The Huffington Post: By Anu Joshi; Activist, blogger, waylaid Californian This Friday and Saturday, a group of loosely connected protesters plan to host anti-Muslim demonstrations in front of approximately […]
The Wire: The following is an excerpt from Gandhi’s prayer discourse of July 25, 1947, from the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Volume 88, as published online by the Gandhi Heritage Portal. Today is Gandhi Jayanti and The Wire is publishing it in the light of this week’s shocking incident […]
http://tellmamauk.org/: “Love for All, Hatred for None“, is the motto of the Ahmaddiya community globally. It is a community that is openly persecuted in Pakistan where the State structures are built to discriminate against them after the dictator Zia Ul Haque introduced stringent laws into the country as a way of […]
Washington Post: Carson, a neurosurgeon seeking the GOP presidential nomination, caused a stir when he declared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that he could not support a Muslim becoming president. In a follow-up interview with The Hill, he asserted that he “did not believe Sharia [law] is consistent with the […]
Rabat – While newspapers across the world have paid tribute to Aylan Kurdi, the Syrian toddler who became the symbol of the refugee crisis, Charlie Hebdo has featured cartoons of the […]
It happened 41 years ago today, September 7, 1974: Muslim unity. And then it disappeared. And despite the sectarian violence, fatwas of infidelity, and state sanctioned terrorism, the myth of Muslim unity pervades the Muslim “Ummah.” I call it a myth because in every spectrum where it truly matters, Muslim […]
heraldsun.com.au: A VICIOUS attack has rocked members of a Langwarrin Muslim community centre. Police are appealing for witnesses after a man entered the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Association centre on September […]
Source: Newsweek Pakistan AS PART OF COW PROTECTION PUSH, GUJARAT GOVERNMENT HAS ERECTED BILLBOARDS CLAIMING TO SHOW THE QURAN DISCOURAGES CONSUMPTION OF BEEF. By Punit Paranjpe—AFP A Muslim leader in India warned Wednesday of communal unrest after a state government claimed the Quran discourages eating beef, the latest contentious effort to […]
middleeasteye.net: Earlier this month, the European court of human rights (ECHR) issued a judgment in which it rejected a challenge to the controversial 2011 French law banning the wearing of […]
Rabwah.net: A two-member Supreme Court bench refused to grant bail on Wednesday to four men accused of attacking Ahmadi community homes in Gujranwala. In July, 2014, a mob had set fire to five houses of Ahmadis in People’s Colony after rumours of an alleged blasphemy incident. A woman and two […]
Religion News: NAYPYIDAW (Reuters) Myanmar’s president on Monday signed into law the last of four controversial bills championed by radical Buddhists but decried by rights groups as aimed at discriminating against the country’s Muslim minority. Myanmar, which will hold its first democratic national poll in more than two decades on […]
Dawn: For women, taking back the wheel has always been a herculean task. In neighbouring India, for instance, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the female labour force participation fell from 34 per cent in 1999 to 27 per cent in 2011 by seven percentage points, despite the economy […]
Tribune: Anti-Muslim poster displayed at UK eatery sparks controversy Customers of a local eatery in Middlesex, England were angered after seeing an anti-Muslim poster displayed on its notice board telling Muslims […]
The Hindu: Amid the perceived and possible dangers of the terror group like the Islamic State (IS) radicalising and recruiting Muslim youths, the Barelwi sect among Muslims has decided to include a chapter against terrorism in all madrassas functioning under its fold across the country. The Dargahe-Aala-Hazrat, the headquarters of […]
http://www.patheos.com/: As is usually the case in France, any time anything happens where Muslims could even remotely be involved, it becomes a media circus – any time is a good […]
August 5, 2015 Source: The Express Tribune AFP- LONDON: Anjem Choudary, one of Britain’s most high-profile Muslim preachers, and known globally for praising the men responsible for the September 11 attacks on […]
Huffington Post: Living in North America as a Muslim isn’t fun and games right now. In both the U.S. and Canada, Muslims face real scrutiny, fanned by politicians out to […]
Bridge.georgetown.edu/: Close your eyes. Imagine a Muslim woman. What image comes to mind? Likely, she’s wearing a veil of some sort. Over time, the veil has come to symbolize the […]
smh.com.au: Earlier this week we attended a federal government “consultation” over planned legislative changes that would remove Australian citizenship for dual citizens found guilty of terrorist activities. We attended despite our “engagement fatigue” since many local Muslims are urging no further engagement with the Abbott government on the issue of national […]
Muslim organisations in the UK have condemned a move by an anti-Sharia campaign group to host an exhibition featuring cartoons of Prophet Muhammad in London in September. Azad Ali, chair of the Muslim Safety Forum based in London, told Al Jazeera on Friday the proposed “Muhammad Cartoon Exhibit” by UK-based Sharia […]