Source: Youtube Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg returned to Harvard to deliver the commencement speech to the class of 2017. Zuckerberg dropped out of Harvard in 2005 to found Facebook. Zuckerberg […]
Source: Youtube Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton delivered the commencement address at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Mass. on May 26. Source
Source: Reuters By Steve Holland | TAORMINA, ITALY U.S. President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed on Friday to expand sanctions against North Korea over its continued […]
Source: Washington Post By Ann E. Marimow and Robert Barnes May 25 at 6:01 PM A federal appeals court on Thursday left in place the freeze on President Trump’s revised […]
Reuters International MAY 26, 2017 – (reuters_tickers) By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has declined a request to host an event to mark Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, two U.S. officials said, apparently breaking with a bipartisan tradition in place with few exceptions […]
Source: Associated Press By SUZAN FRASER ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The head of a Turkish parliamentary investigative committee said Friday there was no question that U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen […]
Source: The Economist It reinforces sectarianism and gives a boost to Sunni autocrats by ERASMUS | OSLO Whenever something happens to alter the global equilibrium between Sunni and Shia Muslims, […]
Source: BBC Google’s DeepMind AlphaGo artificial intelligence has defeated the world’s number one Go player Ke Jie. AlphaGo secured the victory after winning the second game in a three-part match. […]
Source: http://www.bradfordtimes.ca/2017/05/18/community-run-for-bradford The 7th Annual Run for Bradford (BWG), organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, took place May 13, starting and finishing in the parkette between the Bradford Library and the Leisure Centre. “This time, the big thing is we have reached a wider community, with a good response from local […]
Source: http://www.kokomotribune.com/news/local_news/we-the-people-community-conversations-to-bring-local-focus-to/article_ee3b46f6-3fcf-11e7-a488-b7c06e48c679.html KOKOMO – An event at Bind Cafe in downtown Kokomo on Thursday will serve as the first of three events this summer aimed at increasing tolerance, acceptance and understanding in the local community. The event – the first in a three-part discussion series titled We the People involving local […]
By Wajid Shamsul Hasan 24-May-17 I wanted to write my column on the astounding success of Karachi Literary Festival for the first time on Saturday at the hub of London’s cultural activities -the South Bank but then I was shell shocked and pulled away from my topic by an enormous tragic event […]
Source: Huffington Post Ramadan Mubarak! Insha’Allah, the first fast day of Ramadan will begin on Saturday, May 27, 2017 in the United States, Canada and the Americas. Is Ramadan different […]
Source: Associated Press By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER and FRANK JORDANS BERLIN (AP) — Barack Obama received a rock-star welcome in Berlin as he appeared at a public debate Thursday with Chancellor Angela Merkel, whom he praised as one of his “favorite partners” during his presidency. Security was tight in front of […]
Source: BuzzFeed News BY Hannah Allam BuzzFeed News Reporter Pool / Getty Images President Barack Obama during the 2015 iftar dinner celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Muslims don’t know […]
Source: The New York Times By JIM DWYER A rendering of the proposed mosque in Bernards Township, N.J., which has been entangled in a protracted battle over parking spaces. CreditKarsten […]
Source: NJ.com BY DAVE HUTCHINSON NJ Advance Media for NJ.com BERNARDS – The Township Committee voted Tuesday night during a joint meeting to accept proposed settlements in a pair of […]
Source: The Economist However toxic the climate, some Muslims and Jews try harder to get along As President Donald Trump engages in his own, idiosyncratic kind of religious and cultural […]
Source: The Atlantic BY MICHAEL LEITER To say that candidate Donald Trump adopted a sharply critical and un-nuanced tone on Islam would be the grossest of understatements. Campaigner-in-Chief Trump proclaimed the […]
Source: The Washington Post By Karen DeYoung, Philip Rucker and William Booth May 22 JERUSALEM — President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sketched the broad outlines of a […]
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 […]