Aurangzeb and Islamic Rule in India
When historians look back at Muslim rule in India, their perspective greatly shapes the way they present historical characters. Some people are seen as great and enlightened leaders, while others […]
Mecca Clock Tower Photo Shows Kaaba In The Shadow Of Abraj Al-Bait Building
The Huffington Post | Yasmine Hafiz The Masjid Al-Haram is an iconic image for millions of Muslims who dream of making the once-in-a-lifetime Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca, but its silhouette […]
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood shows signs of fracturing after Morsi’s fall
By Charlene Gubash, Producer, NBC News CAIRO – Just last month, the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood had a lock on Egypt’s presidency and parliament. Now, after mass protests backed by the country’s military swept President Mohammed Morsi from power, the organization venerated throughout the Muslim world for its discipline, ministry to […]
The Ever Present Question of Suffering
Epigraph: And when My servants ask you about Me, say: I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should lend an […]
Egypt’s Sphinx casts eyes on Syria
Source: Asia Times: By M K Bhadrakumar It looks increasingly that solving the Egyptian puzzle is going to take us all to Syria. How far the army’s coup in Egypt resets the geopolitics of the Middle East, or, conversely, whether the coup itself forms the commencement of a region-wide tectonic […]
What the Abbottabad report didn’t reveal
Source: Asia Times: By Sameer Patil Al Jazeera TV’s leak on July 8 of a classified report on the US military raid in Abbottabad, which killed Osama bin Laden, has triggered a controversy in Pakistan. The report holds former President Pervez Musharraf – who was also the former army General […]
MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS
Source: Daily Star MIXING RELIGION WITH POLITICS An otherwise little known group Hefazat-e-Islam has become instrumental in winning election, especially at a time when everyone has thought that secularism in Bangladesh taking a strong foothold. Political use of religion–especially Islam–is back, and it seems to have all the ingredients to […]
War trial: 90 years for Ghulam Azam
Source: Daily Star Former Jamaat-e-Islami chief Ghulam Azam has been handed 90-year jail for his role in the murder and genocide of the independence-seeking people of the land who were fighting occupation Pakistani army in 1971. All the five charges, which include murder and torture of unarmed people, conspiracy, planning, […]
Where there is no separation of religion and state
Source: Asia Times: By Hossein Askari: Professor of Business and International Affairs at the George Washington University. The global media almost never questions the religious credentials of politicians and rulers around […]
Poland’s Kosher Slaughter Ban Unacceptable And Harms Jewish Life Says Israel
Source: Huffington Post JERUSALEM, July 15 (Reuters) – Israel criticised on Monday the extension of Poland’s ban on kosher meat production, saying it damaged efforts to rehabilitate Jewish life in […]
Who Speaks for Islam: What a Billion (and a half) Muslims Really Think
linktv: In a roundtable discussion, host Ray Suarez interviews author Reza Aslan (No god But God; How to Win a Cosmic War) and Dalia Mogahed, Executive Director of the Gallup […]
The Secret To Finland’s Success With Schools, Moms, Kids — And Everything
Business Insider: by Olga Khazan. It’s hard not to get jealous when I talk to my extended family. My cousin’s husband gets 36 vacation days per year, not including holidays. If he wants, he can leave his job for a brief hiatus and come back to a guaranteed position months […]
Muslim group excluded from July 4 parade
Stateman.com: By Brad Stutzman Austin Community Newspapers Staff Spectators who lined the July 4 route through downtown were treated to a wide variety of sights and sounds, among the approximately 110 entrants in Round Rock Sertoma Club’s annual Independence Day parade. They saw soldiers in uniform, combat veterans on motorcycles and […]
37yrs for UK to clear immigration backlog
The SUN: IT will take 37 YEARS to clear a new backlog of half a million immigration cases, MPs reveal today. The Home Affairs Select Committee said it is “staggering” […]
US envoy arrives as Egypt freezes assets of top Islamic leaders
ET: CAIRO: A senior US official flew into Cairo early Monday, hours after Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the freezing of assets belonging to 14 top Islamic leaders. Under Secretary of State Bill Burns, the first US official to visit since the overthrow of President Mohamed Morsi, is scheduled to stay there until […]
Temple Mount
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Temple Mount הַר הַבַּיִת, Har haBáyith الحرم الشريف, al-Haram ash-Sharīf, Elevation 740 m (2,428 ft) Location Temple Mount Jerusalem Range Judean Coordinates 31°46′40.7″N 35°14′8.9″ECoordinates: 31°46′40.7″N 35°14′8.9″E Geology Type […]
President Gus Dur’s Nine basic values of struggle
Yogyakarta, NU Online In addition to talking about democracy, the movie entitled “Under the Flag of Democracy” also describes nine basic values of struggle propagated by KH Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus […]
UK new curriculum revised to include Islam history
Press TV: British Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced his national curriculum after revising it to include a module on the history of Islam. The changes were made after an […]
Top Jamaat-e-Islaami leader found guilty of Bangladesh war crimes
DHAKA: A Bangladeshi court on Monday found a top Jamaat-e-Islaami (JI) leader guilty of masterminding atrocities during the 1971 war of independence against Pakistan and sentenced him to life imprisonment, as violence broke out across the country between police and his supporters. The decision angered both supporters who said the […]
Boko Haram leader calls for more schools attacks after dorm killings
Dated: July 2013 Source: The Guardian UK The leader of Nigeria‘s Islamist militant group Boko Haram has called for more attacks against schools, describing western education as a “plot against Islam”, in a video released days after his fighters killed 46 students in an assault on a dorm. In the 15-minute recording released at the […]