Onstage, a revealing perspective of Muslim women
Source: The Boston Globe By Christopher Wallenberg Rohina Malik was attending a friend’s wedding some 15 years ago when the realities of post-9/11 America rocked her world. A Chicago-based theater […]
The changing buzzwords of business books
Source: BBC News By Miriam Quick Unlock your potential. Turbocharge your productivity. Transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. These are just some of the bombastic guarantees of self-help book titles, […]
Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims
Source: The Guardian BY Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim is to spread fear about Muslims People demonstrate against allowing an Islamic community center near Ground Zero at a rally […]
New estimates show U.S. Muslim population continues to grow
Source: Pew Research Center BY BESHEER MOHAMED Muslims at a 2017 prayer service celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. (John Moore/Getty Images) Recent political debates over […]
Eric Garner death inspires an unlikely police experiment
Source: BBC News A debate continues to rage over police use of force, with officers seeing incidents very differently to civilians. What happens when the two sides are forced to […]
Trump to Kim: My nuclear button is ‘bigger and more powerful’
Source: BBC News US President Donald Trump has boasted that his nuclear button is “much bigger” and “more powerful” than North Korean leader Kim Jong-un’s. Mr Trump’s tweet is the latest contribution to an increasingly personalised feud between the nuclear-armed leaders. Mr Kim threatened earlier this week that his nuclear […]
THE ZEALOUS FAITH OF SECULARISM
Source: First Things by Mary Eberstadt January 2018 Begin with a sobering fact. During the past ten years, some of the sharpest observers of our time have come to believe that […]
California Launches First Legal Retail Sales of Marijuana
Source: Time By BRIAN MELLEY, TERENCE CHEA / AP (OAKLAND, Calif.) — It wasn’t exactly reefer madness Monday as California launched the first legal retail sales of marijuana, but those who […]
Time’s Up: Women launch campaign to fight sexual harassment
Source: BBC News More than 300 actresses, writers and directors have launched a project to help fight sexual harassment in the film industry and other workplaces. The initiative, which is […]
Anti-sharia laws proliferate as Trump strikes hostile tone toward Muslims
Source: The Guardian By Ed Pilkington in New York Twenty-three bills have been introduced in 18 state legislatures this year to ban the practice of Islamic law – critics say the aim […]
President Trump Says He Believes Robert Mueller’s Russia Investigation Will ‘Be Fair’
By REUTERS Updated: December 28, 2017 11:50 PM ET | Originally published: December 29, 2017 President Donald Trump said on Thursday he believes he will be fairly treated in a […]
Thousands of Palestinians take part in anti-Trump protests
Source: Reuters GAZA (Reuters) – Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets of Gaza and the occupied West Bank for the fourth Friday in a row in protests against U.S. […]
Government seeks change to order lifting Trump refugee ban
Source: Associated Press By MARTHA BELLISLE SEATTLE (AP) — Lawyers with the Department of Justice have asked a federal judge to change his order that partially lifted a Trump administration […]
Trump Scorns Mainstream News, But Not The Christian Broadcasting Network
Source: NPR BY SARAH MCCAMMON Attacks on the press are a hallmark of President Trump’s style, and he has avoided much of the media, often preferring Twitter to sit-down interviews with journalists. But […]
Meet the nation’s first known Sikh woman to serve as a city mayor
Source: Los Angeles Times By Phil Willon Contact Reporter With a sharp crack of the gavel, Preet Didbal made history this month as the first known Sikh woman in the nation […]
Atheist Flag Will Be Raised Over Ten Commandments Monument
Source: NPR By TODD BOOKMAN For New Hampshire residents, the dueling symbols are raising questions about belief, inclusion and the separation of church and state. DAVID GREENE, HOST: On […]
Trump’s Islamophobic Retweets Widely Condemned By Religious Leaders
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to retweet the messages of a far-right and virulently anti-Muslim British activist has provoked condemnation from religious leaders on both sides […]
Muslims Once Again Are Being Targeted For An Attack They Had Nothing To Do With
Source: Huffington Post By Rowaida Abdelaziz “We’re going to burn your mosque down,” a voice said angrily in a voicemail left on the mosque’s phone. “We’re coming to kill you,” […]
How I became Christian again: my long journey to find faith once more
Source: The Guardian By Bryan Mealer A few mornings a week, I go running with a priest. We meet at 5.30 under a streetlamp in central Austin and make our way […]
My husband’s Orthodox Jewish family pressured us to call off our wedding
Source: Vox By Helaina Hovitz I wasn’t entirely surprised to hear that my fiancé’s father had announced he would “wear black to mourn our wedding day.” I’ve never met the guy, […]