Businessinsider.com: Earlier, we posted a fascinating video clip from 2007 of Mitt Romney talking about his religious beliefs. The clip came from a conversation Romney had during a commercial break […]
Source: Calgary Herald By Kathleen Renne, For Neighbours Published: Thursday, November 01, 2012 Mansoora Chaudhary is in something of a post-holiday frame of mind. Just last week, she, along with the rest of the Muslim world, celebrated Eid al-Adha, the celebration marking the end of the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to […]
Source: Toronto Star A little girl’s anguished tears over listening to a story about U.S. presidential politics one more time has struck a nerve across the world. More than 1.2 million viewers have watched the 22-second clip of 4-year-old Abigael in just two days. Abby started sobbing on a […]
Source: Toronto Star Author: Amy Dempsey One Sunday two years ago, Laiq and Badrunnisa Khurshid set out for a midnight stroll. The couple walked hand in hand through their suburban Vaughan neighbourhood, chatting about their children, reflecting on life. Their son had just bought a new home in Mississauga, their eldest […]
An email has been forwarded a few times from respected Imam Zafar Anjum and other Muslim groups like Frisco Masjid and Irving Muslims. I am posting this at http://www.WorldMuslimCongress.com, http://www.Quraantoday.com […]
RT: A major oil spill has occurred in the strait of water separating Staten Island, NYC and the state of New Jersey. The spill, of more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel, reportedly occurred in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Coast Guard said the incident occurred in the Arthur […]
Source: The Guardian Guardian: US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against […]
The Global Research: Ahmed Sharif was a 44-year-old Muslim Bangladeshi taxi driver in New York City. It was August 24, 2010, a time that marked the height of vitriolic protests […]
Source: CNN Money NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The impact of Hurricane Sandy on the lives of residents of the Northeast will be great. Millions are without power, likely for an […]
Business Insider: The huge amount of flooding and standing water in the wake of Sandy’s innundation of the East coast isn’t just leaving power outages and destroyed houses in its path, it can leave a wake of disease as well. Marissa Fessenden explains in the Scientific American live blog about Sandy: […]
U.S. Statement on the UPR of Pakistan 14th Session – October 30, 2012 Note: An abbreviated version of this text was delivered at the Universal Periodic Review due to time constraints. Source: US State Department: The United States welcomes H.E. Ms. Hina Rabbani Khar, Minister for Foreign Affairs and the Pakistani […]
Source: The Washington Post Author: Faheem Younus As if flogging the adulterers, executing the civilians, and selling the women were not enough, on Oct. 8, the Taliban attempted to assassinate a 14-year-old girl, Malala Yousafzai. She was coming home from school in the battle-scarred valley of Swat, Pakistan, when Taliban shot […]
Come, Learn, And Decide: The events of past weeks, months and years, have portrayed the life and character of The Prophet of Islam in a derogatory and negative manner through a video, literature, caricatures and oral form by individuals who seem to have questionable motives. Unfortunately, the reaction to these […]
The Canadian Jewish News: A new weekly course is bringing together Jewish and Muslim women to study each other’s spiritual texts and the roles of women in these religions. Shari […]
By: QASIM RASHID | Richmond Times-Dispatch Published: October 30, 2012 The presidential debates are history, leaving us cherishing Big Bird, binders full of women and horses and bayonets. America’s future now rests in the voters’ hands. Yet, about 90 million of us won’t vote this November — a trend that […]
Resurrection is an extraordinary claim and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and the Christian apologists only have a few stories from 2000 years ago to offer. Around minute 58 the debaters get into this criterion and the opening statement of Richard Carrier also offers a good analogy on this theme. […]
(CNN) — Crew members of a tall ship used for classic adventure films faced a harrowing real-life drama Monday as Hurricane Sandy forced them to abandon ship about 90 miles […]
By Richard Leiby, Monday, October 29, 9:08 AM LAHORE, Pakistan — One cleric is a wanted terrorist who preaches that the United States is Pakistan’s worst enemy, determined to “wipe out every Muslim” with the […]
Business Insider: Some heartwarming news from Adam Pasick at New York Magazine… If Hurricane Sandy’s storm surge is as big as projected, the fetid Gowanus canal may overflow and flood low-lying areas of Brooklyn with a foul-smelling and poisonous mixture of chemicals and crap: More