Erdoğan and the Arab Street

Erdoğan’s stances against Israel made him a hero in the eyes of Arabs, something they don’t usually see in their leaders Yeni Şafak | Haya Al-Atassi | 22 July 2015, 17:37 The mosques are our barracks The domes our helmets The minarets our bayonets The faithful our soldiers This sacred army guards […]

Anbar: A Tale of Two Offensives

BY PAUL IDDON Jul 22, 2015 U.S.-made Humvees being used by Shia militias against Daesh in Tikrit. When the Iraqi Security Forces (ISF) lost control of Anbar’s provincial capital Ramadi just under a year after their infamous loss of Mosul to the marauding Islamic State (Daesh) group late last May […]

UAE criminalizes insult to religion

In this photo taken June 24, 2015, an imam leads evening prayers during the month of Ramadan at the Al Farooq Omar bin Al Khattab Mosque in Dubai. The UAE has outlawed religious or racial discrimination. (AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili) AGENCIES    ARABNEWS.COM Published — Tuesday 21 July 2015 DUBAI: The […]

Iran deal good for the region

Jul 21,2015 – JORDAN TIMES – HASAN ABU NIMAH The fact that the Iran nuclear deal with Western powers was concluded despite mounting obstacles, Middle Eastern allies’ objections and technical difficulties proves that both sides were determined not to allow the effort to fail. US President Barack Obama was clear […]

Topkapi manuscript of the Holy Quran

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Quran Text[show] Content[show] Reading[show] Translations[show] History[show] Exegesis[show] Related[show] Category Islam portal Wikipedia book v t e The Uthman Quran replica at the Grand […]

Moral brigade active in Islamabad again

ISLAMABAD: Are they back – the moral brigades that blackened the faces of women on advertisement boards in 2007? At least that is what people feared when they found bared arms and faces of models on billboards defaced in Super Market during Eid shopping spree. Nobody saw who did it […]

Franklin Graham Should Worry About Radicalizing Right-Wing Christians, Not Muslims

Source: Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid ;Lawyer, Speaker, Best-Selling Author of “EXTREMIST” In his July 17 Facebook post, Franklin Graham, president of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and Samaritan’s Purse, spewed unhinged hatred and bigotry against American Muslims. Writing his response to the Chattanooga shooting, Graham used language that can only succeed […]

USA: Tackling Islamism, post-Chattanooga

BY TAREK FATAH, TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 06:05 PM EDT | UPDATED: TUESDAY, JULY 21, 2015 06:13 PM EDT It has been almost a week since the Chattanooga terrorist Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez issued the equivalent of an Islamic declaration of war on America in a text […]