theguardian: by Giles Fraser — For decades now the United Nations has been unable to agree a definition of terrorism. Even our own supreme court recently concluded that there is no internationally agreed definition. The stumbling block has been that western governments want states and state agents to be exempt […]
Marwan Bishara ALJAZEERA Only a few weeks ago, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seemed to get away with it all. He rebuffed the Obama administration’s peace overtures, expanded illegal settlements in the West Bank, and reneged on his agreement with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by refusing to release the last […]
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Fire at Grand Mosque in Mecca leaves 14 injured Three were hospitalized after a fire broke out in scaffolding. World Bulletin / News Desk muslimworld/141273 A fire broke out on Wednesday night at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, leaving 14 people injured. The Saudi Red Crescent Authority […]
When widespread criticism arose from President Barack Obama’s gratuitous lecturing of Muslims at a White House iftar, about Israel’s right to defend itself as unarmed civilians in Gaza died by the hundreds, it signalled a generational shift in Muslim American leadership. This year’s White House iftar could have proceeded uneventfully like the many others […]
Written and Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Let me first of all applaud Dr. Yasir Qadhi for being one of the few Sunni […]
The Huffington Post: By Ronald Tiersky, Eastman professor of political science, Amherst College As ISIS/Islamic State takes over Mosul and other parts of Syria and Iraq it is imposing an […]
Source: Arab News By: DR. ABDUL KARIM GERMANUS Dr. Abdul Karim Germanus is a well-known Orientalist of Hungary and is a scholar of world repute. He visited India between the […]
Source: TOI GENEVA: Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline […]
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
By KIRAN NAZISHJULY 23, 2014 Mahmud Syed, 67, from Long Island, during Friday prayers at the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation in Jamaica, Queens. On a sweltering afternoon, Mohab A. Sewilam worked […]
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2014/07/01/n-richard-quest-interviews-former-argentina-finance-minister.cnnmoney By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN July 25, 2014 HONG KONG (CNNMoney) The clock is ticking. Argentina will default in just a few days unless the country can find a way […]
Summary It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith. Conflicts take place within and between states; civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to distinguish. That could be a description of today’s Middle East. In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a […]
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Aljazeera: The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to pressure Israel to comply with international law and end its military occupation of Palestinian territories, has garnered significant institutional and governmental support in recent years. Much of its growth has been in Europe, but the BDS movement is also […]
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
Imams warn against radicalism to Aboriginal inmates converting to Islam Date July 24, 2014 8 reading nowRead later Rachel Olding Rachel Olding Reporter View more articles from Rachel Olding Follow Rachel on Twitter Email Rachel inShare submit to redditEmail articlePrintReprints & permissions Goulbourn prison. ASIO alerted: Imams called into prisons […]