The Times: One faced a Taliban bullet to defend a girl’s right to read. The other won’t even face down the American gun lobby At a talk last weekend by the artist Jonathan Yeo, I was struck by the title of his portrait of Malala Yousafzai: Girl Reading. In it, Malala […]
Yahoo.com: Washington (AFP) – The White House delivered an extraordinary public rebuke to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday, after he said US criticism of Israeli settlement building ran counter to “American values.” It was another turn for the worse in the tense relationship between President Barack Obama’s administration and […]
Russia Today: US Vice President Joe Biden has apologized to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after alleging that the leader allowed foreign fighters allied with the Islamic State to cross into Syria. Erdogan was outraged over the remark. READ MORE: Biden blames US allies in Middle East for rise of ISIS […]
Salon.com: The real terror threat Fox News conveniently ignores Fox News is increasingly fixating on the gruesome workplace beheading last week in Moore, Oklahoma by a recent Muslim convert, suspect Alton Nolen. Perhaps sensing a way to once again fan its patented flames of Islamophobia while simultaneously blaming President Obama for being indifferent to the threat of terrorism, […]
Guardian: we watch the fighters of the Islamic State (Isis) rampaging through the Middle East, tearing apart the modern nation-states of Syria and Iraq created by departing European colonialists, it may be difficult to believe we are living in the 21st century. The sight of throngs of terrified refugees and the savage […]
Guardian: Burqa and niqab-wearing women will now be confined in a segregated enclosure, should they wish to view parliamentary proceedings in Canberra. Normally an innocuous viewing area for school children, […]
Guardian: The prime minister has made it clear he would not oppose a parliamentary ban on the burqa, saying he found it “confronting” and, although people should be free to […]
Salon: Reza Aslan takes down Bill Maher’s “facile arguments” on Islam in just 5 minutes The scholar, famous for his takedown of Fox, recently appeared on CNN to pick apart […]
Salon: Reza Aslan takes down Bill Maher’s “facile arguments” on Islam in just 5 minutes The scholar, famous for his takedown of Fox, recently appeared on CNN to pick apart […]
Homoeconomicusnet.wordpress.com: The billing is “British Muslims Sign Historic Intra-Faith Unity Statement: Intra-Faith Unity Statement Aims to Provide Common Ground Between Muslims of All Traditions.” Tonight at an event, special guests […]
counterpunch.org: The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis) has been aided by the continuing failure of the US Government to investigate the role of Saudi Arabia in the 9/11 attacks and its support of jihadi movements such as al-Qaeda in the years since, says former […]
Russia Today: Financially stable British-born Muslims who take their security for granted are most at risk of radicalization by terror groups, according to new research. Socially isolated and depressed Muslims […]
ET: ISLAMABAD: A policeman shot two men in jail on Thursday, killing one accused of blasphemy and wounding another condemned to death on the same charge, lawyers and an activist said. Christian pastor Zafar Bhatti was killed and 70-year-old British man Muhammad Asghar, who has a history of mental illness, was […]
Guardian: Tony Abbott has been urged to speak out more strongly against Islamophobia in Australia following reports of mosques being defaced, women verbally abused on the street and death threats […]
Foreignaffairs.com: many European countries, including France and Germany, the number of anti-Semitic crimes committed this year already exceeds the total for 2013. It would be an exaggeration to say that […]
Foreignaffairs.com: many European countries, including France and Germany, the number of anti-Semitic crimes committed this year already exceeds the total for 2013. It would be an exaggeration to say that […]
dailynewsen.com: Britain is set to impose curbs on Muslim Brotherhood-linked organisations and block activists moving to London right after a report by a senior diplomat raised concerns more than the […]
Huff Post: This week Thein Sein, President of Burma, will be visiting The Hague, in the Netherlands. As a man with a lot of blood on his hands, you might be thinking this is long overdue. But instead of being indicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his involvement […]
Huff Post: This week Thein Sein, President of Burma, will be visiting The Hague, in the Netherlands. As a man with a lot of blood on his hands, you might be thinking this is long overdue. But instead of being indicted at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for his involvement […]
The NEWS: ISLAMABAD: In a strange move, the Station House Officer (SHO) of Police Station (Saddar) of Samandari in Faisalabad district has registered a blasphemy case against 55 Christians and three Muslims on the charges of desecration of a graveyard that have no visible signs of existence at all! The […]