Charlie Hebdo did on Wednesday what it has always done best: provoke. The cover on its latest issue depicts a man supposed to represent the Prophet Muhammed holding up a sign which reads, “Je suis Charlie”. Above the image are the words ‘Tout est pardonné’, that is ‘All is forgiven.’ […]
Source: rt.com When ordinary Western people oppose Russia’s stand on various issues they are often unaware of the real situation because they think only of media stereotypes says the chair of the Upper House Committee for Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. “The key problem lies in the fact that our opponents […]
Protests against Charlie Hebdo’s front cover have seen thousands more take to the streets – with students in Somalia declaring ‘Je Suis Muslim – and I love my Prophet’. Students marched through Mogadishu on Saturday morning, three days after the commemorative edition of the satirical magazine went on sale. The […]
Source: bbc.co.uk Brazil says it is “outraged” by the execution of one its citizens in Indonesia for drug trafficking. Marco Archer Cardoso Moreira, 53, was arrested in 2003 after police at Jakarta airport found 13.4 kg of cocaine hidden in his hang glider. Brazil says he was the first Brazilian […]
thedailybeast.com: Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again… “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we […]
The Economist —- Women are scarce in some, but not all, academic disciplines. New work suggests the cause may be a special kind of prejudice—one that also applies to black people IT IS a long time since the groves of academe were paced only by men, but even now some […]
middleeasteye.net: Whenever I use the term “New Atheism”, I’m invariably asked, “What is that and what is old atheism?” So allow me to clarify. Wikipedia defines New Atheism as a “social and political movement” that advocates the view that religion should not be tolerated. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says […]
hrw.org: “The [French] Republic is freedom of expression,” said President Francois Hollande on January 7 in reaction to the horrific attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead. But is it really? A wave of cases opened by the French judiciary over the past several days […]
Telegraph: The Oscars have been accused of “appalling” racial bias after nominating an entirely white line-up of actors for this year’s awards. It was only the second time in more than a decade that no black actor or actress has featured among the 20 nominees in the four acting categories. […]
Huff Post: In my new book The Myth of the Muslim Tide, I chronicle the widespread misunderstanding of Muslim immigration to the West. As with Jews and Catholics before, I […]
Buzzfeed: by Imaan Sheikh — Mohammad Jibran Nasir, a lawyer and social activist from Karachi, has started a campaign against terrorism and terrorist sympathisers in Pakistan in the wake of the attack on Peshawar’s schoolchildren. A lot comes with the stand Nasir has taken. “The religious organisation Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamat […]
Source: Open Salon By Muhammad Zafrullah My first reaction to seeing a caricature of a crying Prophet Muhammad, saying “I am Charlie” was an unhappy one. The unhappiness was partly brought […]
Source: The Economist STILL they march, every Monday in Dresden, as they have done since October. Numbering about 18,000, they call themselves Pegida, or “patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, and they are against too many asylum-seekers and migrants. They worry most about Islam, surprisingly for Saxony, where […]
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk Hackers announced the beginning of World War Three – via the Twitter accounts of a major tabloid and news agency they had managed to take over. In a series of eerily-realistic tweets, The New York Post and United Press International (UPI) said an American aircraft carrier had been […]
Source: theguardian.com Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a key ministerial post in France, calls for a new stance on religion In the immediate aftermath of the terrible attacks that have shaken our country, the French came together last week in a rarely equalled demonstration of national unity. […]
Source: theguardian.com The large numbers of children in mainly Muslim areas of France who refused to observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris terror attacks shows that the country has “serious work to do to avoid a catastrophe”, warns Laurent Cantet, director of an award-winning film set […]
Source: independent.co.uk Mosques in London have been sent death threats, hate mail and drawings of the Prophet Mohamed in the wake of the Paris attacks. Tell Mama, which records Islamophobic hate crime in Britain, said it had received reports of incidents at the East London Mosque, in Tower Hamlets, and Finsbury […]
By Shahid Khan The latest front cover Prophet Muhammad cartoon on the satire magazine “Charlie Hebdo” has sparked new eruptions of violence throughout the Islamic world. The cartoon depicted the Prophet Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign as a reference to the solidarity slogan which went viral on social media after the […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Source: NY Times: For the second time in three terms, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. The last time around, the justices declined to take up the broad question. This time, there is every reason for them to follow the logic of their own […]
