Muslim bodies to approach SC on marriage age limit
By Express News Service – KOZHIKODE Published: 22nd September 2013 08:13 AM A co-ordination committee of various Muslim religious bodies in the state, with the support of top leaders of […]
‘Sexual jihad’: Tunisian women go to Syria to ‘relieve’ holy warriors, return pregnant
Tunisian women have traveled to Syria to wage ‘sexual jihad’, performing intercourse with dozens of Islamist fighters and returning home pregnant, Tunisia’s Interior Minister Lotfi ben Jeddou told MPs. The […]
Syria: The propaganda blitz
More than a decade after the war in Iraq, have global media outlets learnt to look beyond the spin? View video here: http://aje.me/1exlBbW This week on the Listening Post: Presidents, propaganda and channelling the media to get the message out: a look at the similarities and differences between Syria in […]
Those skimpy bikinis are the least of Indonesia’s woes
TOKYO — Indonesians are taking to the streets to demand the government heed their complaints. Are they livid about corruption? No. Fed up with poverty? Not really. Angry over political gridlock? Not so much. It’s those damn bikinis. In recent days, the nation with the world’s largest Muslim population has […]
Syria: What are we missing?
globalpost: by Jean MacKenzie – Washington’s Blog, a website that appears to take a highly critical view of the administration, insists that the Aug. 21 attack was a plot by the rebels with their Qatari and Saudi backers to get Washington to step in and do their fighting for them. […]
Why Did Terrorists Strike An Upscale Mall In Kenya?
businessinsider.com: Kenyan officials said Saturday they had tightened security across the country in the wake of a terrorist attack that has underscored the challenges Kenya faces as it tries to rein in the Al Qaeda-linked Al Shabab group next door in Somalia. The attack on Nairobi‘s upscale Westgate shopping mall killed at least 39 people and wounded about […]
Diesel Burqa Ad: Islamophobic Or Empowering?
Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey Posted: 09/21/2013 8:08 am EDT Huff Post: (RNS) Islamophobic or empowering? Those are among the reactions to a new Diesel jeans ad featuring a heavily tattooed, white woman wearing a redesigned, denim burqa. The slogan next to her: “I Am Not What I Appear To […]
Bathtub Unearthed In Jerusalem May Have Belonged To One Of Jesus’ Enemies
Huff Post; Have researchers uncovered the bathtub of one of Jesus’ persecutors? The finding is just among one of the discoveries uncovered by a team working at a site in the Mount Zion area of Jerusalem. Believed to have belonged to a wealthy Jewish aristocrat or even a priest, the mansion […]
Demand for US-born imams up as mosques struggle to retain new generation of American Muslims
Washington Post: NAHEIM, Calif. — Mustafa Umar, an imam in Southern California, is popular with the Muslim teenagers who attend his mosque. They pepper him with questions about sensitive topics like marijuana use, dating and pornography. Umar, 31, is a serious Islamic scholar who has studied the Quran in the Middle […]
Khalifatul Masih IV Explains Ahmadiyya Islam’s View on Music
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One Woman Can Have Multiple Genetic Identities—Hers, Her Secret One, And All Her Kids’
Smithsonian.com – Your genes define your starting point in life: nature versus nurture comes after, building on top. But as Carl Zimmer writes in the New York Times, the idea of this singular genetic “you,” that’s built up of cells carrying “your genes” is, upon closer inspection, kind of wooly. Especially if […]
Pakistan: 3 Ahmadiyya mosques vandalized by Punjab police personnel
Ahmadiyya Times: By Imran Jattala – Three Ahmadiyya mosques in Sialkot, a town about 80 miles north of Lahore in the Punjab province in Pakistan, were vandalized by the police personnel themselves – not a mob, it is clarified by several sources in Pakistan. The rumors in the social media that […]
Patterns of Anti-Muslim Violence
By Dr Mohammad Manzoor Alam, The anti-Muslim riots in Muzaffarnagar and adjoining areas are already being compared to Gujarat 2002. As many as 50,000 people have been officially reckoned to have become internal refugees. According to official records, 85 people have died, but unofficial estimates put it at a much […]
Israel Should Annul the Oslo Accords
By DANNY DANON September 20, 2013 JERUSALEM — THIS month marks 20 years since the signing of the first of the Oslo Accords between the State of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization. Two decades after Yitzhak Rabin and Yasir Arafat stood on the White House lawn with President Bill […]
I was an Iraqi refugee. I keep thinking of the 2 million displaced Syrians
My family was forced to flee Iraq in 1991. Now Syrian refugees face similar hardships and are at the mercy of other nations Aseel Machi theguardian.com, Wednesday 11 September 2013 13.45 BST As world powers debate the fate of Syria, there is much less discussion surrounding the status of Syrian […]
The Man With Pink Hair
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN September 17, 2013 I was at a conference in Bern, Switzerland, last week and struggling with my column. News of Russia’s proposal for Syria to surrender its poison gas was just breaking and changing every hour, forcing me to rewrite my column every hour. To clear […]
Was Muhammad ﷺ A Lustful Womaniser?
Source: zainullabiddin.com The Holy Prophet Muhammad (saw) had to face many hardships during his lifetime. One aspect of all the different things that he had to face was the allegations raised […]
Comparative Religion studies banned in Punjab, Pakistan
Source: pakistantoday.com.pk Taking notice of an electronic and social media campaign against one of the most prominent private schools in Lahore for introducing ‘Comparative Religion’ as a subject in its syllabus, […]
Pope Francis: It’s Not Always Necessary to Discuss Abortion and Gay Marriage
Source: crossmap.christianpost.com In a recent article, Pope Francis opened up about his thoughts on the Roman Catholic Church’s focus on abortion and gay marriage — two issues that the Pope has sparingly discussed in the […]
Pakistani Muslim Cites ‘Blasphemy’ in Slaughter of Christian Rival in Business
Source: crossmap.christianpost.com KARACHI, PAKISTAN (ANS) — A Muslim in Karachi slit a Christian’s throat shouting that he was killing “an infidel who blasphemed against Muhammad,” on Saturday (Sept. 14) as police and others looked on, […]