Source:Huffington Post By Rodney Wilson A Teacher, learner, writer , holds master’s degrees in history and in religion. He teaches both at a community college in Missouri. His book, Killing God: Christian Fundamentalism […]
Source: Huffington Post We live in a beautiful, diverse world, and almost each day of the year is a sacred time for someone, somewhere. HuffPost Religion presents our annual interfaith […]
Source: Huffington Post By Dan Agin Author One of the great tragedies of American education is its control by local school boards. Yes, I know, the original idea was to prevent […]
Source: Huffington Post By Nigel Barber Biopsychologist; blogger, Psychology Today’s ‘The Human Beast’ Religion boosts health in the US. Yet, the most religious countries are the sickest. This paradox can be […]
By Tarek Fatah, Toronto, Canada The idiom “pot calling the kettle black” was perfectly illustrated by Islamic Iran’s outrage over the public executions of 47 people by Islamic Saudi Arabia on Jan. 2. As horrific and detestable as the Saudi actions that included the beheading of human rights and democracy […]
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Updated 11:01 PM ET, Fri January 8, 2016 | Video Source: CNN Rock Hill, South Carolina (CNN) A Muslim woman wearing a hijab was escorted out of […]
Source: Global Issues By Neeta Lal (New Delhi) NEW DELHI, Jan 08 (IPS) – Women constitute nearly half of the country’s 1.25 billion people and gender equality — whether in […]
Source: The Washington Post At a campaign stop in Fort Dodge, Iowa, this week, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) was asked about keeping sharia law out of the United States. “Guys,” […]
Source: Macleans It would be simplistic to say the sectarian outrage over Saudi Arabia’s execution of a Shia cleric was only religion-driven—and would ignore key history By Brian Bethune Sunni […]
Source: Al-Jazeera by Rafia Zakaria Larycia Hawkins’ solidarity message goes beyond wearing the headscarf for a day. That’s exactly what America needs On Jan. 6, Wheaton College — a private […]
Source: The Guardian Barack Obama tore into the nation’s largest gun lobby on Thursday as he sought support for his actions on gun control, accusing the National Rifle Association of […]
Source: CNN (CNN)A toy-like cardboard contraption that sells for less than $20 online has helped save the life of a baby who was so sick that doctors told her parents […]
Source: The Guardian A doctor specialised in geriatrics tells me he has more and more patients presenting with conditions stemming from anxiety. “It’s somehow worse than the civil war [1975-90],” […]
Source: Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO (CN) – The Ninth Circuit on Thursday refused to block a new California law that requires pregnancy care centers to notify patients about state-funded contraception and abortion services. Three faith-based pregnancy care centers sued the state in October, claiming the Reproductive FACT (Freedom, Accountability, Comprehensive […]
Source: BBC By Rajini Vaidyanathan Legal segregation in the US may have ended more than 50 years ago. But in many parts of the country, Americans of different races aren’t […]
Source: The New York Times Ahmad Alsalkhadi, an immigrant from Jordan, has never had a run-in with the police, but he works in a section of Astoria, Queens, that has […]
Source: Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — The New York Police Department will tighten safeguards against illegal surveillance of Muslims in secret investigations of terror threats and install a civilian […]
Source: Montreal Gazette Lal Khan Malik, of Vaughan, Ont., is national president of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at of Canada and is one of the founders of the “Stop the CrISIS” […]
Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. It tells the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured […]
Written by Dr. Abdul Alim: Are Islam and Europe incompatible? Unfortunately a large number of Europeans think that Islam is not compatible with their way of life. But is that […]