Archive for the 'Religion' Category
This is nuts.
The US’s highest ranking military officer has said it is not the US military’s position to promote any specific religion, after Al Jazeera revealed footage of troops apparently preparing to convert Afghans to their Christian faith.
“From the United States’ military’s perspective, it is not our position to ever push any specific kind of religion, period,” [...]
As a side note, Sr. Hadia was the first female president of MSA National and is a board member of CAIR National.
Last month, as I was watching the news coverage of President Obama’s visit to Turkey, I thought back to an awkward experience I had as an undergraduate student applying for a job at my [...]
Reporting from Cairo — Egyptians are cautiously rejoicing over the recent appointment of a veiled Egyptian American Muslim woman as an advisor to President Obama.
Dalia Mogahed, senior analyst and executive director of the Gallup Center for Muslim Studies, was appointed this month to Obama’s Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Arabs are closely watching for [...]
***UPDATE***
In response to this article, a graduate student from the Islamic University of Madinah (Saudi Arabia) sent the explanation below about the issue mentioned in the article below.
“Its important to note that this is not a new issue. T he scholars of the past addressed this under the tafseer of the verse “and so [...]
Army specialist Terry Holdbrooks had been a guard at Guantánamo for about six months the night he had his life-altering conversation with detainee 590, a Moroccan also known as “the General.” This was early 2004, about halfway through Holdbrooks’s stint at Guantánamo with the 463rd Military Police Company. Until then, he’d spent most of his [...]
