Dawn: ISLAMABAD: Members of opposition and treasury benches in the National Assembly on Monday said religious minorities are feeling insecure in the country due to the deteriorating law and order situation. Commenting in the National Assembly regarding the terrorist attacks on churches in Lahore, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) MNA Syed […]
thedeansreport.com/: In the summer before I started 8th grade, there was a conflict in the Middle East. Tension was rising as people in the Gaza Strip were trying to save themselves from Israeli rocket attacks. They were aimed at Hamas, a Palestinian organization that had been firing missiles at Israel. I […]
thedeansreport.com/: In the summer before I started 8th grade, there was a conflict in the Middle East. Tension was rising as people in the Gaza Strip were trying to save themselves from Israeli rocket attacks. They were aimed at Hamas, a Palestinian organization that had been firing missiles at Israel. I […]
NY Times: Somewhere between stepping off the school bus and climbing into the go-kart, Sandra Ibrahim, 14, took off her pink hijab. She was on a trip to an indoor amusement park in New Rochelle, N.Y., with her Islamic weekend school, surrounded by other Muslim children, parents and teachers. She […]
After escape from Pakistan, Christian family hides in BANGKOK: They were a middle-class family in Pakistan, living in a comfortable three-bedroom apartment with a modern kitchen and a PlayStation for the three kids. Fluent in English, the father ran his own moving company while the mother taught art. A death […]
WSJ: Once on edge of bankruptcy, satirical newspaper sold millions of copies after terror attack By Sam Schechner Sam Schechner The Wall Street Journal Feb. 24, 2015 12:05 p.m. ET PARIS—Less than two weeks after the terror attack that devastated their newsroom, Charlie Hebdo’s surviving staff members gathered in a […]
Washington (CNN)At this week’s summit on combating violent extremists, President Barack Obama hopes to concoct ways to battle a threat made newly relevant by attacks in Western Europe, Canada and Australia. But in planning and describing the event, starting Tuesday in Washington, the White House has consistently avoided naming Islamic […]
Daily Times: There are three crossroads in its pre-1971 history where Pakistan could have become the kind of inclusive, modern democratic state Pakistanis could be proud of. The first occasion was in 1958, had the general elections been allowed to take place under the 1956 Constitution. A pro-west elite feared […]
ICNA offers condolences in NC killings, calls for full investigation (The Muslim News team in San Francisco Bay Area shares the pain and concerns of the family members of these innocent Muslim students killed in North Carolina yesterday. Our deepest sympathies and prayers for them and the families). -—FOR IMMEDIATE […]
HRW: Some of the hundreds of people jailed and awaiting trial on charges of violating Pakistan’s dangerously ambiguous and discriminatory blasphemy law have reason to be cautiously optimistic. Punjab’s provincial judiciary has drawn up a shortlist of 50 cases of alleged blasphemy in which it found the accused have been […]
Since ISIS emerged on the scene last year, Muslims worldwide have been bombarded with the claim that this terrorist group represents an interpretation of Islam “as legitimate as any.”Therefore, the […]
Dawn: ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) bench hearing an appeal filed by Mumtaz Qadri – the murderer of former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer – asked his defence team whether […]
Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday remarked that no one had the right to “kill anyone and violate the law” as it heard convicted killer Mumtaz Qadri’s appeal against his death sentence. Qadri murdered former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and was sentenced to death by an […]
Times of India: AMRITSAR: Following US president Barack Obama’s advice to India for protecting religious freedom during his trip to India, the Pakistani brides living in Qadian, Ahmadiyya Muslim sect’s headquarters in India, has blamed Narendra Modi government of religious discrimination and not giving Indian citizenship to Pak brodes despite […]
As Homeland Grows Violent, Some Uighurs Seek Haven in Turkey By JEREMY PAGE And EMRE PEKER KAYSERI, Turkey—In hindsight, it was a soccer match that kindled Mehmet’s hatred of Chinese rule and set him on the path to exile. In 2002, Mehmet was at university in Xinjiang, the northwest corner […]
Telegraph: Richard Dawkins’ insanity has now become an English institution – like warm beer and rain. On Saturday morning, a tweet from his account asked why we don’t send lots […]
Telegraph: Fear of Islam and concern over the “Islamisation” of Europe is not a major motivation for those taking part in a series of protests that have gripped Germany in […]
Youtube: Published on Jan 19, 2015 Safwan Choudhry, Spokesperson of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada sat down with Carole MacNeil of CBC News to discuss the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo defaming Prophet Muhammad (sa) Watch:
Guardian: Former Tory chairwoman accuses government she served of undermining the fight against religious extremism Baroness Warsi says the British Council of Muslims is unrepresentative, but not extremist. Photograph: Paul […]
The Independent: Muslim pupils across Britain are suffering a backlash of bullying and abuse following the Charlie Hebdo massacre amid a broad rise in Islamophobia in schools which the Government […]