by Thomas Stephens, swissinfo.ch July 23, 2013 – 11:12 The Swiss media have reported the birth of Britain’s new prince, but without the feverish full-page coverage of their British counterparts, […]
The Reykjavík environment and planning board has kind of already promised the Association of Muslims in Iceland a building site in Sogamýri in Reykjavík, so they can build a mosque. Chairman of the planning board says they plan to honor that promise. This would be the first mosque in Iceland. […]
Source: BBC Fugitive US intelligence leaker Edward Snowden has been given an official pass to leave Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, Russian airport officials say. Russian media say the migration service issued the document, but the service has not yet commented. He has stayed in transit since arriving from Hong Kong on 23 […]
Source: Dawn It is not merely the faith or oil that flows out of Saudi Arabia. The oil-rich Arab state and its neighbours are busy financing Wahabi and Salafi militants across the globe. A recent report by the European Parliament reveals how Wahabi and Salafi groups based out of the Middle East […]
Source: The Daily Beast They have escaped one war only to find themselves as casualties and combatants in another—a conflict waged against them less publicly and not with bullets or missiles. The weapons employed are sexual harassment and abuse, domestic violence and the exploitation by the unscrupulous of economic distress, […]
Source: The Daily Beast After a month straight of eating food from Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, this must be welcome news for Edward Snowden. The fugitive leaker reportedly was granted key immigration documents from Russia on Tuesday, according to local media—meaning he can finally leave the airport. Snowden has been in […]
What deterrence could we expect if 12 FPI supporters only received between three and six months in jail for butchering three Ahmadiyah followers in Banten in 2011, or a suspended FPI leader in Bekasi was sentenced to only five and a half months’ imprisonment for attacking a church minister and […]
Huff Post: by Yasmine. Halalgoogling.com is dreaming big, as they aim to become, “the number one search engine in the Muslim community.” Simply put, the site’s strict filters prevent users from accessing haram, or forbidden, content through the search engine, although according to their blog, users can do much more. Haram literally means […]
salon.com: A U.K. poll found that Muslims in that nation donate more on average to charity than other religious groups, NBC News reports. Adherents of Islam gave an average of $567 to […]
Source: Gulf News Manila: The majority-Catholic Philippines told Muslim teachers Tuesday to remove their veils inside classrooms, in part to promote better relationships between teachers and pupils.Education Secretary Armin Luistro said the move was part of reforms to make schools more sensitive to religion.Muslim schoolgirls will still be allowed to […]
Source: Gulf news: Dubai: A male passenger was ejected from a Saudi flight on Tuesday after he made improper remarks to a stewardess onboard. Saudi Arabian Airlines flight SV 1055 was set to take off from Riyadh to head to Jeddah when a disturbance in the cabin forced the delay […]
Source: Asia Times: The British Raj worked for 10 years to create Pakistan. In 1930, the British began to polarize irreconcilable enmities between Hindus and Muslim. Britain used agents working among Ismaeli Shi’ites and the Ahmadyya sect to pioneer the creation of an artificial country – by yoking together independent […]
Source: BBC The White House is urging Congress to reject an attempt to stop the National Security Agency (NSA) collecting Americans’ phone records.With a key vote coming up, President Barack Obama’s spokesman said curbs on the NSA would “hastily dismantle” a vital counter-terrorism tool.NSA chief Gen Keith Alexander spent Tuesday […]
Source: Dawn.com By Tahir Mehdi I am not referring to sectarian differences within Islam as these are much more than two. Sects are not unique to our religion. All religions have these. The followers of one sect are not a completely homologous group either, as they may differ on other counts […]
Source: TOI: MANILA: Afghanistan’s first woman governor and a Myanmar civil society organiser, who both helped families displaced by conflict in their home nations, are among five winners of Asia’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize this year. The Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation on Wednesday singled out Afghanistan’s Habiba Sarabi, a […]
Source: TOI SOFIA ( BULGARIA): Bulgarian police on Wednesday broke up a blockade of parliament and escorted out more than 100 lawmakers and ministers who had been trapped inside the besieged building for more than eight hours by anti-government protesters seeking to oust the left-leaning government. Police in riot gear […]
Source: TOI RIO DE JANEIRO: Hundreds of thousands of young Catholics packed the beach of Copacabana on Tuesday for the start of a weeklong religious event in Rio de Janeiro that includes gatherings with Pope Francis. Rain clouds cleared in time and pilgrims from around the world waved flags, sang […]
Source: TOI WASHINGTON: As if politics in Washington and the United States isn’t divisive enough, Hindus and Muslims from the subcontinent have brought their decades-old partisan feud to America. A tactically leaked letter by 65 Indian lawmakers, many of them Muslims, to US President Barack Obama, pressing him not to […]
Source: The Local. German police were left speechless at the weekend when they stopped a group of inventive revellers cruising around town in a unique swimming-pool-car of their own creation – sloshing water onto the pavement at every turn. More:
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden Click HERE for interesting Video. (From minute 20 onwards)