Jinnah’s liberalism: A secular Muslim at heart
Daily Times: Yasser Latif Hamdani: Jinnah believed in equal rights for all people, regardless of religion or gender, because he believed in freedom of speech and freedom of expression. He […]
After the Arab spring, the sexual revolution?
Source: The Guardian Author: Martin Chulov, Eileen Byrne, and Abdel-Rahman Hussein An explosive call for a sexual revolution across the Arab world in which the author argues that Arab men “hate” Arab women has provoked a fierce debate about the subjugation of women in countries such as Egypt, Morocco and […]
Taliban website under repeat attack by hackers
Source: The Guardian (Author): (Reuters in Kabul) Hackers have for the third time in less than a year attacked the main website of the Afghan Taliban. The Taliban has blamed western intelligence agencies amid an intensifying cyberwar with the insurgents. The unidentified hackers broke into the Taliban’s El Emara website […]
Top Iraq politicians demand greater democracy
Source: AFP Author: Abdel Hamid Zebari ARBIL, Iraq — Top Iraqi politicians, many of whom feel marginalised by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s style of governing, called on Saturday in Arbil for greater democracy in running the country. Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, Massud Barzani, the president […]
Manchester’s Darul Aman mosque opens: BBC
BBC-UK: Manchester’s newest mosque attracted more than 1,500 Muslims to its grand opening in Hulme. The £1m Darul Aman mosque, on Greenheys Lane, is thought to be the second largest […]
Dawam Rahardjo: Fighting for pluralism to the end
The Jakarta Post: No individuals or organizations — or even old age — can stop Muslim scholar Dawam Rahardjo from spreading the spirit of pluralism. The figure who struggles for the rights of minorities in the world’s most populous Muslim country continues to dedicate himself to the cause and dares […]
Discourse : ‘I want every citizen in our country to feel at ease’
Jakarta Post: Nasaruddin Umar : Last Friday an unidentified group attacked an Ahmadiyah congregation in Tasikmalaya, West Java, the latest of hundreds of incidents against the minority group. Religious Affairs Minister Suryadharma […]
Ghana: Dr. Wahab Adam to Grill Presidential Candidates
The General Overseer of the International Central Gospel Church (ICGC), Rev. Dr. Mensah Otabil, and the former Commissioner of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), Justice Emile […]
Israeli official larceny
Israel’s timing was predicable. With the world’s gaze focused on the horrors in Syria and the Obama administration increasingly diverted by November’s presidential election, it chose this week to declare “legal” three fortified West Bank settlements which had been originally been erected by fanatical Zionists in contravention of their country’s […]
George Galloway’s Muslim conversion: why the big secret?
Source: The Telegraph Why did George Galloway feel the urge to keep his conversion to Islam secret? The New Statesman reveals today, in an interview by Jemima Khan with the […]
Indonesia: Banjar municipal govt. seals Ahmadiyya mosque
Source/Credit: Ahmadiyya Times / Metro News Banjar: Municipal Government (City Government) of Banjar, West Java, again sealed the Ahmadiyya Masjid Al Istiqomah on Wednesday (25/4) in Kampung Tanjungsukur, District Patamuran. […]
‘19th-century’ border control plans signal storm in EU
Russian TV: A bill proposed by Germany and France may impose border security checks in EU countries in an attempt to tackle rising levels of illegal immigration. Many worry the […]
Pakistani NGO Maps Religious Extremism in Pakistan
Pakistani NGO Maps Religious Extremism in Pakistan, Says Extremism Greater Menace than Terrorism MEMRI: (The Middle East Media Research Institute): In February 2012, a leading Pakistani research institute published a […]
Arab youths have just started to act
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star, Lebanon People often tell me that I sound very optimistic when I speak about the future of the Arab world. It is true […]
Pakistan: Minority report
Dawn.com: by Irfan Hussain: A FEW months ago, somebody emailed me a chilling audio clip of a conversation between a journalist and a Pakistani Taliban. When the interviewer reminded the […]
Muslims in Switzerland “lack legal protection”
by Clare O’Dea, swissinfo.ch Muslims in Switzerland face discrimination, while the country allows legislative gaps on racism to remain open, an Amnesty International report has claimed. The report, entitled Choice […]
Nobel laureates press for peace
Dawn.com: CHICAGO: Nobel peace laureates gathered for an annual summit said Monday the work that earned them their prizes is far from over and rallied support for their fight for […]
CBS piece on Christians’ plight in Middle East — in Israel?
By Jennifer Rubin On Sunday, “60 Minutes” aired a report on the plight of Christians in the Middle East. Was it on the Copts in Egypt? The destruction of Christian communities in Arab […]
Pakistan: The path of isolation: Asma Jehangir
Dawn: by Asma Jehangir: PAKISTAN remains in the dog house of the international community mainly because its rulers refuse to accept that violence and conflict within the country are escalating […]
Top official defends Ahmadiyah
Jakarta Post, Deputy Religious Affairs Minister Nasaruddin Umar has taken a different viewpoint from his superior regarding an attack on an Ahmadiyah mosque in Tasikmalaya, West Java, on Friday. Nasaruddin was quoted by Antara news agency as saying that the police should take the incident in the Singaparna district seriously, […]