In an underdog win for a movie about an underdog profession, the newspaper drama ‘Spotlight’ took best picture at an Academy Awards driven by protest and outrage, and electrified by an unflinching Chris Rock. Tom McCarthy’s film about the Boston Globe’s investigative reporting on sexual abuse by Roman Catholic priests […]
Huff Post: by Sana Tayyen — Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is evil” is averse to creating bonds of community between Muslims and non-Muslims in a multi-religious America. The […]
By Eric Bradner, CNN Washington (CNN) Donald Trump stumbled into a racially charged controversy Sunday, saying in an interview on CNN that he didn’t know enough to disavow former Ku Klux […]
Source: Outlook Conceding that the fight against Islamic State remains “difficult”, President Barack Obama today said the US will “destroy” the barbaric terror group and asserted that ending the Syrian […]
Source: The Atlantic Many headlines trumpeting Donald Trump’s victory in the Nevada Republican caucuses credit voters’ anger with the federal government. But the real lesson of Trump’s rise is not […]
Source: BBC Hillary Clinton has secured a big win over Bernie Sanders in the South Carolina primary, the latest battleground in the race to be Democratic presidential nominee. Victory for […]
Source: Huffington Post As a Muslim American for the last two decades, my belief in my adopted homeland has grown stronger and stronger with each trial that has tested the […]
Source: Huffington Post Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is […]
Source: Huffington Post No one is taking the end of Barack Obama’s presidency harder than this little girl. Caprina D. Harris posted a video of her granddaughter on Facebook on Monday, showing the child sobbing uncontrollably over the news that there is an election coming up, and Obama is not […]
Islamophobia, ISIS, and Authentic Muslim Narratives: Television’s Potential Role Source: Huffington Post By Cynthia P. Schneider; Cultural Diplomacy Expert; Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands Recently President Obama and Secretary Kerry each called […]
Source: The New York Times As a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl growing up in Connecticut, Zareen Jaffery used to devour novels by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, hoping those stories […]
Source: Florida Today An attack on a mosque using raw bacon and a machete could potentially garner a Brevard County man up to life in prison as a result of […]
Source: PennLive SALISBURY TOWNSHIP – It’s a story of neighbors helping neighbors, pitching in to repair each other’s homes after they were damaged by a massive storm Wednesday night. And the following […]
Source: The Washington Post Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of […]
Source: CNN (CNN)If you could have one superpower, what would it be? We were asked that question recently by high school students in Kentucky. Our answers must have sounded pretty lame to fans of superheroes like Supergirl and the Flash — we simply wished for more energy and time to […]
Source: The Daily Nebraskan The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Muslim Student Association will host “Islam 101” this week to educate students and combat Islamophobia in society. MSA began preparing for the […]
Source: The Washington Post Donald Trump seems to be the unlikeliest Republican candidate for evangelical voters, with his three marriages, his ownership of casinos and beauty pageants, and his belated […]
Source: The New York Times When Senator Bernie Sanders thanked supporters for his landslide victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, he wistfully reminisced about his upbringing as “the son […]
Source: Huffington Post By Susie Meister PhD in Religious Studies, Host of The Brain Candy Podcast It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush’s inaugural ball. I […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Donald Trump had a sweeping victory in Nevada, last night, despite his spat with the Pope, his […]