Why do birds have beaks and not teeth? This dino may have the answer
Source: CNN (CNN)A group of 13 dinosaurs that died in a mud pit in China has yielded an unprecedented discovery. The 154 million-year-old limusaurus had tiny, sharp teeth as a […]
Why Pan-Islamism Is the Biggest Roadblock for Muslims’ Integration with Modernity
Why Pan-Islamism Is the Biggest Roadblock for Muslims’ Integration with Modernity By Arshia Malik December 05, 2016 Pan-Islamism is a political movement advocating the unity of Muslims under one Islamic state – often a Caliphate – or an international organization with Islamic principles. As a form of religious nationalism, Pan-Islamism […]
Why It’s Not Wrong to Wish Muslims Merry Christmas
NYTimes.com Mustafa Akyol DEC. 23, 2016 ISTANBUL — Billions of Christians around the world are excited to celebrate Christmas this weekend. Those in the world’s second-largest religious community, Muslims, don’t share quite the same excitement. In a few Muslim-majority countries, like Saudi Arabia, Brunei and Somalia, Christmas celebrations are banned. In […]
Vatican bureaucracy & resistance to reforms ‘inspired by devil’ – Pope Francis
Russia Today: In his annual Christmas speech, Pope Francis slammed Vatican officials for pushing back against reforms that the pontiff has been pushing forward since 2013, saying that those taking part in “malicious resistance” have been inspired by the devil. “The absence of reaction is a sign of death! Consequently, […]
Rabbi Sharon Brous: It’s time to reclaim and reinvent religion – Ted Talk
At a moment when the world seems to be spinning out of control, religion might feel irrelevant — or like part of the problem. But Rabbi Sharon Brous believes we […]
An Attempt to Understand Ahmadiyyas by a Group of Muslims
An Attempt to Understand Ahmadiyyas By Asif Merchant, New Age Islam 13 December 2016 We learn that the National Centre for Physics at Islamabad’s Quaid-e-Azam University will be renamed after […]
Registry used to track Arabs and Muslims dismantled by Obama administration
Source: The Guardian The Obama administration is dismantling a discriminatory surveillance system that was used after 9/11 to keep tabs on Arabs and Muslims across the US, in a move […]
Obama bans oil drilling ‘permanently’ in millions of acres of ocean
Source: BBC Image copyrightAPImage captionArctic rigs like the “polar pioneer” were never actually deployed Outgoing US President Barack Obama has permanently banned offshore oil and gas drilling in the “vast […]
Multiple sclerosis drug ‘a landmark’
Source: BBC By James GallagherHealth and science reporter, BBC News website Health Share Image copyrightSPL A drug that alters the immune system has been described as “big news” and a […]
Berlin attack: Family urge suspect to surrender
Source: BBC The family of Anis Amri, the Tunisian man suspected of driving a lorry into a crowded Christmas market in Berlin, have urged him to surrender. His brother, Abdelkader […]
Donald Trump: US must greatly expand nuclear weapons
Source: BBC Donald Trump has called for the US to “greatly strengthen and expand” its nuclear arsenal. The president-elect, who takes office next month, said the US must take such […]
Trump’s inaugural to include interfaith prayer service
Source: Associated Press By RACHEL ZOLL Donald Trump’s Inaugural weekend will include an interfaith prayer service at Washington’s National Cathedral, a customary event but complicated this year by anger over […]
Trump Suggests Berlin Attack Affirms His Plan to Bar Muslims
Source: The New York Times By MARK LANDLER WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump seemed to suggest on Wednesday that the deadly truck attack on a Christmas market in Berlin […]
‘I will always put my faith first’: Catholic health educator fired for refusing to teach birth control
Source :The Washington Post By Kristine Guerra December 21 at 1:51 PM Karen Alexia Palma said she was fired from her job as a health educator in Texas after she […]
HRH Prince Charles’ special video message
Source: http://www.acnuk.org/hrh-prince-charles-message-for-aid-to-the-church-in-need-
Man grabbed hijab from woman’s head in ‘hate crime,’ Newark mayor says
Source: NJ.com By Marisa Iati | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com Email the author | Follow on Twitter Mayor Ras Baraka welcomes residents to the 31st annual christmas tree lighting […]
‘No ill feelings,’ Muslim woman assaulted in Applebee’s tells her attacker in court
Source: Star Tribune By Paul Walsh Star Tribune A Muslim woman who was assaulted with a beer mug by a woman in a Coon Rapids restaurant told the defendant during […]
More professions should be open to women—Saudi cleric
Riyadh: A senior Saudi cleric and a health ministry official said women should be allowed to work as paramedics and opticians, Saudi newspapers reported on Monday, part of a push to relax strict labour codes in the country. Source: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/more-professions-should-be-open-to-women-saudi-cleric-1.1948652
Romania could see 1st female Muslim prime minister
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romania could be headed for its first female prime minister, an economist who is a member of Romania’s small Muslim community. Liviu Dragnea, chairman of Romania’s […]
Prince Charles warns against religious persecution
Prince Charles has spoken out about the danger of religious persecution, warning against a repeat of “the horrors of the past”. Delivering BBC Radio 4’s Thought for the Day, the Prince of Wales said the rise of populist groups “aggressive” to minority faiths had “deeply disturbing echoes of the dark […]