(RNS) Rummana Hussain was one of those children whose Muslim parents envisioned her in a white coat with a stethoscope around her neck. Instead, she became a metro editor and reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times, where she covers criminal courts and remains the only Muslim member of the editorial staff. She knows “a couple” more…
The phrase “spiritual but not religious” has become widely used in recent years by some Americans who are trying to describe their religious identity. While Pew Research Center does not categorize survey respondents in such a way, our surveys do find that the U.S. public overall appears to be growing a bit less religious –…
29 January, 2016 In recent days the German press landscape has been rocked by two widely reported rumours pertaining to migration issues, both of which turned out to be false. The first set of allegations was centred on the 30-hour-long disappearance of a 13-year-old girl from the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district on the Eastern outskirts of Berlin…
29 January, 2016 The German anti-Islam and anti-immigration movement Pegida and like-minded groups from 14 European countries have signed what they referred to as the ‘Prague declaration’. Protesting against the perceived ‘conquest of Europe’ by Islam, the declaration announced a coordinated day of protests in European cities on February 6, declared the ‘Day of European…
Republican presidential hopeful Ben Carson is criticizing President Barack Obama for allowing representatives of a Muslim civic group to attend the State of the Union address, saying their actions are “not pro-American.” Democratic lawmakers have invited two members of the Council on American-Islamic Relations to attend Obama’s final State of the Union address Tuesday night….
