Source: NPR By CHAS SISK After an election year filled with criticisms of the Muslim community, some mosques are urging their worshippers to vote. To do so, they’re borrowing a strategy used by African-American churches. SCOTT SIMON, HOST: This campaign season has found Muslim-Americans caught in a harsh spotlight, but there’s […]
9h8 Source: NPR By SCOTT DETROW Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine has put his Jesuit upbringing front and center in the campaign, raising the question: What role will Catholic voters […]
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)The 2016 presidential campaign has not been easy on American Muslims. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential nominee, has proposed banning immigrants from […]
Source: Vox Updated by Todd VanDerWerff A lot of what seems inexplicable about Hillary Clinton often makes more sense when you realize her formative years in the public eye were […]
Source: ET Ali Hammuda PHOTO: DAILY MAIL In a rather shocking claim, a British Muslim cleric has said it is ‘permissible’ under Islam to have sex slaves. Ali Hammuda, an imam at a Cardiff mosque, explained a series ofHadiths (sayings of Prophet Muhammad PBUH) saying one of them could be interpreted […]
Source: ET PHOTO: Reuters Refusing to stay silent, hundreds of Muslim women came forward on Monday in response to Donald Trump’s attacks on Ghazala Khan, the Gold Star mother of a Muslim-American soldier who died in Iraq. Trump remarked about Khan’s silence during her husband’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, […]
Source: ET “We had advanced our romantic relationship but later he seemed a little callous towards me,” Zhang told Hunan TV. “One day he sent me a photo of air tickets abruptly and I thought it was a joke. He didn’t contact me later.” Zhang went on to add that she was […]
theguardian.com Greece: Christians working in Greece’s most notorious asylum detention centre have tried to convert some of the Muslim detainees, who have been held under the terms of the EU-Turkey migration deal. On at least two occasions in recent months, aid workers have distributed conversion forms inside copies of Arabic […]
Women are better represented among the country’s medal contenders – but even a man could be our darling It’s an even more tricky business trying to guess who will be the person who sticks in people’s minds. Prior to the 2014 Winter Games, it’s doubtful that more than a handful […]
Source: Dawn IN times of tumult such as these, it takes sagacity and courage to rise above the clamour and appeal to people’s common humanity. In Europe, where the past few weeks have witnessed horrific violence, much of it perpetrated in the name of Islam, it was heartening to see […]
Source: Dawn BOTH Islamists and Islamophobes find Islam and democracy incongruent. Some cite a verse that deprecates majority views. To call Islam anti-democracy by citing a brief verse non-contextually is odd. Even in democracy, small ruling groups usually make decisions. Majority only decides who rules. The mode of this decision […]
Source.Dawn NEW YORK: Sales of pocket versions of the US Constitution have soared since the Pakistan-origin father of a fallen American soldier brandished a copy to denounce Donald Trump, igniting a major backlash against the Republican nominee. Khizr Khan, a Harvard-educated lawyer whose son died in a 2004 suicide bombing […]
Source: The Local For hundreds of years, Yiddish, a mix of medieval German and other languages, was the main language of the Ashkenazi Jews who lived on the Rhine River, before spreading across Europe.The Holocaust and the assimilation of Jews into wider Western cultures have had a devastating effect on the language. But […]
Source: The Local Jordan has always captured the attention of adventurers. The ancient kingdom has been inhabited since before the Bronze Age, and helped shape the stories of Roman emperors, Lawrence of Arabia, and Moses just to name a few. More:
Source: Asia Times. President Tayyip Erdogan and many Turks have been frustrated by U.S. and European criticism of a government crackdown in the wake of the attempted putsch in Turkey, a country vital to the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State and to stopping illegal migration to Europe. They have accused […]
Source: CNN (CNN)Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican’s press office said. The commission was initially promised by the Pope after a meeting with a group of nuns on May 12. “In the course of a dialogue […]
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)Hillary Clinton emerges from her party’s convention in Philadelphia with a restored lead over Donald Trump, having earned a 7-point convention bounce, according to a new CNN/ORC Poll. In a two-way head-to-head matchup, Clinton tops Trump 52% to 43%, and in a four-way matchup including third party […]
Source: The Daily Beast America is no longer a country “by the people, for the people,” but a plutocracy. The new doc ‘Meet the Donors’ exposes our broken political system and the uber-rich pulling the strings. “I think there’s the belief that somehow the whole system in Washington is not […]
Source: The Daily Beast The lying started at 7:27 a.m. and did not stop until after dark. Even for Donald Trump, Monday, Aug. 1, was a banner day for bullshit. With 100 days until Election Day, the Republican presidential nominee decisively rejected suggestions that he make some attempt to appear statesmanlike in […]
ORGANOIDS Revolutionising biomedical science: mini-brains in a vat By Celia Luterbacher, Lausanne AUG 2, 2016 – 11:00 Many people know that cancer is made up of cells. But equally important is the extracellular matrix, which surrounds those cells and inhibits or promotes their growth. (swissinfo.ch) Miniature organs and cancers grown […]