Source: Religious News Service (Reuters) Muslim Americans fear their religion will be demonized and Islamophobia will spread after a young Muslim couple was accused of carrying out one of the […]
independent.co.uk: Wearing a burka or niqab in public has been banned in the Swiss region of Ticino, with offenders facing a fine of up to £6,500. The region’s parliament approved the law on Monday, thereby banning full-face veils worn by women in many Muslim countries, in the wake of heightened terrorist alerts […]
Guardian: An anti-Islam group which staged an armed protest outside a Dallas Islamic centre has posted names and addresses of Muslims and “Muslim sympathisers” on its Facebook page, adding to growing tensions in north Texas following the Paris terror attacks. The group, which calls itself the Bureau of American Islamic […]
Source: Islamic News Daily Describing the acts and actions of Islamic State as against the basic tenets of Islam, over 1,050 Islamic scholars in India have issued a fatwa against […]
By Robert Fisk Ottawa Something has gone profoundly wrong with the country Winston Churchill once called ‘the linchpin of the English-speaking peoples,’ reports Robert Fisk Faithful ally of Britain in […]
The Huffington Post: We are at war with Islam. Or so many people would like the world to believe. Whether it’s the Islamic State or anti-Islam protestors across the U.S, […]
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 […]
Al Jazeera: Donning his NASA T-shirt, young Ahmed Mohamed walked into his ninth grade class Monday morning, proudly holding the clock he had meticulously assembled at home. The 14-year-old Muslim American student, with a zeal for assembling, disassembling and fixing radios, computers and go-karts, hoped to draw the praise of […]
New price for a good beef burger: Ten years in prison. This is precisely the reason why we support secularism in every country of the world ‘Why can’t you respect […]
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 […]
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 […]
Salon.com: Sharon Peters reached into a hot-pink cloth bag and pulled out an abaya, a full-length body garment for women, from Kuwait. As if she were modeling for a fashion show, the world geography teacher stuck her arms out sideways and held the garment against her to show how far […]
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 […]
DALLAS (Reuters) – Plans for a cemetery for Muslims on the outskirts of a small North Texas town have sparked a backlash among some local residents who said they fear it will bring radical Islam and terrorism to their doorsteps. The Islamic Association of Collin County purchased 34 acres to […]
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 […]
Indonesia’s guarantee of religious freedom looks hollow Aug 8th 2015 | JAKARTA | From the print edition image: http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/all/modules/custom/ec_bookmark/assets/timekeeper-btn.png http://platform.twitter.com/widgets/tweet_button.b4a367eaaf8727457b2c58a20f015188.en.html#_=1438887827427&count=horizontal&counturl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fnews%2Fasia%2F21660573-indonesias-guarantee-religious-freedom-looks-hollow-god-whose-side&dnt=true&id=twitter-widget-0&lang=en&original_referer=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fnews%2Fasia%2F21660573-indonesias-guarantee-religious-freedom-looks-hollow-god-whose-side&related=theeconomist&size=m&text=Religion%20in%20Indonesia%3A%20With%20God%20on%20whose%20side%3F&url=http%3A%2F%2Fecon.st%2F1IPVfQT&via=TheEconomist image: http://cdn.static-economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/290-width/images/print-edition/20150808_ASP004_0.jpg Ahmadis: always under threat LAST month, just days before Idul Fitri, marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan, worshippers at the An-Nur mosque in southern Jakarta, […]
The National Union of Teachers is accused of ‘spreading political propaganda’ in classrooms to children as young as three Telegraph: An “extremist agenda” is being taught to children […]
Salon.com: In his Nobel lecture on Dec. 11, 1950, British logician and philosopher Bertrand Russell said, “Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.” Noble motives, he added, deserve our inquiry, for they’re often but façades. The revival in recent months of public appraisals of […]
Journal-Neo.org: Late last year, Germany’s broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW) investigated what turned out to be hundreds of trucks a day carrying billions of dollars in supplies, flowing across the Turkish border into […]
