Source: Vox People of faith aren’t exempt from facing each generation’s political and ideological battles. Updated by Victoria M. Massie When Michelle Obama addressed the significance of the first black […]
Source: The Washington Post By Julie Zauzmer In 1876, a particular verse from the Bible started turning up over and over in newspapers across the United States. 1 Samuel 3:4. “That the Lord called Samuel, and he answered, ‘Here I am.’” Why? At first, Lincoln Mullen was baffled. Mullen built a tool […]
Source: The New York Times By DAVE PHILIPPS When Donald J. Trump said last fall that he would consider making Muslims in the United States carry special identification cards, Tayyib […]
Source: NPR By CHAS SISK In an election year filled with anti-Muslim vitriol, some mosques are urging their worshipers to vote in an attempt to make their voices heard. To do […]
Source: USA Today By Natalie DiBlasio The Twitterverse is trying to teach Donald Trump’s spokeswoman Katrina Pierson a sassy history lesson. In an interview with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer, Pierson blamed President Obama and Hillary Clinton for the 2004 death of Army Capt. Humayun Khan. However, Khan died while George W. Bush was president — four […]
Source: USA Today By Doug Stanglin The Obama administration secretly airlifted $400 million in cash to Iran in January to settle a decades-old legal dispute just as the Iranians were releasing four Americans detained byTehran, The Wall Street […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin There will be at least 80 volunteers involved The federal government is launching an investigational human trial of a Zika vaccine, health officials announced on Wednesday. The National Institutes of Health announced that at least 80 volunteers will test a new Zika vaccine. The trial, which […]
Source; freep.com Dr. Mansoor Qureshi, president of the Michigan chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of metro Detroit, said that Trump’s remarks are the latest painful attack on the community during this presidential campaign. Last year, Trump called for banning the entry of all Muslims into the U.S. amid concerns […]
Source: Time By Frank Luntz A news analyst and contributor to CBS News and the Fox News Channel America’s most coveted voting bloc: the infamous “undecided” voter. If you listen carefully to […]
Source: Time By Roula Allouch Allouch is the national board chair of the Council on American-Islamic Relations. Joe Raedle—Getty ImagesKhizr Khan, father of deceased U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, delivers remarks as he is joined by his wife Ghazala Khan at the Democratic National Convention on July 28, 2016. Republican presidential […]
Source: BBC Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has suggested that the November election could be “rigged”. He told a rally in Columbus, Ohio, that he had heard “more and more” that the contest would be unfair. He offered no immediate evidence. At another event he called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton […]
Source: The New York Times By ALEXANDER BURNS, MAGGIE HABERMAN and ASHLEY PARKER Donald J. Trump reeled on Sunday amid a sustained campaign of criticism by the parents of a […]
Source: NPR By CHAS SISK After an election year filled with criticisms of the Muslim community, some mosques are urging their worshippers to vote. To do so, they’re borrowing a strategy used by African-American churches. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This campaign season has found Muslim-Americans caught in a harsh spotlight, but there’s […]
9h8 Source: NPR By SCOTT DETROW Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine has put his Jesuit upbringing front and center in the campaign, raising the question: What role will Catholic voters […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)The 2016 presidential campaign has not been easy on American Muslims. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has proposed banning immigrants from […]
Source: Vox Updated by Todd VanDerWerff A lot of what seems inexplicable about Hillary Clinton often makes more sense when you realize her formative years in the public eye were […]
Source: USA Today By Richard Wolf, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court’s defense of religious freedom may be on the decline. Still reeling from the death of its most […]
Source: RNS By Aysha Khan Aysha Khan is the social media editor for RNS. She also reports on Muslim issues from Washington, D.C (RNS) When Donald Trump disparaged the parents of fallen soldier Army Capt. Humayun Khan, he didn’t just pick a fight with the Khans. He now faces the ire […]
It’s hard to know exactly when the Republican Party assumed the mantle of the “stupid party.” NYTimes 2016/08/01 Stupidity is not an accusation that could be hurled against such prominent early Republicans as Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root and Charles Evans Hughes. But by the 1950s, it had become […]
Source: BBC The United States has carried out air strikes on positions of so-called Islamic State (IS) in Libya, following a request by the UN-backed government there, the Pentagon says. […]