British Christianity dies while Islam thrives. Why?
Telegraph blogs-podcast: New analysis of the 2011 census makes horrible reading for the Churches – attendance down 15 per cent in a decade. Meanwhile, one in 10 young Britons is […]
A Prayerbook for Peace: Nurturing Understanding Between Abrahamic Faiths
Huff Post: John Philip Newell: I do not know how many Christians have read the Quran. And I do not know how many Muslims have read the Christian Scriptures. But […]
Deism: The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Epigraph: And He it is who created the heavens and the earth in accordance with the requirements of wisdom and the Truth; and the day He says, ‘Be!’, it will […]
The World’s Muslims’ Poll and Women Rights
Source: Pew Research Center A new survey report looks at attitudes among Muslims in 39 countries on a wide range of topics, from science to sharia, polygamy to popular culture. The survey finds that overwhelming percentages of Muslims in many countries want Islamic law to be the official law of their land, […]
Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) ISLAMABAD: Minorities to be unsafe if blasphemy law amended
Source: www.thenews.com.pk ISLAMABAD: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) has said that the existing blasphemy law should not be amended, saying that all the prophets are equally respectable. It said that the minorities would become unsafe if amendments were made in the blasphemy law. These views were expressed in a meeting […]
Dubai charity gives Dh9m to schools in Comoros
DUBAI // About 58,000 pupils in 309 primary schools in Comoros have benefited from a four-year programme funded by a UAE charity. Dubai Cares said its Dh9.4 million initiative was […]
Assad Says Syria Has Received Advanced Missiles From Russia
By ANNE BARNARD THE NEW YORK TIMES BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria said in a television interview to be broadcast on Thursday that Russia has delivered S-300 […]
SYRIA Middle East countries fighting proxy war in Syria
By sending help to Syria’s warring factions, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Qatar are struggling to gain influence in the Middle East. The conflict between Sunnis and Shiites has become a proxy war over strategic regional goals. At the moment, several conflicts are being fought simultaneously in Syria. The civil war […]
Muslims Who Combat Antisemitism Gather in Jerusalem
The Jewish Express: A small, but increasingly vocal number of Muslims are rejecting radical hate speech and combating antisemitism in the Muslim world. In the recent Global Forum for Combating […]
UK divided: Islam used as scapegoat in extremist attacks?
RT: Social rifts have been widening in the UK after the Woolwich murder and the discovery of an Oxford sex-grooming ring. In the midst of growing anti-Muslim protests, it has […]
How Islam Made the West “Cool”
Written by Khaled Diab: Journalist Huff Post: Those who fear Muslim influence should raise a glass to the Sultan of Style next time they freshen up, don the latest fashions or […]
SYRIAN OPPOSITION WON’T PARTICIPATE IN PEACE TALKS
by Barbara Surk AP BEIRUT (AP) — Syria’s main Western-backed opposition group says it will not participate in U.S.-Russian sponsored peace talks while the regime is carrying out massacres in Syria. Thursday’s announcement came at the end of weeklong opposition talks in Istanbul to try and forge a united view […]
Ahmadi Muslims do not seek U.S. government funds
sentinellandenterprise.com: We read with interest Tuesday’s editorial “‘U.S.-friendly’ Islam?” While we appreciate the newspaper’s efforts to highlight some of the repression that the Ahmadiyya Muslim community faces, we take exception to the baseless assertion about the Ahmadiyya Muslim community has pursued or is pursuing “CIA or state department” (or any […]
Investors cast doubt on Spain’s rosy economic pic
FORTUNE — A disastrous share offering in Madrid earlier this week portends continued economic trouble for Spain and, quite possibly, for the European Union. Shares of Bankia, the nationalized Spanish lender, fell by as much as 21% Tuesday as the bank issued 11.5 billion new shares in a bid to […]
Doctrine of armed jihad or doctrine of Saudi Wahhabi caliphate?
Source: LUBP While the world is being wrecked by terrorist acts of Wahhabi-Deobandi extremists right from Boston to Woolwich and Madrid to Kabul, a concerted effort is being made to hide the central role of the supremacist, totalitarian ideology that is being spread by Saudi Arabia. More:
Islamabad, the seat of the caliphate?
Source: LUBP The Majlis-e-Shoora will soon meet in Islamabad, the seat of the caliphate. Its first act will be to pass the twenty first amendment to the constitution, so that your brother is recognised as the Commander of the Faithful, the Caliph of Islam and Chief Zookeeper of Jati Umra. […]
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences
Epigraph: Blessed is He (Allah) in Whose hand is the kingdom, and He has power over all things; … Who has created seven heavens in harmony. No incongruity canst thou see […]
Pakistani Wahhabi Deobandi militants celebrating the Woolwich beheading
Source: LUBP Here is a translation of Wahhabi Deobandi Jihadists of Pakistan eulogizing the horrible beheading of a British soldier in Woolwich, London. More:
A warning shot for Turkey-Qatar axis
Source: Asia Times. By Alper Birdal and Yigit Gunay A bombing in the Turkish town of Reyhanli on May 11 killed 51 people but was largely ignored by Turkish media. Turkey President Recep Tayyip Erdogan blamed the Syrian government – with no evidence. Turkish hacker collective RedHack claims here that […]
UK pays price for MI5 courting terror
Source: Asia Times. By Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed The brutal murder of an off-duty British soldier in broad daylight in the southeast London district of Woolwich raises new questions about the British government’s national security strategy, at home and abroad. Officials have highlighted the danger of “self-radicalizing” cells inspired by Internet […]