St. Louis-area Muslims post ‘HEY ISIS, YOU SUCK’ billboard
Source: St.Louis Post By Kristen Taketa St. Louis Muslims are assuring people, in case they’re still unclear: Muslims are against ISIS as much as anybody else. A new billboard on […]
Mike Pence Disavows Donald Trump’s Earlier Proposal Barring Muslims
Source: The New York Times By ALAN RAPPEPORT The Trump campaign appeared to disavow one of its most provocative policy proposals on Thursday, as Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana said […]
New York Archdiocese Offers Compensation Program for Sexual Abuse Victims
Source: The New York Times By SHARON OTTERMAN and SAMANTHA SCHMIDT The Archdiocese of New York has established an independent programthat will allow victims of sexual abuse by members of […]
Why Trump will not attack Hillary over Bill’s affairs
Source: BBC Filmed and edited by David Botti. Researcher Soraya Auer Donald Trump has said he will not bring up stories about Bill Clinton’s infidelities in this Sunday’s US presidential […]
U.S. admits record number of Muslim refugees in 2016
Source: Pew Research Center BY PHILLIP CONNOR A total of 38,901 Muslim refugees entered the U.S. in fiscal year 2016, making up almost half (46%) of the nearly 85,000 refugees who entered the country in that period, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the State Department’s […]
Americans are divided over which public bathrooms transgender people should use
Source: Pew Research Center BY Michael Lipka A senior editor focusing on religion at Pew Research Center. As the visibility of transgender Americans has increased in recent years, it has been […]
McDonald’s Sexual Harassment Complaints Show How Widespread the Problem Is
Source: Time By Linda A. Seabrook | Debra L. Ness According to a new survey of women in fast-food jobs, 2/5 said they had been harassed When Gretchen Carlson and […]
Minnesota Mall Stabbing Suspect May Have Become Radicalized Recently, FBI Says
Source: Time By Amy Forliti / AP (ST. CLOUD, Minn.) — The man who stabbed 10 people at Minnesota mall had become interested in Islam in the last several months, withdrew from his friends and encouraged female relatives to be more religious, the FBI said Thursday. “We were told (he) had […]
US: Millions flee as they brace for Hurricane Matthew
Source: Aljazeera Hurricane which has already killed at least 65 people in Haiti could have “catastrophic” impact, Florida governor says. The fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade slammed into the Bahamas early on Thursday, intensifying as it barrelled towards the southeast US coast where millions of residents heeded warnings […]
Meet the first hijab-wearing Muslim to pose for Playboy
Source: BBC Playboy has for the first time featured a Muslim woman wearing a hijab. The BBC’s Hanan Razek met Libyan-American journalist Noor Tagouri to find out why she wanted […]
Complaint to feds says Southwest Airlines profiled Muslim
Source: Associated Press SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — A religious rights organization has filed a complaint with federal authorities against Southwest Airlines for what the group says was racial and […]
Yalla, Vote: Registering Muslim and Arab Americans
Source: Philly.com By Michael Matza, Staff Writer Ez-Zohra Baidouri, 73, emigrated from Morocco in 1986, settled with her family in Northeast Philadelphia, and embraced U.S. citizenship 15 years ago. On […]
Why I’m Not Afraid To Identify As Both Muslim And A Feminist
Huff Post: by Krutika Pathi — This post originally appeared on Bustle. Growing up in America with an Iranian mother who, after an arranged marriage, came to this country with no agency to pursue an education, I realized how difficult it can be to navigate gender along the lines of […]
On Abortion, A Surprising Number Of Catholics Side With Tim Kaine
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Despite the Catholic Church’s clear and consistent teaching that having an abortion ― and in fact, using all forms of artificial contraception ― […]
With Kaine and Pence, religion finally takes center stage in Election 2016
Source: RNS By Lauren Markoe RNS) Religion hasn’t played much of a role in the presidential campaign. Sure, Donald Trump made a faux pas when he placed cash on the Communion plate.And Hillary Clinton has occasionally invoked a phrase popular among members of her Methodist faith to discuss how her religious […]
Exclusive: 4 Breakthrough Uterus Transplants Performed in the U.S.
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin The surgeries could ultimately allow thousands of women without a uterus to give birth in the future Four American women have received womb transplants from living […]
Women Are More Scared About the Election Than Men
Source: Time By Ryan Teague Beckwith Women are much more likely to say they are scared about the presidential election, according to a TIME/SurveyMonkey poll. In an online tracking poll of […]
US election: Trump ‘fool’ and Clinton ‘weak’, say VPs
Source: BBC Donald Trump was likened to a “fool or maniac” while Hillary Clinton was dismissed as “weak and feckless” in a punchy vice-presidential debate. Democratic Virginia Senator Tim Kaine and Republican Indiana Governor Mike Pence clashed on a series of topics ranging from abortion to Russia. Even as they […]
There’s A Really Good Reason Why Obama Doesn’t Call ISIS ‘Islamic Terrorists’
Source: Huffington Post Conservatives frequently criticize President Barack Obama for not referring to the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups and sympathizers, as “Islamist.” Turns out, there’s a good reason he doesn’t. At […]
With Tim Kaine and Mike Pence, Faith Is Back in the Mix
Source: The New York Times By JONATHAN MARTIN WASHINGTON — The descent of the 2016 presidential campaign last week into the realm of sex tapes and marital infidelity was remarkable […]