CLIMATE OF FEAR: People attend funeral for French police officer Ahmed Merabet, who was killed during attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Muslims across Europe fear backlash after the incident. (AFP) AGENCIES Published — Wednesday 14 January 2015 PARIS: Firebombs and pig heads thrown into mosques. Veiled women […]
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Source: comingoffaith.com “What the hell are these bastards doing in my country?” I heard my otherwise calm and usually cultured director, Steve, yelling at the top of his lungs. It was Thursday morning and I was sitting in my office located in South West London’s famous Putney Bridge. Although his yelling caught me […]
Source: m.asianews.it Lukman Hakim Saifuddin intervenes in a dispute involving a Muslim professor in Banda Aceh, who took her students to a church. He called the dean of the university, asking […]
Source: ajc.com We are Charlie Hebdo. These are the powerful words spoken by the Parisian people in light of the horrendous terrorist attack on the satirical French magazine Charlie Hebdo. These […]
Source: bedfordtoday.co.uk The attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has been condemned by the local Muslim community. Abdul Sami – regional Amir for Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Beds, Herts, Bucks and […]
Source: thenorthernecho.co.uk A moderate Imam at a Hartlepool mosque believes that newspapers should not show cartoons of Mohammed, but still defends the right to free speech. Here Tahir Selby explains his […]
Source?: usatoday.com A senior leader of al-Qaeda’s affiliate in Yemen claimed responsibility Wednesday for the attacks on the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people in Paris last […]
Source: usatoday.com BERLIN — Thousands of German Muslims held a vigil Tuesday night to show solidarity for the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks last week and to speak against the […]
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Saudi cleric issues fatwa on snowmen Religious leader forbids building of anti-Islamic idols that might resemble human beings, after winter storm in north of country Reuters in Dubai The Guardian, Monday 12 January 2015 17.18 GMT The building of snowmen has been forbidden by a top Saudi cleric. Photograph: Vadim […]
NY Times: WILL “moderate Muslims” finally “speak up” against their militant coreligionists? People around the world have asked (but, as in the past, have not all seriously examined) this question since last week’s horrific attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and on a kosher supermarket in Paris. In […]
theguardian: by Maeve Shearlaw — A man holds a placard that reads ‘I am Charlie, let’s not forget the victims of Boko Haram’ outside the French embassy in Abidjan. France spent the weekend coming to terms with last week’s terror attacks in Paristhat left 17 dead. The country mourned, and global […]
NY Times: President Obama was criticized for failing to attend, or send a proper surrogate to, the giant antiterrorism march in Paris on Sunday. That criticism was right. But it is typical of American politics today that we focus on this and not what would have really made the world […]
Illawarra Mercury: by Kate McIlwain — Psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg A generation of “snowplough” parents have pampered their children so much that they are driving a mental health epidemic among today’s teenagers, a leading Australian child psychologist says. Dr Michael Carr-Gregg, a high-profile parenting expert who spoke to teachers and parents […]
Huff Post: There has been plenty of fallout from last week’s Charlie Hebdo attack by Islamic extremists: a manhunt for the suspects, rallies in Paris and across Europe and heightened Islamophobia, not to mention the cartoonists at the magazine who lost their lives. In a HuffPost Live interview Tuesday, former […]
Source: NY Times. PARIS — Al Qaeda’s branch in Yemen formally claimed responsibility on Wednesday for the deadly assault a week ago at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo that killed 12 people, saying that the target was chosen by the Qaeda leadership and referring to attackers as “two heroes […]
Turkish president accuses ‘the West’ of being behind Charlie Hebdo attacks and deliberately ‘blaming Muslims’ as conspiracy theories sweep the Internet accusing Israel of orchestrating it The President of Turkey has suggested French security forces are to blame for the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last week, since the culprits had […]
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Source: thediplomat.com The attacks should prompt Muslim-majority states to examine their own records. The two major Muslim-majority states of Southeast Asia, Indonesia and Malaysia, have joined the chorus of condemnations against […]