Source: dailyrecord.co.uk PARTICK Burgh Hall hosted 250 people from all backgrounds for the belated Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Glasgow New Year Dinner where speakers addressed the recent Charlie Hebdo and Pakistan school […]
Source: alislam.org/egazette 18th January 2015 PRESS RELEASE Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says Muslims should respond peacefully through prayers and praises comments made by Pope Francis on this […]
Source: Skynews: Lord Ahmad, who also signed the letter, also rejected the criticism. He told Sky News: “This is a positive initiative from the Government, it’s not seeking to target any particular community. “It’s reaching out across the board, across the country, to say we want to tackle this issue […]
Source: ilfordrecorder.co.uk An exhibition has been held to promote peace and eradicate any misconceptions of Islam. Mubashir Siddiqi, of Clayhall, helped set up the display at Wanstead Library, in Spratt Hall […]
Source: independent.co.uk Muslim-owned businesses also targeted as hate crimes increase. Twenty-six mosques around France have been subject to attack by firebombs, gunfire, pig heads, and grenades as Muslims are targeted with violence […]
Source: linkedin.com It is sad and extremely hurtful to learn that Charlie Hebdo has once again published a cartoon of Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) as a response to the attack on their […]
Source: france24.com The debate in France over how to refer to terrorists who kill others in the name of Islam is heating up after the country’s leading far-right figure took the government to task for shying away from the word “Islamist”. More….http://www.france24.com/en/20150119-france-government-afraid-using-word-islamist-marine-le-pen-oped-charlie-hebdo/
Source; sky.com David Cameron has rejected criticism by some Muslims of a letter sent to mosques in England urging them to do more to root out extremists and prevent young people being radicalised. The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) said it wanted Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to clarify the request – […]
Source: CNN (CNN) After the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo, which killed 12 people including the editor and four other cartoonists, and the murder of four Jews at a kosher supermarket […]
ZACK ADESINA , VIVEK CHAUDHARY Monday 19 January 2015 The mother of a young British jihadist who fought with Isis in Syria has spoken of her despair at being left without support since his return home – warning that Britain is at risk of Paris-style attacks because of the Government’s […]
The Federal Intelligence Service (FIS) is reviewing asylum applications as a measure to prevent potential terrorists from entering Switzerland, checking into applicants‘ backgrounds for signs of jihadist activities. “Asylum applications from people from certain countries are sent to the FIS for review,” Martin Reichlin, spokesperson for the Federal Migration Office, […]
BY ROBERT FISK, THE INDEPENDENT After listening to my take on the Middle East – and my usual rant about the internet – the pupils of St Brendan’s College in Killarney in Ireland have given me a most appropriate gift: a three-and-a-half-inch chunk of the telegraph cable that Isambard Kingdom […]
YASMIN ALIBHAI BROWN THE INDEPENDENT Sunday 18 January 2015 In the Eighties I wrote articles on ghastly yuppies, effervescing with expensive champagne and inflated egos. One of them poured his bubbly over my blouse when I tried to interview him. How they all laughed. In the Nineties I met incredibly […]
By Daniele Mariani JAN 13, 2015 – 16:50 In Europe, Islamist radicalism varies from country to country. Integration, foreign policy, ethnic origin and the absence of radical preachers may play a role in helping curb the phenomenon, as seen in Switzerland, explains terrorism expert Lorenzo Vidino. But none of these […]
Source: ET PARIS: Almost half of French oppose publication of cartoons depicting Prophet Mohammed (PBUH), according to a poll Sunday, as global debate deepened on the limits of free speech in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo killings. The Ifop poll found 42 percent believe Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) cartoons seen as […]
Source: Herald BERLIN – A weekly rally by a German group protesting what it calls “the Islamization of the West” was called off on Sunday because of a terrorist threat against one of its organizers, the group and authorities said. The group calling itself PEGIDA, or Patriotic Europeans against the […]
Source:Herald “There is frustration among Muslims themselves that they feel that they have to apologize for every kind of crazy act. We just feel sorry for those innocent people being killed anywhere, in France, in Ottawa. We condemn all those kind of actions against any innocent people,” he continued. “We […]
Telegrapgh: by Christopher Booker — Besuited world leaders at the Paris march last Sunday As the dust begins to settle on those recent horrendous events in Paris, a clearer sense of perspective is starting to creep in round the edges. The Pope suggests that those who are too provocative to […]
Charlie Hebdo did on Wednesday what it has always done best: provoke. The cover on its latest issue depicts a man supposed to represent the Prophet Muhammed holding up a sign which reads, “Je suis Charlie”. Above the image are the words ‘Tout est pardonné’, that is ‘All is forgiven.’ […]
Source: rt.com When ordinary Western people oppose Russia’s stand on various issues they are often unaware of the real situation because they think only of media stereotypes says the chair of the Upper House Committee for Foreign Affairs Konstantin Kosachev. “The key problem lies in the fact that our opponents […]