ON RELIGION On TV, an Everyday Muslim as Everyday American T. Lynne Pixley for The New York Times Mujahid Abdul-Rashid, a Muslim from the Bay Area, appears as himself in a commercial for retirement financial products. By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN Published: February 8, 2013 On a Sunday afternoon several months ago, […]
RT: A state of emergency has been declared in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Maine with citizens being warned to stay indoors. A potentially record-breaking snow storm has brought the US northeast to a grinding halt and left one dead. Thousands lost power amid flight cancelations and a nuclear […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY For anyone who wonders why so many people around the world criticize American and Israeli foreign policy and militarism, this has been a valuable learning week. I refer to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to […]
The Jakarta Post: Nathanael Gratias Sumaktoyo It would be a rough comparison and some people might object to it, but it is interesting to match the gun control debate in […]
AFP | Feb 07, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES NEW YORK — A New York car thief drove off in an SUV, only to discover there was a witness to the crime: a baby in the backseat. Maybe he had a conscience, or just didn’t want to have to change diapers, […]
By AFP NAIROBI Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town of Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists and who called […]
Report highlights extent of global programme in US war on terror By Mick O’Reilly Senior Associate Editor GULF NEWS Dubai: Some were picked up as they travelled through airports, others […]
By: M. Imran Hayee, for the News Tribune Clyde Nelson’s Local View column on Tuesday (“Islamists are out to dominate U.S.”) portrayed a dark picture of Islamic ideology. His observations were based on terrorist attacks committed by a handful of Muslims and on the unethical and inhuman treatment of minorities […]
UN.org: 6 February 2013 – The United Nations has applauded the upcoming availability of a new human rights instrument which, for the first time, will allow victims to file complaints […]
(Reuters) – The number of Americans filing new claims for jobless benefits fell last week and a trend reading hit a near five-year low, a sign the grinding recovery in the labor market remains on track. Other data on Thursday showed a sharp drop in productivity in the fourth quarter […]
Assalmao Allaikum Wa Rahmatulla! This was sent my by good friend Iftekher Hai, president of United Muslims of American (interfaith wing, San Francisco Bay Area). LOVE FOR ALL, HATRED FOR NONE ( H. Koya) Why America’s Middle East Policy is Doomed By Chuck SpinneyJan. 30, 2013 The U.S. […]
by Daniel Burke, Religion News Service (RNS) Muslim and Christian views of the Apocalypse are remarkably similar, albeit with a different ending. As in the Bible’s Book of Revelation, Islamic tradition speaks of signs — unnatural disasters, wars and moral decay — that will portend the Last Days. And like […]
HuffPost: Monique Parsons. “There are good things happening in many places, but Chicago seems to me to kind of have it all,” said Jane I. Smith, who recently retired as a dean at Harvard Divinity School. “It’s got all different backgrounds represented, and different ways of approaching Islam.” CHICAGO (RNS) […]
Huff Post: By Micheal Zimmerman: Among many memorable lines in President Barack Obama’s second inaugural address was the following: “We cannot mistake absolutism for principle, or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate.” To a large extent, it is the last phrase of that sentence, “or treat […]
Russian TV: Days after the personal information of over 4,000 banking executives was leaked to the Web by a group affiliated with the hacktivist movement Anonymous, the Federal Reserve admits to having suffered an online security breach. Spokespeople for the Fed alerted customers on Tuesday that private information stored online […]
The Huffington Several major universities are taking former students to court in an attempt to collect on past-due bills under the Perkins student loan program. George Washington University, Yale University […]
Source: Asia Times: By Pepe Escobar The (geopolitical) hills are alive with the sound of … well, not music; rather that post-industrial noise, more Kraftwerk than Schubert, oozing from the recently completed 49th edition of the Munich Security Conference. Who wouldn’t give a Goldman Sachs bonus to be briefed on […]
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Since Patrick J. Geraghty arrived here a year and a half ago to lead the state’s largest health insurer, Florida Blue, he has expanded its operations in Medicare and Medicaid, entered arrangements with hospitals and doctors, bought a medical group, and dabbled with a new private sector […]
Top Facts: Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. Both were shot in the back of the head in the presence of their wives. Both […]
Foxnews.com: Norman Vincent Peale, author of “The Power of Positive Thinking,” once wrote these words: “Change your thoughts, and you change your world.” His statement is highlighted at the beginning of my new book, “How to Choose a Husband and Make Peace with Marriage.” Its premise is that if women […]