Who is Fethullah Gulen? And why is the US talking about extraditing him to Turkey?
Source: Religion News Service By Claire Sadar (RNS) — For the past 2½ years, the United States and its NATO ally, Turkey, have been at odds over the fate of […]
American Jews and Israeli Jews Are Headed for a Messy Breakup
Source: Religion News Service By Jonathan Weisman The events of the past year brought American and Israeli Jews ever closer to a breaking point. President Trump, beloved in Israel and decidedly unloved […]
Young Muslim men organize to clean up national parks as shutdown enters third week
Source: The Washington Post By Rachel Chason A group of young Muslim men fanned out across the Mall shortly after sunrise Sunday to pick up litter and empty trash cans. Following […]
Jim Yong Kim steps down as President of World Bank
World Bank President Jim Yong Kim is to step down next month World Bank President, Jim Yong Kim has made the surprise announcement that he is stepping down after six […]
Muslim and Jewish holy books among many used to swear-in Congress
Source: CNN By Amanda Jackson, CNN (CNN)The 116th class of Congress is one of the most diverse to serve the United States — and nowhere is that more evident than in […]
The nation’s first two Muslim congresswomen are sworn in, surrounded by the women they inspired
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein , Marisa Iati and Julie Zauzmer January 3 Khadra Mohamud stood in Rep. Ilhan Omar’s brand-new congressional office Thursday, taking in a new scene in American […]
Soldier Goes Missing In Iraq, But Turns Up Years Later With A Story To Tell
By JJ Foster, Jul 31, 2018 Who Is She? At one point, Jessica Lynch dominated the media across the states and beyond. But the soldier wasn’t prepared to be part […]
Why Jefferson’s vision of American Islam matters today
Source: The Conversation By Denise A. Spellberg;Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas at Austin After last year’s deliberate break with tradition, President Donald Trump has resumed […]
Trump comments on 1979 Soviet invasion angers Kabul
President Trump said the former Soviet Union was right to be in Afghanistan because it was fighting terrorists. (AFP) Sayed Salahuddin January 05, 2019 The Afghan foreign minister slammed […]
US officials discuss Turkey’s request for cleric’s return
Source: Associated Press ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says a U.S. delegation is meeting Turkish officials to discuss a long-standing Turkish request for the extradition of Muslim […]
Rashida Tlaib made history with her swearing-in. Here’s what to know about the first Palestinian-American woman to serve in Congress
Source: CNN BY Clare Foran Washington (CNN)Rashida Tlaib likes to tell a story about how when she found out she had been elected to Congress, her 13-year-old son whispered in […]
Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar embody a new era for Muslim women
Source: CNN By Rafia Zakaria (CNN)As a Muslim-American woman living in what feels like, based on growing hate crimes and bigoted political rhetoric, an increasingly Islamophobic America, I get few chances to feel victorious […]
Lauren Underwood Makes History As Youngest Black Woman To Serve In Congress
Source: Huffington Post By Kimberley Richards Rep. Lauren Underwood (D-Ill.) has become the youngest black woman to serve in Congress, according to congressional archives. The 32-year-old was sworn into office on Thursday, after […]
As an Afghan citizen, this is why I’m not worried that Trump is withdrawing his troops from my country
Afghanistan is stronger today than it was when the Taliban could easily take advantage, but a plan needs to be put in place if peace is to be maintained Hizbullah […]
Rep. Rashida Tlaib uses own Quran, not Jefferson’s, for oath
Author: Michael Buckner Newly elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib made history by being one of the first two Muslim women to be elected to Congress in the United States. Newly elected […]
Faith on the Hill: The religious composition of the 116th Congress
Source: Pew Research Center The new, 116th Congress includes the first two Muslim women ever to serve in the House of Representatives, and is, overall, slightly more religiously diverse than […]
California’s first Muslim Judge
By Mike Ghouse, Speaker, Thinker, Writer, Pluralist, Socialist and Interfaith Speaker Congratulations to Judge Dhanidina, a Muslim Judge. As an American Muslim, I am proud of this appointment, and indeed, […]
Making Sunni-Shia Unity a Reality
Source: Patheos One of my life-long dreams came true at the Sunni-Shia Unity Conference to launch efforts to promote Intra-Faith dialogue on December 15, when a group of dedicated local […]
False pretense – US ‘policy’ in Syria
Jan 02,2019 -JORDAN TIMES EDITORIAL One of the reasons offered by US President Donald Trump for ordering the withdrawal of US troops from the north of Syria was his conviction […]
The Decade-Long U.S. Campaign To Foment Syria’s “Revolution” And Unseat Assad
As the US prepares to pull out of Syria, we revisit Sarah Abed’s account of the US campaign to foment regime change in the country.” December 29th, 2018 By Sarah […]