Choosing Love Instead of Fear
I'm not alone in my despair over what's happening in the world. The attacks in Paris last week have everyone riveted to their televisions and devices, and for as many questions as we have about the...
View ArticleParis: You Don’t Want to Read This
ByPeter Van Buren November 15, 2015 "Information Clearing House" - You don’t want to read this, and I take no pleasure in writing it, and no one really wants to hear it right now. But I believe it...
View ArticleAn Open Letter to Our Muslim Sisters
Dear Sisters, You see the sidelong glances at restaurants, on the subway, at the park. You hear the whispers. You feel the eyes of strangers on you, screaming in silent judgment. You see fear and you...
View ArticleSuspected Purse Snatcher Filmed Running Over, Killing Woman
In a sickening attack captured on video, a man appears to have repeatedly run over and killed a Georgia woman while attempting to steal her purse in a Walmart parking lot, police said. Covington police...
View ArticleFrench Come Together To Support Muslims After Attacks
As the Islamic State cheers and takes credit for one of the most deadly terrorist attacks in modern France, emotions are running high in the nation -- especially among its 5 million-strong Muslim...
View ArticleWorld Peace and Demi Moore in Jogya, Indonesia
Traveling is my greatest passion. I love exploring the world. I have been traveling my entire life and as a result, have friends of different socio-economic positions, backgrounds, and faiths in nearly...
View ArticleTed Cruz, the Syrian Muslim Hunter
Rubio and Jeb want to keep all Syrians out, but the compassionate Texas senator says no!—let the Christian ones in. But that’s not America. Maybe we can accept the good Syrian refugees who have been...
View ArticleA Modern Age Holy War?
The war in the Middle East is reminding us of the Holy Wars that began there in 1095, except with the crusading Christians unsuccessfully invading the Muslims for two centuries, with the prize being...
View Article'Not even scared': Except when there's a reason to be
"Meme pas peur" is a slogan that was often heard in the French capital after the Charlie Hebdo and Hypercacher shootings that claimed 17 lives just over 10 months ago. The phrase, originally a childish...
View ArticleCan Atheism Replace Religion?
In a widely read and commented upon blog post, Nigel Barber examines some of the evidence and trends related to atheism and the decline of religion. Barber closes his thought-provoking post with the...
View ArticleWhat the Game of Thrones Can Teach Us About the Syrian Refugee Crisis
If you're not familiar with the Game of Thrones here's the gist. There's a zombie apocalypse coming. The humans build a wall to keep the zombies out, but in doing so, block out an entirely different...
View ArticleWhy Must We Demonize All Muslim Immigrants?
Here we go again. Though we are a nation of immigrants, we periodically turn xenophobic. Sixty-three years ago, shortly after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led us to declare war on Japan, our...
View ArticleIf They Only Knew About Love
We were finishing up dinner and I had just laid out the kids' uniforms for the next day's sporting events when I checked in at work and saw the email from one of our editors alerting us that something...
View ArticleCrying for the Victims of the Paris Attacks
The recent terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by a bunch of conscienceless husks of humanity is a proof that radical Islamic fundamentalism has become the scourge of our age. Every week we are fed...
View ArticlePsycho in Paris
Will terror finally wake us up from our sleep? Remember "Macbeth has murdered sleep?" You may have been in a crowd of people who gathered around someone's iPhone when news of the Paris massacres...
View ArticleI Fear the Hate I Know l'll Encounter on the Streets of Europe
I suppose that, as the rules dictate, there's nothing better for me to do than begin by asking for forgiveness. In reality, I don't know what I'm apologizing for, or why. But because I was born in a...
View ArticleWhy I Won't #prayforparis
#Prayforparis is in fact the least appropriate hashtag I can think of to show united disgust for the shootings, explosions, hostage-taking, and over 135 innocent civilian deaths last Friday night, the...
View ArticleMuslim Asks Parisians to Embrace Him After Terror Attacks
Days after the Paris terror attacks, a French Muslim stood in a Paris square and asked his fellow Parisians to hug him. ......
View Article#NotInMyName: Muslims condemn attacks in Paris
(CNN)As the terrorist attacks erupted in Paris, people throughout the world mourned with France, and appalled Muslims turned to social media using the hashtag #NotInMyName. Shehnaz Khan, a journalist...
View ArticleISIS perversion of Islam is a mortal danger to Muslims
(CNN)It's not enough for Muslims to condemn terrorism, such as what occurred Friday in Paris, a brutal ISIS assault that left 129 dead and many more injured. We must build communities in which...
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