The Nation: by Ahmad Zia Tulla – The social system of an Islamic state offers protection to non Muslims. They have been termed as Dhimis ‘protected people’. They are so-called as soon as they submit to Islamic rule; it becomes the duty of the Islamic State to protect their life, […]
The Tribune: Anti-Ahmadi groups are planning to hold up to 10 conferences in the first week of September to mark the passage of the Second Amendment to the Constitution on […]
by Scott Capper, swissinfo.ch July 2, 2013 – 21:59 Contrary to common perceptions, immigrants to Switzerland are net contributors to the country’s tax coffers rather than a drain, according to […]
Source: BD News 24 United Nations Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Rashida Manjoo has said the demands of Hifazat-e Islam over women’s’ rights in Bangladesh run counter to the constitution. She says it is the government that needs to act against the 13-point charter of demands the Islamic organisation […]
By Jibran Nasir, Today marks the best of days and today marks the worst of days. May 28 or as a true patriot would call it “Youm-e-Takbeer” marks the day […]
The Jakarta Globe: As local authorities debate over banishing Indonesia’s Ahmadiyah Muslim sect and several congregations remain barred from their houses of worship, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono this week will […]
“GO back back too (sic) ya own country and take ya mosk (sic) with ya”. Source: Shropshire Star “If they want 2 “practise” there (sic) religion y not do it […]
Washington Post: by Max Fisher. The Pew Research Center’s vast new study on the views and attitudes of global Muslim populations was bound to create controversy. Like the U.S. public knowledge polls that find that one-third of Americans can’t name the vice president, Pew’s report includes some less-than-flattering pieces of data. And while […]
religiondispatches: In the wake of the Boston Bombings, Eboo Patel, public intellectual and director of the Interfaith Youth Core (IFYC), has proposed, in a recent article on HuffPo, that this explosive violence resulted partly from a failure of interfaith dialogue. With the caveat that “interfaith programs are not a miracle solution,” he […]
theguardian: by Ian Birrell. It is hard to take claims of religious intolerance from Christians seriously when UK Muslims are daily subject to real hate crimes A recent Chatham House study by […]
ASIAN HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION – URGENT APPEALS PROGRAMME INDONESIA: Government collaborates with non-tolerant groups in closing down three Ahmadi mosques in Cianjur ISSUES: Freedom of religion; minorities; non-state actors; police […]
Anti-Islam advocate and faith leader Terry Jones is upping the ante on his attacks on the Muslim faith. Rather than burning a Koran to mark the 12th anniversary of 9/11, […]
Source: Huff Post, by Akash Arasu. Recent times have seen an increasing trend in non-affiliation to religion in many parts of the world — in the United States there’s been an increase of nearly 5 percentage points in the past five years. Coupled with this, there has been an increase in atheism, dubbed “New […]
Source: Ahmadiyya Times. An Ahmadi man is among the over 40 killed in twin blasts that occurred on Sunday evening in Abbas Town, Karachi, a Shia-dominated neighborhood, which also left […]
Source: The Independent, by Yasmeen Alibhai Brown. Internal and external intolerance is now Islam’s brand. Those great past Muslim civilisations famous for diversity, humanity, science, extraordinary achievements have died. Education, the arts, photographs, television, sports, even work are denounced by crazed imams online and in mosques worldwide, including the UK. […]
Twin bombings kill 15, wound more in south India Reuters. Bomb blasts in India kill 11: Police examine the site of an explosion at Dilsukh Nagar in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. IMAGE 48 min ago India’s prime minister called the attack that put bombs on bicycles in […]
Source: Huff Post, by Nasser Karimi. TEHRAN, Iran — Buddha statues have joined Barbie dolls and characters from “The Simpsons” TV cartoon as banned items in the conservative Muslim nation. Authorities are confiscating Buddha statues from shops in the Iranian capital, Tehran, to stop the promotion of Buddhism in the […]
Source: The Daily Star. By Syed Badrul Ahsan Mohammad Ali Jinnah visited East Pakistan from March 19 to March 28, 1948. The visit was a disaster, seeing that instead of reassuring the Bangla-speaking people of his country on the language issue he ended up making them angrier than they were […]
Source: The Daily Star ( http://www.thedailystar.net ) Take Jamaat to task for mayhem Lack of security preparedness obvious Wednesday, January 30, 2013 Editorial We condemn in the strongest possible terms the deliberate act of vandalism in which some 200 vehicles across many districts including Dhaka were damaged or destroyed by cadres […]
abc.net: by Abdul Hakim Murad: Must one be liberal to belong to the West? For all the polite multiculturalist denials, this question is being put to us more and more insistently. The European Union, as it struggles to articulate a common cultural as well as economic vision, regularly toys with […]