ROCKVILLE, Maryland – More than 400 parents have protested in Rockville, Maryland, for making children study human sexuality and family life at an early age. Previously, families had the option to opt out of these topics. The new curriculum covers sexuality and gender identity topics from preschool through eighth grade. According to the ...
Illinois State Assembly passed a bill last week requiring all state-funded facilities to offer halal and kosher meals. The state must now provide meals for all faiths in schools, prisons, and hospitals if requested. Senator Ram Villivalam, who championed the bill, said lawmakers recognized the cultural needs of the community. “We are recognizi...
WASHINGTON – A new report has exposed Google’s involvement in the forced labor of Muslim minorities in China’s Xinjiang region. The report was presented Wednesday at a U.S. Senate briefing organized by Justice for All. The briefing was organized on the issue of Islamophobia leading to the persecution of Muslim minorities. Pre...
WASHINGTON – The U.S. State Department has accused a rock band co-founder of using antisemitic insinuations. Roger Waters, the co-founder of Pink Floyd, recently organized a show in Berlin that has angered the State Department. The show featured re-enactments of scenes from a film based on Pink Floyd’s “The Wall,” an al...
NEW DELHI, India – Three Uyghur brothers who fled China have been languishing in an Indian prison for nearly a decade. Surprisingly even after serving their 18-month sentence for crossing the border without permission, they have still been in prison since 2013. They now fear imminent deportation to Xinjiang, where they will be tried agai...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan – Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has alleged that there is a conspiracy to keep his party out of the elections. He claimed on Twitter that the government has unleashed a reign of terror against his party’s workers. Khan, a leader of the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), the country’s largest poli...
KABUL, Afghanistan – The acting governor of an Afghan province was killed by a suicide bomber Tuesday. The bomber, who was driving a car filled with explosives, detonated it near the vehicle in which Nisar Ahmad Ahmadi, — the deputy governor of the northern province of Badakhshan, was sitting. The region’s police chief was ki...
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – Iran reopened its embassy in the Saudi capital Riyadh on Tuesday after seven years. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Alireza Bigdeli and Iran’s representative in Jeddah Hassan Zarnagar Abargoui were present on the occasion. Iran also reopened its consulate in the Saudi port city of Jeddah. The reopening of Ira...
RAMALLAH, Palestine – A two-year-old Palestinian toddler was buried Tuesday in the occupied West Bank. The child died of a gunshot wound to the head after the Israeli army fired shots near his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The child Mohammad Haitham Tamimi and his father were on their way to visit […]
SPRINGFIELD, Illinois – In a major breakthrough, scientists have succeeded in X-raying a single atom. The atom is the smallest unit of any element or material you deal with. According to scientists, the most advanced X-ray machines could only shine through an attogram, which is a cluster of 10,000 atoms. However, Argonne National Laborat...
