January 2013 Blog Posts (37)

A 69-year-old homeowner shot and killed a young man after police say the 22-year-old mistakenly pulled into his home's driveway because of a GPS error.

Phillip Walker Sailers of Lilburn, Georgia told police he thought Rodrigo Abad Diaz and his friends were home invaders when he started firing at their vehicle on Saturday night.

Sailors, a Vietnam veteran, is…

Tucked away in a quiet rural neighborhood in Somerset, N.J., is an old brownstone that houses the New Jersey

A growing community of Hispanic American immigrants, as well as Hispanics in their home country, are choosing to convert from their predominantly Christian religions to Islam. It's especially common for women

Chapter of the Islamic Center of North America’s WhyIslam Project.

Within its confines, in a…

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I just renewed my oath of office to serve as your president for four more years.

Invocation by Sister Myrlie Evers

Thank you for…

            Django is the most accurate depiction of slavery in modern history, but before I am raked over the coals, let

me explain. 

            Going into my Django experience I didn’t really know what to expect.  I mean, I read Spike Lee’s rant but paid no heed as is my usual practice with Spike.  I also noted that my social circle seemed to be split between those who were offended and those who…

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The death toll has risen to 61 following

fierce gunbattles between inmates and National Guard troops at a Venezuelan prison, a hospital director said Saturday. About 120 more people were wounded in one of the deadliest prison riots in the nation's history.

Penitentiary Service Minister Iris Varela said Saturday that officials had begun evacuating inmates from the Uribana prison in Barquisimeto and transferring them to other…

Maulana Syed Abul Hasan Ali Nadwi (Rahmatullahi Alayh)

Summary of a speech delivered in Urdu at  Markaz, Dewsbury in 1982.



Your warm reception and friendliness is a source of great happiness for me. If I do not respect your wishes and express my inner feelings, I would be most ungrateful. If I desire, I could shower you with praises, for Almighty Allah has bestowed me with an abundance of vocabulary, but I would not be fulfilling the…

If Palestinian leaders only knew how extraneous their endless rounds of “unity” talks have become, they might cease

their enthusiastic declarations to world media about yet another scheduled meeting or another. At this point, few Palestinians have hope that their “leadership” has their best…

Martin King’s last speech is our message today:

1. 99% of Americans stand for unalienable      rights as expressed on our Declaration of Independence, with equal      protection under just…

The French government has stated that:

“it would send 2,500 troops to support Malian government soldiers in the conflict against Islamist rebels. France has already deployed around 750 troops to Mali, and French carriers arrived in Bamako on Tuesday morning…..

We will continue the deployment of forces on the ground and in the air…..

We have one goal. To ensure that when we leave, when we end our intervention, Mali is safe, has legitimate…

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• Prevention of  knowledge: Knowledge is a  light which Allah throws into the heart and
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The irony of President Barack Obama is best captured in his comments on the death of Trayvon Martin, and the

Bill Sanderson

As a candidate, Barack Obama said we needed to reckon with race and with America’s original sin, slavery. But as our first black president, he has avoided mention of race almost entirely. In having to be “twice as good” and “half as black,” Obama reveals…

Iranian-American Marzieh Hashemi was born in New Orleans but moved to Iran a year ago (2008) and reports for Iran's Press

 TV. As one of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad supporters, Hashemi tells host Scott Simon that that much of the world has a distorted view of what has happened in Iran in the aftermath of the disputed election.

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While critics are obsessed with the controversial film Django Unchained, there is a movement taking place in reality

TLC's Best Funeral Ever

(The Root) -- It's official. Reality-television executives have lost their minds. The…