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*There’s good news this morning as we hear the news of a child that had been abducted, was found and is safe and sound back home. Latifah Rashid, the mother of 5-year-old Nailla Robinson, had pleaded for the child’s safe return Monday as she was abducted from William C. Bryant School, in West Philadelphia. The [...]
*One of the many accusations of President Obama is that he is a Muslim. But why do people think this? What did they read? Do they feel it’s because of his name? Here’s a column on why some Christians think President Obama is a Muslim. Ever since the first anonymous email circulated claiming he was [...]
*For some folks reality just doesn’t matter. It’s now almost 4 years into President Obama’s presidency and some folks still want to believe he’s a Muslim, despite the fact that he has repeatedly calls himself a Christian. It’s all contained in a new Pew research report, according to the Huffington Post Three and a half [...]
*Ever since 9/11, some travelers have been disproportionately hassled at airport security. It seems that wearing flowing head wraps or turbans immediately puts you at the top of Transportation Security Administration’s most wanted list. Even fellow travelers get curious and nervous and hit their cell phones in a tizzy. But civil rights groups say enough [...]
*GOP presidential candidate Rick Santorum said Monday he doesn’t feel the need to correct voters who misidentify President Obama as a Muslim. At a forum, a woman critical of Obama told Santorum, “I never refer to Obama as President Obama because legally he is not. He constantly says that our constitution is passé, and he [...]
*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 [...]
*Fencing is not one of the sports that is heavily introduced in the black community or most communities for that matter. It is a European sport that is becoming more diverse with the persistence of one young, black, Muslim woman in Maplewood, New Jersey. (more…)
*There is still a lot of paranoia over Muslims in America since the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center Towers. Even with Osama bin Laden out of the way, there is fear that there will be a fierce retaliation. In one of Manhattan’s top hotels, the fear had grown so much that the management asked [...]
*A “war” of sorts is erupting in California and it has the potential of spreading to cities and states across the nation. The controversy centers on whether to circumcise or not to circumcise. Specifically, activists in San Francisco are pushing a ballot initiative which would make it a crime to circumcise (surgically remove the foreskin [...]
*They see it as their Christian duty. But others disagree, saying it extends the hand of fellowship where it was never intended to go. Two Protestant churches are taking some heat from critics for opening their church buildings to Muslims needing places to worship because their own facilities were either too small, or under construction. [...]
*When it came to writing the movie, “Mooz-Lum,” director/writer Qasim Basir took to heart the adage, ‘write what you know.’ The semi-autobiographical drama, currently in limited release, tells the story of a young, American Black Muslim, who, in the days leading up to 9/11, enters college and becomes conflicted about his identity. Emotionally he can’t [...]
*On “Meet the Press” Sunday morning (11-13-11) House Speaker John Boehner told host David Gregory that Americans have a right to think what they want to think, even when they are wrong about President Barack Obama’s citizenship and his religion. Boehner said he believes Obama was born in Hawaii and that the president is a [...]
*Afghanistan is in a state of turmoil that is an inversion of what we’re experiencing here in the U.S. Parents are grappling with their children’s growing gender issues here in the U.S., but in Afghanistan their economy and social culture demands that families bring more boys into the world…by any means necessary. According to CNN’s [...]
*A french woman called herself enforcing a new law (that hasn’t yet become official in France) by snatching a Muslim woman’s head dress (called a Burka) off her head in a store. The woman claims to have become so enraged by the woman’s dress that she felt compelled to snatch it off. She feels the Burka [...]
*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 [...]
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