Huff Post: An Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper, Mr. Asad Shah, was recently stabbed to death in Glasgow, UK. Mr. Tanveer Ahmad, a Sunni Muslim of Pakistani origin, claimed he committed the act because Asad had “disrespected Islam.” In his eyes, Asad was a blasphemer. The Sunni extremist group, Almi Majlis Tahaffuz […]
RNS: BERLIN — The anti-immigration party, Alternative for Germany, said Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to press for bans on minarets and burqas at its party congress in two weeks’ time. The so-called AfD punished Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative Christian Democrats in three regional elections last […]
Source: Pakistantoday.com.pk By Ayesha Khalid; who is pursuing an Mphil in Public Policy and Governance from FCC. She is a graduate of Kinnaird College, with a degree in Economics. Whether […]
FP: ISIS’ declaration of an Islamic State begs a fundamental question: When and how did that concept become a part of the political vocabulary of Muslim societies? After all, the idea hasn’t been around forever, and its popularity has waxed and waned over time. In fact, its emergence and popularity […]
WASHINGTON–(Reuters) – Harsh rhetoric about Muslims by Republican candidates in the U.S. presidential election campaign is undermining national security efforts, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Tuesday. Asked about comments by Republicans Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, Johnson told MSNBC in an interview that singling out a specific […]
The Hindu: A group of about three dozen activists affiliated with Akhil Bharatiya Dalit Muslim Mahasangha (ABDMM), a non-profit welfare body which claims to bring India’s Dalits and Muslims together, staged a demonstration at Jantar Mantar Friday afternoon along with a pack of well-bred dogs. Chanting anti-government slogans, the president […]
http://piketty.blog.lemonde.fr: Public discussion on the place of Islam and Muslim populations in European societies is becoming increasingly hysterical. In the absence of precise information and research, we draw general conclusions on the capacity or the desire of tens of millions of people to integrate and live together from events which […]
Aljazeera: Netanyahu claims only Palestinians, not Israelis, ‘glorify terrorists’. I show he’s wrong: watch:
(RNS) Israel today grapples with profound existential questions of its national identity, including how Jewish the Jewish state can be. More than three-quarters (76 percent) of Israeli Jews believe their country can be both Jewish and democratic, a view rejected by majorities of Israeli Muslims and Christians, according to a comprehensive […]
Video by Israeli Law Centre puts violent words into the mouths of US celebrities as part of campaign against Palestinian television Source: The Telegraph By Raf Sanchez, Jerusalem Oprah Winfrey, Stewie from Family Guy, and characters from Game of Thrones all urge viewers to “kill Muslims” in a dubbed-over video […]
(RNS) Some right-wing Islamist leaders in Pakistan are denouncing a newly passed law criminalizing violence against women in Punjab province, saying it contradicts the Quran and will increase divorce rates. “This law is in conflict with the Holy Quran, the life of [Muhammad], Constitution of Pakistan and values of our country,” Maulana […]
Nepali Times: At a time when ‘secularism’ has become something of a bad word in India, and the Hindu-right establishment in New Delhi is said to take a dim view of of neighbouring Nepal declaring itself ‘secular’ in its new constitution, a leading Indian thinker says the misunderstanding stems from […]
Source: Public opinion By Dr Amtul Khalid A Chambersburg physician Donald Trump thinks that he can solve the problem of terrorism by stopping Muslims from coming to this country, or […]
Haaretz.com: Much has been written about the causes of violent Jewish extremism in Israel, including that its goal is to bring down the state in an apocalyptic civil war in order to impose the extremists’ vision of a Messianic Kingdom upon the rest of us. Even established figures on the […]
Source: Tribune LUCKNOW: Indian police Wednesday formally charged 15 suspects over the mob murder of a Muslim man suspected of eating beef in late September, a case that sparked an outcry […]
Source: Huffington Post By John Tirman Executive Director, MIT Center for International Studies In the last few weeks, the alarming rise of vitriolic anti-immigrant, xenophobic rhetoric from the right wing […]
Source: Los Angeles Times The year was 1915, and the strange new newspaper in Aurora, Mo., had grown so quickly in its first four years that rail officials had to […]
Huff Post: They do. But it doesn’t make the news. Bad news, such as terrorist attacks, is news. Good news is not. Immediately after the San Bernardino shootings, Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Los Angeles, said, “The Muslim community stands shoulder to shoulder with […]
Nov 22, 2015 Khaled Almaeena Khaled Almaeena The Paris attacks that killed 130 people and injured hundreds of others are still capturing headlines. They also occupy the top spot in social media the world over. The attack came days after suicide bombers blew up about 40 people in a Beirut […]
Huff Post: by Idrija Bose — An elderly Sikh-American man was brutally attacked and allegedly called a “terrorist” and “Bin Laden” in Chicago on Tuesday, Sikh advocacy groups report. The incident occurred just days before the 14th anniversary of the September 11 attacks. Charges have yet to be filed, but police are […]
