Why I’m not an atheist
Source: myAJC.com By Gracie Bonds Staples – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution CURTIS COMPTON Gracie Bonds Staples (front left), a choir member, participates in her Antioch Baptist Church North candlelight communion […]
‘This Will Be the Worst War’: Fears of Mass Displacement as Thousands Flee Conflict in Myanmar’s Northeast
Source: Time By Feliz Solomon / Lashio Mar 09, 2017 A steady stream of men, women and children arrive by the hundreds at Mansu Monastery in rural northeastern Myanmar. Each day […]
Saudi Arabia Must Empower Women If it Truly Wants to Move Forward
Source: Time Ian Bremmer Mar 08, 2017 Bremmer is a foreign affairs columnist and editor-at-large at TIME. He is the president of Eurasia Group, a political-risk consultancy, and a Global […]
How Descendants of a Slave and a Supreme Court Justice Righted a 160-Year-Old Wrong
Source: Time Melissa Chan Mar 08, 2017 More than a century after the Supreme Court declared that Dred Scott and his fellow slaves were not U.S. citizens, descendants of Scott […]
You’re Not Above the Law Ethics Watchdog to White House:
Source: The Daily Beast A top government ethics watchdog on Thursday pushed back against White House claims that its employees are not subject to ethics rules that bind every other federal government official. Walter Shaub, the director of the Office of Government Ethics, told Stefan Passatino, President Donald Trump’s deputy […]
US lawmaker introduces bill to declare Pakistan a terror state
TOI An influential US lawmaker has sought a “radical reset” of ties with Islamabad and introduced a bill in the Congress that pushes the American government to declare Pakistan a “state sponsor of terrorism”, or give a detailed justification for not doing so in a limited time. More:
Pastor Arrested for Chopping Up Teen
Source: The Daily Beast A woman and her dog were the first to find the headless torso. The duo stumbled upon the remains in a gas station dumpster in Jacksonville, Florida, on a Sunday morning in June 1994. The body’s head, legs, and hands were missing. Two bloodstained kitchen knives […]
Pope signals he’s open to married Catholic men becoming priests
Epigraph: Then We caused Our Messengers to follow in their footsteps; and We caused Jesus, son of Mary, to follow them, and We gave him the Gospel. And We placed […]
Working for Trump is an embarrassment
Source: CNN On Wednesday, former Governor Jon Huntsman accepted President Donald Trump’s offer to serve as US ambassador to Russia. Having previously served as an ambassador to China, Huntsman may feel prepared for the task at hand. But chances are he will become the latest Trump employee to face professional […]
South Korean president removed from office
Source: CNN South Korea has been plunged into a period of political uncertainty after the President, Park Geun-hye, was forced out of office by a corruption scandal. The country’s Constitutional Court upheld a parliamentary vote to impeach Park over allegations of corruption and cronyism. She becomes the country’s first democratically […]
Trump’s Muslim Ban Is Still All About Muslims
Source: Huffington Post By Akbar Shahid Ahmed; Foreign Affairs Reporter, The Huffington Post WASHINGTON ― Tucked near the bottom of President Donald Trump’s new executive order on refugees and travel […]
The GOP Still Hasn’t Figured Out Health Care: The Daily Show
After years of trying to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, Congressional Republicans roll out a contentious health care bill of their own.
What Islam could teach Donald Trump about democracy and freedom
Source: Washington Post By David Decosimo, who teaches religion, ethics and politics at Boston University and is currently writing a book on freedom and domination in Christianity and Islam. America’s […]
Religions Must Speak To the Faithless, As Well As To Each Other
Source: Economist By Erasmus Learning from a Christian-Muslim debate on religious literacy YOU may find this reassuring, or disturbing, or something in between. Earlier this week, one of the most […]
Canada: Ahmadiyya Muslim Lloydminster to hold “Islam Understood” session at North Battleford Library to educate locals
Source: http://www.battlefordsnow.com/article/553262/islam-information-session-library By Angela Brown Curious to know more about Islam but don’t know who to ask? The Ahma’adiyya Muslim Jama’at missionary from Lloydminster is holding an information session at the North Battleford Library, called Islam Understood, to try to educate people on Islam. Tariq Azeem, of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’adiyya will give […]
Owen Sound: Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association aims to build bridges between Canadians & Muslims by their Nationwide ‘Islam Understood’ campaign
Source: http://www.bayshorebroadcasting.ca/news_item.php?NewsID=91540 Muslims Canvassing Owen Sound | by Claire McCormack About 30 youth will be canvassing Owen Sound apart of Islam Understood You may find a Muslim youth at your door this weekend. It’s part of the Nationwide ‘Islam Understood’ campaign put on by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association that aims […]
Canada: Ahmadi Muslim youth make house calls in Moose Jaw as national outreach continues
Source: http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/03/06/muslim-youth-make-house-calls-in-moose-jaw-as-national-outreach-continues/ By Carmel Kilkenny | english@rcinet.ca Muslim young people were visiting homes in Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan yesterday in an effort to dispel the myths and misunderstandings about the second-largest religion, after Christianity, in the world. Ahmadi Muslims come from an Islamic religious movement established in Punjab, British India, near the […]
USA: Chino Hills’ Ahmadi Muslims challenges extremism
Source: http://www.championnewspapers.com/news/article_0cdbf52a-0055-11e7-9999-3fbb39159ae3.html By Marianne Napoles Amjad Khan was a little boy when he laid one of the first bricks in the foundation of the Baitul Hameed Mosque in Chino 30 years ago. Today, the 37-year-old raised in Chino Hills relishes his volunteer role as the national director of public affairs for […]
Young Canadian Ahmadi Muslims Launch Door-to-Door Education Initiative in Toronto
Source: https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2017/03/210295/young-canadian-muslims-launch-door-door-education-initiative/ By Constance Renton – March 6, 2017 , 10:22 pm Toronto – Following the massacre in Quebec last month, which left six Muslim men dead and five others injured, Muslim youth across Canada launched a new initiative aimed at educating neighbors and community members about being a Muslim in Canada. The […]
Watch the New York City Women’s Day March in 360°
Source: Time By Joyce Lee 11:02 AM PKT “Today, today is for the indigenous women. Today is for the black women. Today is for the Asian women and the Latina women,” writer and poet Jamara Mychelle Wakefield declared in front of a large crowd gathered in New York City’s Washington Square […]