“Our community … still isn’t big enough in the context of really wielding our electoral power.” 12/14/2015 Amanda TerkelSenior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post JOHN BLANDING/THE BOSTON GLOBE VIA GETTY IMAGES Nadeem Mazen, a progressive member of the Cambridge City Council, is the only Muslim elected official in the state […]
Source: Huffington Post By Brian Levin, J.D.; Director, Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism, California State University Special Report from Center for the Study of Hate & Extremism, […]
UK expects to be asked by new Libyan government to deploy troops to train fledging force despite rival factions rejecting unity accord This comes despite the agreement being denounced as illegitimate by some of the groups that it is meant to unite. The UK expects to be asked by the […]
Facebook post, accompanied by four pictures, said 20 armed soldiers arrived wearing bulletproof jackets Photographs showed three Americans armed with assault rifles. Photograph: Libyan Air Force/Facebook Chris Stephen in Tunis Thursday 17 December 2015 23.21 GMTLast modified on Friday 18 December 201517.57 GMT A secret US commando mission to Libya has […]
Suspect in Meriden Mosque Shooting Charged With Hate Crime http://www.nbcconnecticut.com/news/local/Suspect-in-Meriden-Mosque-Shooting-Arrested-362937201.html The FBI has arrested a man accused of firing shots at a mosque with a high-powered rifle in Meriden and charged him with a hate crime. The shooting at the Baitul Aman Mosque was reported on Nov. 15, just two […]
Source: BBC The birds that helped Charles Darwin refine his theory of evolution are in danger of going extinct, according to a new study. Finches in the Galapagos Islands are […]
Source: Time In January 2015, a compelling study published in the journalScience reported that most cancers are random and out of one’s control. The study made waves, challenging decades of […]
Source: Time Speaking at the National Counterterrorism Center Thursday, President Obama sought to reassure Americans on national security before the holidays. “After the terrorist attacks in Paris and San Bernardino […]
Source: Time To start, Santa needs to cover 226 million miles to deliver all of the presents By Michael McDonald / Oilprice.com @oilandenergy Dec. 17, 2015 Every year around the world, […]
Source: Time (LOS ANGELES) — The man who bought the assault rifles used by his friend in the San Bernardino massacre was charged Thursday with terrorism-related counts. The FBI arrested […]
Source: Huffington Post A 55-year-old man thought he had procured a working X-ray device that could focus lethal levels of radiation on residents of an upstate New York community. It’s […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Kamaldeen Ayodele Muili Research Scientist, Ohio State University The spate of violent crimes being committed by mentally deranged, religious hypocrites is very concerning, and could not have been ordered by God the Almighty. Thus crime and terrorism such as San Bernadino, Paris massacre, Charlie Hebdo shooting […]
Source: WGRZ.com NIAGARA FALL, NY – A local mosque is trying to fight the misunderstandings that can lead to fear and mistrust of Islam. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on Colvin […]
Michael Moore wrote a letter to Trump this week: We Are All Muslim He deserves that his legacy be preserved against future onslaught: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Michael Moore Moore […]
Source: Huffington Post By Michael Moore; Oscar and Emmy-winning Director Dear Donald Trump: You may remember (you do, after all, have a “perfect memory!”), that we met back in November […]
Our collection to refute Islamophobia Source: Huffington Post By Charles Kurzman; Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Co-director, Carolina Center for the Study of the Middle […]
Guardian: A federal government frontbencher has warned against “simplistic” calls for a reformation within Islam, arguing “megaphone politics” could jeopardise Australia’s relations with regional neighbours such as Indonesia. In a rebuke to former prime minister Tony Abbott, Concetta Fierravanti-Wells said calls for reform within Islam required “a reality check and […]
Daily Times: Abid Hashmi was garlanded and praised for his ‘heroism’ for calling Ahmedis dogs. The shopkeepers of Hafeez Centre, in their persistence of hate, have put up even bigger posters calling on the state to make Ahmedis wear their religious identity, calling for their apartheid A campaign that strategically […]
YEAR IN REVIEW DEC 18, 2015 – 11:00 Record asylum requests, borders opened and then closed, calls for solidarity and tensions between states: the migration crisis is shaking the already fragile European project and has become the focus of political debate in Switzerland as well. swissinfo.ch looks back at an […]
By AFP – Dec 15,2015 – JORDAN TIMES This file photo taken on September 17 shows a woman, her cousin, her son and her son’s friend carrying their belongings as they walk through the United Nations base outside Bentiu, which hosted around 118,000 people uprooted during the country’s civil war […]