courtesy: NY TIMES By RICK GLADSTONE Published: September 23, 2011 While Bangladesh’s prime minister has been attending the United Nations this week, stock market investors back home rioted over steep losses, the police arrested hundreds of Islamist protesters and the main political opposition party threatened a general strike for Saturday, […]
Courtesy: Associated Press By JULHAS ALAM, Associated Press – Oct 3, 2011 DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — A senior leader from Bangladesh’s largest Islamic party was charged Monday with war crimes for allegedly leading groups that took part in killing, looting, arson and rape during the country’s 1971 independence war against Pakistan. […]
Source: Dawn.Com It was bound to happen. When you have a vaguely worded law with so many loopholes, and a clergy hell bent on defining religion in asphyxiating, rigid boundaries, its supporters and enablers were bound to get scorched themselves. The law was eventually going to come and bite them […]
Source/Credit: The News (International) By Kamila Hyat There have been several shocking incidents over the past week or so that go only to highlight the kind of intolerance we are facing in our society and the manner in which this is spreading. Worst of all the spirit of hatred has […]
The team of Humanity First volunteers was as diverse as the patients they served. Credit/Source: Azizah Magazine: Serving the World by: Aliya A Latif A Gift of Sight: Serving the World Countless Guatemalans suffer from vision related problems and are unable to afford corrective surgeries. Tayyeba Ali and her colleagues […]
BETHLEHEM (AFP) – More than 100 olive and fig trees on farmland near Bethlehem were set alight on Tuesday in an attack that local witnesses blamed on Jewish settlers.The incident occurred in Nahhalin village, which lies between the southern West Bank town of Bethlehem and the Beitar Illit settlement. Osama […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS JEDDAH: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) warned Syria on Tuesday about the consequences of its continued use of force against anti-regime protesters. OIC secretary-general Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said in a statement that “the use of force will only lead to more violence and bloodshed, thus exacerbating the […]
By MD RASOOLDEEN | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: The Shoura Council agreed on Monday with the National Society of Human Rights to cooperate with each other in preserving human rights, preventing violations and finding workable solutions to problems related to human rights. Chairman of Shoura Council’s human rights committee Mishal bin […]
CAIRO (AFP) – Egypt’s military rulers ordered a speedy probe into clashes which killed 25 people, mostly Coptic Christians, as the Cabinet held crisis talks amid fears of wider sectarian unrest and Washington urged restraint. The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) “tasked the government with quickly forming a […]
Source: The New York Times Author: Alissa J. Rubin KABUL, Afghanistan — Detainees are hung by their hands and beaten with cables, and in some cases their genitals are twisted until the prisoners lose consciousness at sites run by the Afghan intelligence service and the Afghan National Police, according to […]
In Egypt, on her first day in her new High School, a 15 year old Ferial Habib was stopped on the door. Either you put on a Hijab, she was told, or you cannot enter. The girl refused. Habib is Coptic Christian, and they do not usually wear a Hijab in the […]
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Vatican City. Pope Benedict XVI urged Catholics in Indonesia on Friday to defend tolerance, peace and the rights of minorities, saying that the country’s constitution “guarantees” freedom of worship. Meeting with Indonesian Catholic bishops in Rome, Benedict encouraged them to “strengthen Indonesian society by promoting those values that your fellow […]
SOURCE: DAILY TIMES PAKISTAN NEW YORK: The American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA) announced the Women’s Islamic Initiative in Spirituality (WISE) Conference to be held from October 14 to October 17 in Istanbul, Turkey. “Soon the world will witness how Muslim women activists, scholars, politicians jurists and poets have assumed […]
By BRADLEY KLAPPER BLOOMBERG BUSINESS WEEK SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic The Obama administration warned the U.N. cultural agency to stay out of the question of Palestinian statehood or face the consequences, as American lawmakers were threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in U.S. funding if the organization agrees […]
Source: Wasim Saroya, Ahmadiyya Community Missioanry in Bosnia and Selwenia Warning over Wahhabism, influence of internet and media focus on extremist groups at security and cohesion debate Politicians, think tanks, religious leaders and academics came together for a landmark conference at the European Parliament to highlight the threats posed by […]
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweeden FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-139-2011 October 7, 2011 A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: The principals of the schools obey the instructions of Mullahs to rusticate the Ahmadi students The government has still not taken any action against the cases of rustication of […]
By AGENCIES ARABNEWS RAMALLAH, West Bank: A senior Palestinian official called Wednesday for the replacement of international Middle East envoy Tony Blair, saying the former British leader is biased in favor of Israel and is “of no use at all.” Mohammed Ishtayeh, a member of the Central Committee of the dominant […]
GENEVA/DAMASCUS/BEIRUT (AFP) – More than 2,900 people have been killed in Syria since the start of a crackdown on anti-regime protests, the UN said on Thursday a day before its human rights body was to discuss the situation. “According to the detailed list of names of individuals we’ve been keeping, […]
IDF patrol vehicle near Shilo trapped by roadblocks; settlers and soldiers clash in what a senior officer calls ‘crossing a red line.’ By Anshel Pfeffer haaretz online. Dozens of Jewish settlers surrounded an IDF patrol vehicle on Wednesday evening near the Shilo settlement, setting up roadblocks and physically assaulting IDF […]