Hollywood puts a thin mask on racial stereotyping Toronto Star, Sep. 22, 2013 The problem with Raj’s accent in The Big Bang Theory is that Hollywood is playing into a stereotype of Indian men not being ‘real men.’ By: Veena D. Dwivedi Published on Sun Sep 22 2013 The news […]
Source: CNN (CNN) — British-born Samantha Lewthwaite was once seen as a kind of victim of the July 2005 London terror attacks — the pregnant wife of one of the suicide bombers who killed 52 people, now left alone to care for her children. She condemned the attacks, but then vanished. […]
Epigraph: And there is life for you in the law of retaliation, O men of understanding, that you may enjoy security. (Al Quran 2:184) Source: BBC A court in China has sentenced a […]
By Johann Grolle spiegel.de Columbus’ arrival in the Americas sparked the globalization of animals, plants and microbes. A recent book takes a closer look at how items from the New […]
Source: CNN Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) — All Saints Church was designed to look like a mosque — to symbolize unity amidst a community of many religions. Completed in 1883, it was built within the old walled city of Peshawar during a century of relative peace and harmony. But the weekend bombing […]
By Bruno Schrep Spiegel.de After three-and-a-half years of legal wrangling, there’s still no end in sight. At least officially, the case centers on €290.70 ($392). The K. family, thus identified […]
By Cecilia Okoth and Saudha Nakandha Pope Francis has called on the Muslim fraternity to promote peace and development saying it will bring about reconciliation. During a mid-morning visit to the Supreme Mufti, Sheikh Shaban Mubajje at Uganda Muslim Supreme Council (UMSC), Archbishop Michael Blume, the Apostolic Nuncio in Uganda, […]
They keep on claiming they are democratic. They show how democratic they themselves are! People sometimes get impressed by the way they speak or present their stance. Here is the true concept of their democracy. Mr. Maududi’s ‘Siasi Kashmakash’ is also published as ‘Tahreeq e Azadi e Hind aur Musalman’. […]
ETWhenever there is a terrorist attack in Pakistan, there are the usual rounds of condemnation from various quarters. Then, people go about their business as usual, till another such attack happens and then the film is repeated again. It seems that everything happens but nothing happens. People condemn the act, yet still, […]
Washington Post— Abercrombie & Fitch will change its “look policy” and allow employees to wear hijabs after a three-year legal battle with two Muslim women was settled out of court. The settlement requires Abercrombie to report religious accommodation requests and discrimination complaints to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for […]
By Nicola Nasser PALESTINE NEWS NETWORK The blind sectarian rampage, which has been waging a war on worship mosques, churches and religious shrines have become a modern Arab trade mark phenomenon, since what the western media called from the start the “Arab Spring” overwhelmed the Arab streets. The sectarian rampage […]
By MATTHEW LEE — Sep. 24 2:02 PM EDT UNITED NATIONS (AP) — American officials say Secretary of State John Kerry will sign a landmark treaty regulating the multibillion-dollar global arms trade during the annual United Nations General Assembly meeting this week. The officials said Kerry will sign the Arms […]
NAIROBI, Kenya: The terrorists who took control of a Nairobi mall and held off Kenyan security forces for four days have been defeated after killing at least 67 civilians and […]
The government’s decision to reduce the number of domestic pilgrims this year by 50 percent has forced Haj service providers to double their charges in order to offset their losses, […]
Tuesday September 24, 2013 8:35 PM, IINA Colombo: Sri Lanka’s main Muslim political leader, who is also the justice minister, criticized his own government for blaming religious tensions in the mainly Buddhist nation on Islamists. Rauf Hakeem said he had been “disturbed” by recent comments from the country’s defense minister, […]
When it comes to Muslim-related issues we, in Britain, do things differently. We do not ban the face veil which is worn by some Muslim women, like they do in […]
Irtiqa: by Salman Hameed – Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) Secretary Maulana Abdul Rauf Farooqi said it was time to pounce on Ahmadis. He called them apostates and said that they deserved “extreme steps”. It is easy to target a minority. History, unfortunately, is full of such examples. We are seeing one […]
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‘Intolerance in Indonesia is becoming mainstream’ Indonesia has long been celebrated for its pluralism, but there are signs that this may be about to change Source: Catholic Herald Earlier this summer, I spent a month travelling around Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim-majority nation and third-largest democracy. It is a nation […]
Source: Toronto Sun BY SHAWN JEFFORDS ,TORONTO SUN FIRST POSTED: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2013 11:10 PM EDT | UPDATED: SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 2013 05:51 AM EDT TORONTO – The Canada Revenue Agency has revoked the charitable status of an Islamic group after it says it distributed over $280,000 to an agency allegedly linked to a terrorist organization […]