The housing market recovery picked up steam in the final three months of last year – prices shot up 7.3%, according to S&P Case-Shiller. The report covered home prices across 20 major housing markets and comes ahead of a government report on the sales of new homes due later Tuesday. […]
Nation of Islam asks for gang protection February 25, 2013 18:24 Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan. (Reuters / Rebecca Cook) Tags Army, Religion, Security, USA Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan has a proposition for the members of Chicago’s gangs — and it doesn’t even involve getting them to put down their […]
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LONDON — At the root of Moody’s decision to downgrade Britain’s credit rating is a crucial economic reality: Britain has begun to trail its peers in Europe — even bailed-out euro zone economies — when it comes to bringing down its budget deficit and making it attractive for foreigners to […]
Nation of Islam leader Farrakhan says blacks should curb spending, pool … Washington Post CHICAGO — Nation of Islam Minister Louis Farrakhan on Sunday called on blacks nationwide to curb economic disparities by cutting back on excessive spending, pooling resources and investing in land — an action plan he laid out during a three-hour … See […]
AGENCE FRANCE PRESSE ARABNEWS Sunday 24 February 2013 WASHINGTON: The United States has deployed several Predator drones to Niger to fly surveillance missions in support of French forces in Mali, a US defense official said Friday. The unarmed robotic aircraft are flying out of Niamey at a base with a […]
t Interview with Amina Wadud”Islam Belongs to All Its Believers” Amina Wadud is an American scholar of Islam with a progressive focus on Koran exegesis. In 2005, she led Friday prayers in the US, which not only broke with tradition, it also triggered debate and Muslim juristic discourse on the […]
Friday 22 February 2013 ARABNEWS LOS ANGELES: Oscar-nominated Palestinian director Emad Burnat lamented that US border guards detained him and his family at the Los Angeles airport as they arrived […]
Source: The Diamondback ( University of Maryland Student Newspaper) By Fatimah Waseem/The Diamondback When senior bioengineering major Nahid Sultana came from Bangladesh to the United States, she was a 1-month-old baby. For her parents, the journey meant a better education. But for Sultana, the journey meant leaving behind not only […]
First-time claims for unemployment benefits rose last week, according to a government report that showed continued weakness in the job market. The Labor Department report showed 362,000 Americans filed for jobless benefits in the latest week, up from 342,00 the previous week, when claims may have been limited by snow […]
By Megan Devlin — Staff Writer THE ITHACAN Ithaca College will host Nancy Hoque, designer and founder of sixteenR.com, an online store that sells scarves for Muslim women. Hoque will […]
VESTAL — When Afzal Rehman arrived here more than 20 years ago for a medical residency, he didn’t know of any others locally who shared his religious faith. Rehman, an […]
SHANGHAI — A day after a United States security company accused a People’s Liberation Army unit in Shanghai of engaging in cyberwarfare against American corporations, organizations and government agencies, China’s defense ministry issued a strong denial and insisted that the report was flawed. At a news conference in Beijing Wednesday, […]
“Mohammad Atta and the Venice Flying Circus” documentary Please click on here: Three of the four terrorist pilots connected with the 9/11 tragedy learned to fly airplanes in the tiny […]
Gwynne Dyer ARABNEWS Wednesday 20 February 2013 You know the storyline by now. There are one million US-dollar millionaires in China. (“To get rich is glorious,” said former leader Deng Xiao-ping.) Seventy percent of the homes in China are bought for cash. China’s total trade — the sum of imports […]
Muslim women at UTSA explain Islamic dress By Marcia Perales Courtesy of Will Tallent/The PaisanoCourtesy of Will Tallent/The Paisano Courtesy of Will Tallent/The Paisano Courtesy of Will Tallent/The Paisano Islam is not a culture– it is a religion. Muslims are not a race– they are believers of Islam. Muslim […]
(Reuters) – Britain’s financial regulator fined Lloyds Banking Group 4.3 million pounds ($6.7 million) on Monday for not paying compensation quickly enough to customers wrongly sold insurance on loans and mortgages. The Financial Services Authority said that from May 2011 to March 2012, Lloyds did not pay compensation to 140,000 […]
COMPLAINT FILED OVER SCHOOL’S PURGE OF ISLAM Legal team challenges accreditation of National Defense University NOTE: This cation is likely to whip up a greater storm of controversy both in regards to the reinstatement of the instructor on Islamic teaching at the National Defense University and legal circles. This […]
Gas prices have risen for 32 days straight, according to AAA. That means that the average price for a gallon of regular unleaded gasoline has increased more than 13% over that period to $3.73. It’s hitting wallets right in the middle of winter, when people are already looking at large […]
Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said: “The most hateful permissible thing (al-Halal) in the sight of Allah is divorce.” (Abu Dawud) Yet “A recent study conducted by Dr. Ilyas […]