Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvlla — Ilhan Omar is making waves in Minnesota. NITIKA GUPTAIlhan Omar. Ilhan Omar is a former refugee, a Somali-American activist, and a proud Democrat. On November 8, the 33-year-old is poised to become one of the few Muslim women ever elected to a state […]
theguardian: by Matthew Weaver — Newsreader Fatima Manji condemns decision by press regulator Ipso as ‘fundamentally flawed’ in appeal Fatima Manji. Ipso ruled that in the context of the Nice attack, MacKenzie had a right to question her headdress under free speech. Photograph: Twitter The presenter Fatima Manji has questioned […]
Source: Religion News Service By David Gushee Let’s say that the vast majority of the polls are right, and Hillary Clinton wins the presidency rather comfortably on November 8. Let’s further posit that the Democrats take the Senate narrowly and the Republicans retain the House. What happens next? What is […]
Source: Religion News Service By Hannan Adely/ USA Today Network WOODLAND PARK, N.J. — Federal law enforcement officials, under fire by civil rights groups, have dropped an effort to create counseling […]
Source: The Guardian Iraq’s parliament has passed a law forbidding the import, production or selling of alcoholic beverages in a surprise move that angered many in the country’s Christian community […]
Source: The Guardian By Vanessa Larson The last significant survey of Islam’s holy book in the west was held at the British Museum in London in 1976. Into that void comes […]
Source: USA Today Infants should sleep in the same room as parents to lower the risk of sleep-related deaths, the American Academy of Pediatrics said in a policy statement released […]
By AFP Published: October 24, 2016 NEW DELHI: India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday criticised the controversial practice of triple talaq, which allows Muslim men to divorce their wives instantly with a single word, saying women should not face discrimination on religious grounds. Triple talaq divorce is legal under the Indian […]
From the Facebook Page of Dr. Juergen Todenhoefer: Dear friends, I am writing this text full of anger and shame. Almost every day it’s raining bombs on Mosul. 15.000 civilians were already killed in the region by air raids of the U.S. coalition. The world remains silent. The United […]
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Source: BBC By By Matt McGrath Environment correspondent Levels of CO2 in the atmosphere have surged past an important threshold and may not dip below it for “many generations”. The 400 […]
Source: BBC By Fiona Macdonald Secrets and spies The word ‘propaganda’ might suggest some form of misinformation – yet in boosting morale during World War Two, the British government had […]
Source: Time By Haley Sweetland Edwards Donald Trump’s repeated calls for supporters to gather friends and family to monitor polling places for cases of voter fraud raises a thorny question: When, exactly, do “ballot security” measures cross the line into illegal acts of voter intimidation? “You’ve got to go out. You’ve […]
Source: Time By Rana Foroohar Rana Foroohar is TIME’s assistant managing editor in charge of economics and business. Globalization is usually defined as the free movement of people, goods and capital. […]
Source: BBC The German city of Ulm is desperate to stop men from relieving themselves on its famous church because persistent peeing is damaging the historic structure. Those responsible for conserving Ulm Minster, which has the world’s tallest church tower, say its stone base is being eroded by the salts […]
Source: Cleveland.com By Guest columnist Zohaib Zafar, a Brecksville resident, is a student at Davidson College in North Carolina, where he is a member of the Muslim Student Association. The […]
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Source: The Peninsula; Qatar’s Daily Newspaper By Lauren Booth In Britain we have reached the stage in our relationship with booze best summed up as ‘can’t live with it and […]
Reuters International OCT 24, 2016 – BAGHDAD (Reuters) – An Iraqi lawmaker has called on her government to investigate a suspected air strike at a Shi’ite mosque during fighting in nearby Kirkuk last week, saying U.S.-led forces could have been involved – a suggestion dismissed by the coalition. Human […]
Reuters International OCT 22, 2016 – By Harry Pearl SYDNEY (Reuters) – Thousands of Australians took part on Saturday in rallies to welcome refugees and make a stand against rising far-right sentiment against foreigners. More than 20,000 people, including prominent politicians, attended demonstrations in 25 cities and towns across the […]