Europe: Mosque Building Shifts into High Gear
by Soeren Kern April 5, 2013 at 5:00 am “In Spain there are signs that Islam will dominate once again.” — Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, Spiritual Leader, Ahmadiyya Community, Spain […]
Protest held against Athens mosque plan – Greek ultra-right party leads rally in Athens against construction of capital’s first official mosque.
Members of the ultra-right National Front have led dozens of protesters in a march against the Greek government’s plans to build the first state-funded mosque in Athens, the capital. The […]
Fear of a black Europe
Global Post: Paul Ames. BRUSSELS, Belgium — The appointment of Italy’s first black cabinet minister was a cause for celebration for anti-racism campaigners in Europe. Their joy was cut short by reactions to Congo-born Cecile Kyenge taking office. “This is a bonga bonga government,” said Mario Borghezio, a member of […]
Cardinal George Pell Admits Abuse Cover-Up To Protect Australian Catholic Church
Source: The Huffington Post By Agence France Presse | Posted: 05/27/2013 7:44 am EDT | Updated: 05/27/2013 6:08 am EDT Fear of scandal prompted the cover-up of child sex abuse allegations within the […]
UK moves to gag ‘poisonous’ radical preachers, clamp down on Internet extremism
Russia Today: The UK Prime Minister has announced an anti-terror task force to clamp down on the “poisonous narratives” of radical preachers who target recruits in schools, jails and mosques. […]
Man charged $ 750,000 tax after LinkedIn profile reveals secret job
Tuesday 28 May 2013 ARABNEWS STOCKHOLM: A man from Sweden has been ordered to pay $ 750,000 (£ 494,000) after authorities discovered he had a secret job via his LinkedIn profile. The resident of Djursholm, an affluent suburb of Stockholm, had failed to declare all sources of income to the […]
France’s anti-gay marriage movement eyes future fights
France 24: By Rachel HOLMAN (text) As workers diligently set about clearing the stage from a last-ditch demonstration in Paris against a recent French law legalising same-sex marriage and adoption on Sunday evening, protest organisers and participants already had their minds geared towards how to keep their movement alive. Staged by the organisation Manif […]
In Sweden, Riots Put an Identity in Question
NY Times: ……Ms. Bromster rushed to the school, in the mostly immigrant district of Tensta, north of Stockholm, and found one room gutted by fire and another filled with ankle-deep […]
Turkey’s Hadith Project: Diyanet Presents Prophet’s Sayings For The 21st Century
The Huffington Post By Tom Heneghan, Religion Editor ANKARA, May 22 (Reuters) – Scholars around the Muslim world were alarmed five years ago by news reports that Turkey planned a new, possibly heretical compilation of the Prophet Mohammad’s sayings that might scrap those it thought were out of date. Turkish […]
Video of the Astonishing story of Prophet Muhammad: Peace Symposium Malta, 2013
Epigraph “If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and outstanding results are the three criteria of human genius, who could dare to compare any great man in modern history with […]
Terrorism is to Jihad as Adultery is to Marriage | Shaykh Abu Aaliyah Shurkeel
For the past four days I had been working on the following article, which I intended to post yesterday evening. However, I then heard about the vile and sadistic act of violence carried out by two men with knives and a meat cleaver in Woolwich. So I thought it best […]
Police on guard at Ahmadiyya mosque in Morden after threats made to burn it down
This is Local London: by Khaleda Rahman. Police deployed officers to guard Morden mosque yesterday after extreme racist threats appeared on social media sites calling for it to be burnt […]
No Nobel for Edhi and Gandhi- But For Obama and Suu-Kyi- Reputation of Nobel Committee?
ET: by Aaker Patel: Edhi, Gandhi and the Nobel Committee A recent movie made by two Pakistanis, Bassam Tariq and Omar Mullick, has made me revisit a subject about which […]
Seeking Allah In The Midlands
Of The Thousands Of White Britons Embracing Islam Every Year, Most Are Thought To Be Professionally Successful, Independent-Minded Women, Says A Study Islam appears to hold a strange fascination for […]
Jews Reject New Church of Scotland Report on Israel
Scottish Council Says Revised Document Still ‘Unacceptable’ The Scottish Council of Jewish Communities said that, despite recent revisions, the Church of Scotland’s report on Israel remains “unacceptable.” The report, entitled […]
A matter of human dignity
By Laiq Ahmed Atif Credit: The Times: Friday, May 24, 2013 Hatred, violence, suppression and denial of basic human rights are poisonous substances that can destroy the peace and tranquillity of an entire society. Moreover, they attack human values, so much so that people become so very cruel and hardhearted that […]
Exorcists Wanted: Madrid’s Catholic Church Says It Needs More Trained Priests
Did Pope Francis Perform An Exorcism? Source: The Huffington Post By CIARAN GILES 05/24/13 11:20 AM ET EDT AP MADRID — The Catholic archdiocese in Madrid says it needs more exorcists […]
Swiss politics: The big bad foreigner in poster art
by Daniele Mariani, swissinfo.ch May 24, 2013 – 11:00 First it was Bolsheviks and Jews. Then it was migrant workers from Southern Europe. Now it’s more exotic newcomers such as […]
Are converts more likely to be extremists than other Muslims?
thrguardian: by Leon Moosavi. It is important to stress that from the estimated 5,000 converts to Islam every year, almost all of them embrace Islam after being inspired by its monotheistic clarity, its moral guidance and its holistic framework. Conversion to Islam is rarely political, but it is usually connected to […]