Immigrants typically bring their customs, beliefs, and habits with them. But when you’re in another country, you’re subject to its laws. Don’t bring drugs with you to Indonesia, or you might get to visit that country’s notorious “Execution Island” (grisly details [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Muslims’
November 15th, 2024 - 6:15 pm § in Law and Courts
Immigrant parents jailed for honor killing attempt in Washington
August 21st, 2022 - 7:43 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Charter school student written up for wearing “jihab”
An 8th grade girl attending a charter school in Malden, Massachusetts, was handed a “School Uniform Compliance Form” by a teacher for wearing a Muslim headscarf. The teacher at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School (photo below) misspelled “hijab” as “jihab,” NBC News rep[...]
August 14th, 2022 - 3:29 pm § in Politics
Should 2 drowning people cling to each other?
If Democrats escape political destruction in the 2022 midterms, they’ll owe it to awful GOP candidates, at least in part. Take Pennsylvania, where GOP voters nominated a New Jersey TV star to represent them in the Senate, and an avowed Christian nationalist and QAnon-hugger to run their state [...]
March 8th, 2019 - 5:53 pm § in America, Donald Trump
Border Patrol accused of trying to force Muslim detainee to eat pork
A Muslim man who entered the U.S. legally and married a U.S. citizen was detained by the Border Patrol without any apparent justification, although their motivation is clear from the fact they interrogated him about terrorist ties. Adnan Asif Parveen was born in Pakistan, grew up in Spain, and has l[...]
February 18th, 2019 - 1:56 am § in Israel/Palestine, Religion
Jews helped helped build the al Aqsa mosque on the Temple site and prayed there together with Muslims
Ziad Lalmi FACEBOOK In 610, the Sassanid Empire drove the Byzantine Empire out of the Middle East, giving the Jews control of Jerusalem for the first time in centuries. The Jews in Palestine were allowed to set up a vassal state under the Sassanid Empire called the Sassanid Jewish Commonwealth whic[...]
May 27th, 2017 - 9:18 am § in Misc.
White supremacist kills 2 on Portland train for protecting Muslim women
Photo: Would you want your daughter dating this guy? If so, your parenting skills may not be up to snuff. MURDER IN THE NAME OF THE WHITE RACE In Portland, Oregon, a known white supremacist with a prison record for violent crimes that include kidnapping and armed robbery and a fondness for giving Hi[...]
April 13th, 2017 - 9:02 am § in Misc.
Mysterious Death of an African American, female and Muslim Judge
Sheila Abdus-Salaam In the midst of the Trump Chaos, the media seem uninterested in the body of an African American woman found in New York’s Hudson River. Sheila Abdus-Salaam wA the United States’ first ever female Muslim judge. Her body was found Wednesday afternoon in the Hudson River a[...]
Happy New Year! عام جديد سعيد שנה טובה
Avi Ibrahim Balser Happy Islamic New Year 1438 hijriyah to all my dear Muslim Brothers and Sisters, and L’Shana Tova TiKhasayvu, 5777, to all my dear Jewish Brothers and Sisters.[...]
September 18th, 2016 - 6:37 pm § in Misc.
Iran News Agency Claim Boka Haram On the Run, Girls Will Be Rescued
TEHRAN (FNA)- The Nigerian military made tremendous progress against the Boko Haram terrorist group, the country’s chief of army staff said. Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai praised the collaboration with troops from neighboring Cameroon, Chad and Niger, Nigeria Sun reported. “It is interest[...]
The way things SHOULD be!
Rabbi Dr. Shmuly Yanklowitz FACEBOOK NBC News covered our News Years Eve celebration today at our home welcoming new Syrian Refugee families to America (Christian, Muslim & Jewish families together). May 2016 be a safe & healthy year for all those fleeing violence & oppression! Let̵[...]