KUNDUZ TRAGEDY Swiss-based body ready to probe hospital bombing By Matthew Allen OCT 7, 2015 – 11:00 At least 22 people were killed in the Kunduz hospital strike (Keystone) The Bern-based International Humanitarian Fact-Finding Commission (IHFFC) believes the bombing of a Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Afghanistan by United […]
Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan IBRAHIM NAFFEE Published — Wednesday 7 October 2015 JEDDAH: The Kingdom is hosting for Umrah the American student who was recently wrongfully arrested after a teacher at his school in Texas mistook his homemade clock for a bomb. Ahmed Mohammed Al-Hassan, who is of Sudanese […]
Carson Calls on IRS to Terminate CAIR’s Tax-Exempt Status Presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson said CAIR ‘brazenly violated’ IRS rules, noting it is ‘not the first time that CAIR has disrespected U.S. laws.’ BY RYAN MAURO Sun, October 4, 2015 Ben Carson (Photo: CNN Video screenshot) Republican presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson is calling […]
America’s Oligarch Problem: How the Super-Rich Threaten US Democracy An Essay By Markus Feldenkirchen SPIEGEL.DE AFP Poking fun at the über-oligarch: Donald Trump pinatas are displayed in the window of a store in San Francisco’s Mission District. The sky’s the limit when it comes to […]
The neurosurgeon-turned-Republican candidate is spreading absurd lies about the world’s second-largest religion QASIM RASHID (Credit: Reuters/Steve Marcus) In his recent anti-Muslim crusade, Ben Carson promoted a disturbing form of religious segregation, claiming that a Muslim should only be president if he or she “renounces the tenets of Islam.” Sadly, just as racial segregationists long […]
Andre Mitchell 05 October 2015 One of the worksheets given to students in Walton County, Georgia, shows Allah referred as the ‘same god worshipped by Jews and Christians.’ Public schools in Georgia have been teaching young children about the basic beliefs of Islam, and their parents are furious about it. […]
BY MEGHAN WALSH RISING STARS WHY YOU SHOULD CARE Because this guy could change the way we think about evolution — and faith. On a sunny afternoon, at a bustling cafe less than a mile from Stanford University’s Palo Alto campus and more than 5,000 miles from his home, an […]
Global Post: White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, according to a study by the New America Foundation. The Washington-based research organization did a review of “terror” attacks on US soil since Sept. 11, 2001 and found that most of themwere carried out by radical anti-government […]
Oct 03,2015 – JORDAN TIMES MAHMOUD ZIDAN “If it looks like a terrorist, if it walks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it’s a terrorist.” Thus spoke Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at a UN General Assembly press conference. Several […]
Reuters International OCT 3, 2015 – 15:58 By Hamid Shalizi and Andrew MacAskill KABUL (Reuters) – An airstrike hit a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz on Saturday, killing at least 16 people in what the U.S. military called possible “collateral damage” in […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir Baitul ul Jam-e-Mosque, Glen Ellyn, IL Contact Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir at: Address Masjid Bait-ul-Jaamay 2 S 510 IL Rte 53 Glen Ellyn,IL. 60137 Email: […]
Global Post: WASHINGTON — Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon seeking the Republican presidential nomination, drew fire last month when he said he would not “advocate” for a Muslim president, but it turns out that most Republicans agree with him. In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 23-30, 75 percent of Republican voters […]
Woolly mammoth bones uncovered in Lima Township By Daniel Bethencourt, Detroit Free Press5:51 p.m. EDT October 2, 2015 Bones to be cleaned and researched (Photo: Courtesy of the University of Michigan) After a full day of digging through a soybean field near Chelsea, researchers at the University of Michigan confirmed […]
Report by Mirza Mashood Interfaith meetings are always good – they promote better understanding & remove many misconceptions against each other. -Imam shamshad An interfaith program held in west Chicago […]
By Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir Baitul ul Jam-e-Mosque, Glen Ellyn, IL Contact Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir at: Address Masjid Bait-ul-Jaamay 2 S 510 IL Rte 53 Glen Ellyn,IL. 60137 […]
By AP – Sep 30,2015 – JORDAN TIMES Residents gather at the site of a car bomb attack in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday (Reuters photo by Khalid Al Mousily) WASHINGTON — A summer of stalemate in the effort to reclaim the Iraqi provincial capital of Ramadi, despite US-backed Iraqi troops […]
Some Stand with Ahmad Economist: AN OUTSIZED Stars and Stripes; a giant car park; a children’s playground prettily flanked by hayfields, whitewashed clapboard houses glistening nearby. Ossama Bahloul’s building has many of the regular accoutrements of southern houses of worship. On his desk inside there is another, miniature, American flag, […]
“True Islam is of peace, tolerance, respect and brotherhood — Not the one presented or practiced by ISIS or Boko Haram or Al Qaeda or Taliban…“ -Imam Shamshad Members of […]