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Maryland couple prepared for Hajj pilgrimage, then died in extreme heat
Washington Post· 19 hours agoThe couple walked two to three miles a day in their neighborhood of Bowie, Md., to get ready for the...
Muslim millionaire gives major donation to Reform UK
BBC via AOL· 6 days agoAsked if he was talking about Muslims, he said: “We are." Zara Mohammed, secretary general of the Muslim Council...
The Ten Commandments are not schoolwork. Louisiana's new law should not stand
The Bergen Record via Yahoo News· 1 day agoYou may believe that impulse was conceived by God, or you may say that the impulse came...
Hajj heat deaths: Egyptian pilgrims 'totally abandoned'
BBC News· 5 days agoHundreds of people are thought to have died amid soaring temperatures at the Hajj pilgrimage in...
Youths charged over terror plot against Jews days after ‘anti-Semitic rape of 12-year-old girl’
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 3 days agoA teenager and a minor have been charged with planning a terrorist attack on Jewish targets in...
Brian Tashman, Right Wing Watch
The Raw Story· 2 days ago“Look, he was born Barry Soetero, somewhere along the line he changed his name,” Trump told Sean Hannity in 2011, despite the fact that, as Eric Kleefeld points out, Soetero ...
Hundreds died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say
McComb Enterprise-Journal· 6 days agoMuslim pilgrims use umbrellas to shield themselves from the sun as they arrive to cast stones at pillars in the symbolic stoning of the devil, the last rite of the annual ...
Christian Nationalism Marches On in Louisiana
New York Magazine· 5 days agoLouisiana’s Republican governor, Jeff Landry, has signed a bill into law that will require the state’s public schools to display a version of the Ten Commandments. “If you want to respect the ...
Jason C. Bivins, ReligionDispatches
The Raw Story· 2 days agoAt the center of this venerable right-wing fantasy (and it does provide the right with subversive pleasure) is the idea that without a “straight talker” to cut through the BS, the state will ...
Biafrans: A People in Diaspora Longing for a Home to Call Their Own - LA Weekly
LA Weekly· 4 days agoFor hundreds and even thousands of years, Africa has borne witness to huge moments in human history. Current scientific evidence points to Africa as the