History tells us that Europe and Islam can coexist
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, western observers have had harsh words to say about European Muslim communities. Ann Coulter, the right-wing pundit declared on Fox News that, maybe, […]
How Islam Became the Fastest Growing Religion in Europe
http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isVid=1&isUI=1 Source: Time magazine French colonialism and immigration policies across Europe helped fuel migration from the Muslim world The religiously motivated terror attacks in France last week have exacerbated anti-Islamic […]
Quebec Values Charter 2.0: Ban against crosses, hijabs would only apply to new public employees
The National Post: It would no longer be possible for a doctor, nurse or teacher currently on the public payroll to lose their job for wearing a cross or hijab […]
Obama and Cameron Press Conference”everyone” had a role to play in keeping communities safe, warning: “You cannot simply rely on policing and security.”
Source:BBC However, he stressed that “everyone” had a role to play in keeping communities safe, warning: “You cannot simply rely on policing and security.” More:
UK: Concerns that Muslim satellite channels ‘broadcasting hate speech’
Source: asianimage.co.uk Young Britons could be getting radicalised by satellite television channels that the broadcast regulator may struggle to monitor as they are in obscure dialects, the Commons has heard. Labour’s […]
Gorbachev Interview: ‘I Am Truly and Deeply Concerned’
English Site>World>Ukraine>Gorbachev Warns of Decline in Russian Western Ties over Ukraine Gorbachev Interview: ‘I Am Truly and Deeply Concerned’ Interview Conducted by Matthias Schepp and Britta Sandberg Denis Sinyakov/ DER SPIEGEL In a SPIEGEL interview, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev discusses the dangers of poor relations between Russia and the […]
Meet the vigilante who hacks jihadists
By Jose Pagliery @Jose_Pagliery January 16, 2015 NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Anonymous isn’t doing anything new by hacking Islamic extremist websites. A mysterious figure known as “The Jester” has been […]
Prying into Pegida: Where Did Germany’s Islamophobes Come From?
By Maximilian Popp and Andreas Wassermann Tens of thousands of people are expected to take to the streets of Dresden on Monday evening for the latest march of Pegida, a […]
2014 Was Hottest Year on Earth in Recorded History
Source: NY Times: Last year was the hottest in earth’s recorded history, scientists reported on Friday, underscoring scientific warnings about the risks of runaway emissions and undermining claims by climate-change contrarians that global warming had somehow stopped. Extreme heat blanketed Alaska and much of the western United States last year. […]
Grabar-Kitarovic becomes Croatia’s first woman president
Source: Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic of the Croatian Democratic Union was declared winner of Croatia’s presidential run-off with 50,43 percent of the vote, the country’s electoral commission announced late Sunday at the press conference held in Zagreb. More:
Falling oil’s next victim: banks
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) Big energy companies aren’t the only ones losing out on the dramatic fall in oil prices. Banks are in the hot seat, too. Hundreds of banks were forced to shut down in Texas when the state fell into a recession in 1986 during a steep decline in […]
China sacks 32 Xinjiang officials engaged in organizing Mecca pilgrimage
Source:TOI BEIJING: China has begun investigating a significant aspect of the lives of Uighur Muslims in Xinjiang, which concerns the annual pilgrimage to Mecca. It has sacked 32 officials for sending “unqualified people” on government organized tours to Mecca from the disturbed province. Officials removed from their post include Aniwar […]
Has Saudi Arabia bought world’s silence on human rights abuses?
Source:CNN Just two days before the Paris rally, my friend Raif Badawi was removed, in shackles, from a mini-bus outside the Al-Jafali mosque in Jeddah as a large crowd gathered around him after Friday prayers. According to eyewitnesses, he closed his eyes and raised his head skyward as a security […]
The Pope is wrong on religious speech
Source: CNN (CNN)The popular Pope Francis is taking some hits himself after some lighthearted comments that included a pretend punch to a colleague. The comments came while trying to make the point that free speech should have some limits, including on the right to insult another’s faith. More:
Wrong Responses to Charlie Hebdo
Source: NY Times: Leaders in Europe are justifiably trying to figure out what they should be doing to prevent terrorist attacks like the recent massacre at the satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Regrettably, some politicians are proposing the kind of Internet censorship and surveillance that would do little to protect […]
‘Anti-fascist’ mob
Source: The Local A mass of 600 people stormed through central Leipzig on Thursday evening, attacking local government buildings, smashing shop windows, destroying police vehicles and spray painting anti-fasacist slogans along the way. More:
One-a-Day Commandment of the Holy Quran – 354. Commandment – To spend your money on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives
354. Commandment – To spend your money on the kindred and the orphans and the needy and the wayfarer and those who ask for charity, and for ransoming the captives [2:178] It is not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East or the West, but truly righteous is […]
Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close
Are All Terrorists Muslims? It’s Not Even Close By Dean Obeidallah- is Arab American comedian January14, 2015 “Or what about the (dare I mention them) Jewish terrorists? Per the 2013 State Department’s report on terrorism, there were 399 acts of terror committed by Israeli settlers in what are known […]
Why French Law Treats Dieudonné and Charlie Hebdo Differently
NY Times: On the same day that the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo immediately sold out an initial run of five million copies of its latest issue—which featured a cover image […]
Duke University announced it would broadcast the Muslim call to prayer from its iconic chapel, then backed down after threats of violence
theatlantic.com: When I was working on the student paper at Duke, we’d get a letter to the editor once a year or so that would lament that the university had lost touch with it religious roots as Trinity College, a Methodist school. The correspondents would invariably cite the university motto, […]