FBI Director James Comey said Thursday he is still weighing whether the killings of nine African-Americans at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, South Carolina, last…
Earlier this week, a man was decapitated at a gas factory in France, making this the second terrorist attack in six months. Now residents are worried that the nation isn’t doing enough to stop the frequent terror attacks. One Paris civilian revealed, “It feels that these attacks are now happening back to back. I am afraid […]
The rekindled relationship between the United States and Cuba has taken yet another step forward. On Tuesday, the White House announced that President Obama plans on moving Cuba off the government’s list of nations that support terrorism. The decision came after a meeting between President Obama and Raúl Castro, President of Cuba, that took place […]
According to a new study, Muslims will globally outnumber Christians by the end of the century. The report also shows that within the United States, the amount of individuals who don’t associate with a particular faith will increase. “Demographics are an underappreciated force that is shifting the contours of faith,” said Pew demographer Conrad Hackett, who […]
The Germanwings flight that crashed in the French Alps on Tuesday was caused by the plane’s co-pilot, The Daily Beast reports. Carsten Spohr, CEO of Lufthansa and the owner of Germanwings, released a statement after audio from the black box recordings was made public. Spohr says the actions of 28-year-old Andreas Lubitz have left him […]
A Nigerian mob allegedly beat a woman to her death and set her on fire after witnesses suspected she was affiliated with Boko Haram. It turns out that the woman had no association with terrorism and had a history of mental illness. Breitbart reports: The BBC reports that 33-year-old Thabita Haruna was stopped by vigilantes at a […]
A man police believe is the suspect in a bombing that damaged the side of a building housing the Colorado National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) branch last month has been arrested. Police have not filed official charges against Thaddeus Murphy, but investigators say the 44-year-old man may have been targeting a tax-filing business […]
On the heels of comments he made suggesting Christianity was used to justify Jim Crow laws, President Barack Obama is touching on religion again, this time saying the belief system is not responsible for terrorism. The president’s recent remarks, both on Christianity and Islamic extremists, are meant to divorce Islam from the terrorism those extremists carry out […]
Everything seemed to be calm and cool on Twitter this morning – that is until conservative troll and activist Dinesh D’Souza slammed President Barack Obama over a photo from his interview with BuzzFeed. And yes, racism was involved. The political pundit posted a photo of Obama with a selfie stick from the BuzzFeed shoot alongside the following […]
For the first time since they began their reign of terror, Boko Haram militants carried out an attack on Chad, officials said. Fighters reportedly crossed Lake Chad in motorboats and attacked a village before being pushed back by Chadian troops overnight. Several people died in the attack. Read about it here… [BBC] At a Thursday […]
The national Muslim community has been vocal about the vitriolic nature of a shooting that left three young Muslim students dead earlier this week, but police in Chapel Hill, NC are hesitant to label the execution a hate crime. The victims — 23-year-old Deah Shaddy Barakat, 21-year-old Yusor Mohammad, and 19-year-old Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha — were shot […]
UPDATE: 2/11/2015 11:05 A.M. Police have charged Craig Stephen Hicks with three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of North Carolina University students Deah Shaddy Barakat, Yusor Mohammad and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha. A preliminary investigation revealed that a long running parking dispute may have been the motive behind the shooting. — A shooting […]
