Highest ranking church official yet admits to ‘enormous’ mistakes in allowing abuse
If you’re watching the Oscars, then you know that the film “Spotlight,” won for Best Original Screenplay. It’s a Hollywood movie about when the Catholic Church abuse scandal broke out in 2002. The Boston Globe newspaper ran a story about bishops in the Boston area who moved abusers from parish to parish instead of defrocking […]
Watch: How ISIS Went Global
The Islamic State militant group (ISIS) is an entity that has captivated the world. It adorns the front-pages of the world’s biggest newspapers, the television screens of millions of viewers and the policy notes of the world’s most powerful governments, for all the wrong reasons. It has risen to become the flag-bearer of the global […]
Minnesota DPS apologizes for issuing ‘offensive’ license plates
The Minnesota Department of Public Safety said Tuesday a license plate that read “FMUSLMS” should never have been issued and the plates would be revoked immediately. According to Fox 9, a Snapchat photo of the license plate was shared over the weekend on the Facebook page of Somali community activist Haji Yusuf. Yusuf told Fox […]
France – Charlie Hebdo to mark anniversary of attack with special issue
French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo will mark the anniversary of the attack on its offices with a cover featuring a bearded man representing God with a Kalashnikov slung over his shoulder, … One million copies of the special edition will be available on newsstands on Wednesday, with tens of thousands more to be dispatched overseas. […]
Islamic Republic Of The Gambia Orders Female Government Workers To Wear Headscarves
The Gambian government has banned its female employees from showing their hair at work and ordered them to wear headscarves, commonly referred to as “hijab” in Islam. The new rule was announced Monday in a memo circulated to all ministries and departments and later obtained by private newspapers and news agencies, one month after President […]
Offensive license plate kicks up controversy in Minnesota
MINNEAPOLIS—A man from Big Lake has spent the past two days trying to clear his name after an offensive license plate that disparages Muslims was spotted last weekend in St. Cloud and linked to a pickup truck he owns. Chad Betland, a truck aficionado, bought a gray 1987 Chevrolet from a Foley man last summer. […]
John Wood, Marine dad, banned from daughter’s graduation after objecting to Islam lessons
A former Marine is asking a judge to lift a no-trespass order ahead of his daughter’s graduation after her high school reportedly banned him from campus for objecting to classroom lessons about Islam. “She’s in the final semester of her senior year, and as it stands right now, she’s going to have to go through […]