By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST The terrorist organization ISI S has set a new low standard of barbarity and inhumanity. Their most recent act of terrorism […]
ET: While browsing through channels after iftar yesterday, I realised that my TV screen had been taken over by multiple Ramazan transmissions airing on different (read: every) channel. Although the ‘shows’ have been airing questionable content for some time now, this year they seemed to have taken it up a notch. Previously, such […]
Middle East online — NGO reports Islamic State has carried out its first sentence of death by stoning against woman in Tabaqa, accusing her of adultery. BEIRUT – Jihadists in the northern Syrian province of Raqa have accused a woman of adultery and stoned her to death, the Syrian Observatory […]
Middle East online — NGO reports Islamic State has carried out its first sentence of death by stoning against woman in Tabaqa, accusing her of adultery. BEIRUT – Jihadists in the northern Syrian province of Raqa have accused a woman of adultery and stoned her to death, the Syrian Observatory […]
Abuja, Nigeria (CNN) — Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani schoolgirl who survived an attack by the Taliban, on Monday appealed to Boko Haram militants in Nigeria to lay down their weapons and “stop misusing the name of Islam.” Malala is visiting Nigeria in support of an estimated 276 girls kidnapped by Boko […]
Daily Times: The PML-N’s rise to power has brought back, to some extent, the straitjacket religiosity of General Zia’s dark years in power. The ministry of religious affairs, in the beginning of this Ramzan, was pleased draw the attention of the public to the ‘Ehteram-e-Ramzan Ordinance 1981’ (the Respect of […]
The Guardian: On 3 March 1924, the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul was surrounded by Republican Turkish troops. Inside, the last Ottoman caliph, Abdülmecid II, was reading the essays of Montaigne. Late […]
The Guardian: Why would young British men go off to risk their lives fighting jihad in the Middle East, and perhaps then return home to commit atrocities here? A consensus […]
The billing is “British Muslims Sign Historic Intra-Faith Unity Statement: Intra-Faith Unity Statement Aims to Provide Common Ground Between Muslims of All Traditions.” Tonight at an event, special guests of […]
Foxnews.com: The Israeli military said early Wednesday that it had struck dozens of sites linked to the Islamic militant group Hamas on the second day of an offensive aimed at stopping rocket attacks aimed at key cities across Israel. The army said it attacked more than 160 sites in Gaza […]
Almost all Deobandi religious leaders and all Barelvi ulema were on the payroll of the empire. This is how they sustained a living and ample proof can be found in their own books Canadian activist and polemicist Tarek Fatah, responding to my article ‘Shorish Kashmiri, Azad and partition’ last week […]
The language you preach is a Language of hate, It will consume you in its flames of hate! And not harm those who carry the word of God in their hearts. You shoot us in cold blooded rage, For proclaiming our faith? In the name of the God Whose essence […]
Huff Post: Kashif N. Chaudhry — We have all heard of Sudan’s death penalty for the “crime” of leaving Islam. Saudi Arabia, Iran, Pakistan (since 2007), Yemen and Afghanistan have […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nm8smyh, which sent the original message has been suspended. The authenticity of the account, as belonging to an actual ISIS member has not been verified. A reported member of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which recently dubbed […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nm8smyh, which sent the original message has been suspended. The authenticity of the account, as belonging to an actual ISIS member has not been verified. A reported member of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which recently dubbed […]
September, 2013 Source: Birmingham Mail A Birmingham Islamic TV channel has been fined £85,000 after a controversial presenter said it was a duty for Muslims to murder anyone who insults the Prophet […]
September, 2013 Source: Birmingham Mail A Birmingham Islamic TV channel has been fined £85,000 after a controversial presenter said it was a duty for Muslims to murder anyone who insults the Prophet […]
Russia Today: As radical Islam spreads through the United Kingdom, US President Barack Obama has sent a special CIA unit to interrogate senior British security experts. The move is seen as a snub of Britain’s MI5 and MI6 intelligence agencies. Up to 450 radical Islamic men from Great Britain have flocked […]
HRW: (London) – Pakistan’s government should take all necessary measures to stop Sunni extremist groups in Balochistan province from committing further killings and other abuses against Hazara and other Shia Muslims, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 62-page report, “‘We are the Walking Dead’: Killings of Shia […]
Lutf blogs: As Muslims around the world start the month of Ramadan, ISIS, a group of Salafist militants have announced the re-establishment of Khilafah, the Islamic form of government as idealized by the orthodox Muslims. One Abu Bakr Baghdadi has been chosen as the Khalifa (Caliph) who is in the process […]