Canberra Muslim woman Nurcan Baran says she has stopped wearing her hijab for fear of being attacked. On Thursday Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry approved new interim rules to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate glass-enclosed public gallery in Federal Parliament. […]
A French court has upheld a ban on a Muslim engineer from accessing nuclear sites, citing his links with what it termed as “jihadist networks”, but his lawyer called it a case of Islamophobia. Lawyer Sefen Guez Guez told AFP news agency on Monday that he was looking at launching […]
FoxNews.com: A growing chorus of top Muslim leaders and Arab pundits around the world are strongly condemning the “cancerous” actions of extremist Islamic State militants, saying the ruthless group’s horrific campaign of murder in Iraq does serious harm to all Islam. In the past, Muslim leaders have faced criticism from […]
The news coming out of Iraq is really devastating. The violent extremist group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) continues to take over major parts of Iraq, […]
Samina Malik travels about eight months out of the year, meeting with translators around the world in an effort to help publish the Quran, the sacred book of Islam, in […]
High-profile Australian Islamist preacher Musa Cerantonio has been warned the Australian Federal Police will continue to keep him under surveillance after he was deported from the Philippines. READ MORE…
Ranging from sectarianism to sex, a four-day event nicknamed the “Muslim Glastonbury” is setting out to challenge perceptions of Islam in Britain. Living Islam, which began on Thursday at Lincolnshire Showground and continues over the weekend, is a celebration of Eid al-Fitr, which was marked by Muslims around the world this week at […]
Guardian: Dawkins in 2014 is a man so convinced that he possesses God-like powers of omniscience that he can’t understand why everyone is angry at him for pointing out the […]
Keyla Calix, a 25-year-old Honduran living in downtown Miami, didn’t think her friend’s gift of a Quran would lead her to reject her Catholic upbringing. But two years later, after […]
he Long Beach Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man who committed a hate crime against a Muslim woman in the Bixby Knolls area. Authorities said the incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. July 2 in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block […]
he Long Beach Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man who committed a hate crime against a Muslim woman in the Bixby Knolls area. Authorities said the incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. July 2 in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block […]
theguardian: by Laila Alawa — ‘The best way to prevent violent extremism inspired by violent jihadists is to work with the Muslim American community,’ President Obama said last year. Even after immigrating as a child from Syria, for a new life, I learned to view my new government with […]
theguardian: by Laila Alawa — ‘The best way to prevent violent extremism inspired by violent jihadists is to work with the Muslim American community,’ President Obama said last year. Even after immigrating as a child from Syria, for a new life, I learned to view my new government with […]
Before we begin, let’s get one thing straight: Muslim and Arab are two different things. Arab is an ethnic group and as such Arabs can be Christian, Jewish, atheist, Muslim or any other religion. Islam is a religion. People often forget that the largest Muslim country in the world is […]
People in Britain are in danger of becoming “too hysterical” as a “national culture of fear” develops about the threat posed by radicalised Muslims, the archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has warned. Some radicalised young people are travelling to Syria but Welby said the number was “extraordinarily small”. He said […]
(Reuters) – Myanmar police cordoned off Mandalay’s Muslim neighbourhood as hundreds of Buddhists wielding knives, swords and bamboo poles roamed the city on Friday, following communal riots that killed two people earlier in the week. Inter-religious violence has flared throughout the country over the past two years, threatening to undermine […]
Two excellent and timely books, The Muslims are Coming! and Inside British Islam, correct ugly attitudes to Islam in the West, Many people have come to regard Muslims as a […]
Jakarta. The “war on terror” proclaimed by US President George W. Bush after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack in New York has largely been wound down by his successor, […]
The church-run schools in East Jerusalem are considered the best schools in that part of the city — some would say in the entire city. Their Christian administrators are proud of the religious tolerance and openness that typifies their institutions, where a majority of the students are Muslim. But in […]
The church-run schools in East Jerusalem are considered the best schools in that part of the city — some would say in the entire city. Their Christian administrators are proud of the religious tolerance and openness that typifies their institutions, where a majority of the students are Muslim. But in […]