NY times: Can war be justified? Is there such a thing as morally proper conduct in war? With Veterans’ Day upon us and, with the Obama administration preparing to face another four years of geopolitical choices in unstable regions, The Stone is featuring recent work by Jeff McMahan, a philosopher […]
Dawn: UNITED NATIONS: Pakistan on Monday was elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council, an intergovernmental body within the UN system. Pakistan, which had the endorsement of the Asia […]
Express Tribune: Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti issued a religious edict prohibiting contact and cooperation with the foreign media seeking to “spread chaos and strife in the Muslim world”. Addressing a Friday sermon at a mosque in Riyadh, Sheikh Abdul Aziz Al-Asheikh said that people should not divulge their country’s secrets […]
Dawn: Nadeem Paracha: Today many Pakistanis are aware of Jinnah’s August 11, 1947, speech in which he clearly explains Pakistan to be a democratic Muslim majority country where religion has nothing to do with the business of the state. Well-known historians have all maintained that to Jinnah the Muslims of […]
Daily Times: By Adil Shahzeb: We cannot be teaching our children stories of the so-called jihad and martyrdom and then expect them to remain peaceful, law-abiding citizens of a tolerant society I remember going for the Friday prayers with my father at the age of 12, listening to the imam’s fiery […]
Islamic Law, Adoptions, and Kafalah by Faisal Kutty / November 8th, 2012 There hasn’t been a concerted push to open doors for Muslim orphans because the expectation would be that those efforts would fall flat… – Chuck Johnson, chief executive, National Council for Adoption Conventional wisdom — among both Muslims and non-Muslims — […]
Express Tribune: LOS ANGELES: The man behind the anti-Islam video blamed for sparking deadly protests in the Muslim world was jailed in the US for a year Wednesday for breaching the terms of his probation for a previous offense. Mark Basseley Youssef, 55, will serve the sentence in a US federal […]
Malaysia Ex-Perlis mufti backs Nurul Izzah, says ‘no compulsion in Islam’ Asri said he previously expressed a view similar to that of the Lembah Pantai lawmaker’s. — File pic KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 7 — There is no compulsion in Islam, popular Islamic scholar Datuk Mohd Asri Zainul Abidin has said in his […]
ABC News: A Serbian man has been detained after pictures posted on Facebook appeared to show him setting the Muslim holy book on fire using a lighter. Prosecutor for cybercrime […]
Dawn: by Zubieda Mustafa: RELIGIOUS extremism has come under discussion in numerous forums as incidents of violence and terrorism have increased in recent years reflecting negatively on what many claim to be Pakistan’s Islamic identity. This has left people confused because whatever is done is in the name of religion. Yet the […]
SOASCIS, IKIM To Hold Joint Seminar On Islamic Ummah Credit: The BorneoPost . ovember 4, 2012, Sunday BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN: The Sultan Omar Ali Saifuddien Centre for Islamic Studies (SOASCIS), UBD will be collaborating with the Institute of Islamic Understanding of Malaysia (IKIM) to hold a joint seminar on November 8, […]
New plans for Saudi Arabia: Bulldozing historic holy sites Express Tribune: The current controversy of the potential Saudi demolition of Riyad-al-Jannah and the graves of Islamic caliphs Hazrat Abu Bakr (RA) and Hazrat Omar […]
Credit: The Muslim Matters.Islamic Political Thought: Sacred and the Secular: by Sh. Abdullah Hasan A number of classical and contemporary scholars proposed divisions for the actions of the Prophet . Chief among them are […]
مسجد نبوی کی توسيع کے بہانے سعودی عرب کے بنیاد پرست حکمران طبقے نے اسلام کی تین قدیم ترین مساجد کو منہدم کرنے کا پروگرام بنایا ہے . اس سے پہلے بھی سعودی عرب اسلامی ثقافتی اور تاریخی مقامات کو منہدم کر چکا ہے جن میں اہم شخصیات کے مزار، […]
By Richard Leiby, Monday, October 29, 9:08 AM LAHORE, Pakistan — One cleric is a wanted terrorist who preaches that the United States is Pakistan’s worst enemy, determined to “wipe out every Muslim” with the […]
Witnesses: Libya consulate attack seemed planned, may have used anti-Islam … Fox News TRIPOLI, Libya – It began around nightfall on Sept. 11 with around 150 bearded gunmen, some wearing the Afghan-style tunics favored by Islamic militants, sealing off the streets leading to the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi. They set up roadblocks […]
by Urs Geiser, swissinfo.ch The Swiss media have improved their coverage of politically and socially relevant issues, but they have become more superficial over the past decade according to Zurich […]
Muslim group holds interfaith converstaion on anti-Islam film Columbus Dispatch (blog) The Columbus Chapter of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community recently held an interfaith meeting at its Nasir mosque in Groveport to discuss the Innocence of Muslims film clips that mocked the Islamicprophet Mohammed and sparked riots in Muslim countries … See all stories on this topic » Young Muslims host week long […]
Hajj 2012: Syrians Raise Rebel Flag During Pilgrimage Huffington Post MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Syrian pilgrims raised rebel flags as the haj reached its climax near Mecca on Thursday, despite a call from Saudi Arabia’s top cleric for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to be free from nationalist … See […]
Foreign Islamic militants worry Syrian rebels but also provide a powerful … Fox News ALEPPO, Syria – The presence of foreign Islamic militants battling Syria’s regime is raising concerns over the possible injection of al-Qaida’s influence into the country’s civil war. Syria’s rebels share some of those misgivings. But they also see in … See all […]