Sudanese Americans: Expected US Refugee Ban Hurts Most Vulnerable
U.S. officials say President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order that would impose a temporary ban on most refugees and a suspension of visas for citizens of Syria, Sudan, and up to five other Middle Eastern and African countries. The order is not likely to include a ban on religious minorities escaping […]
Trump Reviewing US Terrorist Interrogation Rules
U.S. President Donald Trump is moving to review how America interrogates suspected terrorists and possibly reopen secret “black site” prisons outside the United States run by the Central Intelligence Agency that former President Barack Obama shut down. A draft Trump executive order on interrogation methods and the CIA was circulating Wednesday among high-level officials in […]
Trump’s counterterror programme
On January 21, one day after US President Donald Trump was sworn into office, the resistance was inaugurated by way of women’s marches across the country. Muslim-Americans were prominent in these marches, with civil rights leaders such as Linda Sarsour organising and addressing the Washington, DC, crowd, and Muslim American women leading offshoot marches. The […]
An ‘Alternative Facts’ Pizza With Zero Calories
Kellyanne Conway made headlines Sunday when she told Chuck Todd on Meet the Press that press secretary Sean Spicer was using “alternative facts” to demonstrate the size of Trump’s inauguration crowd. The use of the term was widely ridiculed by the media, Twitter users and even Merriam-Webster’s dictionary, which felt the need to clarify the […]
Latin America leaders condemn Trump’s Mexico wall at CELAC summit
Punta Cana, Dominican Republic -Â Outrageous. Disgusting. Nauseating. These are just a few of the long list of qualifiers against the Trump administration’s announcement to go ahead with building the infamous wall separating the United States from the rest of Latin America. “We have to protect ourselves from the aggressive policy of persecuting migrants. The […]
While Trump calls for investigation into voter fraud, his campaign chief registered in two states
President Donald Trump has called for a national investigation into voter fraud, including people who registered to vote in two states — despite the fact that his campaign chief registered in both Florida in New York. The voter registration of Stephen Bannon drew a complaint during the campaign from a group that opposed Trump…
Terrorists Who Struck US Not From Countries Targeted By Executive Orders
President Donald Trump may be poised to sign executive orders temporarily banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries, but none of the countries included spawned terrorists who conducted attacks on the United States. Reuters reported Trump likely will sign several executive orders Wednesday restricting immigration from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen — […]
Mindfulness Meditation Successfully Treats Anxiety: Study
A clinical trial backed by the National Institutes of Health has provided new evidence that mindfulness meditation effectively fights anxiety. Researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center’s Department of Psychiatry worked with 89 patients diagnosed with anxiety disorders to measure how their stress-hormone and inflammatory responses were affected by mindfulness meditation classes.
London Synagogue Raising Funds To House Refugees, Report Says
A synagogue in London is raising funds to house a Syrian refugee family — likely to be Muslims, according to a report on Independent. The Jewish house of prayer is planning to convert a religious studies teaching room into a two-bedroom apartment and is seeking to raise $62,869 in funds. “It’s very easy for religion […]
Afghan Taliban Writes ‘Open Letter’ to President Trump
The Taliban, in a so-called “open letter” to U.S. President Donald Trump, has called on him to help end what it denounced as a “futile” and “un-winnable” American war in Afghanistan. A copy of the letter, written by Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, was released to journalists Wednesday.