Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Published on Jan 30, 2017 https://www.patreon.com/moviebob1 Anyone can be a hero, and sometimes it’s more important than ever to say so – especially in ubiquitous pop-culture institutions like The Marvel Cinematic Universe. IN…
A Texas mosque was set on fire just hours after Trump signed an executive order restricting migration from Muslim-majority countries. The Islamic Center of Victoria was set on fire around 2 a.m. on Saturday, according to local reports. Victoria Fire Marshal Tom Legler told the Victoria Advocate he had no theories about the cause of the fire, but he…
On March 15, 2002, 15 Saudi girls burned to death inside their school in Mecca. They were not trapped by fallen debris, or unaccounted for by firefighters. The mutaween, Saudi Arabia’s religious police, would not allow the girls to leave their burning school because they were not covering their hair or wearing their abayas. The…
Swiss police are seen behind a police cordon outside a Muslim prayer hall, central Zurich, on December 19, 2016 (AFP Photo/MICHAEL BUHOLZER) More Zurich (AFP) – A man burst into a Muslim prayer hall in the Swiss city of Zurich on Monday and started shooting, injuring three men, according to police, who have launched a…
PARIS — After a month of intense national scandal and heightened international outrage, France’s highest administrative court, the Conseil d’État, on Friday overturned the burkini ban in a coastal area of the south of France. Imposed in the name of secularism, perhaps France’s most sacred ideal, the highly controversial burkini bans — currently affecting 25…
Mr. Valls, in an interview published Wednesday in La Provence, the daily newspaper in Marseille, called the burkini part of a “political project” to enslave women. Laurence Rossignol, a feminist and the Socialist minister for families, children and women’s rights, called the burkini “profoundly archaic” and “not just a new kind of bathing attire,” but…
The year 2000 was a good time to be an Arab-American Republican. For the first time in the community’s history, a presidential candidate had come courting. Then-Texas Governor George W. Bush was determined to woo Michigan’s Arab-American voters in the run-up to that November’s election, which meant targeting Dearborn, the vote-rich Detroit suburb where one-third…
Khizr and Ghazala Khan, whose son was killed while serving in Iraq, stood before the Democratic convention on Thursday, July 28 and blasted Donald Trump’s rhetoric on Muslims and immigrants. Here’s what happened next. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) By Ghazala Khan July 31 at 9:45 AM Ghazala Khan’s son, U.S. Army Capt. Humayun Khan, was…
A quick search online for tweets and videos directed at the @MuslimGirl handle on Twitter throws up some ugly results. One is a video entitled: “The Government Needs to Deport Or Kill Muslims Now.” Of the two comments posted beneath it, one reads: “F***in outstanding sir the only good muslim is a dead one man woman or child [sic].” The video…
We never know what will become of our ideas when we release them into the world. I learned this in a new way, when one of my tweets about Isis and Islam went viral on “Muslim Twitter”. The volume of response from Muslim men and women around the world (35,000 retweets and counting) isn’t what’s…