Source: Associated Press RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — A court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a man to 10 years in prison and 2,000 lashes for expressing his atheism in hundreds of Twitter posts. Al-Watan online daily said Saturday that religious police in charge of monitoring social networks found […]
Source: Princeton Press Book written by John R. Bowen, who is the Dunbar-Van Cleve Professor in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis. His books include A New Anthropology […]
Watch the proceedings online today, March 20, 2016 Source: Nasir Khan; President, Buffalo Chapter Ahmadiyya Muslim Community The Buffalo Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community will hold its next conference […]
Source: Huffington Post As a Muslim American for the last two decades, my belief in my adopted homeland has grown stronger and stronger with each trial that has tested the […]
Source: Huffington Post Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is […]
Source: Indian Express A cease-fire brokered by the United States and Russia went into effect across Syria on Saturday, marking the biggest international push to reduce violence in the country’s […]
Source: Huffington Post No one is taking the end of Barack Obama’s presidency harder than this little girl. Caprina D. Harris posted a video of her granddaughter on Facebook on Monday, showing the child sobbing uncontrollably over the news that there is an election coming up, and Obama is not […]
Source: The Guardian The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs. The […]
Source: Time The three-year-old boy erroneously sentenced to jail is only the worst in a series of atrocities by Egypt’s security officials A military court mistakenly sentences a toddler to […]
Christianity’s history with sex is much more complicated than you might think. By Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post Growing up in a conservative Christian church, I was taught that […]
Source: Daily Times Do you not think the Tableeghi Jamaat (TJ) is elusive? Ask any common person to name the top five leaders of the organisation. They will not know. […]
https://twitter.com/GMA The work of Virk: Predicting the real Oscars and the ESPN version By Emily Pfeffer 2 days ago Share on Facebook Tweet on Twitter <!– –> Since 2013, College Football analyst and Baseball Tonight studio host Adnan Virk is a known movie buff. He has shared his yearly Oscar […]
Source: Time “The world will be watching” The next few weeks, including a two-week cease-fire set to begin on Friday, will be “critical” to Syria’s future, according to President Obama. […]
Source: Motto Got a job interview coming up? You can run through practice questions until your tongue goes numb, select the perfect Olivia Pope-meets-Alicia Florrick outfit and send out a […]
Source: Time The research has implications for infertile couples Stem cells are a promising resource for replenishing the body with healthy cells, but so far, making eggs and sperm from […]
Islamophobia, ISIS, and Authentic Muslim Narratives: Television’s Potential Role Source: Huffington Post By Cynthia P. Schneider; Cultural Diplomacy Expert; Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Netherlands Recently President Obama and Secretary Kerry each called […]
History.com In Washington, D.C., the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, providing for female suffrage, is unanimously declared constitutional by the eight members of the U.S. Supreme Court. The 19th […]
The regime has lost over 60,000 men since the war began, but new Russian equipment is helping turn the tide Robert Fisk You can see the Syrian army’s spanking new Russian T-90 tanks lined up in their new desert livery scarcely 100 miles from Isis’s Syrian “capital” of Raqqa. There are […]
Source: Time The Revenant is one of eight films that could walk away with the Best Picture prize at this weekend’s Oscars. Whatever happens, however, it’s the only one whose story can claim some credit for the development of the West Coast. The 1820s fur-trading expedition fictionalized in the Leonardo […]
Source: The New York Times As a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl growing up in Connecticut, Zareen Jaffery used to devour novels by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, hoping those stories […]