Source: Huffington Post Two telephone helplines that offer counseling and support to Muslims in North America were flooded with calls during and after the U.S. presidential election, according to NBC […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor The Women’s March on Washington emerged as a response to the election of President Donald Trump. But it is also a movement […]
Source: The Guardian Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent British media organisations have been forced to make a string of corrections and retractions over recent months relating to coverage of Muslims following […]
Source: Time By Zeke J Miller In his first official act in the White House, President Trump signed an executive order Friday directing executive agencies to begin preparing for the repeal […]
Source: Time By Ian Bremmer In the West, elites are under attack. As many of the world’s most influential political and business leaders gather in Davos, Switzerland, from Jan. 17 to […]
Source: Time President Trump wasted little time making clear that his administration will take a drastically different approach to criminal justice than his predecessor. Shortly after taking the oath of […]
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin High blood pressure affects about one in three adults for all kinds of reasons, from genetics to stress. While medications can help keep it in check, […]
Source: BBC At least 20 people have been killed and 40 wounded after a bomb exploded at a vegetable market in northwest Pakistan. The blast happened in the city of […]
Source: BBC A niqab saved Abu Alawi. For more than two-and-a-half years it helped keep the middle-aged former police officer hidden from IS and safe from the bullets and knives […]
Source: BBC By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News A project aims to plant three million trees – one for every man, woman and child – in Greater Manchester over […]
Officers said they mistook the man for a wanted suspect. 01/20/2017 06:39 pm ET | Britain’s police watchdog is to hold an investigation after officers were filmed firing a stun-gun at their own local black race relations adviser who they apparently mistook for a wanted suspect, the force involved said […]
Babacar Dione / AP Jan. 20, 2017 Marco Longari—AFP/Getty ImagesDefeated Gambian President Yahya Jammeh listens to one of his aides in Banjul on Nov. 29, 2016. His successor has already been sworn in, but Yahya Jammeh refuses to relinquish power (DAKAR, Senegal) — Gambia’s defeated President Yahya Jammehmust cede […]
Jan 19,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI We have just passed through quite an extraordinary period of international activity on how to resolve the Israel-Palestine conflict. The UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements as illegal under international law was followed by the US forcefully speaking out against […]
Source: Daily Beast WhiteHouse.gov immediately wiped pages on LGBT rights, civil rights, climate change, and health care from its “issues” section after Donald Trumptook the oath of office. More:
Source: Dawn Donald Trump, who mocked a disabled reporter, said he would ban Muslims from entering the United States, referred to Mexican immigrants as criminals and rapists, and made countless sexist statements, is now the 45th President of the United States. Where do Muslim Americans go from here and what […]
Source: The Local French presidential hopeful Marine Le Pen will headline a European gathering of eurosceptic and far-right leaders in Germany on Saturday as they seek to put on a united front in a year of high-stakes elections. Billed as a “counter-summit”, organisers said the parties would use the event […]
Compared to the platitudinous, snide, divisive, war-mongering rant the world received from Trump, George W Bush was a visionary Robert Fisk @indyvoices A bad day for Muslims, I’d call it. The only mention they got in the inaugural tweet was pure Hollywood, and very dangerous. “Radical Islamic terrorism we will […]
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionDonald Trump intends to roll back many of his predecessor’s policies Trump elected Can Obamacare be repealed? Ethics concerns swirl around Trump team What do the Trump tweets reveal? Full coverage Donald Trump has taken his first steps as president, signing an executive order which targets the signature […]
Image copyrightREUTERSImage captionMr Jammeh had said there were irregularities in the presidential election The Gambia’s long-term leader Yahya Jammeh says he will step down, after refusing to accept defeat in elections. In an announcement on state TV, he said it was “not necessary that a single drop of blood be […]
Source: New Age Islam By Krithika Varagur January 17, 2017 When Ulil Abshar-Abdalla was a teenager in Pati, Central Java, he placed first in an Arabic class held at his […]