Russian TV: Are some faiths more ‘legitimate’ than others in the US? The Freedom from Religion Foundation has filed a lawsuit over a State House resolution announcing 2012 as ‘the […]
Source: Paris Star – Prejudice can be viewed as part ignorance and part fear. That was Meredith Swanson’s belief as she approached the County of Brant Public Library in Paris on Saturday afternoon to ask some questions and educate herself on the Islam religion. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association of […]
Editor’s note: I have just changed the title. By Fareed Zakaria, CNN India is America’s friend, Israel’s friend and Iran’s friend. Amid all the talk of an Israeli strike on Iran, how is India managing to stay friends with everyone? What in the world is going on? India is being criticized […]
BBC Former US Vice-President Dick Cheney has had a heart transplant and is now recovering in hospital, his office has said. It said the surgery had been carried out on Saturday at the Inova Fairfax Hospital in Virginia. Mr Cheney, 71, has had heart problems for much of his adult […]
Credit: TOI KANDAHAR: The United States has paid $50,000 in compensation for each Afghan killed in the shooting spree attributed to a US soldier in southern Afghanistan, an Afghan official and a community elder said on Sunday. The families of the dead received the money on Saturday at the governor’s […]
NY Times: by Jonathan Haidt: THE RIGHTEOUS MIND You’re smart. You’re liberal. You’re well informed. You think conservatives are narrow-minded. You can’t understand why working-class Americans vote Republican. You figure […]
The New York Times: Erik Schmidt: An American investigation in December found fault with both American and Pakistani troops for the deadly exchange of fire, but noted that the Pakistanis fired […]
Source: Huff Post Religion Apparently, attempts are underway to open a new front in the supposed “war on religion” in my home state of Louisiana as it takes center stage in the presidential primary season. Truth be told, from what I have seen lately, those claiming there is a war […]
Source: News Optimist – Adherents of the Islam faith took their message of peace and harmony to North Battleford on March 15. Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in the city for an open house at North Battleford Public Library on “The Holy Qur’an.” The goal of the […]
Source: Macleans.ca Why the debate over the veil is much more complicated than you think No item of female apparel summons more attention, animosity, debate or censure in Western society […]
The Global Post.com: Joel Elliott: WALTHAM, Massachusetts — It’s time for the World Bank to stop pretending significant progress is being made in reducing extreme global poverty. The self-congratulatory report it issued recently claimed it […]
Credit: Washington Post Zachary Goldfarb and Howard Schneider 3:20 PM ET Obama nominates Dartmouth College President Jim Yong Kim to head the World Bank, saying he was seeking someone with Kim’s expertise in public health to head what he called ”the world’s largest development agency.” More:
Credit: Newyork Times: I thought I’d take a look back at apologies that should have been delivered, but never were. Lyndon Johnson, for ordering covert operations in the gulf of Tonkin and then lying about it, leading to the war in Vietnam. Also for expanding the war while promising not […]
Source: The Record – Religious misconceptions addressed at open house Misconceptions about Islam, some perpetuated by recent events, were addressed at an open house on the Holy Qur’an held at the Fort Saskatchewan Public Library March 17. “The idea started when Pastor Terry Jones burnt the Qur’an,” said Noman Khalil, […]
Huffington Post: A landmark report in Quebec recommends that doctors be allowed in exceptional circumstances to help the terminally ill die if that is what the patients want. The report was released in the legislature on Thursday after two years of work from the so-called Dying With Dignity Committee, a […]
New York Times: Opinionator; Discussions of religion are typically about God. Atheists reject religion because they don’t believe in God; Jews, Christians and Muslims take belief in God as fundamental […]
Source: China Daily Once again the United States is trying to throw its weight around and impose its unilateral vision on other countries. The US imposed tough new sanctions at the turn of the year, aimed at preventing other countries from importing Iranian oil and conducting transactions with its central […]
Source: Lloydminster Source – After a campaign where members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Group went door-to-door, dispelling myths about the Islam religion, Lloydminster residents recently had another chance to learn more about the eastern faith. Representatives from the youth group were at the Lloydminster Public Library late Thursday afternoon, […]
Credit: TOI It’s something Mitt Romney and Rahul Gandhi are trying too hard to show they have. On Tuesday, American Republicans in the state of Illinois had the chance to vote for their choice to face Barack Obama in November. They backed former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, who needed a […]
Washington Post: By E.J. Dionne Jr.:vWhere evangelicals cast a minority of the ballots, Mitt Romney has won. Where evangelical voters predominated, Romney has lost, in most cases to Rick Santorum. Romney’s victory […]