Tuesday 13 May 2014

Around the Muslim World on Tuesday 13 May 2014


Source : Chicago Tribune

                                          



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News
Daily Caller
US Muslim groups won't move to excommunicate Boko Haram
On May 7, Abdul Malik led a group of Muslimadvocates at a press conference at the National Press Club, where they denied that Islamic strictures are ...
Muslim scholars condemn Boko Haram kidnappings
Shaykh Abdallah bin Bayyah, President of Forum for Promoting Peace inMuslim Societies, condemned the recent kidnapping of hundreds of young ...
Times LIVE
A Response to the Question: “Why Aren't Muslims Condemning Boko Haram?”
As a leader in the Muslim community, just about every time a crazy Muslim or group of Muslims do something insane in the world, I am asked or ...


Muslim parties back Prabowo
Only days after the National Awakening Party (PKB) pledged its support to the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P) and presidential ...
Daily Times Nigeria
Rampant Muslim hypocrisy is why I left Islam
As a Muslim-born woman, I am not sure where to direct my anger. The fanatical Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram has kidnapped 276 Nigerian ...


Muslim-Muslim ticket is a PDP agenda to confuse Nigerians – APC chieftain
A former Minister of Information, Prince Tony Momoh, has described the alleged plans by the All Progressives Congress to fly a Muslim-Muslimticket ...


Muslim leaders embrace Ayatollah Tehrani's call for religious coexistence
LONDON — Muslim leaders in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, Bahrain, India, and Iran are echoing the call for religious tolerance and "coexistence" ...


The Muslim Brotherhood's anger at Sisi's piousness
“He's using religion to win over public opinion” and “he's exploiting Islam to serve his political aims” are only some of the accusations the Muslim ...
Onislam.net
An Open Letter to Bill Maher From a Muslim American
Your liberal bigotry against Muslims and Islam is no secret. For a while now I've just avoided watching your show, which kind of stinks because for ...
Pakistan Today
Muslim father in UK beat daughter, 14 with tennis racket for relationship with white boy
Muslim father slapped and beat his 14-year old daughter for “shaming” their community after he discovered she was having a secret affair with a ...

Islam, Muslims now tested by new threats: Najib
KUANTAN: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak said Islam and its followers are now being tested by new threats under the guise of humanism, ...
Telegraph.co.uk
CAN decries forceful conversion of abducted girls to Islam
THE Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) has said by the forceful conversion of Christians among the abducted schoolgirls of Chibok secondary ...

The Guardian
Islamic Cleric Tells U.S. Jury He Admired Bin Laden
A file photo shows Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri addressing devotees at the "Rally for Islam" in central London, on August 25, 2002. Close
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Keighley student Islam's Dark Room poem wins award
The Young Writers Foundation gave IslamHussain, of Highfield, the Young Writers Creativity Award for his poem Dark Room. Islam's father, Sabir ...
Pakistan Today
Nothing without Islam, says president
Islam gives special attention on family affair and if there is peace and harmony in a family it will have good impacts on its surroundings and society,” ...
CHANNELS
Boko Haram: Islam does not support killings – Governor Aliyu
image Niger State Governor, Babangida Aliyu, has stated that it was high time the Federal Government deployed all its weapons to fight the dreaded ...


Nigerian Islamic Group Rejects 'Conversion' of Kidnapped Chibok Girls
An Islamic organisation, Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has rejected the claims by Boko Haram in a new video that majority of the over 200 school ...
Western Journalism
5 Things Bill Maher Got Wrong In Latest Islam Rant
However, the segment on Islam (below) in last weekend's episode of 'Real Time' went beyond typical antipathy and included 5 points that were simply ...
WPTV
Muslim Advocates Amplify 9/11 Museum Film Concerns
Now the Council on American-Islamic Relations' New York chapter has asked ... and assign collective responsibility to Muslims and Islam," they wrote.


BLOGS
There Are No “Moderate” Muslims – Just Varying Degrees of Authenticity To Islam… | The Last ...
The Last Refuge  sundance
(Via Daily Caller) U.S. Islamic leaders won't try to formally excommunicate the Islamist Boko Haram group unless they can meet with its leadership to ...


