Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism? By Hasnet Lais (Getty Images) You’d think after watching BBC Three’s Make me a Muslim documentary, being a female convert to Islam is so riddled with fault lines. Not really. My recent interviews with Muslim converts offered a rare glimpse into […]
ON RELIGION On TV, an Everyday Muslim as Everyday American T. Lynne Pixley for The New York Times Mujahid Abdul-Rashid, a Muslim from the Bay Area, appears as himself in a commercial for retirement financial products. By SAMUEL G. FREEDMAN Published: February 8, 2013 On a Sunday afternoon several months ago, […]
Opposing Views: Alex Carpenter. Islam has been a significant presence in Kosovo since the 1300s. Once a part of the Roman empire, the Ottoman empire, greater Yugoslavia and now a small, independent republic in the heart of the Balkans, Kosovo has for centuries been both a seat of Islamic learning […]
Russian TV: Hard-line Egyptian clerics have called for the assassination of opposition leaders and claimed sexual assaults against women protesters were justified. Meanwhile, following days of calm, anti-government protesters again clashed with police. On Friday, opposition leader Hamdeen Sabahy said that death threats against him or other members of the […]
STORY SUMMARY The chief of the Netherlands’ top intelligence agency is warning that dozens of Dutch citizens are fighting with rebels in Syria and could return home battle-hardened, traumatized and even further radicalized. Read more: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2013/Feb-08/205629-spy-chief-dutch-citizens-are-fighting-in-syria.ashx#ixzz2KP53NiMR (The Daily Star :: Lebanon News :: http://www.dailystar.com.lb)
Asian Human Rights Commission: Though the police have exonerated all five persons falsely accused of committing blasphemy they have failed to take any actions for their protection. This is particularly important as no action whatsoever has been taken against their accusers who are members of the militant Ahle Sunnat Waljamat. […]
David Ignatius Opinion Writer WASHINGTON POST Something startling is happening in the Muslim world — and no, I don’t mean the Arab Spring or the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. According to a leading demographer, a “sea change” is producing a sharp decline in Muslim fertility rates and a “flight from […]
Dawn: KABUL: The US-led international coalition on Friday rejected a UN rights group’s concern about reports that US military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past […]
Platinum Jubilee Mubarak to all Khuddamul Ahmadiyya around the globe. Report by M. Furquan Ali: Two Local Majlis of Bhagalpur zone Majlis Khuddamul Ahmdiyya Tatarpur and Brahpura (of Bhagalpur city) […]
RT: A state of emergency has been declared in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York and Maine with citizens being warned to stay indoors. A potentially record-breaking snow storm has brought the US northeast to a grinding halt and left one dead. Thousands lost power amid flight cancelations and a nuclear […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Saturday 9 February 2013 Haj Minister Bandar Hajjar will start meeting today with Haj officials of various countries to discuss arrangement for this year’s Haj pilgrimage. Over the next three months, Hajjar will meet with officials of 70 Haj offices from different parts of the world. While […]
By Rami G. Khouri The Daily Star STORY SUMMARY For anyone who wonders why so many people around the world criticize American and Israeli foreign policy and militarism, this has been a valuable learning week. I refer to the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings on Chuck Hagel’s nomination to […]
STORY SUMMARY Rebels block off key Damascus highway Rebels pushed forward in their battle with the Syrian army in Damascus Friday, clashing with regime soldiers in contested neighborhoods in the northeast and shutting down a key highway out of the capital with a row of burning tires, activist said. Meanwhile […]
Source: The Economist. Buddy, can you spare a dime? A very, very large one? THERE is no lack of world-beating records in Bangladesh. It starts as the world’s most densely populated country (not counting city-states and the like). Its capital, Dhaka, merely an undistinguished district headquarters at time of […]
Source: The Economist. EVEN the French say so: David Cameron played a near-perfect match. “He is a real negotiator; very, very tenacious,” declared a senior French official amid the brutal bargaining over the EU’s seven-yearly budget that dragged on for a whole night and a day. When it was all […]
Source: ET ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court has decided to take up a petition that questions how the members of the Election Commission of Pakistan were chosen. The petition filed by the Minhajul Quran International (MQI) chief Dr Tahirul Qadri on Thursday requested the court to immediately reconstitute the commission just weeks […]
Source: bdnews24.com 1 / 1 Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Bangladesh began its three-day annual convention on Friday in Dhaka with a call to spread the messages of the holy Quran and Prophet Hazrat Muhammad. This year’s convention marked its centenary celebrations that kicked off on Thursday amid attacks by their Muslim […]
France24. By Tony Todd (text) Some 30 French Imams on February 4 visited the Holocaust Memorial at Drancy near Paris in an effort to improve Islam’s image to a sceptical French public. The visit was unprecedented and comes at a time of high tensions towards the country’s large Muslim community. An IPSOS […]
From the Jewish Journal: My only Iranian friend I could talk to was the very first person I met last summer at a bus station in Bratislava while waiting to […]
RT: The headquarters of Israeli football club, Beitar Jerusalem, have been torched on Friday by a group of racist fans, protesting against the signing of two Muslim players from the […]