Guardian: A York mosque dealt with a potentially volatile situation after reports that it was going to be the focus of a demonstration organised by a far-right street protest movement – by […]
Editor’s note: Please note that this is taken from an Islamophobic website to illustrate thier approach and twist on these issues. FrontpageMAG.com: A recent decision by the United Nation’s (UN) Committee on the […]
ET: WASHINGTON: The United States on Monday denounced what it called a spike in anti-Islamic sentiment in Europe and Asia, pointing to restrictions and violence against Muslims including the faith’s minority sects. Releasing a wide-ranging annual report on religious freedom, Secretary of State John Kerry also voiced alarm at what […]
the electronic intifida: Peder Egenaes. (Berit Roald / AFP/Getty Images) Oslo Freedom Forum founder’s ties to Islamophobes who inspired mass killer Anders Breivik by Max Blumenthal, The Electronic Intifada, New York City 14 May […]
By Michael Young HUFFINGTON POST BEIRUT — It is a fact that the notion of a clash of civilisations, first popularised by the American academic Samuel Huntington, is more relevant than ever in the minds of many people. Especially when it concerns Muslim-Western relations, there is a view that Muslim […]
Die Welt: From Miriam Hollstein and Freia Peters (translated by Google- Original in German) Islam is threatening and does not fit here. Say, according to the Bertelsmann study, 50 percent of Germans. However, the concept of […]
Youtube: Published on Apr 26, 2013 Boston Bombings: Is it fair to give label to terrorists as Muslim, Chrisitian, Jewish, Buddist, Hindu, Sikh so on and so forth. Dr. Faheem Younis […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor’s Note, in response to PTI statement copied below: Well here it is finally. The cat is out of the bag and its looks ugly. Imran Khan, […]
Washington Times: Religious freedom is under attack in Pakistan and the situation next door in Afghanistan is not that much better, despite an improvement since the country was ruled by the Taliban, a U.S. government advisory commission said in a report released Tuesday. “Pakistan represents the worst situation in the world for religious freedom for countries not currently […]
Salon.com: Progressives loved seeing Rep. Keith Ellison smack down his GOP congressional colleague Peter King on “Meet the Press” Sunday, insisting that profiling Muslims in the wake of the Boston bombing is not only wrong but “ineffective law enforcement.” As Ellison warned: “Once you start saying, we’re going to dragnet or surveil […]
Huff Post: by Ani Zonneveld. Step aside Islamophobes, this is between me and my Muslim community. Let me help. Here’s a laundry list of all the miss-guided interpretations of Islam: Leaving Islam is an act of apostasy punishable by death; Sharia is a set of laws that brutally punish women, […]
electronicintifada: Amna SaleemThe American poet T.S. Eliot wrote that “April is the cruelest month.” The phrase springs to mind in April 2013, the month that a new director-general took up […]
Editor’s Note: An incident in the US in Boston allows Islamophobes to come out guns blazing to paint Islam as a terrorist promoting Religion. Thousands of Rohingya Muslims have been killed in one of the worst ethnic cleansing since the Bosnian Muslim Genocide, by the Buddist Monks but no one […]
religiondispatches: Now that the Boston bombers have been identified—one killed and the other brother captured—the next question is why? Why did they do it, and did religion play a role? As soon as it became clear that the Tsarnaev brothers were Muslim and that Tamerlan, the older of the two, had […]
Youtube: Russian TV: Despite the 9/11 event and more recent terrorist activities painting the wrong image of Islam, people continue to find appeal and peace in the message of Islam. Watch here:
The Atlantic: The suspected Boston marathon bombers, Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsaraev, are Muslim. Were their actions motivated by religion? And if it was, were they part of an organized radical Islamist group? We don’t know. But that doesn’t matter to a segment of anti-Islam bloggers who are latching onto the sparse biographical details as […]
The American Vision: Atheists Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris are often described as the “Unholy Trinity of Atheism.” When you add Daniel C. Dennett to the mix, the Unholy Trinity becomes the Four Horsemen of the New Atheism. Even in their atheism these atheists can’t escape religion. They […]
BBC: By Tom Bousfield and Catrin NyeBBC Asian Network The Bosnian Hardaga family helped shelter a family of Jews A new exhibition aims to celebrate the role Muslims played in […]
Huff Post: Vlad Chituc: The New York Post has been receiving serious and justifiable criticism for their reporting on the Boston Marathon. Citing police sources, the paper reported that 12 people had died in the attacks and that a “Saudi national” had been taken into custody. Of course, the death toll was thankfully a […]
Editor’s Note: This article is a part of 5 part series on “Understanding Jihad”, a very well researched comparative study in defense of Islam destroying the common islamophobic notions. I […]