Pakistan blast: Lahore census team hit by suspected suicide bombing
Source: BBC At least six people have been killed in a suspected suicide attack targeting census workers and their security escort in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Four of the […]
Should we blame Islam for terrorism?
Source: Guardian By David Shariatmadari It’s a question even liberals can find themselves asking after attacks such as the one in Westminster. But the answer can’t be yes – and here’s why Since the Westminster attacks, many people seem to have been getting stuck on the following question, as they do […]
YOU SHOULDN’T BLAME ISLAM FOR TERRORISM. RELIGION ISN’T A CRUCIAL FACTOR IN ATTACKS.
Source: The Intercept By Mehdi Hasan What do you think of when you hear the word “terrorist”? Big beards and brown skins? Turban-wearing Muslim migrants from the Middle East? Refugees maybe? […]
The 712-page Google doc that proves Muslims do condemn terrorism
Source: The Guardian By Arwa Mahdawi It happened in history class. Heraa Hashmi, a 19-year-old American Muslim student at the University of Colorado, was supposed to be discussing the Crusades with […]
After Terrorist Attack, a British City Linked to Jihadis Winces and Asks Why
Source: The New York Times By KATRIN BENNHOLD and KIMIKO de FREYTAS-TAMURA MARCH 26, 2017 Photo The minaret of a mosque in Birmingham, England, where Khalid Masood resided before he attacked […]
‘We shouldn’t have to keep saying sorry’: After the London attack, Muslims react with fear and anger
Source: The Washington Post By Jennifer Hassan LONDON — Even before authorities named the assailant in the Westminster attack as 52-year-old Khalid Masood, the word “Muslims” began trending on Twitter. Despite limited details on the attacker’s […]
British Official: WhatsApp Can’t Be a ‘Secret Place for Terrorists’
Source: Time By Gregory Katz / AP Mar 26, 2017 LONDON — Encrypted messaging services like WhatsApp must make their platforms accessible to intelligence agencies, a top British security official declared […]
UK: Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community condemns “brutal” terrorist acts
Source: https://www.londonnewsonline.co.uk/21210/islamic-leader-condemns-brutal-terrorist-acts/ By Toby Porter – March 23, 2017 Muslims in south-west London have condemned the terrorist attack which killed three people and left 40 injured yesterday. The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, which has followers in New Malden, Kingston, Putney & Wimbledon, has slammed the “barbaric” attacks on Westminster Bridge and in the […]
IS claims responsibility for London attack; UK’s May defiant
Source: Associated Press By JILL LAWLESS and PAISLEY DODDS LONDON (AP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Thursday for an attack by a man who plowed an SUV into […]
London attack: What we know so far
Source: BBC Four people have died and 20 people have been injured after what police are treating as terrorist attacks in Westminster, earlier on Wednesday. Here is what we know […]
CNY Inspirations: True Islam Rejects All Acts of Terrorism
Source: Syracuse.com By Dr. Muhammad Zafar Iqbal, who is a member of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Syracuse chapter. He is a radiation oncologist currently practicing as medical director of radiation […]
Pakistan army launches first nationwide anti-terrorism operation
Source: The Washington Post By Pamela Constable February 23 at 2:44 PM ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — When the Pakistan army announced that it was launching a nationwide military operation to “indiscriminately” […]
Merkel: ‘Islam is not the source of terrorism’
Aljazeera: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said Islam is not the source of “terrorism” and that cooperating with predominantly Muslim states in the fight against it is vital. Merkel, who […]
‘Blind sheikh’ convicted in 1993 World Trade bombing dies in NC prison
Source: RNS By Reuters/ Bill Trott (Reuters) Omar Abdel–Rahman, the extremist Muslim cleric known as “the blind sheikh” convicted of conspiracy in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and planning more attacks as part of a “war of urban terrorism” in the United States, died in a North Carolina prison, […]
Pakistan says kills 100 ‘terrorists’ after suicide shrine attack
Source: Reuters By Syed Raza Hassan | SEHWAN SHARIF, PAKISTAN Pakistani security forces killed dozens of suspected militants on Friday, a day after Islamic State claimed a suicide bombing that […]
‘Telephone terrorism’ has rattled 48 Jewish centers. Is anyone paying attention?
Source: CNN By Daniel Burke, CNN Religion Editor (CNN)Samantha Taylor was at Orlando’s Jewish Community Center for a morning meeting when she heard reports of a bomb threat crackle from […]
Husbands Are Deadlier Than Terrorists
Source: New York Times By Nicholas Kristof, who has been a columnist for The New York Times since 2001. He grew up on a farm in Oregon, graduated from Harvard, […]
Paris unveils glass wall to protect Eiffel Tower
Source: BBC The Eiffel Tower in Paris is to have a 2.5m-high (8ft) wall of reinforced glass built around it as protection against terror attacks, officials say. The Paris mayor’s […]
White House Weighs Terrorist Designation for Muslim Brotherhood
Source: The New York Times By PETER BAKER WASHINGTON — President Trump’s advisers are debating an order intended to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a foreign terrorist organization, targeting the […]
French soldier shoots attacker outside Louvre
Source: BBC A French soldier guarding the Louvre in Paris has shot a man who tried to attack a security patrol with a machete shouting “Allahu Akbar”, police say. The […]