Adrian Hedden, The Republic | azcentral.com At 36 years old, it was as if life was just beginning for Amanjeet Singh “Sonny” Toor. His wife, Kamaldeep Kaur, had finally made the move four months ago to Phoenix from India, six years after his own immigration journey. Toor was friendly, happy and hard-working. Even his […]
Source: Chicago Tribune By Marion Renault A woman filed a federal civil rights lawsuit Thursday against the city of Chicago and six of its police officers after she said the officers profiled her based on her religious garb and assaulted her outside a CTA train station last year. On July […]
Source: The Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein In perhaps the most extensive religious speech of the campaign season, which doubled as a plea to black voters, Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Tim Kaine on Thursday described his faith identity and values as shaped largely by his experiences living and worshiping among Latino […]
Source: Detroit Free Press Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Michigan and the Department of Justice are investigating whether a proposed mosque was […]
Source: Time By Simon Shuster It would have been a suicide mission, and a rather pointless one. But that is roughly the picture that Russian President Vladimir Putin painted on Wednesday […]
Source: BBC More than 70 Republicans have signed a letter to the party’s National Committee head urging him to stop helping Donald Trump’s campaign. They said Mr Trump’s “divisiveness” and […]
Source: BBC By James Harbeck Languages are ever changing, mixing and mutating, and sometimes they give birth to new ones. Sanskrit gave birth to Hindi and others; Latin is ancestor […]
Source: BBC Bollywood star Shah Rukh Khan has expressed his disappointment at being “detained” by US authorities at Los Angeles International Airport. It is not clear why Khan was detained, […]
Source: The Times Of India Sobha Garnet in Pune HYDERABAD: The Majlis Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwat (MTKN), a body of prominent religious scholars, on Tuesday slammed the Centre for treating the Ahmadiyyas, also known as Qadiyanis, as a part of the Muslim community in the Census 2011. The MTKN contends that […]
Correspondent Lucky Severson visits Noah’s Ark Park, which opened last month in northeastern Kentucky, and talks to Ark Encounter CEO Ken Ham as well as his critics. His recreation of […]
By Prof. Muhammad Sharif Khan Muhammad, may peace be on him: Over a billions bear witness he is the Messenger of God. Read the short article in PDF format: Muhammad may peace be […]
Malik Mumtaz Hussain Qadri (1985 – 29 February 2016), better known as Mumtaz Qadri (Urdu: ممتاز قادری), was a Pakistani policeman and Islamic fundamentalist.[1] He served as a commando of […]
Source: Vanguard By Haroon Balogun As the 2016 Ahmadiyya world Islamic Conference opens today in London, United Kingdom, the group has announced the broadcast schedule and frequency tracking of the […]
Source: The Guardian Agence-France Presse The mayor of Cannes has banned the wearing of burqinis on the beaches of the French Riviera resort famous for its annual film festival. Mayor […]
Source: The Guardian By Haroon Siddique The government’s conflation of integration with counter-terrorism has exacerbated inequalities experienced by British Muslims, MPs have said. Islamophobia, stereotyping, cultural traditions and insufficient role models have also contributed to Muslims experiencing the highest levels of unemployment among all religious and ethnic groups – 12.8% compared […]
Source: BBC By Sara Toth Stub Inside a single-room stone house in the village of Hurfeish, high in the mountains of northern Israel, about 40 women filled wooden benches, plastic […]
Source: CNN By Euan McKirdy, CNN (CNN)Donald Trump on Wednesday and Thursday repeatedly called President Barack Obama the “founder” of ISIS and labeled Hillary Clinton the “co-founder” — after which Clinton used his comments to say they show he is not fit to be president. At a rally in Fort […]
Source: Buzz Feed News By McKay Coppins BuzzFeed News Reporter Hillary Clinton will pitch her candidacy to Mormon voters in Utah with an op-ed Wednesday in the church-owned Deseret News. “I’ve […]
Source: The Washington Post By Derek Hawkins American security contractors Lloyd Fields and James Creach were working at a police training facility in Amman, Jordan, in November 2015 when a trainee shot and […]
Source: The Sacramento Bee BY ANSHU SIRIPURAPU asiripurapu@sacbee.com After intense opposition from the state’s religious schools, the author of a controversial bill that would have exposed private religious colleges in California to anti-discrimination lawsuits has agreed to remove a key provision. Pushed by gay rights organizations, Senate Bill 1146 would […]