Source: Associated Press By BRADY McCOMBS SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous family from TV’s “Sister Wives” filed a request Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy. Kody Brown and his four wives want the high court to review an appeal court’s decision […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal By BETH REINHARD MANASSAS, Va.—Corey Stewart had visited the Dar Al-Noor mosque many times as chairman of the Prince William Board of County Supervisors, but […]
Source: The New York Times By ISABEL KERSHNER JERUSALEM — In the absence of any prospect of peace with thePalestinians, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel has started a video war. His latest, and so far the most provocative, two-minute video in a recent series is titled “No Jews.” In […]
Source: BBC By Katia Moskvitch 13 September 2016 Have you ever had a panic attack in mid-flight? Those that have will tell you it’s not fun. And there are plenty […]
Source: BBC By Zaria Gorvett 13 September 2016 The Japanese have a knack for inventing words – and there are some that every self-respecting office worker should have in their […]
Source: BBC United we stand According to Hindu tradition, a widow cannot remarry. She has to hide in the house, remove her jewellery and wear the colour of mourning. She […]
Source: The Clarion Project Trudeau should investigate history and he would find it has been tried before. Appeasing Islamists just doesn’t work. (Hint: it’s because of the ideology.) BY MEIRA […]
Source: The Times of Israel Pope Francis on Wednesday denounced killing in God’s name as “satanic” as he held a mass to honor Jacques Hamel, the French priest whose throat […]
Source: Morocco World News Rabat – A meeting that aimed to pave the way for a local Muslim community to build a mosque and cemetery has been canceled in Newton County, Georgia. A local militia had planned an armed protest to stop a proposed Muslim cemetery and mosque, said the […]
Source: Asia Times So when Duterte embarked on his global diplomatic debut, attending the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit, many were expecting a more subdued and statesmanlike Duterte. Instead, the world witnessed a Hyde and Jekyll diplomatic behavior. Duterte, who accepted the Philippines’ (rotational) chairmanship of the regional […]
Source: Asia Times: The presidential election was over the moment the word “deplorable” made its run out of Hillary Clinton’s unguarded mouth. As the whole world now knows, Clinton told a Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender fundraiser Sept. 10, “You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Trump’s supporters into […]
Source: The Daily Beast It’s crunch time in the race for the White House. Early voting begins in key states like Ohio in just a few weeks. And with Donald Trump trailing in most national polls, he’s now going all in on the “I’m healthier than Hillary” contest by appearing […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled. Blessed are the merciful, for […]
Source: The Local The bearded 60-year-old German former bookshop owner has been in office for five years, more than anyone else since the parliament held its first international elections in 1979. Schulz now looks set to seek another two and a half years at the helm of the EU’s only […]
Source: The Muslim Sunrise, Fall 2016 By Dr. Khaula Shah Nice in France is the 5th largest city of the country with a population of almost a million. They are […]
Islam teaches peace, respect, harmony & justice for all without discrimination of caste, creed & color. -Imam Syed Shamshad Nasir Report by Fizan abdullah Chicago On September 9, 2016 Imam Shamshad was invited to the installation of Rabbi Andrea Cosnowsky. The event was held at the congregation Etz Chaim of […]
Huff post: LVIV, Ukraine ― Ernes and Alime Mambetov have been living with their 2-year-old son in the western Ukrainian city of Lviv for a little over a year. Both are practicing Muslims and Crimean Tatars that fled Crimea for mainland Ukraine after Russia’s military seized control of the peninsula […]
Source: The Local A Die Welt report titled “Refugees go on holiday to where they were persecuted” has been raising eyebrows this week as people question how this could happen. The report was based on cases being reported by Berlin labour agencies that some recognized refugees, who are also registered […]
Source: Dawn As Muslims worldwide have just performed another Haj and are now celebrating Eidul Azha, it is perhaps an opportune moment to reflect on the current state of that abstract construct — the ‘Muslim world’. While, indeed, the world as a whole is facing myriad challenges to the global […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Shahid Javed Burki, who is a former caretaker finance minister and served as vice-president at the World Bank According to the group, the ideology it is pursuing would take its followers back to the early days of Islam. The style of governance was to be shaped […]