Source: bbc.co.uk Two African newspapers have apologised for publishing Charlie Hebdo’s cover depicting the Prophet Muhammad, after an outcry from Muslim readers. Kenya’s The Star and South Africa’s The Citizen said they regretted any offence caused to Muslims. Kenya’s media regulator has summoned The Star’s owner after accusing it of […]
With billions of dollars hanging in the balance, Israel and Iran have been waging legal war in Swiss courtrooms since 1981 – while conducting behind-the-scenes contacts over an ever-growing debt to the National Iranian Oil Company. By Aluf Benn | Jan. 17, 2015 | 8:14 AM Thursday, January 23, 2014, […]
An Eritrean Muslim man, 20, was stabbed to death in Dresden on Tuesday Movement is called Patriotic Europeans against Islamisation of the West PEGIDA has spread to Hanover, Leipzig, Dusseldorf, Berlin and Norway By SARA MALM FOR MAILONLINE PUBLISHED: 14:15 GMT, 14 January 2015 | UPDATED: 17:00 GMT, 15 January […]
Source: independent.co.uk After the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris last week, much of our discussion has focused on whether anyone has the freedom to depict Mohamed. But this is misguided in my opinion. Back in 2006, many Muslims were angered when a right-wing Danish newspaper published a series of cartoons […]
Source: independent.co.uk Authorities in Saudi Arabia have publicly beheaded a woman in Islam’s holy city of Mecca, prompting further criticism of the country’s human rights record. More….http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudi-arabia-publicly-beheads-woman-in-holy-mecca-as-blogger-set-to-receive-second-lashing-9982134.html
Epigraphs: Allah likes not the uttering of unseemly speech in public, except on the part of one who is being wronged. Indeed, Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 4:149) Call […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
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:
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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: