By: Peter Skerry The Boston Marathon bombings highlighted, once again, the challenges of assimilating Muslim youth. And while the onus of accountability ought not rest exclusively on Muslim Americans, it understandably weighs most heavily on them. Indeed, any fair-minded assessment of recent events must underscore the inadequacies of Muslim-American leaders. […]
(Reuters) – As it considers scaling back asset purchases, the Federal Reserve must consider the overall economic improvements since it launched the stimulus and not give undue weight to the most recent economic data, a top Fed official said on Friday. Highlighting the upcoming September policy meeting as a possible […]
Religion News Service | By OMAR SACIRBEY HUFFINGTON POST (RNS) When McDonald’s announced it would discontinue the sale of halal chicken nuggets and chicken sandwiches at two restaurants earlier this […]
KUWAIT CITY: ARAB NEWS Thursday 27 June 2013 More than 100,000 people have been killed in Syria’s uprising, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The death toll from the civil war is now 100,191 people, it said. Violence raged as US Secretary of State John Kerry ruled out […]
Source: BBC News Two prominent US bloggers have been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office has said. Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer co-founded anti-Muslim group Stop Islamization of […]
Torture by masters who claim the moral high ground, declarations they’ve won their war despite being in retreat, and insistence on a dignified exit after negotiation On 20th November 2001, in the Afghan embassy in Islamabad, the Taliban stamped into my passport their very last visa, number 001518, valid only […]
Source: BBC Edward Snowden, the former US intelligence contractor who leaked classified documents revealing US internet and phone surveillance, has asked Ecuador for asylum. The request was confirmed by Ecuador’s […]
Speaking at the ‘Friends of Syria’ meeting in Doha, US Foreign Minister John Kerry signaled the need for talks between the regime and the opposition. “Both sides should be able to compromise. Both sides should come to the table,” he said. Kerry also said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad “internationalized […]
(CNN) — The U.N. and Arab League point man on Syria praised the top U.S. and Russian diplomats Wednesday for their latest efforts to forge a solution to the Syrian […]
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BEIJING — China’s credit crunch eased Friday after lending picked up among banks and financial institutions that had been desperately seeking cash in the bank-to-bank market. The central government made no official announcement on the situation, and it was unclear whether policy makers had intervened, but short-term interest rates fell […]
(Reuters) – Home resales hit a 3-1/2-year high in May and factory activity in the Mid-Atlantic region rebounded this month, backing the Federal Reserve’s view that risks to the economy have diminished. While other data on Thursday showed more Americans than expected filed new claims for unemployment benefits last week, […]
A 65-year-old British atheist who has lived in the US for 30 years has been denied US citizenship, unless she joins a church by Friday. During her application process to become a naturalized US citizen, Texas resident Margaret Doughty did not agree to bear arms to defend the country, claiming […]
Epigraph: And when people are brought together, as if they are a part of a family. And when the girl-child buried alive is questioned about, ‘For what crime was she killed?’ And when […]
By SEYED HOSSEIN MOUSAVIAN and MOHAMMAD ALI SHABANI The New York Times THE stunning election of a pragmatic former Iranian nuclear negotiator, Hassan Rowhani, has offered the Obama administration a once-in-a-lifetime chance to end the atomic stalemate with Iran. In the West, Mr. Rowhani is widely seen as a turbaned […]
The US is to open direct peace talks with the Taliban, senior White House officials have announced. The first meeting is due to take place in the coming days in Doha, Qatar, where the Taliban have just opened their first official overseas office. Afghan President Hamid Karzai said his government […]
Source: duluth.patch.com Farhat Pall, the president of the Women’s Auxiliary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, GA chapter officiated the Women’s Ijtema at Baitul Baqi mosque, on Saturday June 1st, 2013. An […]
Source: The Local German Chancellor Angela Merkel says she will tackle US President Barack Obama on the scale of American online surveillance, and call for “transparency” on its scope as […]
By: Maha Zaraket al akhbar Published Sunday, June 16, 2013 American author and professor Noam Chomsky was in Beirut to give a commencement speech and accept an honorary degree at […]
Tosh! That’s the only sane reaction to the White House’s announcement that America the Brave is to arm the Syrian rebels. The US doesn’t plan to send weapons to the horrid rebels, mark you – not to the al-Qa’ida-inspired al-Nusra Front whose chaps film themselves eating Alawites for YouTube videos, […]