Source: Guardian By Carmen Fishwick slamic leaders and Muslims were quick to show solidarity with France and condemn last Friday’s terror attacks. On social media, people used the hashtags #IamMuslim and […]
Source: galwaybayfm.ie Galway Bay fm newsroom – Galway’s Muslim community will hold a special service tomorrow to remember those killed in Friday’s terror attacks in Paris. (Fri 20/11) The Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
Huff Post: by Zeena Mubarak — “And when the baby girl buried alive is asked For what sin was she killed” (81:8-9) These verses, which stop me hard every time I get to them and dance uneasily in my stomach, are part of a gorgeous eschatological passage in the 30th […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Derived from Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: CNN Security forces have reportedly begun a counter-assault on a […]
Three Reactions ISIS is Hoping We Will Have Five days after the Paris attacks, our national security analyst, Ryan Mauro, examines what the Islamic State wants us to do and why. BY RYAN MAURO Thu, November 19, 2015 http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/three-reactions-isis-hoping-we-will-have The Islamic State believes it can use its enemies’ hands for […]
Commandment – Make not your oaths a means of deceit between you [16:93] And be not like unto her who, after having made it strong, breaks her yarn into pieces. You make your oaths a means of deceit between you, for fear lest one people become more powerful than another. Surely, […]
To tackle jihadis, French activist says, ditch reason Source: Reuters Anthropologist Dounia Bouzar used to try religious arguments to turn young people away from militant Islam – and failed. So the […]
Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad says that world’s natural beauty reminds mankind of the greatness of the One God On 17 November 2015, the World Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the Fifth Khalifa (Caliph), His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad visited the Meiji Jingu Memorial in Tokyo on the first day of his current tour of […]
Source: Huffington Post, UK The ex-wife of Paris bomber Ibrahim Abdeslam has told how he spent his days smoking cannabis and drinking alcohol, as reports suggest the terror gang behind […]
Salon.com: (This article was corrected to more accurately and completely reflect Suzanne Nossel’s positions.) The State Department devoted itself to, in its own words, “deferring” U.N. action on Israeli war crimes, “reframing the debate” about the atrocities, and “moving away from the U.N.”, according to numerous emails from former Secretary […]
Nous Sommes Unis ‘United We Stand’ to say Friday congregation at Britain’s Largest Mosque. Photo Opps at Baitul Futuh Mosque, Morden, 1-3 PM Friday 20 November A bus campaign to run in London for two weeks from 23 November 2015 The atrocity in France was a crime against humanity LONDON, […]
QZ.com: Despite what conservative political leaders want you to think, the reason the Muslim world hasn’t done more to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) isn’t because it secretly sympathizes with the terror movement. No, the Muslim world has remained maddeningly ineffective against ISIL because it […]
EXCLUSIVE Did the Pentagon Cook the Books on Its Afghanistan Intel? The military has been accused of fudging the numbers in the fight against the Islamic State. Congress wants to know if it did with the Taliban too. BY DAN DE LUCE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 DAN.DELUCE @DANDELUCE Lawmakers are probing […]
Isis was quick to understand a truth the West must now confront: that the national borders imposed by colonial powers 100 years go are becoming meaningless, says Robert Fisk Robert Fisk @indyvoice 18 comments A Kurdish fighter surveys the border between Turkey and Iraq AFP/Getty Early in 2014, Isis released […]
November 16, 2015 The Paris terror attacks – particularly the methodical shooting of unarmed civilians – have shocked the world and generated new tough talk from policymakers. But the West cannot ignore how some of its violent policy prescriptions over the past 35 years have contributed to the crisis, writes […]
Written by Anonymous President Assad ( who is bad ) is a nasty guy who got so nasty his people rebelled and the Rebels ( who are good ) started […]
Source: Globe and Mail Nahid Neshi often speak eloquently about the pluralistic wonder he considers Canada. But as one of the most high-profile Muslim figures in the country, the Calgary mayor admits he has been “shaken” by the closed-minded, even racist nature of some of the debate over the Syrian […]
‘The bride amongst the cities’ Toronto Star 19 Nov 2015 M. BILAL HASSAN SPECIAL TO THE STAR M. BILAL HASSAN PHOTOS FOR THE TORONTO STARArz O Samawat ( The Heavens and the Earth), on the roof of Frere Hall, was Sadequain’s last project. For most of its history, the city […]
Source: Pew Research Center By Jacob Poushter, who is a senior researcher focusing on global attitudes at Pew Research Center. 42 COMMENTS Recent attacks in Paris, Beirut and Baghdad linked to […]
Source: BBC 17 November 2015 Last updated at 18:05 GMT Russia is not “wedded” to keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power, says US Secretary of State John Kerry. Speaking […]