Patheos.com: It demands no introduction that many people, including Muslims, believe that Islam permits child marriage. As a result, Islam is often dismissed as a highly misogynistic religion by some non-Muslims, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Catherine Orsborn spends a lot of her time thinking about how to put an end to Islamophobia forever. It’s part of her job […]
Source: BBC European stock markets have fallen and the euro has soared following the economic stimulus measures announced by the European Central Bank. After initially rising following the broader than […]
Source: The Washington Post For so long, Ryan Hoffman, a former college football player I wrote about last year, had the same explanation for his inability to get his life […]
Source: Huffington Post One of the most prevalent talking points in the 2016 election cycle is the role of religion, and the in-grouping and outgrouping that political figures are using to describe America. While Donald Trump’s comments about banning Muslims from entering the country have drawn the most criticism, the […]
Source: The Daily Beast By Dean Obeidallah (born December 17, 1969), he is an American comedian of Palestinian-Italian descent. The Donald told CNN that Islam hates America. Like the Muslims […]
Source: BBC US President Barack Obama and Canada’s new liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau have lavished praise on each other amid talks at the White House. Mr Trudeau is in […]
A Pakistani pilot has been jailed for nine months in Britain for being drunk before he was due to fly a plane with 156 people on board. Irfan Faiz, 55, was found to have three times the legal amount of alcohol in his blood, prosecutors told Leeds Crown Court. http://news.sky.com/story/1172391/drunk-pia-pilot-irfan-faiz-jailed-in-britain […]
Source: Time Hillary Clinton may have been facing Bernie Sanders at Wednesday’s debate, but in reality she was shadowboxing Donald Trump. The Republican frontrunner, who was the only GOP candidate […]
Source: Religion and Politics As efforts are made to assess the legacy of Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last month, pundits have avoided discussing the one decision that stands as […]
Source: NPR For Muslim-Americans, there was a world before Sept. 11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and one after. Now, their community faces the dual threats of extremism […]
Source: The Washington Post President Obama has narrowed his list of potential Supreme Court nominees to about six names, our colleagues on The Post politics staff report. One jurist in […]
A Scientist Answers: I’m Dr Sami Mikhail and I’m what you’d call a dirt-person or a gravel monkey – the technical term is geologist. I’m presently a Lecturer in Earth […]
BBC Canada’s new liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Washington for the first state visit by a Canadian leader in nearly 20 years. He has been welcomed by President […]
For the first time ever, a Muslim student has been elected by the Georgetown University student body to serve as the Jesuit school’s student association president. As reported by The […]
On March 8, 2016, Minister of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) John McCallum tabled the 2015 Annual Report to Parliament on Immigration. It states that in 2016 Canada will […]
Canadian human rights groups call for national security reform (Ottawa – March 10, 2016) In two separate letters sent yesterday to federal Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale, a coalition of Canadian human rights organizations including the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), laid out recommendations with respect to national security reform in […]
Source: BBC The European Central Bank is expected to announce further measures to stimulate the eurozone economy when its governing council meets on Thursday. Inflation has continued to fall, putting […]
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University of California: by Jim Logan — For Maria Charles, the numbers were plain, but they didn’t add up. Her research into gender segregation in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields revealed an odd fact: affluent countries had considerably fewer women in STEM careers than poor ones did. Since […]