Our Founding Fathers included Islam
Thomas Jefferson didn’t just own a Quran — he engaged with Islam and fought to ensure the rights of Muslims By DENISE SPELLBERG Salon: [He] sais “neither Pagan nor Mahamedan [Muslim] […]
Africa wealth report 2015: rich get richer even as poverty and inequality deepen
Guardian: Africa is now home to more than 160,000 people with personal fortunes worth in excess of $1m (£642,000), a twofold increase in the number of wealthy individuals since the turn of the century that highlights the problem of deepening inequality as some of the world’s poorest nations register strong economic […]
Tensions boil in Texas town over planned cemetery for Muslims
DALLAS (Reuters) – Plans for a cemetery for Muslims on the outskirts of a small North Texas town have sparked a backlash among some local residents who said they fear it will bring radical Islam and terrorism to their doorsteps. The Islamic Association of Collin County purchased 34 acres to […]
Barelwi madrassas to teach how terrorists misuse Islam
The Hindu: Amid the perceived and possible dangers of the terror group like the Islamic State (IS) radicalising and recruiting Muslim youths, the Barelwi sect among Muslims has decided to include a chapter against terrorism in all madrassas functioning under its fold across the country. The Dargahe-Aala-Hazrat, the headquarters of […]
It’s official: having friends of the opposite sex is bad for children’s grades
Economist: Aug 6th 2015, 15:11 | From the print edition DO FRIENDS of the opposite gender distract teenagers, hampering their academic performance? It may seem obvious, at least to paranoid parents, and yet it is hard to prove. Read more at http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660556-its-official-having-friends-opposite-sex-bad-childrens-grades#61rgZ88f9wVBwV0G.99 Read more at
The tweet that sparked a debate over racism in Norway
Source: BBC 22 November 2013 A simple tweet from a university student of Somali origin in Norway has triggered a big debate in the country over racism. It started with a tweet. On Sunday evening, medical student Warsan Ismail began to list a series of everyday examples of racism she […]
The Future of Hinduism in America’s Changing Religious Landscape
Source: Huffington Post By Anantanand Rambachan; Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College. Latest book,”A Hindu Theology of Liberation.” The recent PEW Research Center findings on America’s religious landscape revealed that approximately 56 million […]
5 Women Accused Of Being Witches Beaten To Death In India
Our source: Huffington Post PATNA, India (AP) — Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a […]
Ferguson Anniversary: Michael Brown’s father: ‘I think of him every single day’
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Darwin not first to discover heterostyly in plants: study
Documents dating back to the 16th century show that naturalist Charles Darwin was not the first to discover the existence of heterostyly – floral forms that differ in male and […]
Muslim Canadians Running in the 2015 Federal Election
There are even Muslims running against each other, Omar Alghabra (Liberal) and Farheen Khan (NDP) in Mississauga Centre, a riding where an estimated 16.5% of eligible voters are Muslim, and […]
Ugandan Women Hail Partial Success Over “Bride Price” System
Global Issues: by Wambi Michael — KAMPALA, Aug 07 (IPS) – After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has […]
Pakistan One of the World’s First Safe Havens for Refugees
Global ssues: by Thalif Deen — UNITED NATIONS, Aug 04 (IPS) – The United Nations has declared that 2015 is already “the deadliest year” for millions of migrants and asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution in their countries. A group of refugee women and their children await the arrival of […]
PICTURED: Moment dinghy full of migrants lands on Greek beach yards from stunned tourists
THIS is the moment a dinghy full of migrants landed on a beach of stunned tourists in Greece as Europe’s immigration crisis continued to spiral out of control. By NICK GUTTERIDGE PUBLISHED: 22:20, Sat, Aug 8, 2015 | REUTERS The dinghy full of migrants arrived at a beach in Kos […]
Remember death: Sands of time running out
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 31 July 2015 ARABNEWS.COM People, generally speaking, do not want to die. Even at an advanced age, they remain unconcerned about imminence of death. They live as though death is a far distant reality. Almighty God draws attention to this human instinct, saying: “And you […]
Switzerland: Mammoth tusk found on Roche building site
OLD IN THE TOOTH Mammoth tusk found on Roche building site By swissinfo.ch and agencies AUG 7, 2015 – 10:41 Tusk-oriented behaviour: measuring the recent discovery (NLZ) An almost two-metre […]
HOW SAUDI ARABIA EXPORTS RADICAL ISLAM: THE WEEK
FEATURE How Saudi Arabia exports radical Islam The Week Staff AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili August 8, 2015 Saudi Arabia has spent billions promoting its extremist version of Islam. What has it wrought? Here’s everything you need to know: Why do the Saudis proselytize? To combat the spread of Shiite Islam and […]
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: Don’t Let Trump and Co. Distract From Black Lives Matter
Source: Time Magazine Dear presidential candidates: With the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown this weekend, America needs to know how the tumultuous events of the last year […]
Is Music Prohibited in Islam?
Is Music Prohibited In Islam? By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 03 august, 2015 There is no verse in the Quran that discourages or bans music and yet, based on several Ahadith that contradict each other, it is commonly believed that music is allowed only in a limited way and […]
Hiroshima and Nagasaki: the single greatest acts of terrorism in human history?
Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being “the lesser of the two evils”, and recognise […]