Video: Islamic Concept of Freedom of Speech
Speech by Harris Zafar at the USA West Coast 2012 Annual Convention on the 29th December 2012.
Prophet Muhammad’s Rules of War
Epigraph: But if they (enemies) desist, then surely Allah is Most Forgiving, Merciful. And fight them until there is no persecution, and religion is freely professed for Allah. But if they (enemies) […]
GEORGE H.W. BUSH IN INTENSIVE CARE: NY TIMES
Ex-President George H.W. Bush in intensive care From ASSOCIATED PRESS HOUSTON — Former President George H.W. Bush is being treated in the intensive care unit at a Houston hospital after suffering “a series of setbacks,” including a stubborn fever, his spokesman said. In a brief email Wednesday, Jim McGrath, Bush’s […]
Will it change?
Daily Times: Fawad Aslam. I stood by the statue of Ibn Rushd in Cordoba erected to honour this great Islamic polymath. Then I remembered the grave of our very own Dr Abdus Salam The year is 1492, the year of the discovery of America, the year when Granada, the last […]
Victory of religious control
Daily Times: Saad Hafiz. A clear unified lobby who are strong proponents of religious domination, and who provoke attacks on those who value their own autonomy and political choice, are in the driver’s seat The unequal battle between the depleting ranks of secularists and the growing band of Islamists in […]
UK: Defining Good & Free Speech and Media
Epigraph: When Hillel, a first century Jewish scholar, was challenged by a Gentile that the Torah be explained to him, while Hillel stood on one foot, Hillel replied, “What is […]
Second class citizens-Ahmadis in Pakistan
Daily Times: Mohammad Ahamd. A number of Ahmadis have been implicated in charges under the blasphemy law, while their defence, which lies in their faith, is denied under sections 298 A, 298 B and 298 C of the PPC Ethnic and religious communities that are in a minority in our […]
Women’s equality article removed from constitution
Egypt Independant: Members of the Constituent Assembly agreed last week to remove a proposed article which provided some constitutional support for gender equality — provided that such equality did not violate the provisions of Islamic Sharia law. The episode showed the ability of both liberals and ultra-conservative Salafis to stamp […]
Pakistan’s Raiway Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and wife banned from entering US
Anti-Islam film bounty: Bilour, wife banned from entering US By Hassan Ali Published: November 9, 2012 US embassy in Islamabad cancels visas of Federal Minister for Railways Ghulam Billour and his wife. PHOTO: AFP/FILE PESHAWAR: In a reaction over the bounty placed on the head of the producer of the movie ‘Innocence of Muslims’, […]
The winter holiday is called Christmas: Does it make Difference
The Vancouver Sun Get used to it. Christmas is coming to a store near you, if it hasn’t already arrived. And right behind will be the annual argument over whether […]
Muslim Men have No Unrestricted Power for Divorce
SRINAGAR: The Jammu and Kashmir high court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce (Talaq) his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband cannot have unrestricted […]
Feds say Bangladesh man wanted to blow up Federal Reserve
Source: Standard.Net by Colleen Long, Tom Hays The Associated Press staff NEW YORK — A Bangladeshi man who came to the United States to wage jihad was arrested in an elaborate FBI sting on Wednesday after attempting to blow up a fake car bomb outside the Federal Reserve building in […]
Trial by ordeal or the Shariah Law?
Epigraph: “And as for the man who steals and the woman who steals, cut off their hands in retribution of their offence as an exemplary punishment from Allah. And Allah […]
Laws injuring religious sentiments must be revisited
By Engr. Muhammad Ayyub Introduction In recent weeks there has been considerable disagreement across the globe as a result of the recent film made in the United States about the Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw). This film effected the religious sentiments of over 1.8 billion Muslims around the world as well […]
Shariah Law: Gods’ Law, Moral Law, the Natural Law or Man made Law?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Shariah Law is a bogeyman for right wing politicians in the West to spread Islamophobia and a political […]
At United Nations, Organization Of Islamic Cooperation Calls For Ban On Insulting Prophet Muhammad
Huff Post: NEW YORK — As anti-American protests continue in Islamic nations against a U.S.-made film that mocks the Muslim prophet, the leader of the world’s largest Islamic organization met with United Nations leaders this week to condemn violence over the film and call for a ban on insulting the […]
Defamation of religions
Dawn.com: by Munir Akram (The writer is a former Pakistan ambassador to the UN). THE recent tragic events surrounding the profane and provocative video insulting Islam’s Prophet (PBUH) have again revived tensions between the Islamic world and America and revealed the wide cultural and political gulf between them. This gulf […]
25,000 Muslim rioters torch Buddhist temples, homes in Bangladesh
RT: Tens of thousands of rioters left a trail of destruction in southeastern Bangladesh as they torched Buddhist temples and homes near the town of Ramu. The violence was sparked by a photo posted on Facebook that allegedly insulted Islam. A 25,000-strong mob set fire to at least five temples […]
A Critique of President Obama’s UN Speech
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD First of all, let me applaud our great country, USA, it gives us freedoms, for an ordinary citizen like me, without any […]
State Duma weighs law protecting religious sentiment
RT: As many countries face public unrest over alleged insults to religious sentiments by the authors of the controversial video ‘Innocence of Muslims,” the Russian Lower House took the first move to outlaw insults to religions. The State Duma approved a special address ‘On protection of the religious feelings of […]