Less than half of U.S. kids now have a “traditional” family
Washington Post: Picture the typical American family: what do you see? You probably imagine a married mom and dad with a couple of kids — think the Draper family, […]
114-year-old woman who challenged Facebook to let her use her real age dies
The Washington Post: by Abby Phillip — Anna Stoehr, 114, uses her iPad at her retirement home in Plainview, Minn. Stoehr made headlines for needing to lie about her age to set up an account on Facebook. Anna Stoehr was 113 years young when she decided it was time for […]
Watch What Happens When American Teens React To The Bravest Teen In The World: Malala
Upworthy Malala Yousafzai has inspired people all over the world with her activism and advocacy for girls, education, human rights, and peace. But as the youngest Nobel Peace Prize winner ever, there’s something special about the impact her story has on teens her own age. When U.S. teens watched a news […]
Ahmadiyy Muslims Promoting Peace: St. Thomas Methodist Church Members invited to Ahmadiyya Masjid Bait-ul-Jamaay
The newly appointed Pastor Jeremiah of St. Thomas Methodist church of Glen Ellyn, visited Masjid Bait-ul-Jamaay. He was accompanied by 24 members from his congregation. The visit was specially arranged […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Glen Ellyn USA Condemns Terrorist Attack on Pakistan Schoolchildren
AHMADIYYA MUSLIM COMMUNITYGLEN ELLYN, IL. CHAPTER Masjid Bait-ul-Jamaay 2 S 510 Route 53 Glen Ellyn, IL 60137 For Immediate release: December 18th, 2014 PRESS RELEASE Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Glen Ellyn […]
[Urdu Artcile] Naseehato’n ka Guldasta (36) by Imam Shamshad A. Nasir
Kindly click on the images to zoom them, Jazakallah. Imam Shamshad A. Nasir Shamshad A. Nasir is imam & missionary-in-charge of the Baitul ul Jaam’e Mosque, Glen Ellyn Cell Phone: 909-636-8332 | Email: Shamshadanasir@gmail.com
Democracy And Corruption: Germany Files War Crimes Charges Against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld And Other CIA Officials
Liberal America: by Tiffany Willis — The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights has filed a criminal complaint against U.S. torture program architects and members of the Bush Administration. The organization has accused CIA director George Tenet and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld of war crimes and they’ve called for a German prosecutor to conduct an immediate investigation. This move […]
Cheaper Oil, Fatter Wallets and a National Opportunity
Oil prices have plunged so rapidly that financial markets are treating them less as an opportunity than a danger, like a falling knife. Currency rates are gyrating, oil-producing countries like Russia, Venezuela and Iran are hurting, and sectors of the bond market are threatened. But unless you’re directly involved in […]
Senseless strategies
The Daily Star Judging by the White House’s policy on battling ISIS militants, one might conclude that U.S. officials believe that the Middle East has been afflicted with mass amnesia. If one can remember as far back as World War II, one of the world’s mightiest armies, belonging to Nazi Germany, was defeated by […]
Beyond Russia: Geopolitical hot spots in 2015
No political actor dominated the global stage in 2014 like Vladimir Putin. He meddled in Ukraine and successfully annexed Crimea, but now Putin looks like he overplayed his hand. Tough sanctions from the West and plunging oil prices have left Moscow with a scary currency crisis. The fear is that […]
Vladimir Putin Says Russian Economy Will Rebound
MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin tried to play down Russia’s dire economic straits in his annual news conference on Thursday, attributing the troubles to declining oil prices that, following a short period of economic turbulence, were bound to recover along with global demand. “We are going through a trying […]
Forum: A Muslim’s reaction to torture reports — tactics are just wrong
Source: New Haven Register By Sohail Z. Husain Halloween was over a month ago — a day to revel over ghoulish characters and hideous images. And now we are supposed to be in a season of merry. These days, though, it seems like scenes reminiscent of Halloween continue to haunt […]
U.S. housing starts fall, but trend points to recovery
(Reuters) – U.S. housing starts and permits fell in November, but remained at levels consistent with a gradually improving housing market. Groundbreaking declined 1.6 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 1.028 million units, the Commerce Department said on Tuesday. October’s starts were revised up to a pace of […]
Robert Fisk on the CIA ‘torture report’: Once again language is distorted in order to hide US state wrongdoing. Perhaps Khalid Sheikh Mohammed told his torturers he could fly through the air
Thank God for Noam Chomsky. Not for his lifetime of eviscerating assaults on our political hypocrisy, but for his linguistics. Long before I knew him, undergraduate Fisk laboured at his university linguistics course, where Chomsky’s work first alerted me to the pernicious use of language. Hence I condemn at once […]
The evangelical giftwrapping of Islamophobia marches on
theguardian: Giles Fraser —- It’s depressing that a decade after I wrote about a Christian charity’s thinly disguised Islamophobia, they’re still at it Franklin Graham (second from right) leads his father Billy, flanked by former US presidents George HW Bush, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter, on the campus of the […]
Cheney has no regrets: ‘I would do it again in a minute’
Washington (CNN) — A defiant former Vice President Dick Cheney doubled-down on his defense of the extreme interrogation techniques used by the CIA on detainees in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks […]
Orthodox Jews back scarf-wearing Muslim in Abercrombie & Fitch case
Samantha Elauf was 17 when she was rejected by a Tulsa, Okla., branch of the clothing store. Members of any religion that need an accommodation will be put in a bad situation if in job interviews they have to ask for them. – William Burgess, staff attorney, Council on American-Islamic […]
Guantánamo prisoners released to Uruguay: ‘We are so happy to be here’
theguardian: by Uki Goni — Six former US detainees who were never charged with a crime, were flown to Uruguay on Sunday to begin new lives as refugees Cori Crider, Abu Wa’el Dhiab’s lawyer, speaks to the press outside of the military hospital in Montevideo. Over the past 12 years, […]
Cheap gas could kill U.S. oil export ban
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) The recent drop in gas prices may spell the end for a nearly 40-year old ban on U.S. oil exports. The oil industry has been pushing to lift the nation’s ban for sometime, but consumer worries about high gas prices have generally made the proposal to lift […]
Student Creates First Ever Man-Made Biological Leaf
HigherPerspective: — The “first man-made biological leaf” could enable humans to colonise space from Dezeen on Vimeo. Another hurdle to prolonged interstellar travel has been passed. RCA Graduate Julian Melchiorri has developed a biological leaf that acts just like a natural one, breathing in carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. “Plants don’t grow in zero gravity,” […]