Conversion Of Christians Among Abducted Girls ToIslam Unacceptable – APC – iREPORTS-NG ...
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has strongly condemned the reported conversion to Islam of the Christians among the over 200 schoolgirls who ...


Islam vs. Human Conscience — on The Glazov Gang » | RUTHFULLY YOURS
RUTHFULLY YOURS  Ruth King
Dr. Durie discussed Islam vs. Human Conscience, analyzing how Islamwages war on humans moral judgment and intuition (starting at 5:30 mark).


VIDEO: Obama presidency too PC on Islam even for liberals? | Gretawire
Gretawire  Greta Van Susteren
Watch our conversation with Amb. John Bolton from tonight's ON THE RECORD and sound off.


Erbil to Aleppo: Kurdistan, Islam and the Syrian War | The Revealer
“Kurdish Islam is not the Islam of Saudi Arabia or Iran,” Mariwan Naqshbandi the KRG's minister of religious affairs has been quoted as saying.


Takfirism parochial reading of Islam: Academic -Islamic Invitation Turkey
Islamic Invitation Turkey  Ä°slâmi Davet
Extremist groups like Boko Haram led by al-Qaeda leaders and other Takfiri mindsters are bent on delivering a “blow to Islam” by presenting a “wrong ...


Islam Debates OK? Yes? No? - Islam News Room .com
Islam News Room .com  Administrator
There is a brother worried about a Christian at work who is learning Islam. He told us what happened after trying to debate with him and showing ...


Islam is The Same “Here” as “Over There” | Dailyrollcall.com
Dailyrollcall.com  ch565
The chameleon of Islam is exposing itself, and the Islamists “here” in America are very uncomfortable. Claims of “Extremists like Boko Haram are about ...


WEB
Twitter / RichardDawkins: Some people who criticise Islam ...
Some people who criticise Islam are also, as it happens, racists. Therefore everyone who criticises Islam is racist. Masterly logic. Reply; Retweet ...


Opinion: What does Islam say about... - Al Jazeera English | Facebook
Opinion: What does Islam say about atheism? http://aje.me/1nA41J2.


ISLAM VS CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA | Thom Hartmann - News & info from the #1 ...
ISLAM VS CHRISTIAN MISSIONARIES IN AFRICA. Roland369's picture. Submitted by Roland369 on 12. May 2014 - 12:37. One of the major ...

Around the Muslim World on Monday 12 May 2014


                              


News
Telegraph.co.uk

Nigerian Muslims in DC area denounce extremist kidnappers as un-Islamic
On Friday, in a Brentwood, Md. mosque full of Nigerian-born Muslims, the imam delivered a thundering sermon calling for “Boko Halal,” or “books are ...
The Hindu

Varanasi: Why many Muslims find hope in Narendra Modi
Varanasi: Amid all talk of communal polarization and the Muslim antipathy towards Narendra Modi, a section of the community has been working ...
The Hindu

Muslim cleric backs Arvind Kejriwal
SummaryA day before Varanasi goes to polls, a clerics' body here extended support to AAP candidate Arvind Kejriwal, who is pitted against BJP's ...
Indian Express

A diversified Muslim vote, and yearning for change in Poorvanchal
*All of the 11 Muslim candidates fielded by the SP — considered the biggest party of Muslims in UP — lost in the state in 2009. Murli Manohar Joshi ...


Muslim leaders must condemn Islam's extremes
I have lived in the Middle East where I had many Muslim friends who were good, decent people. Behind closed doors they would distinguish Muslims ...
New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers
Bobby Farid Hadid is a former sergeant with the Citywide Debriefing Team who is a Muslim immigrant from Algeria. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New ...
The News on Sunday

The Muslim League and Pakistan
Recently I have been reading the voluminous book on the All India Muslim League from its inception to 1947 by Professor Rafique Afzal. This is a very ...

