HUFFINGTON POST: “Fighting Honor Killings in Pakistan with Fashion”
Tweet From Huffington Post by Betty Londergan Khalida Brohi is a sweet-faced young Pakistani woman with the giggle of a little girl and the heart of a warrior for justice. At the tender age of 24, she has seen more of life (and death) than any young woman should; she’s been shot at, bombed, stalked,...
RELIGION NEWS SERVICE: “Chicago is Ground Zero in U.S. Muslim Renaissance”
Tweet From Religion News Service by Monique Parsons CHICAGO (RNS) Religious affiliation may be on the wane in America, a recent Pew study asserts, but you wouldn’t know it walking into the storefront near the corner of West 63rd Street and South Fairfield Avenue. Inside a former bank in a neighborhood afflicted with gang violence,...
REUTERS: “Arab-American Groups Claim Racism in Coca-Cola’s Super Bowl Commercial”
Tweet By Sue Zeidler LOS ANGELES | Wed Jan 30, 2013 10:01pm EST (Reuters) – Arab-American groups have sharply criticized a Coca-Cola Super Bowl ad depicting an Arab walking through the desert with a camel, and one group said it would ask the beverage giant to change it before CBS airs the game on Sunday before an...
NEWS: “McDonald’s to Pay $700,000 to Muslim Groups Over Islamic Dietary Law Dispute”
Tweet From The Blaze DEARBORN, Mich. (TheBlaze/AP) — McDonald’s and one of its franchise owners agreed to pay $700,000 to members of the Muslim community to settle allegations a Detroit-area restaurant falsely advertised its food as being prepared according to Islamic dietary law. McDonald’s and Finley’s Management Co. agreed Friday to the tentative settlement, with...
REUTERS: “Kim Kardashian Brings Out Fans, Islamists & Police in Bahrain”
Tweet From Reuters MANAMA | Sat Dec 1, 2012 3:42pm EST (Reuters) – Television celebrity Kim Kardashian brought out screaming fans, angry Muslim hardliners and police throwing stun grenades on Saturday when she visited Bahrain to launch a milkshake franchise, witnesses said. About 100 Sunni Salafists demonstrated with banners outside The Walk Bahrain, an upmarket mall in...
NBC VIDEO: “Muslim Brothers Sacrifice Big NFL Football Paychecks for Spiritual Journey to Mecca”
Tweet From NBC ‘Rock Center’ with Brian Williams Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy By Brian Brown Rock Center Put simply, this is just another striving, improbable, poetic American Dream story: How a family, venerating work and education, traveled from the notorious South Central LA of “Boyz In The Hood”...
NEWS: “Academics Find 1,000-Year-Old Muslim Joke Book”
Tweet From Discovery News by Jennifer Viegas Tue Nov 27, 2012 10:27 AM ET An 11th-century book by a revered Baghdad Muslim scholar turns out to be a tongue-in-cheek guide for party crashers, according to the researcher who translated the book into English. The tome was originally authored by al-Khatib al-Baghdadi, a well known scholar of the Prophet Mohammed’s...
MAGAZINE: “Paris Hilton Opens New Purse Store in Mecca, Saudia Arabia”
Tweet From Foreign Policy Posted By Sulome Anderson Monday, November 19, 2012 – 2:42 PM Paris Hilton, darling of tabloid papers and the star of a notorious sex tape, has opened a new store in the most bizarre of locales: the Islamic holy city of Mecca. What could go wrong? “Loving my beautiful new store that just opened at...
NEWSPAPER: “Art Exhibit on Islamic Art Opens at Indianapolis Museum of Art”
Tweet From The Indianapolis Star Written by David Lindquist Broken and chipped bowls from the 11th century and a torn drawing of an animal from the same era greet visitors to the new exhibition of Islamic art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. The introductory fragments give way to more than 200 bold, pristine artifacts of...
