Accosted for her hijab, woman now teaches Muslim empowerment
Source: Associated Press When she was 16, Rana Abdelhamid was accosted on the streets of New York by a man who tried to pull off the head scarf she wears […]
Young Montrealers collect food to send larger message
Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association are delivering goods they’ve collecting during a food drive. Published Thursday, December 31, 2015 6:40PM EST A group of young Montrealers is delivering the goods they’ve collected during a holiday food drive, as they do every year. But this year, the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Pregnant Woman Sues Catholic Hospital For Not Letting Her Get Tubes Tied
Source: Buzz Feed On Monday, the American Civil Liberties Union announced that it is suing Dignity Health, a Catholic hospital network, for refusing to provide a woman with the tubal […]
Jewish and Muslim hate crimes soar in London
Source: Religion News Service CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Attacks on Jews and Muslims in London, including assault and harassment, have soared by more than 60 percent over the past year, police statistics […]
Your favorite Fact Tank data in 2015
Source: Pew Research Center When Pew Research Center started the Fact Tank data blog back in 2013, our goal was to present data that would help people better understand the news of the day. But in looking at our top blog posts of 2015, we realized that the pieces we published often made news, too. […]
Time to call Trump out on degrading views
Source: CNN By Donna Brazile, A CNN contributor and a Democratic strategist, is vice chairwoman for civic engagement and voter participation at the Democratic National Committee. A nationally syndicated columnist, she […]
Students Who Killed Atheist Bangladeshi Writer Sentenced to Death
Source: Time Ahmed Rajib Haider was hacked to death in 2013 Two students in Bangladesh were sentenced to death on Thursday for killing a prominent atheist writer and blogger in […]
The amazing survival of the Baltic Muslims
Source: BBC It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the forests and lakes of Lithuania for […]
Chicken grows face of dinosaur
Source: BBC Sixty-five million years ago, an asteroid is believed to have crashed into Earth. The impact wiped out huge numbers of species, including almost all of the dinosaurs. One […]
Indonesian couple caned for violating Sharia law, police official says
Source: CNN Jakarta, Indonesia (CNN)An unrelated man and woman who had been seen alone together were caned in public in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, for violating Sharia law, a police chief […]
Asia Bibi, under sentence of death for blasphemy in Pakistan, forgives her persecutors
Ruth Gledhill CHRISTIAN TODAY CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 30 December 2015 Asia Bibi is in prison in Multan in Punjab, awaiting the result of her appeal against her conviction for blasphemy. Asia Bibi, the Christian woman who has spent her seventh Christmas behind bars under death sentence in Pakistan for blasphemy, has […]
UK Soldiers May Face Iraq War Crime Charges
An inquiry into allegations of murder, abuse and torture by British forces between 2003 and 2009 could result in prosecutions. 05:02, UK,Saturday 02 January 2016 skynews.com British soldiers may face prosecution for war crimes, an inquiry head says Share on Twitter Share on Facebook Share on Google+ Share by […]
As New Year dawns, refugee, migrant flows look set to continue
FOR A BETTER FUTURE: Migrants gather in Victoria Square, where migrants and refugees found temporary refuge, in central Athens on Friday. (AFP) THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published — Saturday 2 January 2016 ATHENS: Bitter cold, biting winds and rough winter seas have done little to stem the seemingly endless flow of […]
Tawheed: The essence of Islam
ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 1 January 2016 Tawheed (Islamic monotheism) is the greatest foundation of Islamic belief. In fact, a person is considered as Muslim if he/she accepts that […]
Dealing with Boko Haram
By AMINO ABUBAKAR & ADEROGBA OBISESAN Published — Saturday 2 January 2016 Source: Arab News As Nigeria rings in 2016, the ever-present threat of violence by Boko Haram hangs heavy […]
Saudi Arabia Executes 47, Including Shiite Cleric
By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI, ASSOCIATED PRESS RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Jan 2, 2016 The Associated Press FILE – In this Sunday, Sept. 30, 2012 file photo, a Saudi anti-government protester carries a poster with the image of jailed Shiite cleric Sheik Nimr al-Nimr during the funeral of three Shiite Muslims allegedly […]
Before Mosul, Iraqi army may face fight at the gates of Baghdad
By Reuters – Dec 31,2015 – JORDAN TIMES A member of Iraq’s elite counterterrorism service flashes the ‘V’ for victory sign on Wednesday in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, about 110 kilometres west of Baghdad (AFP photo) BAGHDAD — Iraqi forces may face a big […]
Parrikar to hold high-level meeting with security officials following Pathankot…
Hindustan Times © Provided by Hindustan Times Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar will hold a high level meeting with security officials on Saturday evening following a terror attack on the Indian Air Force base in Indian Air Force (IAF) base in Pathankot district of Punjab early Saturday. The security counter-operation that […]
Jewish Jihadists: How to Combat Violent Extremism in Israel
Haaretz.com: Much has been written about the causes of violent Jewish extremism in Israel, including that its goal is to bring down the state in an apocalyptic civil war in order to impose the extremists’ vision of a Messianic Kingdom upon the rest of us. Even established figures on the […]
What should we teach about Islam?
waqarahmedi.wordpress.com: What a roller coaster of a year 2015 was – especially if you teach about religion. The frenzied debate about free speech post-Charlie Hebdo, spate of ISIS terror attacks and, yes, Donald Trump, propelled classroom practitioners like me into relentless action. But these things and more also made us rethink […]