An inadvertent acknowledgement by Charlie Hebdo
Source: Open Salon By Muhammad Zafrullah My first reaction to seeing a caricature of a crying Prophet Muhammad, saying “I am Charlie” was an unhappy one. The unhappiness was partly brought […]
The uprising of the decent
Source: The Economist STILL they march, every Monday in Dresden, as they have done since October. Numbering about 18,000, they call themselves Pegida, or “patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the Occident”, and they are against too many asylum-seekers and migrants. They worry most about Islam, surprisingly for Saxony, where […]
Hackers Make New York Post And UPI Twitter Feeds Announce World War Three
Source: huffingtonpost.co.uk Hackers announced the beginning of World War Three – via the Twitter accounts of a major tabloid and news agency they had managed to take over. In a series of eerily-realistic tweets, The New York Post and United Press International (UPI) said an American aircraft carrier had been […]
Charlie Hebdo aftermath: we French must find how to keep this spirit of unity
Source: theguardian.com Rachida Dati, the first Muslim woman to hold a key ministerial post in France, calls for a new stance on religion In the immediate aftermath of the terrible attacks that have shaken our country, the French came together last week in a rarely equalled demonstration of national unity. […]
France must reach out to disillusioned young Muslims, says director of The Class
Source: theguardian.com The large numbers of children in mainly Muslim areas of France who refused to observe a minute’s silence for the victims of the Paris terror attacks shows that the country has “serious work to do to avoid a catastrophe”, warns Laurent Cantet, director of an award-winning film set […]
London mosques sent death threats and Prophet Mohamed drawings after Charlie Hebdo attack
Source: independent.co.uk Mosques in London have been sent death threats, hate mail and drawings of the Prophet Mohamed in the wake of the Paris attacks. Tell Mama, which records Islamophobic hate crime in Britain, said it had received reports of incidents at the East London Mosque, in Tower Hamlets, and Finsbury […]
Je suis Muhammad – worldwide protest in the Muslim countries
By Shahid Khan The latest front cover Prophet Muhammad cartoon on the satire magazine “Charlie Hebdo” has sparked new eruptions of violence throughout the Islamic world. The cartoon depicted the Prophet Mohammed holding a “Je suis Charlie” sign as a reference to the solidarity slogan which went viral on social media after the […]
Selma: A Movie, Every Black, Brown and White Person Will Enjoy
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
The Supreme Court and Gay Marriage
Source: NY Times: For the second time in three terms, the Supreme Court has agreed to consider the constitutionality of same-sex marriage. The last time around, the justices declined to take up the broad question. This time, there is every reason for them to follow the logic of their own […]
India is ready to talk about religion. Is Pakistan?
Source: ET The new Rajkumar Hirani-directed Bollywood movie PK starring Aamir Khan and Anushka Sharma has divided opinions in India. ‘#BanPK’ trended on Twitter, there were protests all over India and religious groups burnt posters of the movie at processions but the movie is in course to be the highest grossing Indian […]
Saudi Arabia: Holy hypocrites
Source ET I was born in Saudi Arabia and am very closely accustomed to the grossly odd laws that exist within the nation, namely, and perhaps most famously, that women are not allowed to drive, that women have to don the black abaya when in public and that there is […]
Churches torched in Charlie Hebdo protests, as France defends free speech
Source: ET NIAMEY: A violent mob torched at least seven churches in Niger’s capital Niamey Saturday during fresh protests against Charlie Hebdo magazine, as France’s president stressed his commitment to “freedom of expression.” With France still reeling from last week’s deadly attacks that killed 17 people, jittery European countries stepped up […]
French centre, churches attacked in Niger in Charlie Hebdo protest
NIAMEY (Reuters) – Demonstrators in Niger attacked the French cultural centre, set fire to churches and raided Christian shops on Friday, as protests erupted against Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons in several Muslim West African countries. Staff of the satirical French weekly, which had angered Muslims by publishing images of the Prophet […]
King orders court rethink over 950 lashes for blogger
Source: thetimes. A blogger sentenced to 1,000 lashes has had his punishment suspended after a direct intervention by the Saudi royal family as the country appeared to bow to international uproar over the case. Raif Badawi, 31, whose installment of 50 lashes due yesterday was postponed on medical grounds, will […]
Charlie Hebdo fallout: Belgium deploys troops, UK raises terror alert to ‘severe’
Source: rt.com Europe is in a state of high alert after anti-terror raids netted over two dozen arrests. UK police have raised threat level to ‘severe’ fearing attacks similar to the one narrowly averted in Belgium, while Brussels has deployed troops to guard key sites. The security beef-up in Britain […]
Laughter is the best medicine: I think we need Mullah Nasruddin
Vengeance – Nasruddin style One day, Mullah Nasruddin heard a knock on his door. He opened the door and found his daughter standing there crying with a bruise on her eye. “What happened?” Nasruddin asked. She said that she got into a fight with her husband and he beat her. […]
Boko Haram victims underwhelmed by Nigerian leader’s visit
A surprise visit to insurgency-hit Borno state by Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan before an election has been written off by displaced persons as a bid to assuage his critics. A car bomb attack in Maiduguri in July 2014 was blamed on Boko Haram Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ventured into the […]
Two sentenced to death for Ahmadi mosque attack in Pakistan, in 2010
Source: Samaa.tv: LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court (ATC) today awarded death sentence to two militants for their role in 2010 bomb and gun attack on an Ahmadi worship place in Lahore. The two convicts, Maawia and Abdullah, were handed the sentence on seven counts. Both the militants are members of proscribed Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan […]
Court sentences Ahmadi worship place attackers to death, life imprisonment
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IRAQ : Interview with German ‘Islamic State’ fighter surfaces
Journalist Jürgen Todenhöfer’s interview with the German “Islamic State” fighter Christian Emde was released on Wednesday and aired on private TV network RTL. Filmed in Mosul with masked men carrying guns in the background, Todenhöfer also published the interview on his Facebook page. In an accompanying comment., the journalist said […]