Salon: Reza Aslan takes down Bill Maher’s “facile arguments” on Islam in just 5 minutes The scholar, famous for his takedown of Fox, recently appeared on CNN to pick apart […]
The Independent: The NFL is once again found itself a talking point for the wrong reasons after a Kansas City Chiefs player was penalised for praying after he scored a touchdown in Monday night’s 41-14 win over the New England Patriots. Chiefs’ safety Husain Abdullah was delighted to pick off […]
Guardian: The left seem to be very stupid, I suppose,” Mike Holt says. The Queensland-based former One Nation candidate is bemused when I ask him why he believes some progressives […]
Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]
Epigraph: Allah forbids you not, respecting those who have not fought against you on account of your religion, and who have not driven you forth from your homes, that you […]
Homoeconomicusnet.wordpress.com: 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 […]
firstlook.org: Some 120 Muslim religious scholars this week published an open letter refuting the Islamic State’s claim to be a religious political movement, joining a series of high-profile condemnations of the extremist group by Islamic religious and political leaders. The letter, signed by current and former grand muftis of Egypt, the former […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: A policeman shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old British man Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid, Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” It is no secret I’ve been critical of Muslim leadership for their deafening apathy and silence over the 125-year worldwide […]
Guardian: Tony Abbott has been urged to speak out more strongly against Islamophobia in Australia following reports of mosques being defaced, women verbally abused on the street and death threats […]
The Times of Israel: LONDON — British Jews need to become as comfortable listening to genuine criticism of Israel as they are at discussing rising levels of anti-Semitism, and not […]
Bill Maher clashed with Charlie Rose over Islam during an appearance on Rose’s Bloomberg Television program this week. Maher, the host of Real Time on HBO, scoffed at Rose’s numerous attempts to link Islam to Christianity and to try to disavow radical Muslims as representatives of the religion. Rose contended […]
Huff Post: JAKARTA — On her first visit to Washington, D.C. in late August, Darshini Kandasamy stopped by the Newseum, the expansive building in downtown Washington dedicated to the history of journalism in America, looking forward to a lesson on the freedom of the press in the United States. She […]
Dawn: NEW YORK: Since the beheadings of two American journalists by the Islamic State (IS), Muslims living in Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn have been threatened by extremist hate groups, New York’s media reported on Thursday. On Wednesday two advocates of Arab civil rights were attacked by a man who […]
AFP French Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in Paris on September 3, 2014, after a weekly cabinet meetingFrench Education minister Najat Vallaud-Belkacem leaves the Elysee Palace in […]
Source: The Star The so-called “Islamic State’s” brutal crimes make it a threat to moderate Islam, Mideast stability and global security. The Muslim world’s moral censure alone won’t shake the […]
Guardian: Two weeks ago, nine of us from the London Palestine Action networktravelled to the village of Shenstone in Staffordshire and occupied the roof of an Israeli-owned drone engine factory. We closed […]
By Zubair Khan During the current year,utilising the name of Islam, so called ISIS and BO KO Ha ram, hoisting the flags with writing, there is no God except Allah and Muhammad (saw) is His Messenger, committed extremely brutal atrocities against humanity and crossed all the limits recorded in recent […]
Daily Mail: Saudi Arabia has officially identified atheists as terrorists in sweeping new laws that threaten up to 20 years in prison for almost any criticism of the government or Islam. The regulations place secular citizens who commit thought crimes in the same category as violent terrorist groups such as […]
Telegraph: The president of the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country, Indonesia, has called the actions of Islamic State militants “embarrassing” to the religion and urged Islamic leaders to unite in tackling extremism. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said the scale of the slaughter wrought by the extremists in overrunning large swathes of […]