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Zia H Shah
He is a physician practicing in Upstate New York. He is the Chief Editor of the Muslim Times, which has more than 43,000 followers in Twitter. He is also Chair of Religion and Science for the Muslim Sunrise, the oldest Muslim publication in North America. He has authored more than 400 articles on Islam, Christianity, Secularism and Religion & Science. Follow in Twitter: @The_MuslimTimes
Islam’s humane view of blasphemy – Opinion, Christian Sc. Monitor
Source: Violent protests over the video that insults the prophet Muhammad highlight a fundamentalist view of blasphemy. But this interpretation relies on only a handful of sources and ignores Islamic authorities […]
Newsweek trolls again with MUSLIM RAGE
Source: Salon.com Author: Alex Pareene Look, we all know Tina Brown, editor of Newsweek, is simply trolling us, because trolling is the only way for a weekly newsmagazine to get any sort of attention anymore. (Time doesn’t troll us, and as a result no one ever talks about Time.) So, MUSLIM RAGE. […]
Hezbollah leader makes rare public appearance, stoking anger against U.S. for anti-Islam film
Source: National Post With significant protests in nearly a dozen countries over a amateurish anti-Islam film posted to YouTube, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah made a rare public appearance to warn the U.S. it faces further Muslim anger unless it suppresses the video that mocks the Prophet Mohammad. “The world […]
COMMENT : Inflammatory anti-Muslim film and the US Constitution
Daily Times: by Yasser Latif Hamdani The film falls squarely within the category of “fighting words” as defined by the United States Supreme Court The film Innocence of Muslims has to rank as the most terribly imbecilic and ridiculous attempt to malign the Holy Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) to date. It […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim US’s response to violence Fox News
Here’s the latest update on Middle East violence on Anti-Islam movie. Harris Zafar of the Ahmadiyya Muslim USA speaks to a Fox News host. Reiterates what I wrote a few hours ago.
Citing extremism, Russia seeks to ban ‘Innocence of Muslims’
Russian TV: The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office has warned internet providers against the online distribution of the film, which Muslims say is blasphemous. “The Prosecutor General’s Office will appeal to the courts for this film to be acknowledged as extremist in order to prevent its online distribution in Russia,” Office spokesperson […]
Hidden Causes of the Muslim Protests
Source: The Atlantic By ROBERT WRIGHT As the Muslim protests subside, more and more people have come to realize that what seems to have sparked them–one of the worst YouTube videos ever, which is saying something–isn’t what they were mainly about. But what were they about? Here theories differ, and some of the […]
Life is Precious and Sacred: Sarah Catt jailed for full-term abortion of baby
Source: BBC A woman who aborted her own baby in the final phase of her pregnancy has been jailed for eight years. Sarah Louise Catt, 35, of Sherburn-in-Elmet, North Yorkshire, took a drug when she was full term, 39 weeks pregnant, to cause an early delivery. She claimed the boy […]
India labels anti-Islam film ‘offensive material’
Source: The Daily News India on Sunday said that Google had blocked access in the country to an anti-Islam film which has triggered protests across the Muslim world as it condemned the “offensive” movie. “Google India has, in compliance with Indian law, blocked access to the offensive material,” foreign […]
Sami Moubayed: Reactions to the Anti-Muslim Film: It is Now Time To Grow Up
On June 23, the controversial American satirical film, Innocence of Muslims premiered to a private audience at the Vine Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Two clips were posted on YouTube on July 1. By September, the amateur low-budget film had been dubbed into Arabic and brought to the attention of Muslims […]
PM orders immediate shutdown of Youtube services
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Minsiter Raja Pervez Ashraf has ordered immediate shutdown of video-sharing website Youtube in the aftermath of protests against anti-Islam film “Innocence of Muslims,” which is still available on the website, DawnNews reported on Monday. In a directive issued to the Ministry of Information Technology, the PM stated […]
Turkish Airline flying Takfiri militants of Al-Qaeda from Pakistan to Syrian borders
Source: Let us Build Pakistan By acting as a willing accomplice in global Saudi Salafi Jihadist project, Turkey is digging its own grave. Turkey in 2012 is playing the same role against Assad regime in Syria as Pakistan played in 1980s against Communist regime in Afghanistan. Not unlike the so […]
An insult best left in obscurity
Source: Asia Times There is no doubt that the amateur film Innocence of Muslims is offensive and undeserving of attention, but nevertheless it has been plucked from obscurity and is fueling incredible violence. A good word of advice to the Muslim community is to think big and avoid the trappings […]
Obama rethinks the Arab Spring
Credit: Asia Times: By Victor Kotsev The recent attacks on American and European embassies and the riots throughout the Muslim world are bringing home what the summit of the Non-Aligned Movement in Tehran failed to get across: that much of the world strongly resents Western hegemony. Amid chants of “Listen, […]
Centre-left opposes ban on anti-Islam film
Credit: The Local Several German cabinet ministers condemned the Islamophobic film, with Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich saying that legal avenues would be explored to try and stop a screening planned by populist far-right party Pro Deutschland. Pro-Deutschland said they were planning to screen the film in a Berlin cinema in […]
Moulvi in Jannat (Mullah in Paradise)
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden
Nominating Karen Armstrong for Literature Nobel Prize
Karen Armstrong has been a prolific writer and almost all her works are for enlightening mankind and bringing them together. In my opinion, her Magnum opus is her biography of […]
Sheikh Nasrallah’s Selfish Motives Promote the Film, He is Trying to Condemn
Editor’s comments: I have always wondered that thousands of movies never reach a critical mass and die their own natural death, why misrepresentations against Islam become fairly well known? This […]
The woman who changed her brain
By Michael Schulder: (CNN) – Barbara Arrowsmith spent the first 26 years of her life unable to read a clock. She spent the first 26 years of her life having to read and reread sentences dozens of times before she had a clue what they meant. Barbara Arrowsmith had so many […]