Source: Lancaster Online BY ELIZABETH EISENSTADT-EVANS Tempted to make generalizations about a world population of 1.5 billion Muslims? Please think twice, says Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown. “There are going […]
Source: Smart News By Danny lewis By now, the six-pointed star feels inseparable from Jewish identity. So when presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump tweeted out an image of Hillary Clinton with […]
Source: RNS By Mohammed Dajani Daoudi (RNS) A vortex of hatred is sweeping across the globe, from a nightclub in Orlando to an airport in Istanbul to a restaurant in […]
Source: The Washington Post By Joby Warrick and Souad Mekhennet Even as it launches waves of terrorist attacks around the globe, the Islamic State is quietly preparing its followers for […]
Source: Chicago Tribune By Vikki Ortiz Healy Contact Reporter A suburban Chicago Muslim group hopes two giant billboards hanging over busy Chicago highways will help to fight terrorism while also combating Islamophobia. […]
Source: The Palm Beach Post By Eliot Kleinberg Boca Raton’s two U.S. representatives Tuesday appeared to support the use of a mosque as a polling place in the Aug. 30 […]
Source: RNS By Kimberly Winston (RNS) As he has done 10 times in his seven-plus years in office, President Obama comforted the nation after a mass shooting with words of Scripture. […]
By Zubair Khan Following indicators lead to some thing fishy fishy in power corridors of Pakistan. 1. Posters and bill boards comprising pictures of current COAS with the request to take over appeared in major cities of Pakistan. Move on Party enacted these posters cum bill boards. Contact phone numbers also […]
Source. Balkan Insight Among all criteria which may be of interest for the UN members, there is a strong international movement to elect for the first time a woman Secretary-General. That element in the complex election puzzle should not be ignored. The global trend in this aspect will have its […]
A French design engineer who was dismissed for wearing an Islamic headscarf should have been allowed to cover her head at work, a senior EU lawyer has said.A French woman at a protest against the banning of headscarves in state schools. Photograph: Alamy In an influential preliminary opinion, an advocate […]
Source. The Daily Beast ISTANBUL — Moving in for the kill, the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian backers have taken control of the last supply route into rebel-held Aleppo in a combined air and ground campaign that has left well over 100 dead. It was a major setback for […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Imtiaz Gul If we ever needed a damning indictment of ugly geo-politically motivated military interventions, Sir John Chilcot delivered it on July 6 — The […]
Source: ET For the vast majority in Pakistan, the third gender is an unknown. Hijras/eunuchs, transsexuals, transvestites and hermaphrodites continue to live on the social periphery, confined within their own communities and excluded from ordinary civic and social life. Our interaction with them is limited to a curious glance from […]
Source: BBC By Gordon Corera Security correspondent, BBC News The use of a robot to deliver an explosive device and kill the Dallas shooting suspect has intensified the debate over […]
Source: The Washington Post By Dean Obeidallah July 12 at 6:30 AM Producers of the Muslim Funny Fest have created fake “Muslim ID” cards for comics, a commentary on Donald […]
Source: Associated Press By DANIELLA CHESLOW JERUSALEM (AP) — The president of America’s Union for Reform Judaism blasted the Israeli government Monday for delaying a plan to give liberal Jews a special space to pray at a Jerusalem holy site, and vowed to escalate his movement’s struggle with public demonstrations […]
Source:The Washington Post By Brady Dennis DALLAS — The minister and the imam had known each other barely a year. They had met at a vigil after the mass shooting […]
Source: The Guardian Sam Thielman in New York Conservative Christians no longer agree on how to vote their collective conscience in America. To liberals, this group has acted for 40 […]
Source: Time By Alice Park Once the optic nerve that’s responsible for sight is damaged, it’s impossible to see again. At least that’s been the dogma. But a group of […]
Source: BBC By David K Gibson IT’S AN ADOLESCENT ACT OF VANDALISM, probably more talked about than actually performed, but urinating into a fuel tank may one day have a […]