NEW YORK — Pope Francis embraced survivors of 9/11 in the footprints of the Twin Towers, then prayed for peace at an interfaith service beside the last column of steel salvaged from the fallen skyscrapers. Arriving straight from his speech to the United Nations on Friday (Sept. 25), Francis met with families from the 9/11…
The saga of the clock kid, now entering its second month, keeps on ticking. In September, Ahmed Mohamed, a 14-year-old freshman at Irving MacArthur High in Irving, Tex., was arrested for building a device thought to be a bomb until it turned out to be a clock. Ahmed is Muslim, and accused his school of anti-Muslim bigotry. And, most…
In a Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted Sept. 23-30, 75 percent of Republican voters said they would be less likely to vote for a candidate who is Muslim. When narrowed to just likely Republican primary voters, the total jumped to 84 percent. Carson made his original comments on Sept. 20, and although he sparked a wave of…
WASHINGTON — Republican Ben Carson has started a petition calling on the IRS to target the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy group. The retired neurosurgeon accused the Council on American-Islamic Relations on Thursday of violating its nonprofit tax status in a Facebook message. Carson said the organization “brazenly violated IRS rules” when it called last month…
The central character of Rushdie’s new novel, “Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights” is also a man who has been cursed and then gets blamed for it. Geronimo Manezes, a Mumbai-born gardener now living in New York, has begun to levitate. This isn’t the wish fulfillment of a flying dream; it threatens his livelihood…
