Muhammad Ali: Boxing Legend and the Most Recognized Muslim Dies
Muhammad Ali: Boxing legend, activist and ‘The Greatest’ to a world of fans, Dies By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) His hands and his mouth were furiously fast. His skill as […]
Muhammad Ali: What made ‘The Greatest’ so great
Source: BBC By Ben Dirs BBC Sport It is crass, I know, to reduce Muhammad Ali’s greatness to little more than a game of Top Trumps. And how great, really, […]
Sorry, Brown People, Donald Trump Doesn’t Believe You’re Real Americans
Source: Huffington Post BY Amanda Terkel Senior Political Reporter, The Huffington Post As someone who’s Asian-American, all my life I’ve dealt with people who assume that I speak Chinese. The majority of times I get in a cab, one of the first questions from the driver will be, “Where are you […]
This Ice Cream Shop Kicked Hatred To The Curb. Here’s How The Community Said Thank Yo
Source: Huffington Post BY Yasmin Nouh Blog Editor, The Huffington Post Nura Takkish, 22, was sitting with two of her friends at Andrew’s Ice Cream and Dessert in Orange County, California, on Monday, May 23, when they noticed a commotion at the counter. A customer was being asked to leave for […]
Sufis live in fear after Bangladeshi machete slaughter
Source: Yahoo News Dhaka (AFP) – Each time he hears of the latest deadly machete attack, Ashraful Islam can’t help but think of his father’s gruesome murder and fear his […]
Challenging Ramadan ahead for UK Muslims due to long summer days
Source: The Guardian By Harriet Sherwood Religion correspondent Muslims in the northern hemisphere face the most challenging Ramadan for more than 30 years, with long summer days creating the shortest possible […]
Britain Is Losing Its Religion, or at Least Its Official One
Source: The New York Times By ALAN COWELL LONDON — In these times of flux and challenge, when Britain’s post-imperial place in a globalized world has rarely been so minutely […]
Thousands of atheists gathering in DC for Reason Rally
Source: CNN By Ruby Mellen, CNN Washington (CNN)Bill Nye, Lewis Black and members of the Wu-Tang Clan will be part of a high-profile lineup preaching to a mass of atheists […]
Humanism and morality have cast off religion
theguardian — The Adoration of the Magi by Botticelli (1444/5-1510). ‘The huge decline in western Christianity has a much simpler root cause: the perceived claims of what people see as orthodox belief are, literally, incredible to the modern mind’, writes Fr Alec Mitchell. Photograph: Getty Images Your editorial (Imagine no […]
Boxer Muhammad Ali family concerned-the end near
Source: Associated Press Muhammad Ali is hospitalized in the Phoenix area with what two people familiar with his condition say may be more serious problems than his previous hospital stays. […]
The Exercise Benefit You Aren’t Thinking About
Source: Time BY Alexandra Sifferlin It has nothing to do with weight loss or even fitness A new small study serves as a reminder that breaking a sweat is a drug-free […]
The Earth is not round (but it’s not flat either)
Source: BBC By Adam Proctor 3 June 2016 This animation is based on an episode from BBC Radio 4’s series The Curious Cases of Rutherford and Fry. Listen to A […]
Migrant crisis: Hundreds rescued from boat off Crete
Source: BBC About 340 migrants have been rescued and nine bodies have been pulled from the sea after a boat capsized in the Mediterranean Sea, Greek officials say. Others are […]
Paris floods: Seine set to peak as more rain forecast
Source: BBC Floodwaters in Paris continue to rise with the River Seine due to hit a peak of up to 6.5m (21ft) later on Friday. The world-famous Louvre and Orsay […]
Searching for remains of Dead Sea Scrolls
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Hindus from Pakistan, Bangladesh will get to claim Indian citizenship
Times of India: New Delhi: In a move that is as much political as it is humanitarian, the home ministry is ready with draft amendments to citizenship law that will exempt minority citizens of Pakistan and Bangladesh who have come to India out of fear of religious prosecution from being […]
Belgian Gov’t to Defend Muslim Women’s Right to Wear Headscarf at Work
Source: Sputnik News According to L’Echo, the lawyer of the Belgian Foreign Ministry will defend a Muslim woman Samira A. who sued her ex-employer G4S Secure Solutions for prohibiting headscarves at work. Earlier the […]
Attack on Western University Muslim student ‘a wake up call’ says Mayor
The attack on a Western University student from Iran, being probed by London police hate crime officers, is a “wake-up call” for London, Mayor Matt Brown says. “This is . […]
Schools take in Tokyo mosque to get unbiased glimpse of Islam
Source: Japan Times A recent wave of terror has fueled anti-Muslim hostility worldwide, fostering a negative image of Islam — a faith still unfamiliar in Japan. But Japan’s youth […]
Asylum seekers ‘vacation’ on Swiss mountain
SHELTER ON THE RIGI By Veronica DeVore, Rigi Klösterli MAY 30, 2016 – 17:00 The Rigi’s many panoramas attract hundreds of thousands of tourists each year, as well as skiers during the winter months when it’s covered in snow (swissinfo.ch) A group of asylum seekers has been temporarily housed […]