Robert Fisk: Ukip couldn’t better what Winston Churchill had to say about Muslims – Churchill published some views so dark about Muslims that he deleted them from future editions – but I kept hold of them

As the Havengore carried Churchill’s body down the Thames, I was not at all enjoying his funeral. A cub reporter on the Newcastle Evening Chronicle, I was based in the frozen coal port of Blyth, where even the puddles of vomit outside the pubs frosted over on Sunday mornings. And […]

Jihad or Murder?

By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid Newsline: Such is the unfortunate volatility of our state that a blast in Peshawar, on any other day, might have been viewed as just another act of terrorism. Bomb blasts have been ubiquitous in Pakistan in the last several years, and this city has been jarred […]

Time for honest debate about Islam

CNN.com: Harris Zafar is national spokesperson and youth vice president for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, which describes itself as an international revival movement within Islam. He is also author of “Demystifying Islam: Tackling the Tough Questions.” The views expressed are his own. (CNN)Just a month into the year, and already […]

The truth about Muhammad and Aisha

Source: The Guardian By Myriam Francois-Cerrah Writing about Muhammad, the prophet of Islam, the Orientalist scholar W Montgomery Watt wrote: “Of all the world’s great men, none has been so much maligned as Muhammad.” His quote seems all the more poignant in light of the Islamophobic film Innocence of Muslims, which […]