Balancing Terror and Reality in State of the Union Address
Source: The New York Times WASHINGTON — When President Obama speaks to the nation in his final State of the Union address on Tuesday night, he will offer a familiar […]
Trump Invited To Iowa Mosque. Imam: He’s A Great Man With Bad Ideas
Source: NPR The imam of the oldest mosque in North America, the Mother Mosque of America in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, has invited Donald Trump to visit. David Greene talks to […]
Why A Fashion Vlogger Decided To Open Up About Her Muslim Faith
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Nabela Noor is using her platform to educate and inspire. Vlogger Nabela Noor typically fills her popular YouTube channel with makeup tutorials, DIY hacks and fashion tips. But in December, Noor opened up to her nearly 143,000 subscribers about […]
Hillary Clinton Proposes 4% Tax on the Super Wealthy
Source: Time She’s promised not to raise taxes on people making less than $250,000 a year Hillary Clinton proposed a 4% tax on individuals making more than $5 million a […]
Turkey unsettled by ‘anti-Islamic’ messages in U.S. presidency race: minister
Source: Reuters Turkey is unsettled by “anti-Islamic” messages in the U.S. presidential campaign, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday, citing the 2016 race for the White House that has […]
Carpet-bombing history in America
Jan 11,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – Ian Buruma Ted Cruz, one of the Republican candidates for the US presidency, recently said that his solution to the turmoil in the Middle East would be to “carpet-bomb” Daesh and see if “sand can glow in the dark”. Donald Trump, the Republican front runner, […]
Sen. Rand Paul: The Fed Is Crippling America
Source: Time Rand Paul is a U.S. senator from Kentucky and a Republican presidential candidate. Mark Spitznagel is the chief investment officer of Universa Investments and senior economic adviser to […]
‘9 OUT OF 10 COMMANDMENTS INVOLVE COMPASSION’
Source: Public Opinion My faith and practice of medicine go hand in hand By AMATUL KHALID, M.D. I have been a physician for more than 30 years. Many times I […]
City’s library looking at Islam
Source: The Sun Chronicle ATTLEBORO In an effort to bridge the faiths of Muslims and others, the Quran, Islam’s holy book, is being displayed at Attleboro Public Library. A major […]
6 Reasons Sunni and Shia Should Stick Together
Source: Huffington Post 1. We’re all poor and powerless – When Muslims line up for prayer, no one is able to distinguish between Sunni and Shia based on their dress […]
Exclusive: Wheaton College Provost Called Suspended Professor’s Muslim Comments ‘Innocuous’
Source: Time Faculty speak out to defend teacher The Wheaton College provost overseeing an expulsion trial against a tenured professor who said Christians and Muslims worship the same God wrote […]
Aziz Ansari: Being funny is like having a superpower
Say the name Aziz Ansari and most people in this country will draw a blank. If you mentioned the cult US sitcom Parks and Recreation, then a small minority would recognise Ansari as Tom Haverford, aka Darwish Sabir Ismael Gani, the cocky if ineffective bureaucrat in parks administration. http://www.theguardian.com andrew […]
Trump urged to apologise to Muslim protester ejected from rally
Source: BBC The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has urged Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to apologise to a Muslim protester ejected from one of his rallies. CAIR said Rose […]
Hillary Clinton Says A Republican President Would ‘Break’ The Supreme Court
Source: Huffington Post The future of the Supreme Court hangs in the balance, and Hillary Clinton wants you to know she’s the one who can save it. In an op-ed […]
Barack Obama slams gun lobby ‘fiction’ and conspiracy theories
Source: The Guardian Barack Obama tore into the nation’s largest gun lobby on Thursday as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the National Rifle Association of […]
California’s Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers Must Now Inform Women About Abortion Options
Source: Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to block a new California law that requires pregnancy care centers to notify patients about state-funded contraception and abortion services. Three faith-based pregnancy care centers sued the state in October, claiming the Reproductive FACT (Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive […]
Why don’t black and white Americans live together?
Source: BBC By Rajini Vaidyanathan Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t […]
Muslims in Queens Welcome Shift in Scrutiny to Police
Source: The New York Times Ahmad Alsalkhadi, an immigrant from Jordan, has never had a run-in with the police, but he works in a section of Astoria, Queens, that has […]
NYC settles lawsuits over Muslim surveillance by police
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will tighten safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in secret investigations of terror threats and install a civilian […]
A United States Without Muslims Has Never Existed
Source: Huffington Post By Carla Gardina Pestana; historian, author, and college professor The idea that all Muslims should be blocked from entering the U.S. plays well with people who think adherents […]