Kenya’s anti-terror unit guilty of abuses, says HRW
Kenya’s Western-funded anti-terrorism unit has carried out a series of killings and “enforced disappearances” during its fight against militant Islamists, a rights group says. READ MORE…
Enough lies, the Arab body politic created the ISIS cancer
Alarabiya: by Hisham Melham — Most people are averse to introspection, and rarely engage in self-criticism. Arabs are no different. However, the political culture that developed in the Arab World in the last 60 years, particularly in countries ruled by autocratic regimes, shifted blame from their catastrophic failures in governance […]
Why Muslims Hate Terrorism More
Here we go again. Another so-called Islamic terrorist group, ISIS, is committing horrific atrocities. And Muslims are again called upon to denounce them. How can anyone believe that small groups […]
To break bread or to boycott: that’s Muslim Australia’s choice
theguardian: by Joseph Wakim — Many Muslim Australians watched with horror as their American counterparts were humiliated at Barack Obama’s annual Iftar dinner at the White House on 14 July, when he appeared with Israeli ambassador Ron Dermer. With Dermer’s tweeted support, Obama said during the dinner that “Israel has the right to defend itself […]
‘Get ready for 100-year war with Islam’: Former Australian Army chief underlines homegrown jihad threat and warns ‘terrorists only have to be lucky once’
The former Chief of the Australian Army, professor Peter Leahy, has warned that Australia needs to prepare itself for a century-long war, both overseas and at home, against radical Islamic militants. Currently the director of the National Security Institute at the University of Canberra, professor Leahy told Daily Mail Australia […]
Urdu Video: Salman Khan Talks on Terrorism, Islam & Pakistan
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ISIS Is Ignoring Islam’s Teachings on Yazidis and Christians
The news coming out of Iraq is really devastating. The violent extremist group known as ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) continues to take over major parts of Iraq, […]
Muslim community should not feel targeted by Government’s counterterrorism laws, academic says
The Muslim community in Australia should not feel targeted by the Federal Government’s proposed expansion of anti-terrorism laws, a Muslim academic says. The Government is proposing a broadening of the counter-terrorism regime that would include making it an offence to visit certain areas dominated by terrorists, without justification. READ MORE…
Military jets escort Qatar Airways plane to Manchester Airport
A man has been arrested on suspicion of making a hoax bomb threat after military jets were called to escort a passenger plane to Manchester Airport. The Qatar Airways plane was escorted in to land by the Royal Air Force (RAF) following information received by the pilot. Greater Manchester Police […]
India Shaken by Case of Muslim Men Missing in Iraq
Kalyan, India: For more than a decade, as alienated young Muslim men from all over the world left home to fight on the side of Islamists in distant conflicts, it has been a truism that they were not coming from India, a country whose participatory politics and preoccupation with nearby […]
The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza
theguardian: Editorial — Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, five, sits in a classroom where her family of seven now lives, at a UN school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But […]
Nigeria Kano blast: Boko Haram blamed for six deaths
At least six people have been killed in a suicide bombing at a college in northern Nigeria’s biggest city, Kano, witnesses say. The female bomber is reported to have blown herself up as students queued to check their names on an admission list. Meanwhile the government says a 10-year-old girl […]
Paint it Black!!! Dr Adib Rizvi road
Grand Trunk Road: by aliarqam — On 23, 2010, President Asif Ali Zardari while signing “gift of life” certificate ceremony announced that his government would nominate prominent medical professional, philanthropist and founder of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT)Dr Adibul Hassan Rizvi for Nobel Peace Prize in recognition of his services in the […]
Civil War within Islam in Nigeria
On July 23, there was an effort to murder two of Nigeria’s prominent Muslim leaders, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, a cleric with a large personal following, and Muhammadu Buhari, former head of state. The attempts were two separate operations, though they appear to have been timed close together, in the former northern […]
If we can have just war, why not just terrorism?
theguardian: by Giles Fraser — For decades now the United Nations has been unable to agree a definition of terrorism. Even our own supreme court recently concluded that there is no internationally agreed definition. The stumbling block has been that western governments want states and state agents to be exempt […]
Poll: Was shooting Down Malaysian Airline Flight with 295 on Board Terrorism?
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
Jihad, justice and the American way: is this a model for fair terrorism trials?
theguardian: by Sadhbh Walshe — Sitting and waiting in US District Court here on Wednesday, you got the undeniable sense that something unusual was about to happen. Here was the end of a terrorism trial with two men who had already pled guilty – the British citizen Babar Ahmad to providing material […]
Israeli onslaught shatters western belief that Arabs are source of violence
Source: Mondoweiss By Leila Abu-Orf on July 16, 2014 Last week I saw that my white American uncle posted something on Facebook. It was an article from some obscure far right-wing news source and it was called “Support the Civilized Man: Defeat the Jihadists.” Lo and behold, the article was a […]
Muslims in China province say they are banned from fasting during Ramadan
Chinese Muslims in the Western region of Xinjiang are distressed because they are banned from fasting during the holy month of Ramadan. Xinjiang is home to the mostly Muslim Uighur community, one of China’s 56 recognized minority ethnic groups. Three Muslim students told the BBC they were forced to have meals […]
Caliphornia dreamin’
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declares himself leader of all Muslims—who don’t buy it A FEW details looked out of place: the watch on the speaker’s right wrist, a fan whirring behind him and machine guns propped against the walls. Otherwise, as a thickly bearded, black-robed preacher slowly mounted the pulpit of […]