Huffington Post: In a legislative battle that has stretched on for nearly 15 years, the Philippines legislature has once again failed to move on a reproductive health bill that would ensure universal access to contraceptives and sexuality education in schools. Public support for the bill is solid, with nearly 70 […]
Dutch Parliament To Revoke Blasphemy Law A court ruled in 2011 that Dutch right-wing politician Geert Wilders had the right to criticize Islam. By Frud Bezhan November 29, 2012 Insulting God will no longer be a crime in the Netherlands after the Dutch parliament decided to revoke a decades-old blasphemy law […]
Dawn: I.A. RahmanWHILE a feeling of relief at escaping any big disaster on Muharram 9 and 10 is justified, the moment calls for sober reflection on the threat to citizens’ life and liberty and the means of countering it. It is said that at several places the terrorists’ designs to […]
NY Times: LOS ANGELES — Fuming for two months in a jail cell here, Nakoula Basseley Nakoula has had plenty of time to reconsider the wisdom of making “Innocence of Muslims,” his crude YouTube movie trailer depicting the Prophet Muhammad as a bloodthirsty, philandering thug. Bret Hartman/Reuters Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, who […]
businessinsider.com: Angela Merkel sought to ease the concerns of Germany’s Jews Sunday over a disputed ruling against circumcision as she became the first chancellor to address the Jewish community’s annual council meeting. […]
Daily Times: * Critics say The King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz International Centre for Interreligious and Intercultural Dialogue could be used by Riyadh to spread Wahhabism and divert attention from human […]
Taliban shooting victim Malala, 15, is set to make Britain her permanent home after having a bullet removed from her spine Teenager’s father offered job by consulate in Birmingham Everyone in the Yousufzai family is currently on a tourist visa She has been treated at UK hospital after a bullet […]
Express Tribune: LONDON: A 16-year-old girl is thought to have become the first person to speak from the House of Commons despatch box in the British parliament while wearing a hijab, The […]
Huffington Post: News broke Tuesday that a Pakistani high court dismissed blasphemy charges against Rimsha Masih, a young Christian girl, finding the accusation that she burned pages of the Quran to be “legally unsound.” The decision comes after months of religious tension and protests following the girl’s August arrest and detention […]
Dawn: Credit Rueters: ISLAMABAD: A new British-based Islamic group plans to meet in Islamabad to issue a religious decree against a Pakistani schoolgirl shot by the Pakistani Taliban, accusing her of supporting “occupying” US forces. The move against Malala Yousufzai, 15, is likely to provoke outrage. In the days following […]
Daily Telegraph: The 14-year-old was detained when a neighbor claimed she had burned pages of a religious book. She spent three weeks on remand in an adult prison. However, she was freed on bail after witnesses said she had been framed by a local Muslim prayer leader. The case, involving an illiterate […]
Daily Telegraph: A senior Israeli politician provoked controversy today when he warned that Palestinians firing rockets from Gaza would be punished with a “bigger holocaust” from Israeli armed forces. The use of the Hebrew word for holocaust, “shoah”, tends to be used exclusively in Israel to describe the Nazi persecution of Jews. […]
Daily Star: By Dominik Lemanski BRITISH-based Muslim extremists want the schoolgirl shot by the Taliban to face a possible death sentence. The radicals will head to the Pakistani capital of Islamabad […]
Pakteahouse: Akbar Zaidi and the critical re-evaluation of Jinnah By Yasser Latif Hamdani This morning writing in The News, Akbar Zaidi, a respected economist, called for a critical re-evaluation of Jinnah’s role in Pakistan’s history. Just to re-cap this was business as usual – Jinnah’s democratic credentials are questionable because of […]
Omani Developer Tilal Plans Debut Islamic Bond Sale for Mall By Faisal Mantheri and Sherine El Madany – Nov 14, 2012 12:20 AM PT Tilal Development Company SAOC plans to raise 53 million rials ($138 million) in the first quarter in Oman’s first corporate Islamic bond sale to fund a mall […]
The NEWS: Murtaza Shah: LONDON: Muslims in Britain have urged the government to take seriously the threats they face as anti-Muslim hatred is reaching worrying heights in Britain and across Europe. ENGAGE launched a unique exhibition and a month long campaign “Islamophobia Awareness Month”, highlighting the spread of Islamophobia […]
Washington Post: Buried in the mountain of demographic data preoccupying political pundits this week is one historic statistic that may have far-reaching consequences for religious freedom in America: Seventy-nine percent of white Protestant evangelicals voted for Mitt Romney, a lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints […]
Right Side News 12 November 2012 By Soeren Kern The statements of Mark Elchardus, author of a 426 page study, who linked Islam with anti-Semitism, earned him a lawsuit filed by […]
Nigeria: In Makkah, Nigerian Islamic Scholars Set Differences Aside BY NURUDDEEN M. ABDALLAH, 10 NOVEMBER 2012 Mecca — When renowned Nigerian Islamic scholars converged on the Mount of Arafat and Plains of Muna in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, they set aside their differences and prayed, ate and lived together. Can these […]
Global Post: LONDON, UK — These are strange times for the British far right. As painful austerity fans surges in nationalism that are lifting their European counterparts’ political fortunes, the […]