By David Ignatius The Daily Star, Lebanon In the year since Osama bin Laden’s death, it has been a comforting thought for Westerners to say that he failed. And that’s certainly true in terms of Al-Qaeda, whose scorched-earth jihad tactics alienated Muslims along with everyone else. But in terms of […]
by Taylor Luck, Jordan Times AMMAN — More than the country’s fourth government since the launch of the Arab Spring, observers say the Prime Ministry’s latest occupant may represent the […]
Source: AFP Author: Abdel Hamid Zebari ARBIL, Iraq — Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Massud Barzani, the president […]
The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Rev. Dr. Mensah Otabil, and the former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile […]
By P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR, ARAB NEWS STAFF Dr. Abdullah Omar Naseef, former deputy chairman of the Shoura Council, has supported the present system of appointing qualified members to the Saudi […]
Israel’s timing was predicable. With the world’s gaze focused on the horrors in Syria and the Obama administration increasingly diverted by November’s presidential election, it chose this week to declare “legal” three fortified West Bank settlements which had been originally been erected by fanatical Zionists in contravention of their country’s […]
Reuters | Apr 25,2012 | JORDAN TIMES TRIPOLI — Libya, preparing for elections in June, has banned parties based on religion, tribe or ethnicity, the government said on Wednesday, and […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon People often tell me that I sound very optimistic when I speak about the future of the Arab world. It is true […]
Muslims in the Netherlands face discrimination, particularly when it comes to education and the labour market, according to Amnesty International. In a new report released today, Amnesty highlights the proposed banning of the Islamic headscarf. The organisation says a general ban would go too far. Also a Dutch Catholic school’s […]
Jakarta Post, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has taken a different viewpoint from his superior regarding an attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Friday. Nasaruddin was quoted by Antara news agency as saying that the police should take the incident in the Singaparna district seriously, […]
The Jakarta Post Ahmadiyah followers in a number of places in West Java are on alert after a rumor circulated claiming that the same group that attacked an Ahmadiyah mosque in Singaparna, Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Friday would launch attacks on Ahmadi property in other areas in the province. The […]
Huff Post: Congress recently held a hearing titled, “End Racial Profiling in America.” The scope of the hearing was unique in so far as it was not only limited to the experiences of African Americans and Latinos but encompassed the American Muslim one, too. While African Americans and Latinos have […]
Lankaweb (Given below is the gist of the speech delivered by Dr. Iftikhar Ahmad Ayaz, O.B.E. at: Peace Symposium organized by Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Malta recently.) Dr. Ifthikhar Ahmad Ayaz, OBE 1.(Officer of the Excellent Order of the British Empire) 2. Consul General of Tuvalu Island in the United Kingdom 3. […]
Russian TV: Norway killer has defended his massacre of 77 people, insisting he would do it again. He called his bomb-and-shooting rampage the most “spectacular” attack by a nationalist militant […]
Source: scotsman.com RIGHT-wing fanatic Anders Breivik sees himself as a 21st- century crusader battling against Islam in Europe. A psychiatric assessment found him to be psychotic and suffering from paranoid […]
CNN: By Mitch Horowitz, Special to CNN: Imagine the following scenario: A U.S. president is discovered to be spending his spare time taking a razor to the New Testament, cutting up and […]
Reuters | Apr 12,2012 | JORDAN TIMES KUWAIT — Kuwaiti lawmakers voted in favour of a legal amendment on Thursday which could make insulting God and the Prophet Mohammad punishable by death, after a case of suspected blasphemy on Twitter caused an uproar in the Gulf Arab state. Members of […]
the guardian Democracy and Islam can flourish together, David Cameron will declare on Thursday as he uses a landmark speech in Indonesia to tell the Muslim world that it can reject a “dead-end choice” between extremism and dictatorship. In one of his most significant speeches on Islam, the prime minister will say that the world can […]
Pakistan continues to slide down on both domestic and international front. Domestically the fight between state institutions, the tensions between the predominant Punabi establishment and the smaller ethnically oriented provinces […]
Source: Reuters Authors: Sanjeev Miglani and Hamid Shalizi Afghanistan wants the United States to clearly spell out what sort of military presence it will leave behind once most of its combat troops leave by the end of 2014, a senior Afghan official said. It is also pressing Washington in talks […]