Source: Religion News Service UPDATE: Waris Ahluwalia boarded a flight from Mexico City to New York on Wednesday morning (Feb. 10) after Aeromexico officials agreed to better train their employees […]
Source: The Tennessean A Texas expert on religion in public school textbooks waded into Tennessee’s ongoing discussion about how to appropriately teach world religions, specifically Islam, during a Tuesday night forum. […]
Source: BBC Ten candidates chugged in to New Hampshire after the Iowa caucuses with hopes of success. But now that the primary results are in, who has a ticket on […]
The Washington Post: by Amy Ellis Nutt — It torments the young and terrorizes the old. It carved “caverns” in Emily Dickinson’s soul and left William Blake “bereaved of light.” Loneliness, long a bane of humanity, is increasingly seen today as a serious public health hazard. Scientists who have identified […]
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. When I was a toddler, I was terrified of ladybugs. There was just something about how different they looked that […]
Source: BBC How does it feel to give up your nationality, to renounce the country you were born in, potentially forfeiting the chance to ever return? “It’s not going to […]
Source: Star Tribune Gail Rosenblum@GROSENBLUM Hanadi Chehabeddine understands the worries that many Americans harbor about terrorism and national security. She hopes that they also understand something. “Muslims are afraid, too,” […]
Source: Star Tribune Nade Conrad’s long black hair disappeared under the cover of a lilac hijab. “I feel different,” she said. Conrad, who is not Muslim, had donned the scarf […]
Source: Hartford Courant HARTFORD — A Meriden man accused of firing a rifle at a mosque next to his home shortly after the terrorist attacks in Paris is scheduled to […]
Source: RNS (RNS) The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced Monday (Feb. 8) that it was starting a new National Catholic-Muslim Dialogue group, an initiative driven in part by growing anti-Islamic sentiment that many bishops have denounced. “As the national conversation around Islam grows increasingly fraught, coarse and driven by […]
Watch his interview in CNN The Autobiography of Malcolm X: As Told to Alex Haley Malcolm X (1992) Movie Starring: Denzel Washington, Spike Lee, et al. Directed by: Spike Lee. Runtime: 3 hrs […]
Source: BBC With the US presidential election just nine months away, American political satirist, PJ O’Rourke casts a scathing eye over the candidates hoping to make it to the White […]
Source: Wisconsin Public Radio Wisconsin lawmakers are looking for ways to reduce the number of crashes between motorized vehicles and Amish buggies and wagons. Two recent fatal crashes have brought the […]
Source: RNS (RNS) This past week, I had the privilege of visiting the Islamic Society of Baltimore, a mosque that serves thousands of Muslim American families, as well as neighbors […]
Source: Washington Post Following President Obama’s visit to a Baltimore mosque this week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) criticized the move. “Look at today — he gave a speech at a mosque,” […]
(RNS) Republicans and Democrats divide sharply over views on Islam, Muslims and how a U.S. president should label violent extremists. But Americans overall agree there’s “a lot” of discrimination against Muslims living in the United States — and it’s rising — a new Pew Research survey finds. RELATED STORY: Obama pleads […]
Source: Tribune By Shahid Javed Burki The writer is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank The drama surrounding the American election has reached the political stage. There are still nine months left before the country’s citizens cast their votes to elect the successor […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Wheaton College professor Larycia Hawkins, who faced termination from her tenured post at the evangelical school for publicly saying Christians and Muslims worship the “same God,” has announced […]
By Kimberly Winston, who is a freelance religion reporter based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She covers atheism and freethought for RNS. (RNS) The city of Phoenix has decided […]
theguardian: by The Republican candidate was not pleased that Obama visited a mosque this week. Neither were many of the Americans that Rubio wants to vote for him Barack Obama greets children from Al-Rahmah school and other guests during his visit to the Islamic Society of Baltimore on Wednesday. Photograph: […]