Trump is acting like Pakistan’s former dictator
global Opinions By Qasim Rashid December 1, 2017 President Trump walks to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday in Washington. (Evan Vucci/Associated Press) […]
Hate speech is acceptable in Trump’s America – as long as it comes from Christian fundamentalists
Christian fundamentalists are among Trump’s most rabid supporters. It doesn’t matter how ‘unchristian’ a more mainstream follower of that religion might find his behaviour James Moore @JimMooreJourno “Putting the Caliphate first may mean eliminating the US and UK from the map. If it comes down to the Caliphate or them, I vote the […]
The KKK is a Christian Organization
Facebook’s favorite Christian Joshua Feuerstein doesn’t want you to know that the KKK is a Christian organization. In a recent rant Feuerstein claimed that the KKK marching with white nationalists in Virginia are not really Christians because “racism is of the devil.” https://www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoshua.feuerstein.5%2Fvideos%2F1099956923440322%2F&show_text=0&width=476 Here’s the reality: [The marchers] are no […]
The world at the brink of nuclear war
MELIH ALTINOK@melihaltinok A man watches a television news program showing North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump at a railway station in Seoul, Aug. 9, 2017. A possible nuclear war following the tension between Washington and Pyongyang is a dangerous threat for every country Having had […]
USA: New dress code for women, GOP house bans sleeveless women
Christian Sharia: GOP House Bans Sleeveless Women July 6, 2017 by Michael Stone 241 Comments Christian Sharia: Modesty police in the the Republican controlled House of Representatives are enforcing a new dress code for women. The Christian puritans are at the helm, and the bare arms of women must not be seen in […]
USA: Al Franklin warns Christian ‘zealot’ Pence worse than Trump
Al Franken Warns Christian ‘Zealot’ Pence Worse Than Trump June 27, 2017 by Michael Stone 12 Comments Impeachment worries: Senator Al Franken warns Mike Pence is a dangerous Christian “zealot” who “would be worse” than Donald Trump.http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/06/al-franken-warns-christian-zealot-pence-worse-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 In a recent interview Senator Al Franken discussed the possible ramifications of impeaching President Donald Trump. In […]
Donald Trump breaks White House tradition by not holding Eid dinner
Donald Trump has broken White House tradition by not hosting a dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. The president is the first leader not to host a dinner for nearly two decades after the tradition was started by Bill Clinton and then continued by George W. Bush and Barack […]
USA: Warning: President Pence Would Be Worse Than President Trump
President Trump may be a buffoon, but a President Pence would bring ruin upon the nation and turn the U.S. into a Christian theocracy. http://www.patheos.com/blogs/progressivesecularhumanist/2017/05/warning-president-pence-worse-president-trump/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=BRSS&utm_campaign=Nonreligious&utm_content=367 As Trump’s troubles continue to grow, conservatives and liberals alike are wrestling with the very real possibility that Trump will be forced out of office […]
USA: Do Muslims have to be Democrats now?
By WAJAHAT ALIMAY 13, 2017, NYTimes.com 13/5/2017 American Muslims face a choice: vote Democratic, or vote themselves off the island. That’s how Haroon Moghul, the author of the coming memoir “How to Be a Muslim,” put it to me this month — and how many of my fellow American Muslim […]
USA: American Fascism, in 1944 and Today
Henry S. Walace May 12, 2017 Seventy-three years ago, The New York Times asked the sitting vice president to write an article about whether there are fascists in America, and what they’re up to. It was an alarming question. And the vice president took it quite seriously. His article, “The Danger […]
USA: Mr Trump Throws Tomatoes at Some of TV’s Stars
By MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUMMAY 11, 2017 NYTimes President Trump is perhaps the world’s most powerful television addict. And like any TV fan, he has strong opinions about what he watches. In a series of caustic criticisms this week, Mr. Trump laced into on-air stars like the CNN news anchor Don Lemon […]
Bella Hadid says she is proud to be Muslim
DESK REPORThttps://images.dawn.com/news/1177369 The model spoke out against Trump’s Muslim travel ban in her latest interview In her latest interview, model Bella Hadid has opened up about her Muslim faith and why she feels so strongly about American President Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban. Bella and her sister Gigi were […]
Prudent Merkel meets unpredictable Trump amid tense ties
Source: The Local Europe’s most powerful leader, Angela Merkel, meets for the first time on Tuesday America’s flamboyant President Donald Trump, whose arrival in the White House has sent shockwaves across the Atlantic. While former US president Barack Obama had labelled Merkel his “closest international partner”, there has been little […]
Europe is teetering on edge of change, and Trump might push it over
Source CNN Trump’s chaotic entry to the global stage is already having repercussions. Trump’s actions could trigger another tumultuous year in a fragile Europe ever more fragmented by nationalism Close to a dozen European countries — including Germany — will go to the polls this year with populist-nationalists, many of […]
Watch: Why this 40-minute video on migration and racism won a £40,000 prize
Scroll.In: ‘Auto Da Fé’ shows how 400 years of migration in the face of religious persecution is a vicious cycle. As America rages over its president’s decision to ban the entry of refugees, this film looks at four hundred years of forced migration. There are no words, and yet every […]
Donald Trump’s Extraordinary Kindness
By Rabbi Hershy Z. Ten http://hamodia.com/2016/11/15/donald-trumps-early-thanksgiving/ Tuesday, November 15, 2016 at 11:57 pm | י”ד חשון תשע”ז Donald Trump’s plane. (Mark Kauzlarich/Reuters) With the Jewish New Year just over a month behind us, and the long nights of winter closing in, Jewish communities throughout the world have begun their new cycle of the […]
Three California Mosques Receive Letters Praising Trump, Threatening Genocide
Three California Mosques Receive Letters Praising Trump, Threatening Genocide By Daniel Politi slate.com The letter that was sent to three California mosques over the past week.CAIR The Council on American-Islamic Relations is calling for police to increase protection of mosques after at least three in California received identical handwritten letters that vow President-elect Donald […]
Trump’s new Attorney General and CIA director could terrify America’s Muslims
Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US has added ‘fuel to the fire’ of Islamophobic attacks in Florida Donald Trump’s proposed ban on Muslims entering the US has added ‘fuel to the fire’ of Islamophobic attacks in Florida Two more prominent positions in Donald Trump’s administration were confirmed […]
Muslims in Trump’s America: realities of Islamophobic presidency begin to sink in
Thursday 17 November 2016 13.00 GMTLast modified on Thursday 17 November 2016 18.25 GMT Shares 1,366 Eeman Abbasi speaks during a protest on the University of Connecticut campus against the election of Donald Trump. Photograph: Pat Eaton-Robb/AP Guardian.com Fariha Nizam was sleepy and stressed last Thursday morning when she boarded the Q43 bus, which […]
Protesters Take Anti-Trump Message to His Doorstep, and Plan Next Steps
Thousands of demonstrators filled public squares, parks and streets in the country’s three largest cities on Saturday to protest President-elect Donald J. Trump, part of a wave of dissent that has swelled since the presidential contest last week. NYTimes.com 2016/11/13 They were transgender people, the children of immigrants, and parents toting […]