Source: Time By Katie Reilly Donald Trump on Friday suggested that Hillary Clinton’s Secret Service detail should be disarmed of all weapons, saying “let’s see what happens to her.” Trump made the reference at a rally in Miami while discussing Clinton’s support for gun control. “I think that her bodyguards should […]
Source: Time By Jelani Jenkins A linebacker for the Miami Dolphins It takes a village to raise a child. At a very young age, I was taught that God has […]
Source: Time By Sarah el Deeb A Russian Defense Ministry official said Syria has informed them that 62 of its soldiers were killed in the airstrike (BEIRUT) — The U.S. military […]
Source: Time NEW YORK (AP) — An explosion rocked a crowded Manhattan neighborhood and injured 29 people, and a suspicious device discovered blocks away was safely removed early Sunday. Mayor Bill de Blasio ruled out any terror connections but called the blast an “intentional act.” “Tonight, New York City experienced […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — Islamophobia is real, and it likely won’t go away anytime soon. THE WASHINGTON POST VIA GETTY IMAGES In a recent study, 45.5 percent of respondents say Muslims don’t share their vision of American society. It’s all too common to turn on the news and hear […]
Source: http://www.worldreligionnews.com/issues/jalsa-salana-muslim-convention-highlights-positive-contributions-to-society JALSA SALANA MUSLIM CONVENTION HIGHLIGHTS POSITIVE CONTRIBUTIONS TO SOCIETY 16 SEP 2016 POSTED BY SHEHLA AHMAD JALSA SALANA U.S.A. NATIONAL ISLAMIC CONVENTION: PROMOTING SPIRITUALITY AND PEACE N ews reports of multiple tragic incidents of violence and terrorism in Germany, France, Belgium, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Pakistan and America have […]
Source: BBC By Saira Asher A collection presented at New York Fashion Week is the first time every model walked the event’s runway wearing a hijab. Muslim designer Anniesa Hasibuan’s […]
Source: The Guardian By Sam Levin The University of California, Berkeley has suspended a course dedicated to studying Palestine “through the lens of settler colonialism”, sparking international debate about academic freedom. […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHLEEN FOODY Former President Jimmy Carter speaks at a Baptist conference in Atlanta, Thursday, Sept. 15, 2016 ATLANTA (AP) — Jimmy Carter says the United States […]
Source: The Washington Post By Patton Dodd In the early 1960s, Howard E. Butt Jr. was both a prominent Texas business executive and a rising star in Christian preaching. On […]
Source: Time By Sam Frizell/Kissimmee, Fla Anibal Camacho stood in a soupy-hot central Florida backyard on a recent Wednesday, making calls from his Puerto Rican-area code cell phone. “Papi, someone in Puerto Rico is calling!” someone on the other end of the line called out. Camacho left the island two years […]
Source: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/story/news/2016/09/11/911-tragedy-remembered-rochester/90016344/ the doors opened at the Baitun Naseer Mosque, housed in an inconspicuous structure on East Main Street in Rochester. For the sixth straight year, the mosque was hosting a Muslims for Life blood drive, part of a nationwide effort by the Ahmadiyyah Muslim Community to give back. “On 9/11, other […]
Source: http://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/muslim-community-holds-annual-blood-drive-honor-911-victims/ Muslim Community Holds Annual Blood Drive in Honor of 9/11 Victims Photo of the Day by McKinley Corbley – Sep 12, 2016 0 For the sixth year in a row since the 10th anniversary of the September 11th attacks, this Islamic community has been saving lives one needle at a time. The Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY GREGORY A. SMITH AND ALAN COOPERMAN The share of Americans who do not identify with a religious group is surely growing: While nationwide surveys in the 1970s and ’80s found that fewer than one-in-ten U.S. adults said they had no religious affiliation, fully 23% now […]
Source: http://edmondsbeacon.villagesoup.com/p/a-gesture-of-respect-from-different-faiths/1573400 A gesture of respect from different faiths By Craig Cyr | Sep 15, 2016 3 Courtesy of: Ahren Bader-JarvisThe Rev. Eric Kaminetzky, left, and the Rev. Cecilia Kingman at the Abode of Kindness Mosque in Monroe on Sept. 11. Craig Cyr Enlarge… For minority religious communities living in America, […]
Source: http://www.mcall.com/news/local/bethlehem/mc-muslim-community-blood-drive-20160911-story.html Khola Ahmad of Bethlehem waits Sunday to donate blood as the Lehigh Valley chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community held its sixth annual blood drive to honor 9/11 victims. (CHRIS SHIPLEY / THE MORNING CALL) Dan SheehanContact Reporter Of The Morning Call Lehigh Valley Muslims hold 9/11 blood drive BETHLEHEM […]
Source: Associated Press By TERRY SPENCER FORT PIERCE, Fla. (AP) — An ex-convict who posted anti-Islamic rants online confessed to setting fire to a mosque that the Orlando nightclub shooter […]
Source: Time By Elizabeth Dias Donald Trump’s son Eric was glowing when he sat down at a Cleveland restaurant next to Orlando pastor Paula White. “Your prayer did it, Paula,” Eric told her. The younger Trump’s teleprompter had broken the night before as he prepared to address the Republican National Convention. […]
Source: NPR By SCOTT DETROW Donald Trump is lashing out against an African-American pastor who interrupted him Wednesday to chide him for campaigning in her Flint, Mich., church. “Something was up,” […]
Source: JTA NEW YORK (JTA) — Rachel “Ruchie” Freier of Brooklyn was elected a Civil Court judge in New York state, reportedly a first for a Hasidic woman in the […]