Source: The Telegraph Burma has acknowledged the persecution of its stateless Rohingya Muslim minority and is considering giving citizenship to thousands of members of the group as a first step to finding a solution to the conflict with local Rakhine Buddhists. The government’s search for a ‘win-win’ solution to the […]
Source: Washingtonpost YANGON, Myanmar — The authorities have ordered people in strife-torn western Myanmar to surrender guns, swords and other weapons to the police within three days or face legal action. The announcement in the state-run Myanma Ahlin daily on Thursday said that some groups of people in the state […]
As election day looms, I know I’m not the only American woman biting her fingernails. We all care about who the next president will be, but for women the race is particularly anxiety-inducing. The difference between President Barack Obama and governor Mitt Romney on issues of gender can be measured […]
Ahmadiyya Times: Lutf Blog: By Lutful Islam : In order to understand the motives behind Bhutto government’s decision to declare Ahmadis non-Muslims, we also need to understand the sequence of events leading […]
RT: A major oil spill has occurred in the strait of water separating Staten Island, NYC and the state of New Jersey. The spill, of more than 300,000 gallons of diesel fuel, reportedly occurred in the wake of Superstorm Sandy. The Coast Guard said the incident occurred in the Arthur […]
Chicago Tribune: GENEVA (Reuters) – Pakistan, plagued by Islamists militancy, sectarian violence and frequent disasters that push its people deeper into poverty, told the United Nations on Tuesday it is a democratic and progressive state working to protect human rights. But Western countries and the normally anti-Western Belarus countered that […]
Source: The Guardian Guardian: US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against […]
British anti-war campaigners will hold a protest against the rise of Islamophobia in Britain and across Europe in London on Friday November 2. The Stop the War Coalition said the […]
In an effort to bring stability amid the ongoing finger-pointing between the Syrian rebels and government over blame for disrupting a truce, UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi is in Moscow […]
Srinagar, Daily News & Analysis The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has held that a Muslim man’s power to divorce his wife is not “unrestricted or unqualified”. Justice Hasnain Masoodi in his 23-page judgment extensively went into details of the Shariah law and Quranic injunctions to hold that a “husband […]
Express Tribune: UN human rights investigators called on Myanmar on Wednesday to halt deadly sectarian violence and warned it not to use the conflict as a pretext to remove Rohingya minority Muslims. Some 89 people have been killed in clashes between Buddhist Rakhines and Muslim Rohingyas in western Myanmar in the past 10 days, […]
Express Tribune: LAHORE: The police arrested a teacher and the owner of a high school on blasphemy charges on Wednesday evening, following a day of clashes with enraged protesters outside the school in Karim Park. An FIR was registered against the Farooqi Girls High School administration, owner and principal Asim Farooqi, […]
Credit: The Muslim Matters.Islamic Political Thought: Sacred and the Secular: by Sh. Abdullah Hasan A number of classical and contemporary scholars proposed divisions for the actions of the Prophet . Chief among them are […]
Switzerland has accepted 50 recommendations made by other states as part of a human rights peer review process carried out by the United Nations Human Rights Council, while rejecting four […]
by Renat Kuenzi, swissinfo.ch For Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan, joining the European Union is no longer a priority. Instead he is pursuing a course of industrialisation and Islamisation, says […]
MAKKAH: Arab News Thursday 1 November 2012 A boy scout has won the praise of Muslims around the world for carrying an Algerian pilgrim to a Makkah pilgrim guidance center […]
PARIS — French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday said he wanted “concrete acts” from Iran to prove it was not pursuing nuclear arms, after his first direct meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Addressing a press conference with Netanyahu, whose aim during the two-day visit is to press for […]
Kinerette Rinat BenSimon remembers well the last time there was trouble on the northern border with Lebanon. (Source MSN News – http://arabia.msn.com/news/world/508946/praying-for-peace-preparing-for-war/) Her young daughter was terrified and refused to hide in her kindergarten’s bomb shelter unless her mother was there. Her three-year-old son was ecstatic that there were so […]
Source: Review of Religion Author: Navida Sayed Halloween is a festival celebrated around the world on 31stOctober. It is a day which has become commercialised, most people being unaware of its true origins. Instead, most associate Halloween with only pumpkins, scary costumes, bonfires and trick or treating. Societies go to […]
Franca24. French Minister for Women’s Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem on Wednesday unveiled wide-ranging plans to fight homophobia in France that include teaching primary school children about issues affecting LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) people. She said the Education Ministry was looking at changes to the school curriculum designed to reduce the […]