Construction halted on mosque with too-tall minarets
Source: Associated Press By MICHAEL MELIA NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — After exceeding a city height limit, builders of a mosque on New Haven’s outskirts are wrestling with how to […]
Patrick Keogan pleads guilty to threatening to burn down mosques, possessing guns and child porn
Source: Mass Live By Alban Murtishi, MassLive.com What started with a Wilmington man making threats to burn down a mosque over Facebook ended with him pleading guilty in U.S. District […]
Woman charged with hate crime in Davis mosque attack
Source: The Sacramento Bee BY STEPHEN MAGAGNINI, CATHY LOCKE AND NASHELLY CHAVEZ An unemployed Davis resident has been arrested and charged with vandalizing the Davis Islamic Center last month […]
Trump pledges ‘great’ Mideast peace deal
From the sectionMiddle East US President Donald Trump has said he will work very hard to deliver “really a great peace deal” between Israel and the Palestinians. After his first meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Mr Trump told his visitor both sides would have to make compromises. […]
Did Pakistani security agents kidnap bloggers to make a point?
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable February 14 at 2:20 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers — all known as left-leaning […]
A Settler’s View of Israel’s Future
Source: The New York Times By YISHAI FLEISHER HEBRON, West Bank — Last week, Israel’s Parliament passed a controversial bill that allows the government to retroactively authorize contested West Bank […]
Biography of U.S. President Barack Obama – Documentary Way
Barack Hussein Obama II born August 4, 1961) is the 44th and current President of the United States, and the first African American to hold the office. Born in […]
How an Orthodox Rabbi Became an Unlikely Ally of the Christian Right
Source: Religion & Politics By Michael Schulson “We are in a third world war,” said Shlomo Riskin, slamming his fist on the table. We were sitting in a windowless room […]
India’s Largest Dairy Brand Prepares To Market An Acquired Taste: Camel Milk
Source: NPR By SHAINA SHEALY It’s nighttime in a forest in the western Indian state of Gujarat. By the light of his cell phone, camel herder Jat Saleh Amir, 18, pumps […]
Everyone Thought This Ancient Reptile Only Laid Eggs. They Were Wrong.
Source: Time By Kate Samuelson An embryo preserved in a 250 million-year-old fossil is evidence that a type of animal previously thought to only lay eggs could actually have a live […]
Mass sexual assaults by refugees in Frankfurt ‘completely made up’
The Local news@thelocal.de 14 February 2017 Frankfurt. Photo: DPA Prosecutors in Frankfurt are investigating two people for making up a crime, after they claimed in a national newspaper that dozens of Arab men rioted and sexually assaulted women at New Year. The claims first appeared in Bild newspaper on February […]
Act normal or get out. The Netherlands’ election is this year’s first test for Europe’s populists
Geert Wilders is dragging all of Dutch politics in a nationalist direction Feb 11th 2017 | AMSTERDAM “THERE’S something wrong with our country,” began an open letter to the Dutch people published last month. It went on to moan about those who “abuse our country’s freedom to cause havoc, when they […]
Think things are bad for Palestinians right now? Wait until Trump and Netanyahu cosy up together
Since the President’s rise to power, Israel’s government has been drunk with power and impunity. It has dropped its thin mask of supporting the two state solution, moving at a dizzying speed to build as many settlements as possible in the occupied Palestinian territory Omar Barghouti When President Donald Trump […]
What Trump and His Supporters Can Learn From Muslim Leaders
By Craig Considine CHARLES PHELPS CUSHING/CLASSICSTOCK VIA GETTY IMAGES Support for Donald Trump is surging across the United States. This is particularly troubling because in recent weeks, he has called for banning Muslim immigration, shutting down mosques, spying on Muslims, making Muslims carry ID badges, and a few other […]
I Am Not Your Negro Featurette – Baldwin (2017) – Documentary
Raoul Peck ‘I Am Not Your Negro’ on Solely Using James Baldwin’s Words “I Am Not Your Negro” (Magnolia), Raoul Peck’s acclaimed documentary on author James Baldwin, opened extremely well […]
The United States of America – One Nation, Under God
Source: The Muslim Sunrise is the oldest Muslim publication of North America. Its winter volume explores unity and diversity in our global village: Winter-2016 By Mazher Ahmad, who is a […]
Islamophobic Flier Posted At Rutgers Drowned Out With A Message Of Love
Source: Huffington Post Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Staff members at a campus cultural center spread fliers that make Muslim students feel welcome. Staff at a Rutgers […]
Two thirds of Germans want Merkel out at next election: poll
Source: The Local Up until recently it seemed a very safe bet that Angela Merkel would win another term as Chancellor in September’s election. But more and more polling suggests otherwise. The most recent poll by YouGov published on Monday showed that 64 percent of Germans are in favour of […]
Ruling parties agree on child marriage ban proposal
Source: The Local The major parties making up Germany’s coalition government have agreed to a proposed law that would invalidate marriages involving children under 16. Leaders of the Social Democrats (SPD) and Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Union parties said they had agreed on a proposed law to ban marriage for […]
She fell in love with someone who won’t be allowed in
Source:CNN Frustrated with the lack of job opportunities, especially for the growing number of people with college degrees, El Yassami, 25, fled the country in hopes of finding work in Europe. He studied industrial refrigeration at a vocational college but wasn’t able to find a secure well paid job in […]