•As part of a nationwide campaign to honor and remember the victims of 9/11, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Oshkosh is hosting a Muslims for Life Blood Drive. The Red Cross will be the benefit of blood donations during this drive, which will be Friday, Sept. 9, from 2 to 6 […]
Paris attacks underline importance of Olds religion conference: speaker Source: mountainviewgazette.ca By: Doug Collie The attacks in Paris by Muslim extremists underline the importance of a religious conference that takes place […]
Source: Huffington Post By Aman Ali; Storyteller, Performer and Reporter Fourteen years ago today, I almost beat the living snot out of a kid in my high school. It was the […]
Source: Ydr.com By Brett Sholtis; bsholtis@ydr.com @BrettSholtis on Twitter When she’s not busy working as a marketing and communications consultant, Rabiya Khan likes to take photos, kayak on Lake Redman and organize family parties. The 38-year-old York woman was born in London, went to high school in Lancaster and moved to […]
(CNN) An apparent bomb blast tore through a mosque in Kuwait’s capital during Friday prayers, killing 25 people and injuring more than 200 worshippers, state media reported. ISIS claimed responsibility […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — Juergen Todenhoefer’s journey was a tough one: dangerous, but also eye-opening. The author TRAVELED deep into ISIS territory — the area they now call their “caliphate” — visiting Raqqa and Deir Ezzor in Syria, as well as Mosul in Iraq. Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, was taken by ISIS […]
RT News: A former brewery boss and Tory peer has blamed the closure of “many” British pubs on the rise of non-drinking Muslims communities. Lord Hodgson also said cut-price alcohol in supermarkets was a problem for the industry. Lord Hodgson of Astley Abbots told the House of Lords he feared […]
The Truth Message – Part – 3.26: Islam & Jihad Let me begin with Bismi-llahi r-rahmani r-rahim [In The Name Of Allah, The Most Gracious, The Ever Merciful] The Islamic institution of Jihad is the least understood and the most talked about aspect of Islam in the world today. Unfortunately […]
Source: newsday.com The National September 11 Memorial Museum that President Barack Obama dedicated Thursday on the World Trade Center site succeeds brilliantly at an impossible task. It serves as a solemn […]
Editor’s note: David Rothkopf writes regularly for CNN.com. He is CEO and editor-at-large of the FP Group, publishers of Foreign Policy magazine, and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. (CNN) — […]
Thanks to Sacramento-based writer Raas Sidiqui a columnist for Pakisan Link (LA) for sending this news. ( KOYA). Honouring a hero: In New York, a street now bears Salman’s name Pakistani-American died while rescuing people from the Twin Towers. By Zarrar Khuhro Published: February 15, 2013 The name of Salman […]
NEWS & POLITICS AlterNet / By Alex Kane 85 COMMENTS Top 5 Islam-Bashing Republicans to Watch in 2013 While some prominent haters were booted out of office, there are still plenty of Islamophobes hanging around American politics. December 29, 2012 | Michele Bachmann (R-MN). Photo Credit: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons When Muslim-American organizations and […]
Source: Business Insider | Dec 11, 2012 10:22 AM ET | http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/12/11/extreme-anti-islam-posters-to-cover-new-york-subway-stations-next-week/ Anti-Islam posters with depictions of the World Trade Towers in flames will be plastered around 50 different New York MTA stations beginning December 17. The $10,000-plus campaign is part of an ongoing campaign by Pamela Geller, executive director […]
By Dan Holden | Published: December 11, 2012 Source: http://www.leftfootforward.org/2012/12/donald-trump-fox-news-islamophobia/ Fox News has re-launched one of its many anger-fuelled campaigns, this one being their outrage at the existence of the Park51 Muslim Community Center in Manhattan. Fox broadcast a ‘discussion piece’ on what the centre is used for, culminating in […]
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – An informant recruited by the New York Police Department to collect information on suspected Islamic militants has quit and denounced his police handlers, according to a law enforcement source familiar with the case. The informant, a 19-year-old American citizen of Bangladeshi descent, was recruited by the […]
Author: Qasim Rashid Source: Washington Post Many of age Americans remember Sept. 11, 2001—a day we justly cried out for freedom, free speech, and democracy. Fewer, however, remember Sept. 11, 1973 when America backed dictator Augusto Pinochet’s forces to overthrow and kill Chile’s democratically elected President Salvador Allende. […]
Source: Washington Post By Qasim Rashid Germano Riviera walks with the “Flag of Honor,” which displays the names of all of the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, across from […]