Sheriff: Army Reserve officer threatens members of mosque
Source: Associated Press By ANNA GRONEWOLD and JONATHAN DREW In this June 2016 photo released by the Hoke County (N.C.) Sheriff’s Office, Thomas Russell… Read more RAEFORD N.C. (AP) — A […]
Religious roots of hatred resurface in Orlando
Source: RNS By Yonat Shimron (RNS) One year after the Supreme Court ruled that gays can legally marry across the country, and at a time when most polls show a majority […]
Post-Withdrawal Britain: Why the Swiss Model Wouldn’t Work for the UK
By Christian Teevs REUTERS A Brexit supporter at a Vote Leave rally in London. The pro-Brexit camp is pointing to Switzerland and Norway as models for how Britain could take advantage of the common European market without being an EU member. Experts say those prospects are a “fantasy.” For Nigel […]
Orlando shootings highlight debate about acceptance of LGBT people in Islam
Source: Washington Post By Michelle Boorstein The horrific killings at a gay club in Orlando by a Muslim man who reportedly swore loyalty to the Islamic State set off immediate […]
‘I’m gonna die’: Orlando victim’s texts to mother as gunman came
Source: BBC Eddie Justice sent a series of terrified texts to his mother from a bathroom as the gunman made his way through gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando. His mother […]
Zika Has People Freaked Out About the Olympics. But Experts Aren’t Worried
Source: Time By Alexandra Sifferlin Why scientists say the Zika panic surrounding the Olympics is overhyped The 2016 Olympics in Rio are around the corner, and doctors and athletes alike are […]
The Gay Bar as Safe Space Has Been Shattered
Source: Time By Daniel D’Addario If the gunman who shot and killed 50 people in an attack on the Orlando gay nightclub Pulse sought not merely to end life but to […]
‘I Can Hardly Breathe Here’: German Refugee Shelters Face Sexual Assault Problem
By Riham Alkousaa, Julia Klaus, Ann-Katrin Müller and Maximilian Popp Julia Unkel / DER SPIEGEL Cases of sexual assault in German refugee shelters are on the rise, with women and children facing the greatest danger. Despite pleas for help from the government, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s coalition has done little to […]
Hope Fades and Anguish Sets in as Family, Friends Await Word of Orlando Shooting Victims
Source: Tim By Zeke J Miller / Orlando The cell phones rang hauntingly inside the bloodied and ransacked nightclub. Hours had passed since the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, and family members waiting for news of their loved ones’ fates had little to do but to call and call — […]
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump to Confront Orlando Shooting
Source: Time By Philip Elliott / Cleveland For the first time Monday, Americans will confront the stark choice they face in November as the two presidential candidates respond to a crisis unfolding in the midst of the campaign — theworst mass shooting in U.S. history. Their initial responses already outlined the […]
What to Know About ISIS’s Role in the Orlando Shooting
Source: Time By Jared Malsin/Istanbul ISIS claimed responsibility for the mass shooting attack in an Orlando gay club on Sunday that left at least 50 people dead. “The attack that targeted a nightclub for homosexuals in Orlando, Florida, and that left more than 100 dead and wounded was carried out by […]
Orlando shootings: Club attacker had ‘grudge in his heart’, father says
Source: BBC The father of a gunman who killed dozens of people in an Orlando gay club says he did not know that his son had a “grudge in his […]
Italian Newspaper Sparks Backlash After ‘Mein Kampf’ Giveaway
Source: Time By Katie Reilly An Italian newspaper is facing backlash after it distributed annotated copies of Adolf Hitler’s “Mein Kampf” with a paid supplement in its Saturday edition. Il Giornale—a […]
Parenting Is Now Officially Impossible
Source: Time By Darlena Cunha Darlena Cunha is a contributor to TIME. The Internet has all but extinguished any hope parents ever had It’s impossible to be a parent in 2016. […]
Why some evangelicals changed their minds about evolution
Source: RNS By Cathy Lynn Grossman (RNS) Creationist Christian tourists may soon flock to the Ark Encounter, a literal vision of Noah’s story in Genesis come to life in July […]
Hillary Clinton: I’m willing to call Orlando attack ‘radical Islamism’
Source: Yahoo News By Liz Goodwin and Olivier Knox Hillary Clinton said Monday she would be willing to call the Orlando attack an act of radical Islamist terror. “From my […]
Orlando shootings: ‘No clear evidence’ of IS link
Source: BBC There is no clear evidence that the Orlando shooter was directed by the so-called Islamic State group (IS), US President Barack Obama has said. The inquiry into Sunday […]
EURO 2016 & Ramadan: Will Muslim Players Fast?
Mon 13 June 2016 – 18:38 PARIS – Coinciding with the holy fasting month of Ramadan, the Euro2016 has posed as a bit challenging to many Muslim players, with many of them choosing to delay fasting after the tournament. Many of the big names competing in this year’s tournament are […]
Dozens of migrants stuck in Greece queue for access to asylum
Reuters International JUN 13, 2016 – 15:43 Refugees and migrants are briefed by a United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) staff (L) before a pre-registration process that gives them access to the asylum procedure, at the premises of the disused Hellenikon airport, in Athens, Greece, June 13, 2016. REUTERS/Alkis […]
The UN has failed to protect Syrians from war and hunger. Now it’s telling them to stop smoking
Your home may be in flames, your family enslaved, your torturers itching to pull out your fingernails – but above all you’ve got to ignore the ciggy packet in your pocket Robert Fisk @indyvoices 41 Syrians gathering at the scene of a double bomb attack outside the Sayyida Zeinab shrine AFP […]