Source: The Washington Times By Aaron Blake President Trump invoked “racism, bigotry and white supremacism” in his speech Monday about the mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio. That’s […]
Source: The Washington Post By Antonia Noori Farzan March 8 After a week of brutal infighting over how to best respond to allegations of anti-Semitism, Democrats on Thursday presented a compromise that seemed […]
NY Times: In the aftermath of the Jamal Khashoggi murder, the kingdom has exploited the podium of the Grand Mosque in Mecca by using its imams to praise, sanctify and defend the rulers and their actions. The rulers of Saudi Arabia derive much of their legitimacy and prestige in the […]
Source: The New York Times By Sameer Rahim Mr. Rahim is a writer and editor at Prospect magazine. England’s Moeen Ali celebrates with his team mates after taking the wicket of […]
Source: MSN News BY F. Brinley Bruton and Vaughn Hillyard Former Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney lashed out at the decision to have a controversial evangelical leader give a blessing at […]
Pakistan and India are two foremost examples today of why the idea of nation state as organization of humanity has turned out to be an unmitigated disaster at least in this Century. The Peace of Westphalia in 1648 was no doubt an iconic achievement bringing to an end the wars […]
Source: Religion News Service By Bobby Ross Jr. | February 18, 2018 Demonstrators in Plano, Texas, on Feb. 18, 2018, outside a city council meeting called to address council member Tom Harrison’s anti-Islam […]
India Today: A journalist on Monday tweeted, without naming them directly, that “they” need to be “killed” before “they kill us”. Although interpretations of the tweet may differ from person to person, many saw it as a tweet advocating violence against members of a particular community — Muslims — and […]
Source: The Washington Post By Yair Rosenberg November 29 at 3:49 PM President Trump pauses as the media departs after he spoke in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on Tuesday, […]
Source: Fox News KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistani police say they have arrested ten people for killing a newly-wed couple who entered into a free-will marriage in the southern port […]
Guardian: Britain is in danger of becoming complicit in the use of starvation as a weapon of war in Yemen, academic and author Alex de Waal has said. “The UK and the US, and others on the security council risk becoming accessories to the worst famine crime of this decade,” said De […]
Indian Express: The Taj Mahal is easily the most recognisable icon of modern India. The monument is a cash cow for the state, drawing millions of visitors and bringing in crores of rupees annually. It has been a World Heritage Site for decades and is frequently listed as among the […]
Source: The Washington Post BY Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner and Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II Congress returns to work this week for the first time since blood was shed in Charlottesville. […]
Source: NPR BY TOM GJELTEN Jewish groups have broadened their work to oppose all forms of bigotry. Following the violence in Charlottesville, Va., more non-Jews see the reality of anti-Semitism […]
Source: BBC News Former Presidents George HW Bush and George W Bush have called on the US to “reject racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred in all forms”. They are the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Donna St. George July 11 School incidents involving hate symbols and racial slurs appear to have more than tripled during the past school year in a suburb […]
Source: The Guardian By Giles Tremlett Two books, one by Elizabeth Drayson and one by Matthew Carr, investigate the harsh fate of the Moors and their heirs from the 15th […]
When Riazuddin—that was his full name—died in September at age 82 in Islamabad, international science organizations extolled his contributions to high-energy physics. But in Pakistan, except for a few newspaper lines and a small reference held a month later at Quaid-e-Azam University, where he had taught for decades, his passing […]
The Sydney Morning Herald: Three people were killed in California in yet another mass shooting. The culprit? A man who had a history of violence and was known for yelling out religious slogans. Shortly before the slayings, he publicly praised his god and guns on Facebook. The shooter was Cedric […]
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL NEW YORK (AP) — They sat on either end of the congressmen’s couch, one a Jewish healthcare executive whose parents fled Germany in 1936, […]