After Charleston, sorrow for our defiled houses of worship Members of Friendship Missionary Baptist Church engage in a moment of silent prayer Sunday for Charleston shooting victims and their families. | Dillon Deaton ddeaton@charlotteobserver.com BY SUNEET KAUR Last Wednesday, a young man sat with members of a Bible study group […]
Washington (CNN) Obamacare has survived — again. In a major win for the Obama administration, the Supreme Court held in a 6-3 decision that the Affordable Care Act authorized federal […]
Source: BBC In the wake of the shooting death of nine African-American churchgoers in Charlestown, South Carolina, many politicians and public figures called for a public conversation on race and […]
Security Weekly STRATFIR JUNE 25, 2015 | By Scott Stewart In recent weeks, I have found myself spending a lot of time thinking about the jihadist strategy of al Qaeda and how it compares to that of the Islamic State. Earlier this month, I wrote about the possibility that […]
Jun 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Gustavo Gonsalez At the end of 2014, a wide range of national and international partners launched the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP) to address the most challenging needs of refugees and host communities, as well as the longer-term socio-economic impact from the ongoing crisis […]
Jun 24,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – Michael Jansen The attempts by Druze living in Israel and the occupied Golan to interdict en route to hospital ambulances carrying Syrians wounded across the ceasefire line in battles with Syrian government forces have put the Israeli army […]
Epigraph: And whoso honors the sacred things of Allah, it will be good for him with his Lord. … Remaining ever inclined to Allah, not associating anything with Him. And […]
Source: The Guardian Nicholas Watt Chief political correspondent New role with European Council on Tolerance and Reconciliation follows former prime minister’s decision to stand down as Middle East envoy Wednesday […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — In the 14 years since Al Qaedacarried out attacks on New York and the Pentagon, extremists have regularly executed smaller lethal assaults in the United States, explaining their motives in online manifestoes or social media rants. But the breakdown of extremist ideologies behind those attacks may […]
Brown Girl Magazine | By Nishi Fatima Posted: 06/24/2015 11:06 am EDT This article originally appeared on Brown Girl Magazine. Given the rise of hate crimes and misunderstandings that the […]
Launched earlier this year, the Islamic Reporting Initiative (IRI) has rapidly gained momentum and support from organizations all over the world. “The IRI is aiming to create the first, mainstream […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com The Shroud of Turin has captivated thousands of Christians over centuries, some of whom believe it covered Jesus Christ during his burial — and on Sunday, Pope Francis joined […]
The Holy Month of Ramadhan is a spiritual month for over a billion Muslims around the world who are encouraged to show appreciation and remembrance to their Lord and offer sacrifices for the good of mankind. In this spirit, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Metro Detroit will conduct the following programs […]
Source: yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk Dr Asim Salim and Muhammad Nayyer, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Leeds The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Leeds supports the Government’s action to root out extremism. Any genuine attempt to curb extremism is to be welcomed. No true Muslim could contemplate acting against the laws of the land and so if […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday denounced what he calls the “great powers” of the world for failing to act when there was intelligence […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com FRANCES D’EMILIO, Associated Press ROME (AP) — Pope Francis on Sunday denounced what he calls the “great powers” of the world for failing to act when there was intelligence […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Indeed, only through the remembrance of God, do hearts find contentment (Quran 13:28). The holy month of Ramadan is once again upon us and those Muslims who are fortunate […]
Arab unity has been the most hopeless aspiration of the Middle East. The idea that the Arab world – the Arabic-speaking, largely Muslim land mass between the Atlantic and the […]
From April 2016, migrant workers will need to earn at least £35,000 to qualify for settlement in the UK. Will this affect your life in the country? guardian witness James Walsh @jamesofwalsh Wednesday 24 June 2015 Migrants who have spent more than five years working in the country will be […]
Women are making major strides in the military, rising to leadership positions and breaking boundaries like never before. But there’s still a scary undercurrent of sexism and sexual assault, and it starts early, according to a new op-ed in the New York Times. Ashley Anderson and Elizabeth Deutsch, two Yale […]