Before the winner of the Brazil World Cup has even been decided, the 2022 event is facing fresh threats. And this time, it’s not down to construction delays or street protests, it’s ambitious terrorists. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the terrorist organisation currently wreaking havoc in the Middle […]
Source: The Guardian By Ricard Nortan-Taylor July 7, 2014 Richard Dearlove says extremists are now focused on Middle East and giving them publicity in west is counter-productive The government and […]
The Telegraph: by Tom Whitehead, Nick Collins and David Millward — Holidaymakers face invasive physical checks and lengthy delays at Britain’s airports amid fears that jihadists returning from Iraq and Syria plan to target transatlantic flights with laptop explosives and “body bombs”. A tough new security regime was imposed on […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nm8smyh, which sent the original message has been suspended. The authenticity of the account, as belonging to an actual ISIS member has not been verified. A reported member of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which recently dubbed […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine Hafiz — The Twitter account, https://twitter.com/nm8smyh, which sent the original message has been suspended. The authenticity of the account, as belonging to an actual ISIS member has not been verified. A reported member of the militant group Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), which recently dubbed […]
An explosion has devastated a shopping mall in the Nigerian capital of Abuja, killing at least 21 people, according to local police. The blast, which is being blamed on Islamist militants, hit the Emab Plaza in the upscale Wuse 11 suburb just an hour before the national team’s World Cup […]
By Susanna Capelouto, CNN updated 12:47 PM EDT, Mon June 16, 2014 (CNN) — China executed 13 people Monday who were indicted on terrorism charges related to attacks on public places in […]
Heavily armed gunmen have attacked Karachi international airport in Pakistan, killing at least nine people. Hospital sources say three of the gunmen who attacked Jinnah International Airport’s old terminal have […]
Heavily armed gunmen have attacked Karachi international airport in Pakistan, killing at least nine people. Hospital sources say three of the gunmen who attacked Jinnah International Airport’s old terminal have […]
Huff Post: by Sarah Saeed — Islamic. Islamist. Muslim. People use these words to modify the nouns “terror” or “terrorism.” Media describe Boko Haram’s kidnapping of Nigerian girls by using “Islamic” and “Islamist.” There is controversy over the 9/11 Memorial Museum’s use of the term “Islamist” to describe Al Qaeda. Some […]
Like hundreds of other Ahmadi Muslims, Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was murdered only for his faith. Combined, education and compassion can conquer such extremism. Dr. Mehdi Ali Qamar was the type of friend every American would proudly brag about. He was a loyal U.S. citizen. He was only 50, a […]
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 the land […]
Courtesy of Zakaria Virk, the Muslim Times’ Editor for Canada May 27, 2014 – Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and the Honourable Lynne Yelich, Minister of State (Foreign Affairs and Consular), […]
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 the land […]
Huff Post: by David Schanzer— Our ultimate goal should be to make clear this conflict is a battle between civilized people of all faiths and the terrorists — not between Muslims and the West. So, when I talk about al Qaeda and terrorist violence, I say: “The 9/11 attacks were […]
Epigraph: Indeed, Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — In an interview with Reason magazine, this became clear when the interviewer asked if by “defeating Islam” Hirsi Ali meant, “defeating radical Islam?” She replied: “No. Islam, period.” When the reporter asked her to further elaborate what she meant by “defeat Islam” she replied: “I […]
Guernica: by Ali Dayan Hasan — On the invention of “the liberal extremist” and the attempted assassination of a friend. He’s just the wrong kind of Pakistani—the kind that is killed nowadays. On March 28 in Lahore, my friend of almost thirty years, Raza Rumi, journalist and much else, survived […]
Huff Post: by Omar Sacirbey — (RNS) Ask Jalon Fowler, a 38-year-old IT specialist for John Hancock Financial Services, what advice she would give to two Muslim friends who will each be running their first Boston Marathon, and this Muslim convert is happy to opine. “Go easy; stay relaxed,” Fowler […]
Huff Post: by Kashif N. Chaudhry — Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the Khalifa and spiritual head of the worldwideAhmadiyya Muslim Community, for instance, unequivocally condemned the Boston attack and offered his condolences, saying: My sympathies are with the victims of the Boston bombing. We condemn that attack in its entirety. The […]