Meet Muhammad: Response to anti-Islamic video and reaction
A 2010 Time magazine poll showed that only 38 percent of Americans have ever met a Muslim. At the time I read this, the number was very alarming to me […]
Poll: Obama better for middle class
Global Post: BOSTON — Middle-class voters are, of course, important to the Nov. 6 presidential election. Both President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney have been aggressively targeting this group, particularly in swing states like Ohio, Michigan, Virginia, Pennsylvania and other places where members of this large and economically struggling […]
Perot: U.S. risks being “taken over” if we don’t fix economy
(CBS News) In a rare interview with USA Today, Ross Perot, the 82-year-old former third-party presidential candidate, called for long-term solutions to the nation’s ongoing economic woes – and warned that, barring substantive fixes, the U.S. could lose its sovereignty. “The last thing I ever want to see is our […]
Human rights in focus at U.S. Supreme Court
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court, back in session today after its summer recess, is expected to take up a closely watched case that could help it decide whether American judges are empowered to hear lawsuits over human rights atrocities abroad. The nine justices will review the reach of the […]
Judge orders arrest of Brazil Google president
Source: BBC A regional judge has ordered the arrest of Google’s president in Brazil, Fabio Jose Silva Coelho, after the company failed to take down YouTube videos. Authorities say the videos are slanderous towards a candidate running in a city’s election for mayor. More:
Census: Canada’s families shifting away from marriage to common-law
by Mark Kennedy Montreal Gazette OTTAWA — The sanctity of marriage as the bedrock of the Canadian family is steadily eroding, new census data released Wednesday reveal. Instead, although married couples are still the norm — about two-thirds of families — their numbers are lagging and only increased by 3.1 […]
Study: Married households comprise less than half of US population
A study has revealed that married households with or without children comprise less than half of the United States population. A report by private, nonprofit organization, Population Reference Bureau (PRB) pointed out the demographic information, saying people living alone now represented 27 percent of all the households in the country, […]
Ottawa Muslim leader condemns violence over anti-Islamic film
By Chloé Fedio, The Ottawa Citizen September 30, 2012 The Ottawa leader of a Muslim Community condemned the violent reaction to “an extremely foul and provocative film,” including bloody protests and the storming of a consulate building in Benghazi that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three embassy staff. […]
US and Afghan forces clash, leaving 5 dead
KABUL — A firefight broke out between US forces and their Afghan army allies in eastern Afghanistan Sunday, killing two Americans and three Afghan soldiers and pushing the number of […]
At United Nations, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls For Ban On Insulting Prophet Muhammad
Huff Post: NEW YORK — As anti-American protests continue in Islamic nations against a U.S.-made film that mocks the Muslim prophet, the leader of the world’s largest Islamic organization met with United Nations leaders this week to condemn violence over the film and call for a ban on insulting the […]
A Critique of President Obama’s UN Speech
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First of all, let me applaud our great country, USA, it gives us freedoms, for an ordinary citizen like me, without any […]
Women as Priests
NY Times: REFORMERS within the Roman Catholic Church have been calling for the ordination of women as priests. The Vatican, however, refuses to consider the possibility and uses its power to silence those who speak out. Catholic clergy in Europe, Australia and the United States who have voiced public support […]
My Question: Freedom of Speech or Verbal Abuse?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD I verbalize my question by quoting a short article from Wikipedia about ‘Verbal abuse.’ I know that today most in the West, care rather little about their religion or the religion of others, but, most of the Western people are kind hearted and do care about the feelings of others. So, my question […]
Amid the Rise in Anti-Islamic Speech, We All Have an Obligation to Speak Up for Tolerance
Source: Jakarta Globe by Rick Jacobs | September 28, 2012 Two weeks ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, I noticed a woman wearing a traditional Muslim head covering on the packed platform of the train station in Scarsdale, New York. Her attention was focused on a billboard ad […]
Disunited Nations
Russian TV: The kickoff of the 67th session of the United Nations General Assembly, marking a week of general debate, looks like an epitaph for the UN’s ‘world government,’ once the cornerstone of international politics. There is every reason to believe that the golden days of the UN will never return, and […]
Research yields promising advance in solar cells based on nanocarbon
Source: R&D An exciting advance in solar cell technology developed at the University of Kansas (KU) has produced the world’s most efficient photovoltaic (PV) cells made from nanocarbons, materials that have the potential to dramatically drop the costs of PV technology in the future. “We actually broke the all-carbon PV […]
M.T.A. Amends Rules After Pro-Israel Ads Draw Controversy
Source: NY Times. By MATT FLEGENHEIMER The Metropolitan Transportation Authority approved new guidelines for advertisements on Thursday, prohibiting those that it “reasonably foresees would imminently incite or provoke violence or other immediate breach of the peace.” The 8-to-0 vote by the authority’s board came three days after pro-Israel ads characterizing Islamist […]
University of Toronto hires first full-time Muslim chaplain
The National Post: By Arman Aghbali TORONTO _ The University of Toronto has hired its first full-time Muslim chaplain and the man taking up the post hopes to combat stereotypes […]
WikiLeaks’ Assange mocks Obama for defending free speech in the Arab world at UN event
Source: TOI WikiLeaks’ Assange mocks Obama via video at UN event See photo UNITED NATIONS: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, speaking via a choppy video feed from his virtual house arrest in London, lashed out at US President Barack Obama on Wednesday for supporting freedom of speech in the Middle East […]
Mars rover finds first evidence of water – an ancient stream
Source: TOI This image provided by NASA shows shows a Martian rock outcrop near the landing site of the rover Curiosity thought to be the site of an ancient streambed. (AP Photo) CAPE CANAVERAL: NASA’s Mars rover, Curiosity, dispatched to learn if the most Earth-like planet in the solar system […]