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The Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday that religious organizations are largely exempt from anti-discrimination lawsin their hiring and firing decisions. For those who are thinking of getting into the God business, which religion offers its clergy the best pay? Judaism. The American Jewish newspaper Forward conducted a survey in 2010 …

The backlash over US Secretary of State John Kerry’s use of the word “apartheid” to describe what would become of Israel if there is no “two-state solution” continues. Leading anti-Palestinian group the Anti-Defamation League, for instance, welcomed Kerry’s craven apology:   “We welcome Secretary @JohnKerry’s clear affirmation that #Israel is not an #apartheid state” …

Quoting Winston Churchill can get you arrested, as one British candidate in the European elections found out after referring to the iconic wartime leader’s thoughts on Islam from his book ‘The River War’, published in 1899. The book chronicles young Churchill’s service in Sudan at the time of the Anglo-Egyptian …

  Government computers have been used to insert insults into Wikipedia entries about Muslims. An investigation by the BBC revealed the phrase “all Muslims are terrorists” had been added to an article on veils. The changes were made from a Whitehall IP address around October 2006. Stevie Benton from Wikimedia UK, …

The historic mosque of Sa’sa’a bin Suhan in Askar, south to Manama, has once again been attacked. The front doors and belongings of the mosque were broken down and vandalized. The repeated systematic attacks are carried out with unannounced official support. The mosque goes back to more than 1000 years. …

  Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi, yesterday, spoke to a gathering of teachers from an institute specializing in the different Islamic schools of thought. Highlighting the importance of their work, he stated: “Your objective is vast, rich and extensive and it deserves attention and if it is worked upon, it would result …

When Raphael Lemkin coined the term ‘genocide’ in 1944,  he would have been hoping against hope that it would not have to be used to describe any events in the future. Mankind had witnessed the horrors of Herero, Zulu, Assyrian, Kurd and the more documented Congolese and Armenian genocides, in …

RIYADH – The Saudi health ministry on Saturday announced five new deaths from the MERS coronavirus, taking the country’s death toll to 92. A statement released overnight added that 14 new cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome were detected in the kingdom, bringing the total to 313 since the virus …

Ayman al-Zawahiri, the leader of the core group of al-Qa’ida, may well chortle in disbelief if he reads a translation of Tony Blair’s latest speech on the Middle East delivered last week. If Blair’s thoughts are used as a guide to action, then the main beneficiaries will be al-Qa’ida-type jihadist …

BANGUI, Central African Republic: Heavily armed African and French peacekeepers escorted some of the last remaining Muslims out of Central African Republic’s volatile capital on Sunday, trucking more than 1,300 people who for months had been trapped in their neighborhood by violent Christian militants. Within minutes of the convoy’s departure, …