Source: Loonwatch On this 9/11 let it be remembered that American Muslims do not bear collective guilt for the crime of 9/11, and let us remember those who died in the attacks. (h/t: Abdallah C.) List of Muslim Victims of 9/11 (via. Some Random Thoughts Blog) “American Muslims bear no collective […]
Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have stoked Islamophobia — and encouraged right-wing ignorance By Nathan Lean Excerpted from “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” As is the case with any industry, advertising is paramount to the success of a product. One need not look […]
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon God had a good convention: The Almighty’s name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the Democratic platform. And He was invoked no less than 12 times in the Republican platform, in case He is keeping score. But the real news is […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon When God, Jerusalem, the Arab-Israeli conflict and American domestic politics come together, the result usually reconfirms established dynamics in three arenas: Americans are a religious folk, they know very little about the facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and their government is severely […]
Source: By: LAIQ AHMED ATIF, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta amjmalta@gmail.com The world is not at rest and much of it today is embroiled in wars, disorder and enmities. Some […]
Sopurce: Asia Times. Are Norwegians weird, or what? Seventy-seven of them get massacred by a killer who gets a prison term of only 21 years and they don’t take to the streets in protest, even when their president, without a drop of machismo, says: “The bomb and bullets were aimed […]
By ANA FACIO-KRAJCER The New York Times – Los Angeles Journal LOS ANGELES — Sebastian Flores walked out of Al Salam Pollería with a free bag of white-feathered chicken heads. […]
Credit: ET Afridi claims ISI supports Haqqani network. PHOTO: FILE PESHAWAR: Controversial Pakistani doctor and alleged CIA informant, Dr Shakil Afridi claimed in an interview to Fox News that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency regarded America as its “worst enemy” and that the incumbent government was cooperating with the US only to extract billions […]
The other day, I stumbled across a piece on the increasing number of Muslim students at Catholic colleges in the United States. The New York Times article is the result of interviews with students and administrators at several American Catholic institutions. Also accompanying the article was the usual array of […]
Noted Muslim writer Tariq Ramadan to speak tonight in Ann Arbor Detroit Free Press Staff Writer FILED UNDER The writer who’s the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamic group now in power in Egypt — is speaking tonight in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. […]
Speaking to an overflow crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, noted Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan criticized extreme Islamists known as Salafis, saying that the Arab world needs to develop political systems that reject both theocracies and dictatorships. But he added that Arab countries should develop their societies […]
Credit: TOI NEW YORK: The US was initially planning a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden but chose an assault by its elite commandos who killed the world’s most wanted terrorist a year ago. In his tell-all account, Matt Bissonnette, […]
At a time when U.S. Muslims and mosques are increasingly under attack, some Muslim Americans say Obama has not taken a strong enough stance against Islamophobia. The Democrats’ inclusion last week of support for marriage equality and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in their official party platform may have […]
God had a good convention: The Almighty’s name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the Democratic platform. And he was invoked no less than 12 times in the Republican platform, in case he is keeping score. But the real news is that God is having a strong millennium, […]
Photo Credit: ahmadnabeel12 Thousands of Ahmadiyya Muslims from around the world have been holding their 46th annual convention in Hampshire over the weekend. The event in Alton is Britain’s largest […]
Video of President Obama’s weekly address where he makes the statement in title of the article.
At the age of 12, Alex Foyt is already a veteran of creating online games, boasting 98 titles in six years, including a survival challenge that involves dodging carrots and chickens falling from the sky. The secret to Foyt’s game-making prowess: He learned coding with a programming language called Lua, […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama regained some footing and overtook his Republican rival Mitt Romney in a new Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday, a day after the end of the Democratic convention. In what appears to be a convention-induced bounce, Obama jumped ahead in the latest daily tracking poll […]
Source: The Buffalo News BY: Mary Kunz Goldman Tahmina Rehman is used to thinking in terms of basic comforts. Food. Friendship. And conversation. Such age-old comforts can bring people together […]
Credit:TOI The United States is not considering terror tags for Pakistan and its intelligence agency ISI despite charges of their patronage of terrorist groups, American officials said on Friday. (AP Photo) WASHINGTON: The United States is not considering terror tags for Pakistan and its intelligence agency ISI despite charges of […]