US Anti-Muslim Film ‘Designed To Enrage’
An extreme American film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed and calls Islam a “cancer” provokes violence across Muslim countries. BY Sam Kiley SKY NEWS If there was ever a propaganda […]
Romney election triumph would sink US reputation in Europe, poll finds
Europeans hold strongly negative views about GOP contender but Obama’s favourability poor in Pakistan and Middle East. The reputation of the US in Europe risks sinking back to Bush-era levels […]
9 / 11 : What was your first and second thought ?
I was working with a Swiss NGO in Kosovo on 9/11. I saw a ‘News Alert’ on my PC that a plane hit the World Trade Center in New York. Then I saw a second ‘News Alert’ that a second plane hit the second World Trade Center Tower. I decided […]
Muslims Bear No Collective Guilt for 9/11 and a List of Muslim Victims of the Terrorist Attack
Source: Loonwatch On this 9/11 let it be remembered that American Muslims do not bear collective guilt for the crime of 9/11, and let us remember those who died in the attacks. (h/t: Abdallah C.) List of Muslim Victims of 9/11 (via. Some Random Thoughts Blog) “American Muslims bear no collective […]
Fox News’ war on Muslims
Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly and Sean Hannity have stoked Islamophobia — and encouraged right-wing ignorance By Nathan Lean Excerpted from “The Islamophobia Industry: How the Right Manufactures Fear of Muslims” As is the case with any industry, advertising is paramount to the success of a product. One need not look […]
Religion is spreading, but is religious knowledge?
By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon God had a good convention: The Almighty’s name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the Democratic platform. And He was invoked no less than 12 times in the Republican platform, in case He is keeping score. But the real news is […]
God, Israel and monkeys in Charlotte
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon When God, Jerusalem, the Arab-Israeli conflict and American domestic politics come together, the result usually reconfirms established dynamics in three arenas: Americans are a religious folk, they know very little about the facts of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and their government is severely […]
Dark clouds of extremism and terrorism!
Source: By: LAIQ AHMED ATIF, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat Malta amjmalta@gmail.com The world is not at rest and much of it today is embroiled in wars, disorder and enmities. Some […]
The day that didn’t change a thing
Sopurce: Asia Times. Are Norwegians weird, or what? Seventy-seven of them get massacred by a killer who gets a prison term of only 21 years and they don’t take to the streets in protest, even when their president, without a drop of machismo, says: “The bomb and bullets were aimed […]
Islamic Poultry for Latino Tables (Yes, They Have Chilies, Too)
By ANA FACIO-KRAJCER The New York Times – Los Angeles Journal LOS ANGELES — Sebastian Flores walked out of Al Salam Pollería with a free bag of white-feathered chicken heads. […]
Dr Shakil Afridi claims ISI regards US as ‘worst enemy’
Credit: ET Afridi claims ISI supports Haqqani network. PHOTO: FILE PESHAWAR: Controversial Pakistani doctor and alleged CIA informant, Dr Shakil Afridi claimed in an interview to Fox News that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency regarded America as its “worst enemy” and that the incumbent government was cooperating with the US only to extract billions […]
Muslims at Catholic Colleges: Aliens From Outer Space Are Thriving on Earth
The other day, I stumbled across a piece on the increasing number of Muslim students at Catholic colleges in the United States. The New York Times article is the result of interviews with students and administrators at several American Catholic institutions. Also accompanying the article was the usual array of […]
MUSLIM WRITER TARIQ RAMADAN SPEAKS AT ANN ARBOR
Noted Muslim writer Tariq Ramadan to speak tonight in Ann Arbor Detroit Free Press Staff Writer FILED UNDER The writer who’s the grandson of the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood — the Islamic group now in power in Egypt — is speaking tonight in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan. […]
Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan says Islam, democracy compatible
Speaking to an overflow crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, noted Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan criticized extreme Islamists known as Salafis, saying that the Arab world needs to develop political systems that reject both theocracies and dictatorships. But he added that Arab countries should develop their societies […]
‘US had planned air raid to target Osama hideout’
Credit: TOI NEW YORK: The US was initially planning a massive air strike using B-2 Spirit bombers to level the Abbottabad hideout of Osama bin Laden but chose an assault by its elite commandos who killed the world’s most wanted terrorist a year ago. In his tell-all account, Matt Bissonnette, […]
Disillusioned by Obama, Muslim Voters Face Tough Choice
At a time when U.S. Muslims and mosques are increasingly under attack, some Muslim Americans say Obama has not taken a strong enough stance against Islamophobia. The Democrats’ inclusion last week of support for marriage equality and Jerusalem as the capital of Israel in their official party platform may have […]
David Ignatius: Religion booming around the world
God had a good convention: The Almighty’s name was mentioned (albeit at the last minute) in the Democratic platform. And he was invoked no less than 12 times in the Republican platform, in case he is keeping score. But the real news is that God is having a strong millennium, […]
Thousands visit Ahmadiyya Muslim convention in Alton
Photo Credit: ahmadnabeel12 Thousands of Ahmadiyya Muslims from around the world have been holding their 46th annual convention in Hampshire over the weekend. The event in Alton is Britain’s largest […]
Obama: “[America] will never be at war with Islam”
Video of President Obama’s weekly address where he makes the statement in title of the article.
Lua-based programming language helps kids create computer software
At the age of 12, Alex Foyt is already a veteran of creating online games, boasting 98 titles in six years, including a survival challenge that involves dodging carrots and chickens falling from the sky. The secret to Foyt’s game-making prowess: He learned coding with a programming language called Lua, […]