Author: Mario Alexis Portella

There are many misconceptions about equality in the Islamic religion, especially on the status between a man and a woman. It is, in fact, worse than the then-“separate but equal”...

While our American homeland since the George Floyd killing has had to deal with riots, looting and killings from right-wing domestic terrorists, such as the Boogaloo movement, as well as...

Last Wednesday local Nigerian news reported that Boko Haram insurgents killed more 75 elderly people in the town of Gwoza in Borno state (northeastern Nigeria). The Nigerian tragedy is one...

Back in 2018, the Clarion Project published an article “First-Hand Report: Why is the World Ignoring This Genocide?” It was based on my first-hand account after my visit to northern...

After President Donald Trump brokered the deal of the 21st century between Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE), the U.S. tried to convince Saudi Arabia that it would be...

Next month will mark nearly two decades since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on our American home front by Islamic jihadists—the U.S. government’s ‘official’ story, most of terrorist who...

Last week the Israeli Middle East Media Research Institute published an article entitled “Articles In Saudi Press Call To Amend Thousands Of Scribal Errors In The Quran, Reexamine Islamic Texts...

Last Thursday Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, speaking on behalf of President Donald Trump, mentioned that the U.S. is initiating the restoration of virtually all UN sanctions on Iran lifted...

It has been nearly two weeks since the explosions occurred at the port of the city of Beirut, the capital of Lebanon—the second explosion was extremely powerful, and caused at...

This Thursday most of the Islamic world was surprised when the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Israel agreed to establish full diplomatic relations—the deal was brokered by the Trump administration—Trump...

On July 25 the U.S. (and Spanish) soldiers withdrew from the Iraqi Basmaya base, south of the capital, and handed it over to their Iraqi counterparts. Just one day prior...

Many of us have come to know, no thanks to the mainstream media, of the Christian persecutions in the Islamic world—a topic that most leftwing and neoconservative politicians refused to...

While the Trump administration is subtly pulling U.S. troops out of Afghanistan, many, including myself, are concerned as to the would-be state of affairs in the Afghan region if and...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, Saudi King Salman al-Saud and President Donald Trump touching the glowing orb of wealth and knowledge in Riyadh, May 2017. (Photo: Rex/Shutterstock) In 2016, then-candidate...

American soldiers in a village about 90 miles northeast of Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2006. (Photo: Tyler Hicks/The New York Times) Donald Trump, referring to Afghanistan, tweeted in 2013: “We should...

Medics attend to Furja Saleh Mabkhout, 4, at a hospital in Sanaa to which she was rushed after she was injured in an air strike in the northern province of...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday that the Istanbul’s—traditionally know as Constantinople—sixth-century basilica church of Hagia Sophia (Holy Wisdom) that was built by the Emperor Justinian, which became a...

Prince Mohammad bin Salman and Xi Jinping. (Photo: Washington Post) The free world last week witnessed in sadness as Chinese Communist forces stormed into Hong Kong arresting human rights activists,...

Last Wednesday another Nigerian was killed by the Islamist group Boko Haram village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State. According to a villager: “We just received the news...

In the latest double-standard measure taken since the George Floyd killing on racial justice was that of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). On June 17, the member-states of...

The Trump administration has escalated discussions to end a decades-old practice of notifying Congress of major arms sales to foreign countries, arguing that lawmakers are preventing the United States from...

Ilyasah Shabazz, the daughter of the late Malcom X, stated on the pro-Islamic al-Jazeera news in a segment A message to Black Lives Matter protesters: Organise: “There are so many people...

The chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the United States House of Representatives, Rep. Eliot L. Engel, said on Monday that the U.S. State Department inspector general (IG) Steve...

This Thursday U.S. special envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad said that he participated in a “lengthy” meeting with Taliban leaders as the militant group and Afghan government concerns mount that...

In recent months the world has been focused on the coronavirus pandemic given that this has been the central theme reported by the mainstream media. But there is another “pandemic”...

A place of worship in Syracuse, New York, that had been a Roman Catholic church for over a century became a mosque almost six years ago—the Mosque of Jesus, Son...

Saudi Arabia announced it abolished flogging as a form of punishment. The country’s supreme court said on Saturday that the “human rights advances” are part of reforms pushed by King Salman...

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he has instructed the U.S. Navy to “shoot down and destroy” any Iranian gunboats harassing American ships, in the wake of a tense encounter in the...

Al-Jazeera—Qatari state-funded broadcaster in the capital city of Doha—reported this week that according to a tally combined by Tal’at, an independent political feminist movement, eleven Palestinian women have been killed as a result...

The Associated Press reported on Monday of dozens of police reports in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan of sexual harassment, rape and physical abuse by Islamic clerics teaching in madrassas (religious...

This past week marked the fifth anniversary of the start of the U.S.-backed Saudi military intervention in Yemen. Code-named Operation Decisive Storm, the Saudi-led coalition’s offensive operations has created the...

An interview with Father Mario Alexis Portella, author of a book that examines what Muslims believe and how Islam is portrayed in the West by Edward Pentin – National Catholic Reporter...