What’s next for the Muslims of Belgium?
Source: Tribune Tuesday’s attacks at the airport and a rail station in Brussels claimed 34 lives and left dozens injured. So far, six arrests have been confirmed as operation cleanup […]
Europe was once home to a wild ape unlike all others
Source: BBC About seven million years ago, human evolution was just getting started in east Africa. But thousands of kilometres to the north, another ape empire was in its death […]
LETTER: Ahmadi Muslims around the world condemn Belgium terrorist attacks
Source: Finger Lakes Times To the Editor: The tragic news of the Belgium incident has gripped the peace-loving citizens of the world. We, the Ahmadi Muslims all over the world, are at the forefront of condemning such incidents. We show this by our words, by actions and by our writings. All […]
The true Islamic response to the Brussels attacks
Source: RNS (RNS) Daesh (the preferred Arabic name for the group that calls itself the Islamic State) has attacked Turkey five times since October, leaving nearly 200 dead and hundreds […]
Muslim shopkeeper murdered in suspected ‘religiously prejudiced’ attack after posting on Facebook of love for Christians
Detectives arrest 32-year-old man after Pakistani-born Asad Shah, 40, repeatedly stabbed in savage attack Asad Shah (inset) was stabbed to death in Glasgow Photo: SWNS By Tom Morgan 7:23PM GMT 25 Mar 2016 A popular shopkeeper was stabbed to death in a “religiously prejudiced” attack hours after posting an Easter message […]
Pope Francis washes and kisses feet of Muslim, Hindu and Christian refugees
Pope Francis: ‘We have different cultures and religions, but we are brothers and we want to live in peace’ Hardeep Matharu @Hardeep_Matharu The Pontiff washed and kissed the feet of […]
87 million kids at risk of brain damage in conflict zones: UNICEF
Thu Mar 24, 2016 A child cries as Palestinians salvage items from their home after it was demolished by Israeli bulldozers south of Hebron (al-Khalil) on Feb. 2, 2016. (AFP photo) The UN children’s agency, UNICEF, says some 87 million children under the age of seven are growing up in conflict zones across […]
Clare Hollingworth: 104-year-old on being first UK correspondent to report on Germany’s invasion of Poland
When she called the British embassy in Warsaw, a diplomat refused to believe her story Robert Fisk @indyvoices Saturday 19 March 2016 14 comments When Suzanne and Helen opened the […]
Time for Arabs to get off the fence
EYAD ABU SHAKRA Published — Friday 25 March 2016 A few hours separated two events last week: The Arab League picked Ahmed Aboul-Gheit as new secretary-general and its foreign ministers labelled Hezbollah of Lebanon a terrorist organization. There is nothing untoward about Aboul-Gheit’s appointment as he is a veteran diplomat […]
Swiss firms look to profit from halal market
HALAL PRODUCTS Swiss firms look to profit from halal market By Abdelhafidh Abdeleli MAR 25, 2016 – 08:00 A Bern-based company operating for more than two decades has provided halal certificates to over 200 companies around the world (Keystone) Swiss and European food, pharmaceutical and cosmetic firms must tread carefully […]
Illegal migration to EU rises for routes both well-worn and less-traveled
BY PHILLIP CONNOR The number of illegal entries into Europe by migrants hit a high point last year, and as their numbers increased, a picture emerged of the land and sea routes many migrants are taking to get there. In 2015, more than 1.8 million people crossed the European Union’s […]
Moderates are losing the fight to save Islam from racists and extremists
Source: Quartz The alarming exploitation of the Brussels attacks for political purposes shows how urgent it is to take back the discourse around Islam and Muslims from racists and extremist populists like Donald Trump and Marine Le Pen. Instead of leaving the field wide open for the big-mouthed bigots and […]
IS in Europe: The race to the death
Source: BBC Tuesday’s devastating attacks in Brussels, in which more than 30 people died and scores were injured, are the latest phase of the war on Europe declared by the […]
Radovan Karadzic found guilty of genocide, sentenced to 40 years
Source: CNN (CNN)Radovan Karadzic, nicknamed the “Butcher of Bosnia,” was sentenced to 40 years in prison Thursday after being found guilty of genocide and other crimes against humanity over atrocities that Bosnian Serb forces committed during the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995. A special U.N. court in The Hague, […]
Karadzic guilty of Bosnia genocide, jailed for 40 years
Reuters International MAR 24, 2016 – 16:22 By Thomas Escritt and Toby Sterling THE HAGUE (Reuters) – Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic was sentenced to 40 years in jail by U.N judges who found him guilty of genocide for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre and of nine other war crimes […]
Daily life in the Piraeus refugee camp
MIGRATION CRISIS By Gaby Ochsenbein, Piraeus, Greece MAR 24, 2016 – 11:02 Kristina Häsler tries to improve the situation of refugees living in an improvised tent camp in the Greek port of Piraeus (swissinfo.ch) The Greek port of Piraeus is currently home to 4,000-5,000 refugees, who live in warehouses and […]
JIHADI COOL: BELGIUM’S NEW EXTREMISTS ARE AS SHALLOW AS THEY ARE DEADLY
BY KURT EICHENWALD ON 3/22/16 NEWSWEEK.COM Police control access to the central train station following the bomb attacks in Brussels on March 22.REUTERS Anyone surprised by the murderous attack in Brussels has not been paying attention. On a per capita basis, Belgium has been Europe’s hotbed of young Muslims who travel […]
Muslim Leader Condemns West’s Regime Change Policies, Supports Russia’s Approach to Islamic World
This sane voice sounded last Saturday from one of the western Europe’s largest mosques in London Taalay Ahmed Tue, Mar 22, 2016 Subtitles by Julia Rakhmetova Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the spiritual leader of millions of Muslims belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community made the remarks during a March 19 […]
Op-Ed: The Middle East is now Europe’s backyard
Source: BBC By Jonathan Marcus; Diplomatic correspondent We are accustomed to thinking about policy in binary terms – domestic politics on the one hand, foreign affairs on the other. But […]
Brussels attacks: Irish Muslim leaders offer condolences
Backlash and blame in the wake of terror attacks too often falls on the wrong people and this “perpetuates the narrative of the extremists”, a Muslim group in Ireland has said. The Irish Muslim Peace and Integration Council said the attacks in Brussels on Tuesday “once again reiterate that the […]