Keith Ellison: The first Muslim to be elected to the US Congress

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia  This article is about the Congressman. For other people named Keith Ellison, see Keith Ellison (disambiguation). Keith Ellison Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Minnesota‘s 5th district Incumbent Assumed office January 3, 2007 Preceded by Martin Olav Sabo Member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from the 58B district […]

China: officials seek to banish superstition

Global Post: In a rare discussion of the Chinese government’s policies on religion, China’s top religious affairs official told a state-run newspaper that the government wants its citizens to stop believing in superstitions about birth, death and fortune, Reuters reported. “For a ruling party which follows Marxism, we need to help […]

Ahmadis to boycott polls: spokesman

Dawn: LAHORE: Some 200,000 members of Pakistan’s minority Ahmadi community will boycott next month’s election in protest at their treatment by the authorities, a spokesman said Monday. “We have been boycotting the election process since 1985 when Ahmadi voters were put in the list of religious minorities,” Saleemuddin, a spokesman […]

Half Guantanamo detainees on hunger strike

Source: BBC Eighty-four of the 166 prisoners held at the US-run Guantanamo Bay facility are now on hunger strike, US military officials have said. The prisoners are protesting against their indefinite detention. Most are being held without charge. Sixteen of the 84 prisoners are being force-fed and five are being […]