By Meera Srinivasan The United States is a very fundamentalist, religious country – one of the most extreme in the world, says Noam Chomsky, arguably that country’s best-known political dissident of our times. “And that’s been true since its origins,” he says, explaining this apparently ultra-religious facet of the US […]
By Dan Merica from Dec, 2015 Minneapolis (CNN) Hillary Clinton argued Tuesday that the U.S. can stop homegrown terrorism, outlining a plan to combat domestic radicalization two weeks after two ISIS-inspired […]
Huff Post: by Shane Ferro — A man is suing Yahoo for gender discrimination — and his claim might not be as absurd as it sounds. Discriminating against men just because they’re male is as illegal as discrimination against women for being female. That’s not this lawsuit’s only point: it also […]
Source : NPR Editor’s note: A previous version of this piece was published prematurely and contained a number of errors and mischaracterizations of Tom Gjelten’s original reporting. We have corrected […]
Source: NPR President Obama is delivering remarks at a mosque in Baltimore on Wednesday afternoon, in the first visit to an American mosque he’s made during his presidency. His visit, […]
Source: BBC Indigenous tribes, timber firms and environmental groups in western Canada have welcomed a deal to protect one of the world’s largest remaining tracts of temperate rainforest. The Great […]
Source: CNN (CNN)A rally was held Monday evening at the State University of New York in Albany after three black female students were attacked by a group of white men and women during a confrontation on a bus over the weekend, officials said. The students, who attend the upstate […]
Source: Public opinion By Dr Amtul Khalid A Chambersburg physician Donald Trump thinks that he can solve the problem of terrorism by stopping Muslims from coming to this country, or […]
Source: azcentral Four Phoenix City councilmen are trying to block a group of Satanists from giving the opening prayer at a Feb. 17 council meeting. Followers of the Satanic Temple, […]
Huff Post: by JoAnn Kamuf Ward and Hillary Scrivani — Associate Director, Human Rights in the U.S. Project at Columbia Law School’s Human Rights Institute & Lecturer in Law, Columbia Law SchoolWomen in the United States have strived for, and achieved, equality in many areas, and have some freedoms that […]
Source: Pew Research Center BY CARYLE MURPHY; 7 COMMENTS It’s natural for people to want things to turn out well in the end, both in life and, apparently, afterwards. Roughly seven-in-ten (72%) […]
Source: Advocate A handful of Baton Rouge Muslims took the stage in a Methodist church hall Sunday afternoon to explain their faith, answer questions and dispel a host of misconceptions […]
Source: The Week Iowa’s Republican caucus looks to be a battle between Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), and both areheavily courting the evangelical Christian voters who helped Rick […]
Source: RNS (RNS) Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders — a political independent, a socialist and possibly the most liberal member of Congress — may be a cultural Jew but he’s campaigned […]
Source: Gulf News Washington: President Obama will make the first visit during his presidency to a US mosque, the White House announced on Saturday, part of the administration’s push to promote religious tolerance at a time when rhetoric linking Islam with terrorism is growing. On Wednesday, the president will visit […]
Source: Huffington Post By Sam Levine; Associate Politics Editor, The Huffington Post The visit comes after he called for Muslim Americans to help fight extremism. WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama plans to […]
Source: Arizona Daily Star Public invited to talk on Islam, Quran The Tucson chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold a “Holy Quran Exhibition” at the Wheeler Taft Abbett […]
Source: Time “I’m an atheist voter. I’m not planted here, I’m born and raised in Iowa.” From the moment the questioner stood up and pointed his camera phone at Ben […]
Source: The Gazette Religion is one of the most confusing areas in employment law and also one of the fastest-growing areas of employee complaints and concerns. According to the […]
Source: Christian Today Republican U.S. presidential candidates Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio, and Rick Santorum pray at the Presidential Family Forum in Des Moines, Iowa November 20, 2015. A growing number […]