Source:telegraph.co.uk Date: 08.01.15 Muslim places of worship in two French towns were fired upon overnight, leaving no casualties, prosecutors said on Thursday. Three blank grenades were thrown at a mosque shortly after midnight in the city of Le Mans, west of Paris. A bullet hole was also found in a […]
Source: Stratfor Three suspected Islamist militants attacked the Paris office of the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo with high-powered assault rifles, killing 12 people. Among the dead are the editor and cartoonist Stephane Charbonnier, who was on a hit list appearing in al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula’s Inspire magazine for “insulting […]
Source: NY Times: “This is a dangerous moment for European societies,” said Peter Neumann, director of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization at King’s College London. “With increasing radicalization among supporters of jihadist organizations and the white working class increasingly feeling disenfranchised and uncoupled from elites, things are […]
Source: NY Times: Officials said late Wednesday that two of the suspects were brothers. They were identified as Said and Chérif Kouachi, 34 and 32. The third suspect is Hamyd Mourad, 18. News reports said the brothers, known to intelligence services, had been born in Paris, raising the prospect that […]
Informed Comment: by Joan Cole — The problem for a terrorist group like al-Qaeda is that its recruitment pool is Muslims, but most Muslims are not interested in terrorism. Most Muslims are not even interested in politics, much less political Islam. The horrific murder of the editor, cartoonists and other […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tooting Organizes a Litter Picking & Garden Cleaning program in Wandsworth Borough Council. To Start the new year Tooting Jamat organised Tahajud prayers at 5:45am followed by […]
Deflation has returned to Europe. Official data shows consumer prices across the eurozone fell by 0.2% in December, marking the first time prices have fallen in the region since the Great Recession. The figure was worse than most analysts were expecting and the weakest since September 2009. Eurozone inflation stood […]
Fatih Sultan Mehmed permitted the Serbs freedom to practice their religion. When Sultan Fatih’s armies reached the borders of Serbia, the Serbs had to decide whether they should put themselves under […]
| By AMEL EMRIC WWW.HUFFINGTONPOST.COM TRNOVI, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The long-bearded man burst into the mosque’s yard and pinned Selvedin Beganovic to the ground. Shouting “Now I will slaughter […]
A Syrian boy chops scrap wood outside of his tent at a refugee camp in Lebanon (Keystone) In an open letter to the authorities, 27 organisations have urged Switzerland to […]
Heather Saul, The Independent A father who says he risked his own life to rescue his son from militants in Syria has been returning to the region in a bid to help other families track down European youngsters. Former Belgian soldier Dimitri Bontinck claims he undertook a dangerous ten-month journey […]
Source: CNN Istanbul (CNN)A woman carried out a suicide bombing at a police station in Istanbul’s historic Sultanahmet district Tuesday evening, killing one police officer and injuring another, officials said. The attack happened in the section of Turkey’s largest city that is home to landmarks such as the Hagia Sophia […]
Reuters 14 hrs ago © REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed Jordan’s Prince Ali bin Al Hussein (C) arrives for the opening of the 17th Parliament’s second ordinary session in Amman November 2, 2014. Prince Ali Bin Al Hussein of Jordan said on Tuesday he would stand for the presidency of world football’s governing […]
Petition to reject xenophobia comes amid large protests in Dresden on Monday against immigration January 6, 2015 9:15AM ET A backlash against anti-Muslim protests in German cities saw 80 prominent national figures support a petition Tuesday calling for an end to what they see as a rising xenophobia in the […]
Choosing to wear a veil in Britian Reuters Young and old, many Muslim women living in Britain choose to wear a veil or headscarf as a sign of their faith. […]
A.B.* has severed ties with Scientology, recently leaving after many years. The former member, who knows the organisation inside out, now wants to help keep people from joining the “totalitarian sect”. “It’s ingenious how Scientology manipulates people. Even though many of them know something isn’t right, they can’t escape even […]
Reuters / New York Post The Cologne cathedral in Germany.Photo: Getty Images One of Germany’s most famous landmarks, Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening to protest a march by a growing grassroots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city, cathedral authorities said. The rise of the […]
Source: The Local “The German government considers a eurozone exit (by Greece) to be almost inevitable if opposition leader Alexis Tsipras leads the government after the election and abandons budgetary discipline and does not repay the country’s debts,” Der Spiegel reported on its website. Both Merkel and Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble had come […]
Source: TOI VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis on Sunday named 20 new cardinals from around the world to the elite group at the top of the Roman Catholic hierarchy, including 15 who can enter a conclave to choose his successor after his death or resignation. It is the second time the […]
Source: telegraph.co.uk Dated-Sunday, 4th January, 2015 When it comes to Muslim women, it’s still all about what we wear – and the last 12 months only serves to confirm this sad state of affairs. What we say, our achievements, opinions and self-determination continue to be brushed aside. Even as women’s […]