theguardian: by Niala Mohammad — A humiliating experience opened my eyes to discrimination that has become common in post-9/11 America under the pretext of safety and security My friend and I were removed from an American Airlines flight for requesting water and asking why we were still aboard an idling […]
Source: Arab News: LONDON: Britain and the European Union must work together to make their divorce smooth and forge a new “strong relationship,” Prime Minister Theresa May told European Council President Donald Tusk on Thursday. At their first one-to-one meeting since May became prime minister after Britain voted to leave […]
Source: Arab News: JEDDAH: Islamic Affairs Minister Saleh Al-Asheikh said Iran is hostile toward Muslims and does not want to see the Haj season pass peacefully or without sectarian strife. During an inspection tour of a mosque on the Makkah-Jeddah Expressway, he said the duty of Muslim scholars is to […]
Source: The Daily Beast U.S. special operations forces mounted an unsuccessful attempt to rescue two kidnapped American University of Afghanistan professors last month, the Pentagon confirmed Thursday afternoon. “In August, at the recommendation of Secretary Carter, President Obama authorized U.S. forces to conduct a mission in Afghanistan, aimed at recovering […]
Source: The Local Libya’s last chemical weapons stocks have arrived safely in Germany after being shipped out of the country, and will now be prepared for destruction, a global watchdog said Thursday. More:
Source: ET While I recognise that the state of Pakistan is inundated by a number of issues, with terrorism topping the list, I feel that it is incumbent upon me to bring to the notice of our rulers — especially the prime minister — the dilemmas faced by the minorities […]
Source: McClatchyDC BY HANNAH ALLAM SAN LUIS OBISPO, CALIF. Feeling heartsick and helpless nearly 4,000 miles away from the attacks, trauma physician Rushdi Abdul Cader spent Sept. 11, 2001, paging through his Quran in search of guidance. He feared a backlash against Muslims, though it would be a few more […]
Source: MPR News A 57-year-old man confessed to threatening to blow up a Minneapolis mosque, prosecutors said Wednesday. The office of the U.S. Attorney for Minnesota said Daniel George Fisher sent an anonymous, handwritten letter to Tawfiq Islamic Center September 30, 2015 to scare its members. The letter threatened to […]
Source: Buzzfeed News By Aisha Gani Senior News Reporter, BuzzFeed UK Nearly 2 million Muslims from around the world are gathering this weekend in Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, for the annual pilgrimage. Hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam, and Muslims believe it fosters universal relationships and symbolizes how […]
Source: Time By Serene Jones Rev. Dr. Serene Jones is President of Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. We need a new common narrative about who we are […]
Source: Yahoo News Paris (AFP) – President Francois Hollande said Thursday that Islam could co-exist with secularism, warning in a speech seen as preparing the ground for a re-election bid […]
Source: BBC By Victoria Gill Science reporter, BBC News It is a famous, gentle giant of the African savannah, but the giraffe’s genetics have just revealed that there is not […]
Source: BBC More than 11,000 teachers in Turkey have been suspended for alleged links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), a week before children go back to school. Prime […]
Source: BBC Barack Obama has chided Donald Trump as “wacky” and “uninformed” after the Republican candidate said Russia’s President Putin was a better leader. Speaking in Laos, Mr Obama said that every time Mr Trump spoke it became clearer that the Republican contender was not qualified to be president. In […]
Source: Wired By Andy Greenberg GOOGLE HAS BUILT a half-trillion-dollar business out of divining what people want based on a few words they type into a search field. In the […]
Source: The Guardian By Arjun Sethi I remember feeling scared after 9/11. A few days after the attacks, a classmate jumped in front of my car and menacingly yelled “go […]
Source: BBC Donald Trump has showered Vladimir Putin with praise as he and rival Hillary Clinton took pointed questions from military veterans. The Republican presidential nominee told the forum the Russian president “has been a leader far more than our president [Obama] has been”. It came on the same day […]
Source: BBC A man in the Indian city of Mumbai has been sentenced to death for a fatal acid attack on a woman at a busy railway station three years […]
Source: Time By Sen. Rand Paul Paul is the junior U.S. Senator for Kentucky. “It really is a financial hardship to afford it.” So says a pharmacist in my hometown of […]
Fifteen years later, there are reasons to despair about the state of Muslims in America—but still more reasons for optimism about it. DEAN OBEIDALLAH, 09.08.16 1:05 AM ET So what’s it like to be Muslim in America 15 years after 9/11? We see concerning signs and poll numbers about how our […]