Anyone who has studied Islam will know very well that the faith places an extreme emphasis on the importance of being just. This emphasis on justice includes rulings pertaining to families, communities and nations as a whole. We’ve compiled a short list of seven direct and clear commands of justice taken from both the Quran and Sunnah for all to benefit. Do not favor anyone above the truth. O you who believe, be persistently standing firm in justice as witnesses for Allah, even if it be against yourselves or parents and relatives. Whether one is rich or poor… Quran…

Nigerian labor unions began a nationwide strike Thursday to protest stalled negotiations with the government over a new minimum wage in an action that involves some workers in Africa’s biggest oil industry. The Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, or Pengassan, said it was joining the action with immediate effect. “However, those on critical and essential services are required to remain on their duty posts,” the manager-level union’s secretary general, Lumumba Okugbawa, said in an emailed statement. The strike involves public and private sector labor coalitions grouped under the Nigeria Labour Congress, for blue-collar workers, and the…

As government leaders, environmental experts, and concerned citizens from around the world gathered last week in San Francisco at the Global Climate Action Summit, a message has emerged from progressive activists: Action on climate change is about more than just power plants or temperature goals. The climate movement has become a powerful political force, with tens of thousands of people from across America’s largest cities and smallest communities calling for an end to the unsustainable use of fossil fuels—but now the call includes plans that create jobs and address the possible disproportionate effects on marginal and at-risk communities. Progressive politicians are following their…

The unhinged cultural Marxist Left that now totally dominates nearly every university in America has been hard at work trying to stamp out the small remnant (1-2%? 5%?) of non-communist faculty in the humanities and social sciences.   Their latest strategy is to organize a mob of low-I.Q. students to scream and yell, call names, and sometimes set buildings on fire and commit other acts of violence directed at a single non-communist campus speaker or professor. Ever since I began my academic career of university teaching in 1979 I have observed the Leftist faculty on campus after campus corralling the lowest…

Ask a 3-year-old why she thinks it’s raining, and she might say “because the flowers are thirsty.”Her brother might also tell you that trees have leaves to provide shade for people and animals. These are instances of teleological thinking, the idea that things came into being and exist for a purpose. Teleological explanations for natural phenomena are rejected by scientists because these explanations appeal to intentions. But trees do not grow leaves and rain clouds do not drop water with an outcome in mind. It rains because of physics. And those physics would apply equally if there were no flowers or any other…