TOM ESSLEMONT | REUTERS Published — Sunday 17 January 2016 LONDON: A $15 billion shortfall in global humanitarian aid could be addressed by tapping into innovative sources of finance, such as smartphone apps, the football industry and wealthy Islamic donors, a United Nations panel of experts said on Sunday. Despite […]
By Suzanna Goussous – Jan 16,2016 -JORDAN TIMES A view of Rmeimeen town north of Amman on Friday where a mosque stands next to a church in the mixed Muslim-Christian community (Petra photo) AMMAN — Church bells rang in Balqa’s Rmeimeen town on Friday in celebration of the opening […]
The disciplining of a professor raises an old philosophical question Jan 13th 2016 BY ERASMUS EVERY so often a question that seems purely abstract and philosophical passes into the realm of hard reality where people’s lives and destinies are determined. One such conundrum is whether or not Christians and Muslims can […]
The American Freedom Party said it placed about 200,000 “robocalls” in Iowa and may also target New Hampshire. 01/11/2016 ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) – A white supremacist group said it has placed thousands of automated phone calls in Iowa urging voters to back billionaire Donald Trump’s bid for the […]
Jan 12,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – James J. Zogby At the close of 2015, Zogby Research Services (ZRS) conducted face-to-face polling with 5,374 Muslim youth between the ages of 15 and 34 in eight Arab countries: Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Palestine. We had been commissioned […]
Source: BBC By Tharik Hussain Keturiasdesimt Totoriu, Lithuania It may not be the kind of place you would expect to stumble upon a mosque, but Muslims have lived among the […]
It has certainly been one of the most difficult decisions to elect the top 10 Muslim Women of 2015: with success not far from revolutionary, Muslim women have not failed to prove themselves successful. But I guess 2015 has been the biggest run around for Muslim women. From the depths […]
Source: Pulitzer Center BY NICK SHINDO STREET A light rain was falling as young men and women — some in hip European street clothes, others in hijabs or ankle-length robes […]
Ban against praying JewIsh activist overturned by court, police reprimanded Published: 16:03 December 29, 2015 Nasouh Nazzal, Correspondent Ramallah: An Israeli court has granted permission for Jews to pray and perform Jewish rituals during their incursions into Al Haram Al Sharif in occupied East Jerusalem. The occupation forces’ Jerusalem District […]
There are an estimated 150,000 Islam converts among the Latino community in the US Source: World Bulletin Latinos in the U.S. are considered to be the fastest-growing demographic as well […]
Huff Post: by David Briggs — Fifty-six percent of Americans believe houses or rooms can be haunted. One in five believes Bigfoot is a real creature; about the same percentage are afraid of zombies. Yet at least until the walking dead put up their own candidate in the New Hampshire […]
AN INTERVIEW WITH LALEH BAKHTIAR LALEH BAKHTIAR, USA As the first American woman to translate the Quran into English, Laleh Bakhtiar corrects often misinterpreted verses on women’s treatment by re-infusing the translation with a feminine perspective. In this interview with Muslima curator Samina Ali, Laleh discusses her experience interpreting the […]
Quartz Africa: by Omar Mohammed — An attempted militant attack on Monday (Dec. 21) on a bus heading to Mandera, a small town in northeast Kenya on the border with Somalia, was foiled after Muslim passengers refused to comply with the attackers’ demands that they identify Christians amongst them and […]
Source: Huffington Post Jaweed Kaleem; Senior Religion Reporter, The Huffington Post Carol Kuruvilla; Religion Associate Editor, The Huffington Post “We must not allow fear to undermine the values that stand […]
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Alnatour; Palestinian-American Muslim. Student. Humanitarian. Every time an act of terror or shooting occurs, Muslims closely watch the news with extreme trepidation praying that the suspect […]
Washington Post: Wheaton College, a prominent evangelical school in Illinois, has placed a professor on administrative leave after she posted on Facebook that Muslims and Christians “worship the same God.” The official school statement Tuesday about associate professor of political science Larycia Hawkins’s suspension said Wheaton professors should “engage in and […]
By AFP Published: December 10, 2015 Erdogan, who once threatened to ban Facebook in his country, used his official page to respond to Zuckerberg ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday praised Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg for emphasising the difference between Islam and terror, after the billionaire social network tycoon […]
Source: The New York Times Only hours after news broke that a suspect in a mass shooting in San Bernardino, Calif., had a Muslim name, the well-practiced organizations that represent […]
Source: Cosmopolitan By Mona Chalabi Last June, Pew Research Center asked 3,217 people in the U.S. to rate members of each religion from 0 to 100; a score of 0 […]
Source: The New York Times The invitation arrived by email, bearing the seal of the State of New Jersey and the name of its new governor, Chris Christie. It asked […]