OSCAR-NOMINATED FILM Swiss ‘secondo cinema’ shines in Hollywood By Ariane Gigon FEB 20, 2015 – 08:00 Talkhon Hamzavi was born in Tehran in 1979 and arrived in Switzerland aged seven (Keystone) Swiss-Iranian film director Talkhon Hamzavi has been nominated for an Oscar for her coming-of-age social drama about a young […]
BY HAYA MUHAMMAD EID Source: OnIslam.net Published — Friday 20 February 2015 The Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) once said, “Who from my Ummah (universal nation) would learn five qualities to act upon or teach to those who would (in turn) act upon them?” Abu Hurairah said, “I, O […]
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR Published — Friday 20 February 2015 ARABNEWS.COM Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman has instructed authorities to open the newly expanded areas of the Grand Mosque in Makkah for use by the growing number of Umrah pilgrims and worshippers. “King Salman has approved the […]
Rami G. Khouri| The Daily Star If I read one more article or hear one more speech by a Western politician telling us that we are experiencing a war within Islam between radicals and moderates, or a battle for the future and soul of Islam, I will seek medical options […]
Michael Young| The Daily Star As prospects for the emergence of new sectarian and ethnic entities rise in the Middle East to replace illegitimate, authoritarian states, it is necessary to ask what will happen to Lebanon, the only Arab state that has sought to build its political system around a […]
NY Times: STERLING, Va. — Imam Mohamed Magid tries to stay in regular contact with the teenager who came to him a few months ago, at his family’s urging, to discuss how he was being wooed by online recruiters working for the Islamic State, the extremist group in Syria and […]
3 Toronto police officers charged with sex assault and gang sex assault Avery Haines and Tammie Sutherland Feb 19, 2015 12:14:25 PM http://www.680news.com/2015/02/19/3-toronto-police-officers-charged-with-sex-assault-and-gang-sex-assault/ Three suspended Toronto police officers have been charged with sexual assault, following a story that CityNews broke first two weeks ago. The officers, Sameer Kara, Leslie Nyznik […]
Suggested Reading: A Compliment in Disguise: Pakistan Government has Banned the Muslim Times Source: Guardian YouTube is banned and tweets are censored, while pornography thrives and foreign Islamist militants have their […]
Epigraph: Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be […]
Source: Patheos February 18, 2015 by Qasim Rashid Recently The Atlantic published a piece titled, “What ISIS Really Wants.” The lengthy piece makes numerous fallacious claims about ISIS and its relation to Islam and Islamic doctrine. Accordingly, and significantly, it misses the strategy necessary to counter and overcome ISIS terrorism. […]
Source: Huffington Post By Fiyaz Mughal, Director of Faith Matters and the Tell MAMA project The recent murders of Shia community members in Pakistan has not drawn out the shock and […]
Source: Arab News: LONDON: British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said Russian President Vladimir Putin poses a “real and present danger” to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania on Thursday and said NATO is getting ready to repel any possible aggression. Fallon, whose remarks were published as Britain said it had scrambled jets […]
hopenothate.org.uk: A group of Norwegian Muslims will be forming a circle around Oslo synagogue after the celebration of Shabat this Saturday in a solidarity gesture called the Ring of Peace. […]
theguardian: by Alan Yuhas — Court found Poland violated international law by allowing CIA to host a secret facility where Abu Zubaydah and Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri were tortured Polish foreign minister Grzegorz Schetyna said details would be worked out in the next few weeks. Poland will comply with a court […]
Source: NY Times: At least 20,000 fighters have travelled to Syria and Iraq over the course of the recent conflicts in the two countries, according to a recently updated report by the International Center for the Study of Radicalization and Political Violence. In response, many countries have passed laws making […]
Source: The Local A group of young Norwegian Muslims plans to create a human ring around Oslo’s synagogue following the Shabat celebration this Saturday, in a gesture they are calling a ’Peace Ring’. More:
Source:ET Iraq’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad al-Hakim, asked the Security Council to investigate allegations that the Islamic State (IS) is harvesting organs in order to finance its operations, Al Arabiya News reported. The ambassador stated that bodies with missing kidneys and surgical incisions had been unearthed in shallow graves over […]
Guardian: Muslims in the US and around the world have a responsibility to fight the idea that terrorist groups like Islamic State speak for them, Barack Obama has declared in his most direct remarks yet about any link between Islam and violent extremism. “We are not at war with Islam,” […]
The battle for Pakistan’s survival is being fought right here, on these very catwalks, reports Tim Bale. —AFP London Extra reports from Pakistan By Tim Bale (reporting from Karachi and Lahore for the London Extra) http://www.dawn.com/news/1164428/the-bookstalls-and-catwalks-of-defiance-in-pakistan I boarded an Emirates Airline plane from Dubai to fly to the Pakistani city […]
By Imam Rizwan Khan What is the hypocrisy of atheism? It is to deny the validity of belief, all the while holding one’s own set of beliefs. When atheists hold […]