Interview with Mufti Ismail Menk – Talks about ISIS, Education, Radicalization, Arab countries, Laws in the West, Young Muslims, Common Values and more (Video)

 Mufti Ismail Menk gives his unique insights on a range of topics from ISIS to Islamophobia and the rise of Islam to his much talked about skydiving experience.

Gunshots, tear gas in Missouri town where police shot teen (VIDEO)

“Racism in this country is still far too prominent at the government and law enforcement levels. ‪#‎Ferguson‬ right now looks like a scene out of the 60s. Young African Americans are being gunned down unarmed and young Latinos deported unjustly. We lead the world in incarcerated citizens. What value system are we trying to project on the rest of the globe?” – Omar Suleiman

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Mufti Menk: How We FAIL As An Ummah (Video)

Documentary: Money in Minutes (Video)

Migrants send money home to support their families, but there is a dark side to cash transfers.

 Money transfers — or remittances sent home by migrant workers — is big business. Some $500 billion dollars circle the globe every year.

Money in Minutes looks at the business of money transfers in the context of global migration. Filmmakers follow migrant workers such as Brando Alvarenga, a construction worker in Miami who sends funds to his family in Honduras; Li Wang, a textile worker in Italy who sends money home to China; and Gauri Gurung, a cloth vendor from Nepal working in Dubai.

It Is a fiercely competitive business, and there are many companies providing the service to migrants sending money home.

But there is also a darker side, involving money laundering and smuggling rings. How do the authorities deal with this growing problem of misuse?
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EARTH’S PROTECTIVE BLANKET

Besides providing us with the life-giving oxygen, Earth’s atmosphere is our protective blanket. It is the buffer that burns up most meteors away. It is a screen from deadly cosmic radiation. Also, it is the reason why we can communicate via radio waves because it bounces the waves for long distances around the globe. The air that accomplishes all of this is composed of five major layers.