Islamic hardliners vowed on Thursday to stop the “immoral” Miss World beauty pageant taking place in Indonesia even after organisers agreed this year’s contestants would not wear bikinis. The Hizb […]
LUBP: Last week an American woman (Nicole Lynn Mansfield) has been killed in Syria while fighting alongside rebel forces against the Assad regime alongside two other Westerners—the U.K. press has […]
Source: Huffington Post By Nathan Lean: Editor-in-Chief, Aslan Media; Author There is something crudely colonial about the words of former British Prime Minister, Tony Blair, who responded to the killing of […]
theguardian: by Homa Khaleeli. From online abuse to fire bombs thrown at mosques, there has been a spike in anti-Muslim attacks. While many incidents are not reported to the police, […]
Jews and Muslims Worldwide Attending The Event “Mission of Muslim Leaders and Jewish Leaders from Southern Hemisphere Countries” in Washington D.C. PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With the U.S. State Department’s eye-opening Report […]
Huff Post: By Jaweed Kaleem. After years of pressure from civil rights groups and lawmakers who say attacks against religious and ethnic minorities are not adequately monitored by law enforcement, the FBI will begin formally tracking hate crimes against Sikhs, Hindus and Arabs. Meeting in Portsmouth, Va., on Wednesday, an […]
Guardian: Malnutrition identified as root cause of 3.1 million deaths among children: Lancet Malnutrition is the underlying cause of death for at least 3.1 million children, accounting for 45% of all […]
On Twitter by Shahzad Raza: Persecution of Ahmedis, Shias and other religious minorities has killed the true essence of secularist ideology of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, who never envisioned creating a […]
Thursday, 6 June 2013, 2:51 pm SCOOP.world Press Release: US Government USGov: Testimony of Deputy Asst Secy Baer At Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing Deputy Assistant Secretary Baer at the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission Hearing on Indonesia, May 23, 2013 Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Bureau of Democracy, […]
On board the cruise ship, the Palestinian boys who murdered a wheelchair-bound American pensioner had seen a lifestyle they knew nothing of, according to new research The was an Italian […]
STORY SUMMARY Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri urged Syrians to unite to bring down President Bashar al-Assad and thwart what he said were U.S. plans to set up a client […]
ET: Amnesty International on Wednesday urged the incoming Pakistan government not to surrender respect for human rights in any potential peace talks with the Taliban or any other armed group. The organisation in a statement released on Wednesday further urged the new government to make human rights a top priority […]
By John Esposito, a professor of International Affairs and Islamic Studies at Georgetown University. Published: June 5, 2013 at 3:22 pm Washington Post: The Boston Marathon bombings (April 15, 2013) and […]
By Craig Considine craigconsidinetcd: In a recent article for Yahoo Contributors Network, Maryam Khan Ansari wrote about how internet postings with anti-Muslim hate messages may soon be subject to federal criminal laws. In her article, Ansari discussed how Bill Killian, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee, has plans to use federal […]
The Muslim Times Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By Qamar Zaman Published: June 6, 2013 ISLAMABAD:Partly scripted and partly extempore, Nawaz Sharif’s 30-minute speech, his first as the prime minister, […]
Author: Shahzad Raza Source: Dawn As Pakistan witnessed a historic democratic transition, many in the county have started to believe that the days of military supremacy are over. But not on the roads, at least not yet. As Nawaz Sharif, along with his family, […]
Source: CNN More than 2 million children have been affected by the military deployment of at least one parent within the past decade, and thousands have had to cope with […]
Source: CNN Dr. Rita Colwell has studied cholera for nearly 50 years, and has written more than 700 publications and received at least 40 honorary degrees. Her team helped develop an incredibly simple method to help the people of rural Bangladesh have cleaner, safer drinking water. “We found that sari […]
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syrian government forces and their allies in Hezbollah, the Lebanese militant group, seized most of the strategic crossroads town of Qusayr early on Wednesday, a painful defeat […]
by Laura Smith-Spark, CNN London London (CNN) — Police are investigating whether anti-Muslim sentiments were behind a fire early Wednesday that caused extensive damage to a Somali community center in north London. The fire, in the Muswell Hill neighborhood, is being treated as suspicious, the Metropolitan Police said in a […]