Aljazeera: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for “massive immigration” of European Jews to Israel following the shooting attack outside a Copenhagen synagogue that killed a Danish Jew. Netanyahu said the government on Sunday will discuss a $46M plan to encourage Jewish immigration from France, Belgium and Ukraine. “This […]
ET: ‘Pakistan’s 9/11’, ‘Never again’, ‘united we stand’ and similar expressions of resolve and the severity of the situation post-APS, Peshawar were all natural, and perhaps justified in that moment of grief, and above all, horror. The All Parties Conference, the National Action Plan, the moving to tear tribute songs; […]
Huff Post: The rise of Islamist fundamentalism in Britain and worldwide, and attempts to impose elements of Sharia law in the UK and many other nations, has reinvigorated support for […]
europarl.europa.eu: The European Parliament, – having regard to its previous resolutions of 11 March 2014 on Saudi Arabia, its relations with the EU and its role in the Middle East and […]
HRW: Some of the hundreds of people jailed and awaiting trial on charges of violating Pakistan’s dangerously ambiguous and discriminatory blasphemy law have reason to be cautiously optimistic. Punjab’s provincial judiciary has drawn up a shortlist of 50 cases of alleged blasphemy in which it found the accused have been […]
Global Post: VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – A commission advising Pope Francis on how to root out sexual abuse of children by clergy in the Catholic Church is studying sanctions for bishops suspected of cover-ups or of failing to prevent abuse, members said on Saturday. “There have to be consequences,” Cardinal […]
ET: LAHORE: Additional District and Sessions Judge Mian Shehzad Raza declared four blasphemy suspects proclaimed offenders on Friday for not appearing in court. The suspects had earlier been granted after-arrest bail by Lahore High Court. The district and sessions court also issued non-bailable arrest warrants for the suspects and ordered action […]
Daily Times: ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Wednesday remarked that no one had the right to “kill anyone and violate the law” as it heard convicted killer Mumtaz Qadri’s appeal against his death sentence. Qadri murdered former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer and was sentenced to death by an […]
London (CNN) A French journalist’s ISIS captives cared so little about religion they did not even have a Quran, Didier François — who spent over 10 months as the group’s prisoner […]
New Republic: On a spring day in 1929, a young Muslim man by the name of Ilam Din burst into a bookstore in Lahore, in the British colony of India, […]
Times of India: AMRITSAR: Following US president Barack Obama’s advice to India for protecting religious freedom during his trip to India, the Pakistani brides living in Qadian, Ahmadiyya Muslim sect’s headquarters in India, has blamed Narendra Modi government of religious discrimination and not giving Indian citizenship to Pak brodes despite […]
Youtube: Published on Jan 19, 2015 Safwan Choudhry, Spokesperson of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama`at Canada sat down with Carole MacNeil of CBC News to discuss the latest cover of Charlie Hebdo defaming Prophet Muhammad (sa) Watch:
Vox.com: Saudi Arabia’s deceased King Abdullah, according to just about every obituary in major Western publications, was a reformer. The New York Times, Washington Post, BBC, and NPRall describe Abdullah as a ruler committed to reforming Saudi Arabia’s notoriously repressive practices. Sen. John McCain called Abdullah an advocate for peace; IMF head Christine Lagarde called […]
edition.cnn.com: Noam Chomsky is Institute Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His most recent book is “Masters of Mankind.” His web site iswww.chomsky.info. The views expressed in this commentary are solely his. (CNN)After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 […]
Guardian: The 13 year-old son of my oldest friend had his barmitzvah on Saturday, and a grand, grey Manchester day it was. He recited his piece of the Bible so […]
thedailybeast.com: Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close What percentage of terror attacks in the United States and Europe are committed by Muslims? Guess. Nope. Guess again. And again… “Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.” How many times have you heard that one? Sure, we […]
middleeasteye.net: Whenever I use the term “New Atheism”, I’m invariably asked, “What is that and what is old atheism?” So allow me to clarify. Wikipedia defines New Atheism as a “social and political movement” that advocates the view that religion should not be tolerated. The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy says […]
hrw.org: “The [French] Republic is freedom of expression,” said President Francois Hollande on January 7 in reaction to the horrific attack against the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that left 12 people dead. But is it really? A wave of cases opened by the French judiciary over the past several days […]
NY Times: On the same day that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo immediately sold out an initial run of five million copies of its latest issue—which featured a cover image […]
Source: The Guardian By Ed Husain Today’s fanatics are blind to the compassion and care in the prophet’s life. Their ignorance must be tackled head on. The killing of journalists in […]