How posting on Facebook could send you to jail
Source: BBC News BY Dominic Casciani Home affairs correspondent Is your last post on Facebook going to land you in jail? It might do if it ruins a criminal trial. And […]
J.K. Rowling just destroyed a man’s ridiculous Islamophobic comment
Posted by Greg Evans in news Picture: GETTY IMAGES, EDITED BY INDY100 J.K Rowling is the undisputed queen of Twitter. When she isn’t replying to Donald Trump or Theresa May, she […]
Cybercrime: 64,000 social media users reported to FIA
Source: Tribune By Riazul Haq Published: August 20, 2017 CREATIVE: AAMIR KHAN ISLAMABAD: In its drive against ‘cyber criminals’, especially those on social media, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has sought action […]
MOSQUE SHOOTING TWEET: Swiss politician found guilty of racial discrimination
AUGUST 17, 2017 Jean-Luc Addor is a parliamentarian from the rightwing Swiss People’s Party and based in canton Valais (Keystone) A court has found a Swiss politician guilty of racial discrimination for comments made on social media following a fatal shooting at a St Gallen mosque in north-eastern Switzerland […]
More than 100 cross-party politicians demand action over ‘Muslim Problem’ article in Sun newspaper
Exclusive: The letter to paper’s editor – signed by 107 MPs – was organised by the Labour MP Naz Shah and includes prominent politicians, including former Cabinet ministers Baroness Warsi and Anna Soubry Ashley Cowburn Political Correspondent @ashcowburn More than 100 cross-party politicians have signed an open letter demanding action over […]
The Sun can’t pretend saying we have a ‘Muslim Problem’ isn’t reminiscent of Nazi propaganda
Just as the Nazis did with the Jews, there is suggestion that Muslim men are preying on white children and that migrants are carrying and spreading diseases and swindling their way through life Sean O’Grady @_seanogrady Does Britain have a “Muslim Problem”? Trevor Kavanagh, who is a Sun journalist, plainly thinks so. […]
The growing Mideast fraternity of media-control thugs
Aug 10,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – Rami G. Khouri The Israeli government move to close Al Jazeera television network’s operations in the country is not surprising in itself, given that the government’s irritation with Al Jazeera for the past two decades of comprehensive, live coverage of events in Israel and the […]
Are Europe’s Muslims the new Jews?
YAHYA BOSTAN@yahyabostan Published July 2, 2017 Participants carry a banner reading “Muslims and Friends against Terror and Violence” as they take part “The Not With Us” rally against the rising anti-Islam sentiment and extremism in Cologne, Germany, June 17. It is important for European leaders to call it as they see […]
The real debate that Islamism should spark
Jul 20,2017 – JORDAN TIMES – RAMI G. KHOURI Every few years, it seems the world of Middle East and global policy analysis passes through a phase when a basic question rears its head in the media and in conversations across the world: Is Islamism a dangerous trend of the […]
The DIY ad kit for Islamic banking
Published in May-Jun 2012 By Adnan Syed Superficiality is rampant in advertising, and is the most obvious in the advertising for Islamic financial services. Let’s face it; the world of advertising is a make-believe world. It is a world built on outward appearances and people ridicule it for its […]
The Qatari hack cements the Middle East as the worst region in the world for fake news
If the Washington Post story is true, then the UAE planted fake news via a hack to engineer a crisis over Qatar. The Emirates needed a trigger to spark the crisis and this was it Anthony HarwoodIf the Washington Post story is true then the United Arab Emirates is guilty […]
Malala gets her own Twitter account and these are her first tweets
Source: The Daily Times By Farhan Janjua Nobel Peace Prize winner education activist Malala Yousafzai has joined the microblogging site Twitter on Friday, she announced by saying “Hi, Twitter.” Malala’s […]
99 Beautiful Names of Allah
3rd December 2016 Although the proper name of God is Allah, we know Him generally through His attributes. These attributes describe the various powers God possesses and are in fact His manifestations. God’s attributes are innumerable since human intellect cannot possibly comprehend every aspect of the Supreme Being. In the Holy […]
Facebook meets with Chaudhry Nisar Over Blasphemy Death Sentence
Source: Pakistan Today BY SYED M MURTAZA Pakistan’s social media crack-down is officially aimed at weeding out blasphemy and shutting down accounts promoting terrorism, but civil rights activists say it […]
The 25 Most Influential People on the Internet
Source: Time For our third annual roundup of the most influential people on the Internet, TIME sized up contenders by looking at their global impact on social media and their overall ability to […]
Twitter Protests Trump’s Travel Ban With #GrandparentsNotTerrorists
Source: Huffington Post Banning grandparents won’t make the U.S. safer. By Antonia Blumberg 190 President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban goes into effect at 8 p.m. Thursday. Earlier in the day, Trump administration officials announced […]
Girl, 15, murdered mother and sister as they slept – then watched vampire films
‘Bonnie and Clyde’ killings in Spalding by Kim Edwards and her boyfriend Lucas Markham, also 15, revealed after judges lift reporting restrictions Lucas Markham and Kim Edwards. Photograph: Linconshire police/PA Friday 9 June 2017 11.49 BSTLast modified on Friday 9 June 201722.00 BST A 15-year-old girl believed to be one of […]
Thailand Has Sentenced a Man to 35 Years in Prison For Facebook Posts That ‘Insult the Monarchy’
Source: Time BY Feliz Solomon 5:51 AM ET A military court in Thailand has sentenced a 34-year-old man to 35 years in prison for violating the country’s draconian lèse-majesté law, […]
What Britain needs to fight terrorism is evidence – not ideology
Source: The Guardian By Sayeeda Warsi; Lady Warsi is the former co-chairman of the Conservative party We need to think afresh about the Prevent strategy: the Muslim community wants it, […]
We will not tackle extremism by stigmatizing Muslim citizens
Tariq Ramadan Reducing these acts of violence to an ideological battle between Islam and the west stokes the politics of division and ignores the root causes of terrorism Tariq […]