RUSSIA: 100+ Jehovah’s Witness criminal cases
Source: Forum 18 News By Victoria Arnold, Forum 18 At least 26 Jehovah’s Witnesses are in pre-trial detention, 28 under house arrest, and 42 under travel restrictions as more than […]
Saudi Arabia announces princess as US ambassador
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia has announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will become its next ambassador to the US – the first woman ever to take on an envoy […]
‘I think it’s long overdue’: Catholics in D.C., where McCarrick once presided, are both relieved and dismayed
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer, Katherine Shaver and Maria Sacchetti For decades, he was one of the faces of the Catholic church, representing the Vatican all over the world — and nowhere […]
Southern Baptist president says database of abusers possible
Source: Associated Press By TRAVIS LOLLER ASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — More than a decade after the Southern Baptist Convention rejected the idea of creating a database of ministers credibly accused […]
Vatican defrocks former US cardinal McCarrick for sex abuse
Source: Associated Press By FRANCES D’EMILIO, NICOLE WINFIELD and TRISHA THOMAS VATICAN CITY (AP) — Former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has been found guilty by the Vatican of sex abuse and […]
Russia and China Are Driving a Wedge Between Estranged U.S. and Europe
Source: Time By SIMON SHUSTER / MUNICH February 18, 2019 During his speech to the Munich Security Conference in 2007, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a prediction that many in the West […]
War memorial or religious symbol? Cross fight reaches U.S. high court
BLADENSBURG, Md. (Reuters) – When Fred Edwords first drove by the 40-foot-tall (12 meters) concrete cross that has stood for nearly a century on a busy intersection in suburban Maryland […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar – “Becoming Kareem” On and Off the Court | The Daily Show
We have saved the above video in the Muslim Times as well to ensure it for the posterity: Suggested reading and viewing Remembering Malcolm X Can Help Overcome Racism and Sectarianism […]
Remembering Malcolm X Can Help Overcome Racism and Sectarianism
Remembering Malcolm X Source: AMUST By Bilal Cleland is a keen reader, a prolific writer and a regular columnist of AMUST based in Melbourne. This is a time when many […]
In Detroit, one organization is schooling Muslims on racial justice
Source: Religion News Service By Aysha Khan (RNS) — It began, as so many social justice movements these days do, on Twitter. Namira Islam, a Bangladeshi-American lawyer living in Detroit, […]
A US Domestic Terrorist, Who Worked for Coast Guard — Terrorism Called by Any Other Name Smells Just As Terrible
Coast Guard officer allegedly wanted to conduct a mass killing, had political and media hit list https://t.co/3GWioDEPnU pic.twitter.com/Wm4Ttur9WQ — CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) February 20, 2019 Suggested reading: The Root Cause […]
Even Trump’s America gives asylum seekers faster working rights than the UK – we must end this cruel ban
The change we’re requesting is so small as far as government policy is concerned – we’re asking for the UK to catch up with the rest of the western world […]
The Creeping Liberalism in American Islam
Source: New York Times By Mustafa Akyol Since 9/11, a recurrent theme in the far-right circles of America has been “creeping Shariah.” It reflects the fear that Islamic law will […]
US House panel opens probe into Trump’s plans to transfer nuclear tech to Saudi
ANADOLU AGENCY WASHINGTON Published20.02.2019 Reuters Photo The House Oversight committee opened an investigation Tuesday into the Trump administration’s plans to transfer “highly sensitive” nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. The […]
Book Review: American Justice 2014 Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court
Source: University of Pennsylvania Press By Garrett Epps, who is a contributing writer for the Atlantic and the American Prospect. His most recent book, American Epic: Reading the U.S. Constitution, […]
Why Is This Cross-Shaped Memorial Constitutional?
Source: The Atlantic By Garrett Epps; Professor of constitutional law at the University of Baltimore Could the United States put “In Jesus Christ We Trust” on its coins? Justice Antonin […]
USA: Ahmadiyya Muslim community Dayton celebrates its annual interfaith Martin Luther King event
“Holy Prophet Muhammad (peace be on him) is an example for all; Martin Luther King’s dream was dream of Islam“, said Imam shamshad of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Report by Dr […]
U.S. pressing Gulf states to keep Syria isolated – sources
THIS CONTENT WAS PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY 18, 2019 FILE PHOTO: A picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seen at a train station in Damascus, Syria, September 12, 2018. […]
Cardinal expects ‘significant progress’ at sex abuse summit
Source: Associated Press By JEFF KAROUB and NICOLE WINFIELD DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. archbishop helping to organize next week’s summit of the world’s bishops at the Vatican on sexual […]
‘It Will Cause a Scandal.’ The Pope and a Trusted U.S. Cardinal Clash Over Sex-Abuse Crisis
Source: The Wall Street Journal By Francis X. Rocca VATICAN CITY—Cardinal Sean O’Malley of Boston, chief adviser to Pope Francis on protecting children from sexual abuse, called a meeting with […]