by Rahul Karmakar, Hindustan Times. Surrounded by hatred and fear in violence-hit western Assam, Jamaluddin Sheikh, 43, a relief camp inmate in the Muslim-majority Dhubri district, entrusted his 19-year-old daughter’s life to a Hindu he met for the first time at the camp and took an instant liking to. “I […]
NBC Producer Aarne Heikkila recently traveled to Yiwu, China, a city renowned for its 70,000 wholesale vendors selling everything from plastic figurines to rubber bands, jewelry to exercise books. Recently […]
Credit: Belief CNN via Wasim Sroya By Reza Sayah, CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) – An 11-year-old girl is being accused of blasphemy in Pakistan. Her accusers says she burned pages from the Quran, Islam’s holy book. Now, she is being detained by authorities, and her family appears to be on […]
by George S. Hishmeh | Aug 23, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES It is a fact of life that in the campaign for presidential election in the US, held once every four years, foreign policy is not a contentious issue. This time around, however, the policies of Israel, a revered ally […]
Daily Telegraph: Judging by the rhetorical fusillades exchanged between Israel and Iran, the threat of war between the two adversaries becomes greater day by day. Meanwhile, the chances of formal […]
Express Tribune: Asma Jahangir. The incarceration of an 11-year-old on charges of blasphemy and threats to her life, the shaving of the eyebrows and the head of a tailor for being tardy […]
Credit: Jakarta Globe. A cleric takes out two candies; unwraps one of them and throws them both onto the floor. He asks: “If you have to choose, which candy will you pick? Of course, you’ll take the wrapped one because it’s the clean one. In Islam, we protect our women […]
Credit: Jakarta Globe. Sukabumi, West Java. Indonesia’s highest clerical body says more than 100 followers of a minority Islamic sect in Sukabumi have apologized for their “misguided” religious practices, following the alleged killing of a mainstream Muslim cleric and the arrest of the sect’s leader. The Indonesian Council of Ulema […]
Credit: Let Us Build Pakistan (LUBP) By: Zubair Khan For many years now Pakistan seems to be engulfed with ever increasing internal/external disturbances, turmoil and natural calamities. These internal/external disturbances, turmoil and natural calamities jolt the country either in the shape of terrorist attacks, sectarian based killings or in the […]
Source: NY Times. ISHWARDI, Bangladesh — The air thickened with tear gas as police and paramilitary officers jogged into the Ishwardi Export Processing Zone firing rubber bullets and swinging cane poles. Panicked factory workers tried to flee. A seamstress crumpled to the ground, knocked unconscious by a shot in […]
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Express Tribune: Interior Minister Rehman Malik, in an interview with Radio Pakistan, has said that the government is going to constitute an inter-faith council to create harmony in the country. […]
by Dana Al Emam | Aug 22, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — The son and students of Jordan’s late grand mufti Sheikh Noah Qudah have teamed up to fulfil what they say was the last wish of the lamented Islamic scholar: to see an end to poverty in Jordan. […]
ARAB NEWS Friday 24 August 2012 JEDDAH: An employer will be able to obtain a new work visa for every two expatriate workers he has sent on exit-only visas, according to the point system introduced by the Labor Ministry recently, an informed ministry source said. The source also pointed out […]
ARAB NEWS Friday 24 August 2012 JEDDAH: Construction is under way on the first high-speed passenger railway line between Makkah and Madinah and is expected to be complete by January 2014. Transport […]
The government of Indonesia is investigating whether a town in West Java has violated national law by introducing Islamic law. The mayor of Tasikmalaya has been called to Jakarta to explain the content of a regulation that declares that women should cover their heads and people should live in an […]
RT: India has moved to block journalists’ Twitter accounts and websites, threatening to shut down Twitter entirely if it does not block those inciting violence. The warning comes amid an outbreak of ethnic clashes in the north of the country. The government demanded that Twitter block 28 web pages with […]
Express Tribune: Markandey Katju. When I was a judge in the Allahabad High Court, a criminal appeal came before me in which some Muslim boys had been convicted by the trial court of gang-raping a young Dalit Hindu girl. In Uttar Pradesh (UP, which is the largest state in India […]
Source: Outlook India Hasrat Mohani was not just a maverick when it came to publicly championing the radical thinking of Tilak. He also wrote verses expressing deep love for Krishna, and often went to Mathura to celebrate Janmashtami. He was a true maverick. In 1908 he published an anonymous article […]
Credit: Asia Times: NEW DELHI – A rising incidence of violent face-offs between officers and soldiers in the Indian Army is becoming a worry for the establishment. The reasons are related to harsh working conditions, high risk to life due to the nature of the work, low pay, lack of […]