Oldest US Muslim Group Meets with Congressmen
The oldest Muslim organization in the United States held its seventh annual “Day on the Hill” with a series of meetings Friday with members of Congress that took on added significance with President Donald Trump’s effort to halt immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries. The goal by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA was to discuss religious […]
Americans Have Double Standards On Religious Violence
Americans exhibit a double standard when it comes to religious violence, extending far greater benefit of the doubt that attackers claiming to be Christian aren’t really Christian than they do for attacks carried out in the name of Islam, a survey has indicated. Responding to a survey from the Public Religion Research Institute, released Thursday, […]
Trump Rips ‘Fake News’ Media Again Ahead of Florida Rally
President Donald Trump took to Twitter on Saturday morning to take another shot at reporters ahead of his planned campaign-style rally Saturday afternoon in Florida, by calling on his followers not to believe “the main stream (fake news) media.” Trump traveled to Florida on Friday to stay at his Mar-a-Lago resort for the weekend. Some […]
WTC bombing ‘plotter’ Omar Abdel Rahman dies in US jail
Omar Abdel Rahman, who was convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and of planning more attacks as part of a “war of urban terrorism” in the US, has died in a North Carolina prison. Abdel Rahman, 78, was serving a life-sentence on several convictions when he died of natural causes on […]
US Ambassador’s Gift to Somali President Leads to Confusion on Social Media
Controversy is surrounding Friday’s meeting between U.S. Ambassador to Somalia Stephen Schwartz, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama, and new Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo. The controversy is not so much about the meeting but what happened during the photo opportunity when Schwartz gave Farmajo a hat bearing a slogan that appears to […]
Campaigner-in-Chief: Trump Rallies Supporters in Fla.
President Donald Trump escaped the political confines of Washington, D.C. for the more friendly environs of Melbourne, Fla. on Saturday, where he held a rally before a boisterous crowd at an airport plane hangar and promised “change for the ages.” Announcing no new initiatives or goals, the president delivered a greatest hits set; repeating the […]
Iraqi forces launch assault on ISIL positions in western Mosul
Iraq’s Prime Minister, Haider al-Abadi, has announced the start of an operation to uproot ISIL militants from western Mosul. With backing from the US, Iraqi Army planes are said to have dropped millions of leaflets into the jihadists’ stronghold, to warn local residents of an imminent assault. Joel Millman, a spokesperson for the UN’s International […]
UN Rights Chief Urges Myanmar Leader to Ease Plight of Rohingya
The U.N.’s top human rights official, Zeid Ra’ad al Hussein, is urging Myanmar’s leader, Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, to use her moral authority to ease the plight of the country’s disenfranchised Rohingya community. Aung San Suu Kyi has come under mounting criticism from the international community for her failure to speak out on […]
Treatment Has Saved 77% of Cancer Patients Needing Amputations
Patients with a form of advanced malignant cancer in their arms or legs have typically faced amputation of the afflicted limb as the only treatment option. However, these researchers have found a technique that limits the application of chemotherapy to the cancerous region which preserves limbs in a high percentage of cancer patients. The researchers […]
It’s not terrorism unless it’s done by Muslims?
Home-grown terrorism is a serious problem in America, but major media outlets often fail to give the issue the time and attention it deserves; typically, they do not even label these incidents as acts of terrorism. I am not referring here to the attacks President Donald Trump (falsely) accuses the media of ignoring– I’m talking, […]