appalled. Then, when police fingered the […]
Chak de Goal! A New Wave of Hockey Fans in Canada
Source: NY Times: A Punjabi show has married Canada’s national pastime with the sounds of the Indian subcontinent, providing a glimpse into the changing face of hockey. Read More:
Can Interfaith Dialogue Cure Religious Violence?
religiondispatches: In the wake of the Boston Bombings, Eboo Patel, public intellectual and director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), has proposed, in a recent article on HuffPo, that this explosive violence resulted partly from a failure of interfaith dialogue. With the caveat that “interfaith programs are not a miracle solution,” he […]
New York court drops Arab Bank terrorist funding claims
AMMAN — Arab Bank on Thursday said a New York federal court has rejected some of the lawsuits filed against the financial institution that alleged it provided banking services to […]
U.S. Says It Suspects Assad Used Chemical Weapons
Source: NY Times. WASHINGTON — The White House said on Thursday that American intelligence agencies now believed, with “varying degrees of confidence,” that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but it said it needed conclusive proof before President Obama would take action. More:
Jesus and Muhammad and the Question of the State
Source: www.juancole.com “Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels, on the other […]
Muhammad Ali: The Most Recognized Muslim Passed Away in June 2016
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Muhammad Ali Ali in 1967 Statistics Nickname(s) The Greatest The People’s Champion The Louisville Lip Rated at Heavyweight Height 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m) Reach 80 in (203 cm) Nationality […]
The Future of Faith
Huff Post: by Dianne Butler Bass. Over the last year, it has become increasingly clear that there are two significant cultural forces reshaping the religious future: 1) the rise of the “unaffiliateds,” including atheists, agnostics, humanists, “spiritual but not religious” and post-theists; and 2) the rise of religious pluralism and […]
The Arrogance of Ignoring Muslim Women
By Murtaza Hussain is a political commentator and contributing writer at Al-Jazeera,The Guardian and Salon. Source: NY Times What do Muslim women want? In striking scenes around the world, ostensibly well-meaning topless women (mostly white Europeans) who think they know the answer have painted slogans across their chests, chanted and burned flags outside of mosques. […]
Bomber Motivated by Religion?: Media Regurgitates Government Propaganda
loonwatch: After the September 11th attacks, many Americans wondered, “why do they hate us?” President George Bush gave his now famous explanation: “They hate our freedoms.” Radical Islam, we are told, is to blame. When someone dares counter this argument by pointing out that “Muslim rage” is due to U.S. […]
Field of nightmares
Source: Asia Times: By Tom Engelhardt Chalmers Johnson’s book Blowback: The Costs and Consequences of American Empire was published in March 2000 – and just about no one noticed. Until then, blowback had been an obscure term of CIA tradecraft, which Johnson defined as ”the unintended consequences of policies that […]
Do Tsarnaev Brothers Represent New Breed of Terrorist?
Source: Spiegel. After last week’s terror attacks in Boston, Americans themselves seem to have been surprised by their measured response. The more they get to know about the Tsarnaev brothers, though, the more it will become clear that they will now have to get used to a new breed of […]
Reflections on Boston: The best response to terror is to refuse to be terrorized
Source: Amnesty International Blog By Zeke Johnson April 23, 2013 at 1:56 PM My cousin lives in Boston and I was worried that he was somehow affected by the attacks. It immediately brought me back to 9/11 and the memory of how powerless I felt watching the Twin Towers […]
Interfaith Seminar on the Moral Empowerment of Women
Venue Wednesday, April 24 7-10 p.m. WSU Vancouver campus Dengerink Administration building, room 110 FREE and open to the public For more information, visit vancouver.wsu.edu Theme of Discussion Moderated by […]
Leaders dispel ideas of violence in Islam
By Lynsay Williams | The Daily Tar Heel A little more than a week after the bombings at the Boston Marathon, Muslims in the Triangle came together Tuesday to promote Islam as a peaceful religion. The event, held in the Frank Porter Student Union and attended by about 60, was […]
President Thomas Jefferson — Was he a Monotheist?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Source / Courtesy: Review of Religions and Alislam.org. First published in 2007. A compelling argument that Thomas Jefferson […]
Why Americans should care about Ahmadiyya Muslims: CNN Blogs
CNN Religion Blogs: Editor’s Note: Naseem Mahdi is national vice president and missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA. By Naseem Mahdi, Special to CNN Last weekend, more than 6,000 Ahmadi Muslims gathered in Virginia for their 62nd annual convention. But with more than 2 million Muslims living in the United States, […]
Picture of the Day: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an used for Oath in 2007
Speaker Nancy Pelosi (left) and US Congressman Keith Ellison (right) at his swearing-in ceremony with President Thomas Jefferson‘s Qur’an, in 2007 Keith Maurice Ellison (born August 4, 1963) is an American politician and lawyer serving […]