American Muslims Tackle Terrorism With Teens’ Best Tool: The Internet
Source: NPR As the Islamic State uses social media and the Internet to recruit followers, a group of American Muslim millennials are also using the same tools to clear up […]
Navy’s Islamic Twitter account shut down after anti-Islam group complains
Source : The Guardian The official Twitter account of the Australian navy’s adviser on Muslim affairs was shut down within days of an official complaint by an anti-Islam group about […]
New Twitter Policy Bans ‘Hateful Conduct’
Source: Huffington Post Twitter Inc has clarified its definition of abusive behavior that will prompt it to delete accounts, banning “hateful conduct” that promotes violence against specific groups. The social […]
Sonny Bill Williams criticised for dead Syrian children photos
Source: BBC Rugby union star Sonny Bill Williams has posted graphic images of dead children on Twitter after a visit to Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon. Williams, who played a […]
Pu Zhiqiang: China rights lawyer gets suspended jail sentence
Source: BBC Prominent Chinese human rights lawyer Pu Zhiqiang has been released from detention after receiving a suspended jail sentence. Mr Pu was found guilty by a Beijing court earlier […]
Twitter warns of government ‘hacking’
Source: BBC Twitter has sent warnings to a number of users that their accounts may have been hacked by “state-sponsored actors”. It is the first time that the social media […]
Amputee soldier’s heartfelt Muslim Facebook post goes viral
Source: CNN (CNN)A British soldier who had his leg blown off by a bomb while serving in Iraq has taken the internet by storm after his Facebook post attacking Islamophobia […]
China plans to oust Microsoft, Apple and Android with own software
Source: Guardian UK China is planning its own desktop and mobile software to oust imported rivals from Microsoft, Apple and Google. The unnamed desktop version is due for release in […]
This mother who left her baby on the subway is not some Bad Black Mom. She's part of a mental-health stigma
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
This mother who left her baby on the subway is not some Bad Black Mom. She’s part of a mental-health stigma
theguardian: by Kirsten West Savali — When 20-year-old Frankea Dabbs abandoned her 10-month-old baby girl on a New York City subway platform on 7 July, it was a piercing cry for help that has long echoed throughout homes, neighborhoods and cities across the United States – a cry that is often ignored […]
Show This Video To Your Friend Who Is Always On His Phone
Huff Post: Alexis Kleinman — “I have 422 friends, yet I’m lonely.” That’s how writer and director Gary Turk starts his poetic tirade against technology, “Look Up.” He calls his very popular video “a spoken word film for an online generation.” With more than 11.6 million views on YouTube in only 10 days, […]
Facebook Knows Everything About You, And If You Don’t Believe Us Here’s Proof
Huff Post: by Taylor Casti — A marketing stunt for the upcoming Ubisoft game “Watch Dogs” is inadvertently allowing users to check how well they’ve set up their Facebook privacy settings. The campaign called “Digital Shadow”, which currently is available only in the US, requests permission to access a user’s account […]
Repressed Brits, evil Mexicans, Arab villains: why are Hollywood’s animated movies full of racist stereotypes?
theguardian: by Steve Rose — Perhaps it’s a matter for the film classification boards. They could put a warning on the certificate: “Contains mild fantasy violence, very mild language, a white-supremacist subtext, and grotesquely derogatory portrayals of ethnic minorities.” Or: “Probably won’t make your child into a racist, but sure […]
What This Dad Did Is Awesome! I’m On His Side…
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Follow Dr. Abdus Salam on TWITTER
Follow Dr. Abdus Salam on Twitter: and help it to grow and spread all over the world. It is a must for our youth and for our generations to follow. […]
Anti-Ahmadi Ads on Facebook
Courtesy: Khalid Ahmed Saeed The following anti-Ahmadi ad was seen on Facebook by the author on Facebook: The Urdu reads “Invitation to Islam for Ahmadi Brothers”.
Twitter, Saudi Arabia’s Top Cleric Says, Will Damn Your Soul
Epigraph: “And when the she-camels, tenmonth pregnant, are abandoned, and when the beasts are gathered together, and when the seas are made to flow forth one into the other, and when people are brought together, […]
You Could be Tweeting to 10,000 World Leaders Daily – Care to Bring a Change
By Zia H Shah MD The Holy Quran had prophesied that at the time of the second coming of the Messiah or the Latter Days, humanity will be brought so […]
Saudi Twitter Arrested
Aliberal Saudi writer has been detained on charges of making insulting comments about Islam.Family members said Turki Al-Hamad was arrested on the orders of Interior Minister Prince Mohammed bin Nayef bin Abdel Aziz on December 24.Al-Hamad recently attacked radical Islamists on his Twitter account.He accused them of twisting the message […]
Arabic makes debut at papal audience with eye on region
Reuters | Oct 10, 2012 | JORDAN TIMES VATICAN CITY — Arabic made its debut as one of the official languages at Pope Benedict’s weekly general audiences on Wednesday as […]