Belfast Pastor James McConnell has been released by police investigating comments he made about the Islamic faith during a sermon last month, which he has apologised for. Earlier, he apologised for any distress caused by a sermon during which he described the Islamic faith as “heathen” and “satanic” and “spawned […]
I’m sitting at lunch with Ahmed Abbadi at lunch in Rabat, Morocco. He bears a mild resemblance to Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. His English is precise, and he is […]
First Minister Peter Robinson has publically apologised for his comments about Muslims. Mr Robinson visited the Islamic Centre in Belfast on Tuesday evening and met with representatives of the Muslim community in Northern Ireland. Speaking to the media afterwards he said: “I apologise if anything I said has caused them […]
Just a week after a scandal was sparked by a preacher slating Islam as “satanic”, a second preacher has launched a broadside against the faith. The minister at Lord Bannside’s former church, Martyr’s Memorial Free Presbyterian in east Belfast, has blasted Islam as a “violent intolerant wicked religion”. The Rev […]
Just a week after a scandal was sparked by a preacher slating Islam as “satanic”, a second preacher has launched a broadside against the faith. The minister at Lord Bannside’s former church, Martyr’s Memorial Free Presbyterian in east Belfast, has blasted Islam as a “violent intolerant wicked religion”. The Rev […]
SYDNEY – A new eye-opening documentary film that shows the true nature of Islam has been approved to be shown to high school students in South Australia, in a step […]
Police in London are investigating a sign telling pet owners to stay out of an east London park because “Muslims do not like dogs,” the London Evening Standard reports. The warning, in Bartlett Park, Poplar, said, “Do not walk your dog here! Muslims do not like dogs. This is an Islamic area […]
SAO PAULO // In a rundown Sao Paulo street, squeezed between a graffiti-covered sports bar and a dilapidated unisex hairdressers, lies a little haven of Islamic tranquillity. Here, while Brazil is rushing to be ready in time for next month’s Fifa World Cup, staff at the Federation of Muslim Associations in […]
A delegation of Northern Ireland’s Muslim leaders has accepted an apology from Peter Robinson over comments he made about followers of the religion. The first minister had told the Irish News on Wednesday he would not trust Muslims involved in violence or devotees of Sharia law. But he said he would “trust […]
Apostasy is not just something that scandalises people in far off lands. Harriet Alexander hears the story of a British woman whose life was turned upside down when she left Islam – echoing the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, who awaits a death sentence in Sudan for the same “crime” If […]
Peter Robinson insists remarks in support of pastor who compared Muslims to the IRA were “hyped up” and “given a meaning that was never intended” Northern Ireland’s first minister, Peter Robinson, has said he did not “want to insult” the Muslim community after he defended a pastor who branded Islam […]
Northern Ireland’s first minister, Peter Robinson, has come under intense scrutiny for defending a pastor who described Islam as “satanic” and “heathen” Pastor James McConnell, an evangelical Protestant preacher, delivered an incendiary sermon earlier this month where he claimed “Islam is a doctrine spawned in hell” and compared Muslims to […]
The Muslim Times’ has slightly modified the title of the Op-Ed By: Lal Khan Malik, the National President of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Canada. Source: The Star: Continued proliferation […]
theguardian: by Matthew Goodwin – Islamophobia is firmly back on the radar of British politics. The increase in attacks against mosques and renewed support for far-right groups reminds us of the need to think seriously about how to root out anti-Muslim sentiment. Today, few serious commentators cling to the bankrupt […]
Source: Qantara.de By: Joseph Mayton America’s anti-Islam sentiment is unfounded and dishonest. For one, it discounts the violence and school shootings perpetrated by non-Muslims. And it ignores the fact that the US government has been responsible for the deaths of over one million Muslims in the past decade. Joseph Mayton […]
Huff Post: by Omar Sacirbey. Fed up with what they perceived to be a growing Islamophobia in America, Farsad and Obeidallah started the project in 2011. “It was alarming to me that being a Muslim became an accusation,” Farsad said. “The Muslims Are Coming” is also useful as a catalog of […]
Epigraph: And who will turn away from the religion of Abraham but he who is foolish of mind? Him did We choose in this world, and in the next he […]
Source: The Daily Beast Muslims from an obscure ethnic group in western Burma have become targets of vicious Buddhist mob attacks. Brendan Brady reports from Rakhine state on the increasing violence. A woman cries moments after she and other Rohingya Muslims, trying to cross the Naf river into Bangladesh […]
Huff Post: by Tracey Simmons. “To my knowledge, Muslims, especially unknowingly, would not be banned from heaven for eating or getting hit by pork,” she said. “There are some interpreters who suggest that Muslims should eat pork rather than starve, if faced with that alternative.” SPOKANE, Wash. (RNS) Still angry […]
theguardian: by Homa Khaleeli. From online abuse to fire bombs thrown at mosques, there has been a spike in anti-Muslim attacks. While many incidents are not reported to the police, […]