A brutal attack on a crowd of World Cup watchers at a hotel in northern Kenya has reportedly left at least 48 people dead. One of the survivors told The Daily Beast that the assailants were killing non-Muslims execution-style. Kenyan government officials claimed the attack could be the work of […]
LONDON — A report released on Monday concluded that pressure from fundamentalist Islamic school board governors had created a culture of “fear and intimidation” among senior staff members in a number of British schools said to have been the targets of a campaign to impose Islamist views on parts of […]
theguardian: by Toby Helm, Daniel Boffey and Warwick Mansell — Adviser resigns and education secretary apologises as bishop and MPs urge respect for Muslim pupils David Cameron dramatically asserted his authority over two warring cabinet ministers on Saturday when he ordered Michael Gove to issue humiliating apologies and told Theresa May to […]
theguardian: by Toby Helm, Daniel Boffey and Warwick Mansell — Adviser resigns and education secretary apologises as bishop and MPs urge respect for Muslim pupils David Cameron dramatically asserted his authority over two warring cabinet ministers on Saturday when he ordered Michael Gove to issue humiliating apologies and told Theresa May to […]
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
Source: The Economist A death sentence issued by a Sudanese court has stirred up controversy THE Koran is categorical. “There is no compulsion in religion,” it says (in the 256th verse of the second sura, or chapter). In another passage of the Muslim holy book, in the tenth sura, we find God […]
Time: Like hundreds of other Ahmadi Muslims, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was murdered only for his faith. Combined, education and compassion can conquer such extremism. Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was […]
Dawn.com: by Murtaza Haider — We know them as al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban. Their branding may differ, but their misogynist ideologies do not. These so-called Islamists have promoted discrimination against women for centuries. Now, they abduct young women and threaten to kill them. Permitting these militants to […]
Malaysia Today: by Raja Petra Kamaruddin — THE CORRIDORS OF POWER What we are seeing is not Islam. What we are seeing is Islamism. Islamism is not a religion like Islam. Islamism is political Islam. And Islamism is opposed to secularism, democracy, and all those other western ideals that are […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — In an interview with Reason magazine, this became clear when the interviewer asked if by “defeating Islam” Hirsi Ali meant, “defeating radical Islam?” She replied: “No. Islam, period.” When the reporter asked her to further elaborate what she meant by “defeat Islam” she replied: “I […]
Huff Post: by Dr. Faheem Younus: Muslim, professor, doctor and philanthropist On May 21, the National September 11 Memorial and Museum in New York is scheduled to release “The Rise of Al Qaeda,” […]
Morocco World News: by Tarik Oumozzane — Islam is a religion that encourages education, the pursuit of knowledge. It is a religion that not only acknowledges the “other,” but also protects his/her rights. Islam is a religion that promotes diversity and forbids all kinds of harassment. Nottingham, England – In these […]
The Hindu: by Yasser Latif Hamdani — The doublespeak among Pakistan’s middle class is pushing the country backwards. But there is still hope The founder of Pakistan, Muhammad Ali Jinnah never claimed that all Muslims were a nation. He said that only for Muslims in undivided India who he felt constituted a […]
theguardian: by Seumas Milne — In Britain, the campaign against Islamist “extremism” is once again in full flow. In fact, it is open season on the Muslim community. For the past few weeks reports have multiplied about an alleged “Islamic plot”, code-named Operation Trojan Horse, to take control of 25 […]
theguardian: by Nesrine Malik. Of late, a new variation of the old chestnut “I’m not racist but …” has emerged. It goes: “I’ve got nothing against Muslims, it’s Islam I hate”. Otherwise known as the “Islam is not a race” argument. After I wrote about Richard Dawkins’s snide attack on the […]
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 […]
Bill O’Reilly Confronts Muslim Guest Over Why Many Muslims Believe Violence Is Justified by Josh Feldman Bill O’Reilly brought up a Pew study [PDF] finding that a disturbingly high percentage of Muslims in some […]
The Huffington Post | By Amanda Terkel Posted: 04/22/2013 5:02 pm EDT | Updated: 04/22/2013 5:07 pm EDT Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim elected to Congress, issued a word of caution on Monday […]
Source: Economist.com Green glass ceilings How Muslim clerics turn jihadist Mar 16th 2013 | BEIRUT |From the print edition WHY pious and peaceable Muslims turn to ultraconservative and even violent versions of the faith is a subject of great interest for scholars and policymakers. But so far little effort […]
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 […]