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Chris Selley: Why Canada’s media won’t show the Charlie Hebdo pictures
Those who hate the mainstream media for sport have had a fun week. Two men murdered 12 people in Paris, including most of the staff of a magazine, to avenge satirical depictions of the prophet Mohammed. And would the media dare print those depictions in solidarity, or simply to illustrate the news? Like fun […]
Halesowen Muslim group condemns French magazine slaughter
Source: halesowennews.co.uk THE massacre of 12 people at the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo last week has been condemned by Halesowen and Sandwell’s Ahmadiyya Muslim community. Its president Dr […]
Letters: ‘Love for all, hatred for none’
Maclean’s readers write in about the killings in Paris Source: macleans.ca As Maclean’s has sorted through the tragedy of the 17 lost lives in Paris, including the 12 killed in the […]
Family pays tribute to slain French Muslim policeman
Source: english.alarabiya.net Relatives of Ahmed Merabet, the policeman who was shot in cold blood as he tried to stop the Charlie Hebdo attackers from fleeing, paid a moving tribute Saturday to […]
EU Should Prosecute Preachers Endorsing Violence: UK Muslim Association
The UK Ahmadiyya Muslim Association representative calls on European governments to persecute those clerics who incite hatred and violence. Source: sputniknews.com MOSCOW, January 13 (Sputnik), Svetlana Alexandrova — European governments need to take […]
Islam teaches forgiveness
Source: thechronicleherald.ca Islam is once again all over the media due to the Paris attacks, where 12 people and two police officers were killed. Muslims worldwide are in the spotlight and their holy book, the Qur’an, and their Prophet, Muhammad, are being questioned in terms of their teachings. It’s important to […]
America’s Going to Lose the Oil Price War
By Bloomberg on 09:20 pm Jan 13, 2015 The financial debacle that has befallen Russia as the price of Brent crude dropped 50 percent in the last four months has […]
Paris attack: Middle East press condemns killings
Source: bbc.co.uk The overwhelming tone of reaction from Middle Eastern press is one of shock and categorical condemnation of the 7 January attack on the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo and the killing of 12 people. But within the overall rejection that dominated the papers’ front pages, a small […]
Slandering one is a crime, slandering millions is ‘free speech,’ go figure
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Free speech is like food, we need it badly. If there is too little of food, we […]
Muslims demonstrate in Paris: ‘I am not Charlie. But I am against killing’
Haaretz.com: PARIS – The flags are back at full mast, the snipers have descended from the roofs and the marchers have gone back to work. World leaders are heading home, […]
Canada’s Muslim Leader Calls For Curbs On Satirical Depiction Of Religious Leaders
Source:IBT A Canadian Imam based in Ottawa has denounced the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris that killed 12 people. At the same time, the Muslim leader said satirical cartoons lampooning religious leaders should be declared illegal. Imtiaz Ahmed, an imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, called for an […]
Hostile acts against mosques in France
Source: Arab News The incident was the latest in a string of hostile acts against mosques in France since three attacks by armed jihadists in and around Paris last week left 17 people dead. In other cases, buildings have been defaced with racist slogans, sprayed with gun shot, or otherwise […]
Rally in Peshawar celebrates Charlie Hebdo attackers
Source: ET PESHAWAR: While last week’s attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo sparked global outrage, dozens of people in Peshawar paid tribute on Tuesday to the brothers who carried out the murders. Though small in scale, the event was indicative of the anger that portrayals of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) […]
Laughing in the face of danger: the state of Satire in the Muslim world
Source: The Guardian.com Cartoons depicting Muhammad are unthinkable in Muslim countries. But there are plenty of homegrown satirists poking fun at reactionaries, autocrats and jihadis. Our writers in Egypt, Turkey, […]
Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands, BBC reporter tells daughter of Holocaust survivor
Tim Willcox, a BBC reporter, sparked anger during his coverage of a rally yesterday in Paris when he told the daughter of a Holocaust survivor that “Palestinians suffer hugely at Jewish hands as well,” Daily Mail reported. The BBC journalist has since faced several calls to resign after he made […]
United States free speech exceptions
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Exceptions to free speech in the United States are limitations on the First Amendment’s guarantee of free speech and expression as recognized by the United […]
Saudi Arabia condemns deadly Paris attack
Source: Gulfnews.com Dubai: Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of Islam, condemned Wednesday’s shooting attack on a French satirical magazine known for its send-ups of radical Islam. “The kingdom therefore strongly condemns and denounces this cowardly terrorist act that is rejected by true Islamic religion as well as the rest of the […]
A War Between Two Worlds
Geopolitical Weekly JANUARY 13, 2015 | 09:00 GMT Print Text Size Stratfor By George Friedman The murders of cartoonists who made fun of Islam and of Jews shopping for their Sabbath meals by Islamists in Paris last week have galvanized the world. A galvanized world is always dangerous. Galvanized people can […]
UN: Muslims ethnically cleansed in CAR
aljazeera.com: Christian militias in Central African Republic have carried out ethnic cleansing of the Muslim population during the country’s ongoing civil war, but there is no proof there was genocidal intent, a United Nations commission of inquiry has said. “Thousands of people died as a result of the conflict. Human […]