Courtesy Dawn News: ………When it comes to Ahmadi students, the state and society tolerates deliberate violations of their fundamental human rights. It was only in September 2011 when two schools in Dharinwala […]
Source: Znews, Times of Assam and Euraasia Review Bangladesh coup linked to 1971 war Islamist Conspiracy against Bangladesh Government – Bangladesh Army Hizbut-Tahrir ( HT) Steps Up Attempts To Subvert Bangladesh Army – Analysis The above news should be a wake up call for Pakistan as much as it is […]
Courtesy Daily Dawn: ……….This actually shouldn’t come as a surprise in a country where the state has for long been active in defining what or who a ‘Muslim’ is, and that too in a society brimming with various sects and sub-sects. This has left the sects judging one another, sometimes […]
Source: The Daily Star. Bangladesh Civil society members’ reaction – Noted economist and academician Prof Muzaffer Ahmad said the coup attempt is the result of ‘unrest’ prevailing in society. “The military force is not isolated from our society. The force is influenced by ongoing unrest in our society,” he said. He […]
In a classic example of how people forget to do parenting of their own children and take up the task of parenting the whole world. Moeed Abdul Salam, a radical came from a Plano family that promoted interfaith harmony. He didn’t descend into radical Islam for lack of other options. He […]
Courtesy Express Tribune: Pakistan Muslim League –Quaid (PML-Q) MPA Shahzad Elahi, speaking during the Punjab Assembly session on Friday, said the province had become a ‘living hell’ for minorities. […]
Source: Washington Post, VOA & Business week DHAKA, Bangladesh — The Bangladesh military said Thursday it foiled a plot by a group of hardline officers, their retired colleagues and Bangladeshi conspirators living abroad to overthrow Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. The coup attempt underscored tension between Hasina’s government and elements of […]
Courtesy Dawn.com: Sana Saleem: On Saturday evening a group of men attacked a mosque in Manghopir, they slapped the children, ransacked the mosque, kicked the shelves holding the Quran, smashed and broke the loud speakers and threatened and accused the children of disrupting a carol. How dare the mosque call […]
More than 10 percent of parents around the world say their child has been cyberbullied and nearly one-fourth know a youngster who has been a victim, according to a new […]
By LAWRENCE DAVIDSON, ARABNEWS The announcement came from the mayor’s office of New York City (NYC) on Dec. 19, 2011 in the form of an 11-page declaration. It begins: “Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Cornell University President David J. Skorton and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology President Peretz Lavie today announced an […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — A nearly two-month lull in American drone strikes in Pakistan has helped embolden Al Qaeda and several Pakistani militant factions to regroup, increase attacks against Pakistani security forces and threaten intensified strikes against allied forces in Afghanistan, American and Pakistani officials say. The insurgents are increasingly […]
Euro News: With EYP – the European Youth Parliament Masha from France: I’d like to know if Muslim extremism is a real issue in Europe. Michaël Privot, Director of the European Network Against Racism, responds: Reports from Europol on terrorism threats since 2006 show that, out of roughly 2,150 attacks […]
AFP: MANILA – The Philippines said Sunday it was preparing to enter a “substantive” phase of peace talks with Muslim rebels aimed at ending a long-running insurgency in the country’s troubled south. Teresita Deles, the chief presidential adviser on the peace process, said peace talks with the Moro Islamic Liberation […]
RT: Mohammad Salman Hamdani was on his way to his job at the DNA analysis lab at Rockefeller University on September 11, 2001 when the 23-year-old EMT and police cadet raced to the World Trade Center to lend a hand. It was months before Hamdani’s mother learned that her son’s […]
DAWN: Sana Saleem: It was on this day last year, when a 26-year-old Mumtaz Qadri killed the very man he was meant to protect. Twenty seven bullets to silence Salman Taseer and to make sure that the debate on misuse of blasphemy laws is shunned for good. It was this […]
NY Times: CAIRO — With the Muslim Brotherhood pulling within reach of an outright majority in Egypt’s new Parliament, the Obama administration has begun to reverse decades of mistrust and hostility as it seeks to forge closer ties with an organization once viewed as irreconcilably opposed to United States interests. […]
Courtesy: Eurasia Review January 2, 2012 By Rajeev Sharma Under the Prime Ministership of Sheikh Hasina, Bangladeshhas undoubtedly cracked down on the jehadi brand of terrorism as well as terror outfits that have been needling India for years. But Dhaka may have to do more tomake these efforts more […]
Source / Courtesy: Daily Times (Reuters) – New York police are investigating as bias crimes four Molotov cocktail attacks on Sunday night including one against a mosque with 75 people inside and another against a Hindu place of worship. No injuries were reported. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Monday […]
RT: The rise of neo-Nazism across Europe has been progressing steadily, with Germany in particular seeing more and more young people being drawn to extreme-right groups. RT’s Egor Piskunov has been examining what is driving this dangerous trend. With a population of only 6,000, Zossen is a typical small German […]
DawnOKARA: Sultan Mehmood Gujar was a solid supporter of militants and even donated money to them, until he attended an innovative 40-day lecture series by a moderate cleric aimed at countering violent extremism. The course, given to the public at an Islamic school in a hotbed of militancy in Pakistan, […]