Public Opinion on Religion and Science in the United States
Epigraph: “Say Muhammad, ‘Who is the Lord of the heavens and the earth?’ Say, ‘Allah.’ Say, ‘Have you then taken besides Him helpers who have no power for good or […]
Here’s How Rabbis And Priests Are Fighting Extreme Anti-Muslim Ads
Businessinsider.com: by Laura Templer: Christian, Jewish, and Muslim leaders gathered in Colorado on Monday to launch an official counter movement against the recent trend of plastering extreme Islamaphobic ads — calling Muslims “savages” and showing pictures of the burning World Trade towers — on buses and subway stations. The religious coalition created […]
Latino Muslims are shaping a new US identity
December 19, 2012 12:47 AM By Erika L. Sanchez The Daily Star Story Summary Of Mexican heritage, Marta Khadija, president of LALMA, La Asociacion Latino Musulmana de America, or The […]
A test-case of Israeli influence in US politics: Hagel under fire from pro-Isarel hawks
By Bernd Debusmann The Daily Star, Lebanon Story Summary A growing controversy over one of President Barack Obama’s candidates for the top Pentagon job is turning into a test case […]
Russian parliament approves ban on American adoptions
Source: Daily Times: MOSCOW: Russia’s upper house of parliament on Wednesday unanimously backed a bill barring Americans from adopting Russian children, leaving the controversial measure in the hands of President Vladimir Putin.The vote was the last legislative hurdle for the bill, one of the toughest pieces of anti-US legislation in […]
Going over the decency cliff — Harlan Ullman
Daily Times: President Barack Obama can navigate the nation back to a course where common decency and civil dialogue are not automatically excluded from politics The looming fiscal cliff has received almost as much publicity as the Mayan prediction of the end of the world. This column has warned that […]
Return of Jesus Christ From Celestial Abode – Jesus Versus Finality
Source: Examiner The belief that the last prophet, Muhammad (PBUH), has already come and gone and the assertions that Jesus (as) would descend to earth as a prophet after him […]
President Barack Obama to cut short vacation to deal with fiscal crisis
Source: TOI President Barack Obama will be back in Washington on Thursday to deal with fiscal cliff negotiations. HONOLULU: President Barack Obama is cutting short his Hawaiian holiday to leave for Washington on Wednesday to address the unfinished “fiscal cliff” negotiations with Congress, the White House said on Tuesday. As […]
Future terrorists to come from various religions: report
Source: Dawn.com WASHINGTON: An official US report warns that future terrorists could come from many different religions, including Christianity and Hinduism. “Right-wing and left-wing ideological groups — some of the oldest users of terrorist tactics — also will pose threats,” the report adds. But it hopes that the withdrawal of […]
Idaho senator Michael Crapo accused of DUI in Virginia
(CNN) — U.S. Sen. Michael Crapo, R-Idaho, was arrested early Sunday morning in Alexandria, Virginia, and charged with driving under the influence, according to the town’s police department. Jody Donaldson, […]
MERRY CHRISTMAS: Chinese Credit Ratings Agency Dagong Puts The US On Negative Watch
Business Insider: Not that it affects anything at all, but Chinese credit rating agency Dagong used Christmas to put the US on negative watch. Dagong Global Credit Rating Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as “Dagong”) releases a credit rating report on December 25th, 2012, putting the United States of America […]
Conspiracy theories? here is one: CIA, Mossad staged 9/11 to further the Zionist agenda
by Rodney Shakespeare: A Visiting Professor of Binary Economics at Trisakti University, Jakarta, Indonesia, Rodney Shakespeare is a Cambridge MA, a qualified UK Barrister, a co-founder of the Global Justice […]
Syria’s Makdissi in U.S., helping intelligence agencies: report
STORY SUMMARY American intelligence officials secured safe passage for Syrian Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi to the United States, Britain’s The Guardian said in a report published Tuesday. The paper […]
Tribute to Dr Abdus Salam on RAWAL TV, Canada Nov 2012
Dr Abdus Salam, Muslim world’s first Nobel laureate in physics 1979, passed away November 21, 1996. In order to pay tribute to this giant of 20th century scientists, Prof Dr John Moffat and Zakaria Virk paid tribute on November 21, 2012, with program host Atif Mir. Prof Moffat did his […]
Humanity First shows way to Interfaith copoperation
By Rabbi Dow Marmur, The Toronto Star http://www.thestar.com/opinion/editorials/article/1306099–marmur-humanity-first-shows-way-to-interfaith-co-operation Every denomination of every religion I know insists that it practices the most authentic version of the teachings of its founders. But unlike fundamentalists, liberals are less likely to claim that others always get it wrong. The Ahmadiyya sect of Islam is […]
New York gunman set ‘trap’ for firefighters: Police
Source: TOI Police said the gunman, 62-year-old William Spengler, shot at the arriving firefighters, probably with a rifle from atop an earthen berm. WEBSTER, New York: A former convict set a house and car ablaze in his lakeside New York state neighborhood to lure firefighters then opened fire on them, […]
Iraq veteran feels a kinship with anti-war group
By By Gary Peterson / Contra Costa Times Posted on November 19, 2012 Wearing Army boots, Army camouflage pants and an “Iraq Veterans Against the War” T-shirt, Emily Yates worked […]
U.S. civilian is killed at police headquarters in Kabul
By Rod Nordland and Jawad Sukhanyar New York Timesmercurynews.com KABUL, Afghanistan — A female police sergeant shot and killed a U.S. civilian adviser at police headquarters in Kabul on Monday, Afghan police officials said, breaking a relative lull in the so-called insider killings that have strained the relationship between Americans […]
A Campaign on U.S. Debt Gains Steam
WASHINGTON — Maya MacGuineas has been ringing alarms about the nation’s growing debt for 15 years, imagining a day when a president and a Congress might finally work together to curb deficit spending. After watching President Obama and Speaker John A. Boehner once again come close to agreeing on a […]
Picture of the Day: US Flag on Capitol Hill In Recognition of Mirza Masroor Ahmad
Source: Flickr by Ehsan Rehan