The jihadist force’s reputation is being cleaned up, to suggest it is deserving of CIA support Robert Fisk @indyvoices So ol‘ Doc Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden’s chief executive successor, has told the Syrian Jabhat al-Nusra that it can dissociate itself from Al-Qaeda. Good public relations: Nusra doesn’t like the Isis “caliphate” […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Before Bono became the world-famous humanitarian and frontman of the Irish rock band U2, he was Paul David Hewson from Dublin. The […]
Source: Huffington Post By Tyler Speegle Husband, dad, serious coffee drinker, and inspirational blogger – TylerSpeegle.com I have a confession to make. To some it may sound shocking, especially considering I […]
Source: CNN By Jomana Karadsheh and Joshua Berlinger (CNN)At least 64 people were killed when a bomb went off at a market in Baghdad, according to Iraqi police. An additional […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says world should view Islam through “lens of justice, rather than lens of prejudice” On 9 May 2016, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad delivered the keynote address at a special reception held in […]
Source: CNN By Tiffany Ap and Farid Ahmed, CNN Dhaka, Bangladesh (CNN)Bangladesh has executed a top leader of the banned Jamaat-e-Islami party, Motiur Rahman Nizami, for war crimes committed during […]
Source: The New York Times By SARAH POSNER FOR more than three decades, conservative white evangelicals have been a dominant force within the Republican Party, shaping presidential primary contests and […]
Source: Associated Press JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Indonesia’s vice president on Monday called on Islamic leaders to spread messages about a tolerant Islam to curb extremism that often springs from […]
Source: The Washington Post By James McAuley PARIS — France is home to the largest Jewish community in Europe, and its most troubled. A wave of anti-Semitic violence in recent […]
Source: RNS By Elizabeth Bryant PARIS (RNS) On a sunny spring morning, an 18-year-old college student wrapped a scarf around her head to feel what it would be like to […]
Source: CNN Money Donald Trump says he can “make a deal” on America’s debt. Last week, he implied that he could negotiate with America’s creditors to get them to accept […]
NASA’s Kepler mission has verified 1,284 new planets – the single largest finding of planets to date. “This announcement more than doubles the number of confirmed planets from Kepler,” said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA Headquarters in Washington. “This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star […]
Source: Los Angeles Times By Zahira Torres Contact Reporter A High school yearbook is supposed to be a keepsake, but for a Muslim student in Rancho Cucamonga it will be a painful reminder of being misidentified as “Isis Phillips” in a photo that showed her smiling and wearing a hijab. Bayan Zehlif, […]
Source: The Guardian By Ryan Schuessler in Houston Alfonso Flores looked relieved. Standing at the front of the prayer hall, the 29-year-old dental technician accepted hugs and handshakes from other members of […]
Source: The Baltimore Sun By Alison Knezevich Contact Reporter The Baltimore Sun The Archdiocese of Baltimore has posted a list of dozens of priests and religious brothers accused of sexual abuse in a move church officials say came from listening to feedback from abuse survivors. All of the names had previously been […]
Source: Muslimwise A blog of the Centre of Islamic Studies at SOAS, University of London By Michael Mumisa (Shaykh) In January this year (2016), the “Marrakesh Declaration on the Rights of […]
Source: ABC News By ARLETTE SAENZ President Obama will become the first sitting U.S. president to visitHiroshima when he travels to Japan later this month, the White House announced this […]
Source: Time By Olivia B. Waxman The bison has been named America’s first national mammal, after the President signed the National Bison Legacy Act on Monday, the culmination of a […]
Source: Time By Mark Leftly / London Sadiq Khan, 45, was declared the new mayor of London in the early hours of Saturday, becoming the most powerful Muslim politician in Europe. A Transport Minister in the Labour government of former Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Khan came under severe attack during the […]
Source: BBC Sadiq Khan has rejected US presidential hopeful Donald Trump’s offer to make the new London mayor an “exception” to a ban on Muslims travelling to the US. “This […]