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*The man behind the bomb scare at the Federal Reserve Bank in New York wasn’t ever known to support violence in the name of Allah. Instead, a former classmate at a Missouri college remarked that he was a pious man and didn’t believe in violence. But it appears his ideas have either changed or were [...]
*Predominantly-Muslim nation Malaysia on Tuesday banned a planned concert by Erykah Badu after a photograph surfaced showing the singer with the Arabic word for Allah written on her body, reports the AP. The Grammy winner was set to perform Wednesday in Kuala Lumpur, but some Muslim groups said Badu was an unsuitable role model for [...]
*Nigeria’s main opposition leader accused the government of incompetence on Monday after Islamist militants killed more than two dozen people in Christmas Day attacks on churches and other targets, says Reuters. Muhammadu Buhari, a northerner and former military ruler who lost a presidential election in April to incumbent Goodluck Jonathan (pictured), a Christian southerner, told a Nigerian daily that [...]
*B&C reports that TLC’s premiere of its new reality series, “All-American Muslim” drew big ratings for the network, drawing 1.7 million viewers and scoring a 1.8 in the W18-34 demo. The series debut also received a 1.5 rating with W18-49 and a 1.3 W25-54. “All-American Muslim” was the #2 show in its 10 p.m. time-slot among ad-supported cable in [...]
*The Daily Mail reports that a 12-year-old Christian girl was kidnapped and repeatedly raped for eight months in Pakistan by a man who then falsified marriage documents with her, it was claimed today. The girl was lured on a shopping trip in Lahore by a friend, before she was driven 120 miles to Tandianwalla and [...]
*Tavis Smiley and Cornel West are amongst those that preach President Obama’s seemingly lack of interest in the black community. It’s almost as if his naysayers want to have us to believe that he’s completely turned his back on us. But if that is true, the real issue arises in the question, “Is he turning his back [...]
*After 911, Christians and Americans alike turned their attention to Islam, blaming the religion for corruption a and immorality. But Evangelicals are saying it’s not so much Islam that is the threat, secularism is. The Christian Post reports that slightly over 70 percent of global evangelical leaders at the Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization – which [...]
*Several South Florida community organizations protested outside of a Margate mosque Tuesday evening. The protesters want the mosque shut down after its’ imam was charged with conspiracy to finance the Taliban. Izhar Khan, the imam of the Margate mosque, was arrested and charged in May, along with four other family members, including his father, Hafiz [...]
*Oklahoma state Rep. Sally Kern, a Republican, is on the hot seat for saying that minorities earn less than white people because they don’t work as hard and have less initiative. The controversial remarks were made in the wake of a measure seeking to ban affirmative action programs advancing in the state, according to the [...]
*The Rev. J. Edwin Bacon, rector of All Saints Church in Pasadena, had just returned from vacation when he heard about a Florida pastor who was threatening to burn copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book. “I was disgusted,” said Bacon, whose Episcopal church is known for its progressive stance on many issues, interfaith relations [...]
*Many Muslims are still fighting to be accepted in the United States, despite their efforts to “be” American. And in the midst of America’s memory of September 11, followers of the Islamic faith are questioning America’s patriotism. “We have nothing to apologize for, we have nothing to fear, we have nothing to be ashamed of, [...]
*The Florida pastor at the center of an international firestorm for threatening to burn the Koran reaffirmed that he would not go ahead with the event on Saturday. Radical evangelist Terry Jones first announced on Thursday he had scrapped the mass burning of the Muslim holy book on September 11 after a day of high-stakes [...]
*The Florida pastor at the center of an international firestorm for threatening to burn the Koran reaffirmed that he would not go ahead with the event on Saturday. For the details, go HERE. Earlier we reported … *Terry Jones, the radical Florida pastor who, on Thursday, cancelled his burning of Korans, now says the burning [...]
*On Christmas day last year there was an attempted plane bombing by a young Nigerian man. The media told us that it was, once again, a terrorist act on behalf of Islam and its relentless movement to bring the U.S. to its knees…right? Well, Imam Abdul Alim Musa of D.C. was interviewed on The Middle [...]
*The proposed mosque near ground zero drew hundreds of fever-pitch demonstrators Sunday, with opponents carrying signs associating Islam with blood, supporters shouting, “Say no to racist fear!” and American flags waving on both sides. The two leaders of the construction project, meanwhile, defended their plans, though one suggested that organizers might eventually be willing to [...]
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