Many say UN needs to modernise
World leaders are booking their flights to New York for the annual UN General Assembly which begins this week. But does the UN, founded after the World War II, reflect […]
Don’t follow France’s burqa ban. It has curbed liberty and justice
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
Prabhjot Singh, Sikh Columbia Professor, Attacked In Possible Hate Crime
Source: The Huffington Post A Columbia University professor was assaulted on Saturday night in what police say is being investigated as a hate crime. According to a New York Police Department source, Dr. Prabhjot Singh, who is Sikh and wears a turban and a beard, was attacked at 8:15 p.m. […]
Veiled vote : Burka ban approved in Italian-speaking Switzerland
by Gerhard Lob with agencies, swissinfo.ch September 22, 2013 – 18:08 Ticino has become the first Swiss canton to approve a ban on face-covering headgear in public places, following a […]
Top 10 Religious Monuments of Israel
Wikimedia Contest: Mahmood Mosque, Kababir, Haifa, among top ten centres of religious monuments of 2012 …….. Israel is of course known primarily for its many ancient and religious monuments. It […]
TV One Debate: Controversy over fate of the Ahmadiyya
TV One Debate: Controversy over fate of the Ahmadiyya English Summary by : By: Aftab Lubis Normal 0 false false false EN-CA X-NONE X-NONE /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable […]
Official Statement On Dale Gavlak’s Involvement In Syria Exclusive
By Mint Press News Desk | September 21, 2013 By Mnar Muhawesh, executive director and editor at large for MintPress News Statement: Thank you for reaching out to me in regards to statements made by Dale Gavlak alleging MintPress for incorrectly attributing our exclusive report titled: “Syrians in Goutha claim […]
Baghdad, Zamboanga, Nairobi, and Peshawar: Where Ever Humanity Bleeds Mohammad’s (SAW) Islam is Wounded
Written for The Muslim Times by Abdul Alim Muslims belonging to Moro National Liberation Front staged a bloody attack last week in the southern city of Zamboanga in the Philippines that has left over hundred dead and more than two hundred thousand innocent people affected and displaced. The struggle continued […]
Hazleton: Muhammad’s is one of those Rare Lives that are More Dramatic in Reality Than Legend
Epigraph: “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” […]
Pakistan church blast ‘kills 25’ Death Toll Rising- Latest Reports Indicate over 50 dead- Live
BBC-ET: A bomb blast outside a church in the Pakistani city of Peshawar kills at least 25 people and injured more than 40, medics say. A bomb disposal officer said two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the church when people were coming out after Sunday Mass. The victims were […]
Official: Peru Bishop Removed Amid Abuse Charges
By FRANKLIN BRICENO Associated Press Associated Press Pope Francis has removed a Roman Catholic bishop in Peru who an influential former prelate says is suspected of sexually abusing minors. Gabino […]
All systems go for safe Haj
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Sunday 22 September 2013 The Civil Defense Department has drawn out an emergency plan to ensure the security and safety of the nearly two […]
Muslim bodies to approach SC on marriage age limit
By Express News Service – KOZHIKODE Published: 22nd September 2013 08:13 AM A co-ordination committee of various Muslim religious bodies in the state, with the support of top leaders of […]
‘Sexual jihad’: Tunisian women go to Syria to ‘relieve’ holy warriors, return pregnant
Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to wage ‘sexual jihad’, performing intercourse with dozens of Islamist fighters and returning home pregnant, Tunisia’s Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou told MPs. The […]
Syria: The propaganda blitz
More than a decade after the war in Iraq, have global media outlets learnt to look beyond the spin? View video here: http://aje.me/1exlBbW This week on the Listening Post: Presidents, propaganda and channelling the media to get the message out: a look at the similarities and differences between Syria in […]
Those skimpy bikinis are the least of Indonesia’s woes
TOKYO — Indonesians are taking to the streets to demand the government heed their complaints. Are they livid about corruption? No. Fed up with poverty? Not really. Angry over political gridlock? Not so much. It’s those damn bikinis. In recent days, the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population has […]
Syria: What are we missing?
globalpost: by Jean MacKenzie – Washington’s Blog, a website that appears to take a highly critical view of the administration, insists that the Aug. 21 attack was a plot by the rebels with their Qatari and Saudi backers to get Washington to step in and do their fighting for them. […]
Why Did Terrorists Strike An Upscale Mall In Kenya?
businessinsider.com: Kenyan officials said Saturday they had tightened security across the country in the wake of a terrorist attack that has underscored the challenges Kenya faces as it tries to rein in the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab group next door in Somalia. The attack on Nairobi‘s upscale Westgate shopping mall killed at least 39 people and wounded about […]
Diesel Burqa Ad: Islamophobic Or Empowering?
Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey Posted: 09/21/2013 8:08 am EDT Huff Post: (RNS) Islamophobic or empowering? Those are among the reactions to a new Diesel jeans ad featuring a heavily tattooed, white woman wearing a redesigned, denim burqa. The slogan next to her: “I Am Not What I Appear To […]
Bathtub Unearthed In Jerusalem May Have Belonged To One Of Jesus’ Enemies
Huff Post; Have researchers uncovered the bathtub of one of Jesus’ persecutors? The finding is just among one of the discoveries uncovered by a team working at a site in the Mount Zion area of Jerusalem. Believed to have belonged to a wealthy Jewish aristocrat or even a priest, the mansion […]