MANILA — Filipino Ruth Pana remembered the windows of her employer’s house in Damascus riddled with bullets. The maid, who escaped first to the Philippine embassy in the Syrian capital and then to Manila aboard an evacuation flight, also remembered one of the sons of her Syrian employer being killed […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Thursday 13 September 2012 The Organization of Islamic Cooperation announced yesterday that it would make all-out efforts for the UN recognition of Palestine when the General Assembly convenes in New York this month. “OIC Secretary-General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has urged a number of countries to recognize Palestine,” said […]
Head of World’s Largest Interfaith Organization Condemns Libya and Egypt Violence, Calls for Deeper Look into Islamophobia and Intolerance FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 09-12-12 Contact: Imam Malik Mujahid, malik@soundvision.com Imam Malik Mujahid, Chairperson of the Board of the Council for the Parliament of the World Religions (www.parliamentofreligions.org), said today that the […]
Source: Rochester Homepage.net By: Ashley Zilka On Tuesday, Rochester’s Muslim community chose to promote peace by holding a blood drive. Attackers in Libya reacted in a different way killing four Americans, including U.S. Ambassador to Libya, Christopher Stevens. “Yesterday we just had a blood drive. Muslims for Life. It was […]
Source: Yahoo news The deadly attack on the U.S. Consulate in Libya may have been a planned operation and not a spontaneous protest that turned violent, U.S. officials told the New York Times and CNN on Wednesday. Initial reports suggested that protesters in Benghazi, Libya, were angry about an online video […]
Populist Dutch politician Geert Wilders has been receiving financial support from American anti-Islam groups, a Reuters investigation revealed on Monday. While that information in itself is not new, the details provided in the Reuters report are, and they beg the question why the domestic Dutch media have seemingly ignored the […]
He wrote: Willard Mitt Romney @MlTTR0MNEY I demand justice for the events in Benghazi. The Liberian people should pay a steep price for their actions. Evidently the guy does not know the difference between the Liberian people and the Libyan people. Should someone like this become President of the USA? […]
By Atifa Ahmed, Calgary Source: Calgary Herald Re: “Imam accused of planting evidence in Pakistan Qur’an burning case against Christian girl,” Herald Online, Sept. 2. As a Canadian Muslim, I am ashamed of what my fellow Muslims are up to, but as a mother and as a professional who works […]
Source: DEVEX Switzerland has taken another step toward meeting its pledge to spend 0.5 percent of its gross national income on foreign aid by 2015: On Tuesday, the Senate moved to close the country’s foreign aid budget at $12.06 billion for the next four years. We break down the funding […]
The Jakarta Globe: This month marked the end of McKinsey & Company’s latest wave of Young Leaders for Indonesia. YLI is an annual series of intensive workshops for high-performing individuals […]
Former US president says American influence in the Mideast waning, US electoral process ‘corrupt’ The Times of Israel: US influence in the Middle East has never been weaker and prospects for a peace settlement between Israel and the Palestinians are grim, former US president Jimmy Carter warned on Tuesday. He […]
An extreme American film that ridicules the Prophet Mohammed and calls Islam a “cancer” provokes violence across Muslim countries. BY Sam Kiley SKY NEWS If there was ever a propaganda […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD On the 11th anniversary of the tragic events of September 11th, 2001, I was thinking about the long term effects of the events […]
Source: ET Altaf Hussain highlighted that Jinnah had included Hindus and Ahmadis in the cabinet – the country’s first foreign minister was Sir Chaudhry Zafarullah Khan, who was an Ahmadi, and the law minister was Joginder Nath Mandal. PHOTO: COURTESY MQM KARACHI: Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah was a liberal-minded Muslim who […]
Source: ET “There can be peace”, stated the notorious Afghan warlord sitting cross-legged across the carpet from me in the air-conditioned cool of his palatial Kabul home. “Yes, there can be but … not until we have killed all of the enemies first”. He is serious — more serious than […]
By A. Abdul Aziz Press Secretary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, Sri Lanka. The three-day international Ahmadiyya Conference concluded on September 9, 2012, at Hadeeqatul Mahdi in Alton, Hampshire, U.K. This international […]
By David Amitai The Daily Star Every week for the past five months, a group of Arab and Jewish women from neighboring towns near Haifa, Israel, have come together to cook. Each week, they meet in a different woman’s home, discovering their commonalities and differences by sharing recipes, culinary traditions […]
ABU TARIQ HIJAZI ARABNEWS Friday 7 September 2012 JEDDAH: THERE are a few rulers in the world who have left indelible impressions in history. Caliph Umar bin Abdul Aziz tops […]
Source: ET Aside from the usual looks of amusement, Afridi’s gangling moustache managed to draw the attention of members of militant group Lashkar-e-Islami. The iconoclastic facial hair caused him to […]
Source: ET LAHORE: “Discrimination begins from the point when children are offered [to study] ethics [rather than compulsory Islamic studies] instead of a subject that relates to their faiths,” Peter Jacob, the National Commission for Justice and Peace (NCJP) executive director, says. More: