Source: The Guardian Stephanie Kirchgaessner in New York The Catholic church in Pennsylvania has been accused of employing “mafia-like” tactics in a campaign to put pressure on individual Catholic lawmakers […]
Source: The New York Times By DAMIEN CAVE ORLANDO, Fla. — When Dr. Joseph Ibrahim heard that the attack at the Pulse nightclub may have been linked to terrorism, he […]
Source: The Guardian Sam Levin in Sacramento, California Renee Hale makes her point outside the Verity Baptist church in Sacramento. Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian Adele Sakler has struggled […]
Source: Time By Jacob Davidson Jo Cox, a Member of Parliament for the Batley and Spens constituency in the north of England was shot and stabbed to death on Thursday, shocking Britain. and provoking an outpouring of sympathy from citizens and politicians from across the globe. The killing, which police are […]
Source: Time By Mark Thompson What was surprising about President Obama’s denunciation of Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant terrorism policy Tuesday wasn’t the fact that Obama never mentioned Trump by name. He didn’t have to. “We now have proposals from the presumptive Republican nominee for President of the United States to bar all Muslims […]
Source: BBC By Kate Ashford 17 June 2016 Ten years ago, Cathy Tooley and her husband, Chuck, were refinancing their house because interest rates had dropped. “We have always had […]
Source: BBC By Jim Resnick 15 June 2016 THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WAS IN DIRE STRAITS in 2009 — and few companies were harder hit than Volvo. The Swedish carmaker faced […]
Source: BBC Tributes have been paid around the world to Labour MP Jo Cox, who died after being shot and stabbed. The 41-year-old was attacked before holding a constituency surgery […]
The hip-hop group “We’re Muslim, Don’t Panic“ was conceived of by dancer Amirah Sackett in 2011, a moment Sackett referred to as “a really tumultuous time in history as far as Islam is concerned.” Just seven years earlier, France banned students from wearing hijab to school, the headscarves that in Islamic […]
Source: NPR Maybe we’re all just taking politics too seriously these days. Eighth-grader Jack Aiello used his 8-minute graduation speech to impersonate Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, President Obama, Hillary Clinton […]
Source: BBC A court in India has sentenced 11 people to life in prison for their roles in a notorious massacre during the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat. Of the […]
Source: BBC An MP has died after she was shot and stabbed in a “horrific” assault in her constituency, police have said. Jo Cox, Labour MP for Batley and Spen, […]
Source: The Washington Post By Alyssa Rosenberg The massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, where 49 people were murdered this past weekend, has prompted outrage at the impossibility of gun control in the United States, memorials at and for gay bars, and sharp debates about whether the shooting was primarily […]
Source: Pew Research Center Most Americans say religion doesn’t cause violence, but rather that violent people use religion to justify their actions Half of Americans say the next president should be careful not to criticize Islam as a whole when speaking about Islamic extremists, while four-in-ten want the next president […]
Source: Dawn ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) has barred actor Hamza Ali Abbasi and TV show host Shabbir Abu Talib from hosting their Ramazan shows on Aaj TV […]
By Asra Q. Nomani June 15, 2016 The massacre of partygoers at Pulse, a gay club in Orlando, took me back to the late summer of 2005, when an African American woman, wearing a tight headscarf over her staff uniform, stormed out of the kitchen and into a conference room […]
Source: RT.com Published time: 17 Jun, 2016 Almost half the ethnic Turks living in Germany consider following Islamic teaching more important than abiding by the law, a new survey claims. […]
Reuters International JUN 17, 2016 – 16:00 Mustafa Sentop, head of constitution commission of the Turkish Parliament, speaks during an interview with Reuters in Ankara, Turkey, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (reuters_tickers) By Orhan Coskun and Nick Tattersall ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey will not hold a referendum on the powerful […]
JO COX Swiss parliament honours murdered British politician By swissinfo.ch and agencies JUN 17, 2016 – 10:54 Floral tributes left in memory of Jo Cox in Parliament Square, London (Keystone) The presidents of the Senate and the House of Representatives have expressed their condolences on behalf of the Swiss parliament […]
MINORS NGO blasts Swiss policy on detaining migrant children JUN 16, 2016 – 16:58 The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child defines a child as every human being below the age of eighteen, unless the law applicable to the child states otherwise. The age of majority in Switzerland […]