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RAMADAN ALERT: “Help 19-Year-Old Canadian Muslim Teenage Girl Find Liver Transplant”
From Toronto Global News (Canada) A 19-year-old Toronto teen who is in dire need of a liver transplant is reaching out to potential donors through social media after spending two-and-a-half years on a waiting list. When Fatima Baig was three … Continue reading
NEWS: “Congressman Peter King Considers White House Run for President”
From Politico By JAMES ARKIN | 7/18/13 4:13 PM EDT New York Republican Rep. Peter King is weighing a run for the White House, according to reports. “I’m going to certainly give it thought. I’m going to see where it … Continue reading
ABC NEWS: “Tech Giants Like Google Cashing in During Muslim Holy Month of Ramadan”
From ABC News by Molly Hunter As 1.6 billion Muslims kick off the holy month of Ramadan this week, they’re also spending more time on social media platforms than at any time else during the year. According to The Online Project, a Middle … Continue reading
VIDEO: “California Man Arrested After Going to Mosque & Threatening to Kill Everyone”
From ABC-10 (California) SAN DIEGO – A Clairemont man was in police custody Wednesday on suspicion of entering a mosque near his home in the midst of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan and threatening to kill the entire congregation. … Continue reading
COLUMN: “Hollywood Still Hasn’t Figured Out How to Depict Muslims”
From PolicyMic by Nick Recktenwald Hollywood is nothing if not reactionary. Of course, all storytelling, no matter the medium, tends to be a reaction to experiences, a way of transforming the personal into the broadly intelligible.Yet Hollywood stands out from literature, … Continue reading
NY TIMES: “Candidates for NYC Mayor Court Muslims During Ramadan Dinners”
From The New York Times By Mona El-Naggar Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker and one of the leading Democratic candidates for mayor, walked into a clubhouse in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, just as people had started to eat and … Continue reading
NBC NEWS: “Police Says Explosion at British mosque is ‘Terrorist Incident'”
From NBC News By Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC News LONDON – A suspected nail bomb explosion near a mosque in Britain is being treated as a “terrorist incident,” police said Friday, highlighting tensions in the wake of the slaying of … Continue reading
USA TODAY: “Muslims Celebrate Islam’s Holy Month of Ramadan”
From USA Today by Kim Hjelmgaard, USA TODAY4:04 a.m. EDT July 11, 2013 Islam’s holy month of Ramadan, which began this week, is celebrated by Muslims worldwide marked by fasting, abstaining from foods, sex and smoking from dawn to dusk. … Continue reading
NEWSPAPER: “Increasing Number of Non-Muslims Taking Part in Ramadan”
From Minneapolis Star-Tribune by Rose French Patrick Nervig relished a big bite of steaming yellow rice and spiced lamb — and crossed a religious divide. Tuesday marked the first time the lifelong Lutheran had attended an iftar, the meal ending the … Continue reading
MSNBC: “Guantanamo Bay Force-Feedings Will Continue into Ramadan”
From MSNBC by Meredith Clark The U.S. government said it will respect the religious traditions of the hunger strikers at the Guantanamo Bay prison by shifting force-feedings to nighttime hours during the holy month of Ramadan. A spokesman for the … Continue reading
