HRW: Pakistan’s blasphemy law goes Bollywood Pakistan’s blasphemy law has claimed its first Bollywood victim. DECEMBER 15, 2014 Enlarge Members of the Pakistani Christian community chant slogans during demonstration to condemn the death of a Christian couple on November 6, 2014. © 2014 Reuters Enlarge Employees of Pakistan’s biggest television station, […]
Russia Today: Vienna’s Board of Education has ordered for a school owned by the Saudi government to stop operating by the end of the year, after it failed to provide […]
The Australian News: by Rowan Callick — Mirza Ramzan Sharif is the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association’s external affairs secretary. AUSTRALIA’S Islamic community “must ask with one voice if it is doing […]
Daily Times: Speaking to the Jamaat-e-Islami’s (JI’s) three-day convention in Lahore, the ameer (chief) of the party, Sirajul Haq, told his followers that UK agents in Pakistan were trying to spread the propaganda that Jinnah had envisaged Pakistan to be a secular state. He went on to claim Jinnah had […]
Source: The Telegraph Pakistan’s blasphemy laws are a menace to everyone in the country; even speaking out against them now constitutes blasphemy itself It’s hard to read about the blasphemy convictions handed […]
Dawn: JAKARTA: The chief editor of a leading English-language newspaper in Muslim-majority Indonesia has been named a suspect in a blasphemy case after the publication of a cartoon about the Islamic State group, police said Friday. The Jakarta Post’s Meidyatama Suryodiningrat could be jailed for up to five years if […]
Tikkun Daily Blog: Thomas Friedman wrote a recent article for the New York Times in which he extensively quoted a Muslim turned Christian Arab activist, Brother Rachid. According to Rachid, President Barack Obama should […]
NY Times: THE Islamic State has visibly attracted young Muslims from all over the world to its violent movement to build a caliphate in Iraq and Syria. But here’s what’s less visible — the online backlash against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, by young Muslims declaring […]
Daily Times: Junaid Jamshed does not fit that mould by any standard. Except that there is not one kind of religious fundamentalism. He just got caught in the crosshairs of two warring groups fighting for the crown Junaid Jamshed has been left very confused. On the one hand, being part […]
Pakistan can be allowed to become radicalised or it can be salvaged as a large Muslim majority, democratic nation state Starting with the Lahore Resolution, every major landmark constitutional document, including the Objectives Resolution, has promised religious freedom and equal rights for minorities in Pakistan. Despite this, the situation of […]
Daily Mail: A Lord Mayor walked out of an Islamic charity lunch after discovering that he would have to be segregated from his female consort. Labour councillor John Thomas, 70, […]
Dawn: “I assure you all that I am hurt but not out. I am shocked, but more determined. I felt injured, but stronger than ever,” said Indian television personality and actor Gauhar Khan, who was recently slapped by an audience member while hosting a television show, in a statement she […]
ET: LAHORE: Pakistan’s human rights record might be contentious on several levels but in March last year, at its Universal Periodic Review with the Human Rights Council, Pakistan was lauded for its “commitment” to defending human rights. It had accepted 126 proposals put forward by member countries, rejected seven and claimed […]
Indepedent: Council officials in Birmingham are investigating claims that a trust running the city’s first-ever Islamic school spent £1 million of public money funding a new school in Pakistan. The […]
chrisngwodo.blogspot.co.uk: A kingdom can endure with unbelief, but it cannot endure with injustice. […]
Time: The actress appeared in a scene that referenced Muhammad’s daughter A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has sentenced film and television star Veena Malik to 26 years in jail after she appeared in a scene that theGuardian describes as “loosely based on the marriage of the Prophet Muhammad’s daughter.” The sentence stemmed from a […]
Huff Post: For months now the British government have been trying to reduce the threats we face from the ‘terrorist state’ ISIS. Home secretary Theresa May has raised concerns over […]
Why I condemn the crime of the synagogue attack? By Mohammed Sharif Audeh National President of Ahmadiyya Muslim community in the Holy Land Allah has given Muslims the permission to […]
LAHORE: Former Ameer Jamaat-e-Islami Syed Munawar Hassan on Saturday called for waging Jihad and ‘Qital Fisabilullah’ (armed fighting for the sake of Allah) for the elimination of oppression from Pakistani society along with the democratic struggle, saying Jihad was the fundamental principle of Islam, which had nothing to do with […]
the Nation: ATTOCK – A professor of a private college here has been booked on the charges of blasphemy after an enquiry into the matter. During a press conference, Punjab College students alleged that Professor Hafiz Tahir Naeemi who joined this college a month ago used blasphemous words while teaching a […]