Indian Express

Last day, Mulayam tells Azamgarh Muslims: Have taken risk for you
Hoping to woo the Muslim community, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav tried to strike an emotional chord at a rally in Saraimeer Saturday.

BBC News
Protecting Islam By Telling the Truth
By Salafism, Shekau was referring to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that grew up to counter Western influence in the Middle East and Africa.
ABC News
Islam Is Innocent of "Boko haram"
The followers of Boko haram resist the school education and seek to establish what they call a pure Islamic state ruled by Sharia laws, putting stop to ...
Daily Sun
Sultan: Islam Does Not Support Terrorism
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, Monday said Islam does not in any way support terrorism and other obnoxious acts being ...
This Is Lancashire
Challenging lazy views of Islam – on all sides
BARRISTER Zia Chaudry has written a new book to help debunk some of the harmful stereotypes people may perceive of Islam – and which he hopes ...
Over 1000 convert to Islam this year
As per official statistics just released, Dubai has seen over 1,000 new Muslims at the Islamic Information Centre of the Dubai government-run Dar Al ...
Islam encourages education of women
Education elevated women in Islam to a status of equality and elevated Europe out of the Dark Ages. Indeed, education is the solution to defeating ...
The Malaysian Insider
Isma: Malays, Islam Under Siege From Proxies Of 'Jewish Zionist Evangelists'
PIC: The Malay MailKUALA LUMPUR: Malay-Muslims are being assailed by agents of “Jewish Zionist Evangelists” out to dilute the race's construct ...
National Post
Boko Haram's Terror Is Based on Thuggery, Not Islam
He refers to his actions as God's instructions and in the most recent video, he claims to have converted all of the hostages to Islam. Shekau thus is not ...
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Keighley student Islam's Dark Room poem wins award
Islam said: “Dark Room is based on a young person who is depressed and can't leave their room. It talks about the social life of young children who ...
Onislam.net
An Open Letter to Bill Maher From a Muslim American
Hey there, Bill. You hate religion. You particularly hate Islam. We get it. Your liberal bigotry against Muslims and Islam is no secret. For a while now I've ...


BLOGS
Prison Planet.com » Bill Maher Shocks: 'Islam Is The Problem'
Prison Planet.com  admin
Truth Revolt May 12, 2014. Christian-hater Bill Maher turned his dim wit on Muslims in his latest show on HBO. “Islam is the problem. … All religions ...


Jihadist Trophies of War | FrontPage Magazine
FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage  Dawn Perlmutter
How the jihadist warrior achieves status and honor in Islamic holy war.


Pregnant Christian Sentenced to Death for 'Apostasy' Pressured to Embrace Islam
Morningstar News  Our Sudan Correspondent
The El Haj Yousif Public Order Court in Khartoum yesterday (May 11) told her she had until Thursday (May 15) to convert to Islam, suggesting she ...


Hudud testing PAS, Umno's allegiance to Islam, ex-NST boss says | Malaysia Today
Malaysia Today  Super Admin
(Malay Mail Online) – The ongoing hudud issue is an acid test for both PAS and Umno in their willingness to cast aside political differences for the ...


Taking the Islamic Challenge Seriously - Crisis Magazine
Crisis Magazine  William Kilpatrick
So it's refreshing to finally hear a world leader (in this case, a former world leader) admit that global Islamic terror actually does have something to do ...


Female Scholars and Preachers in Islam - SuhaibWebb.com
SuhaibWebb.com  John (Yahya) Ederer
... “re-interpreting” scripture. The beauty of Islam among religions is in its universality, its compatibility with science, and its versatile legal tradition […]


[WATCH] Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls New Video — Converted To Islam - Hollywood Life
Hollywood Life  Lauren Cox
Boko Haram has released new video which allegedly shows some of the 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, claiming they have been converted to ...


France Submits to Islam by Guy Millière | RUTHFULLY YOURS
RUTHFULLY YOURS  Ruth King
Polls show that more than 70% of the French… expect that France will become a country under submission to Islam. Last month, between April 18-21, ...


Forum: Is The Kidnap Of Young Girls By Boko HaramIslam? And If So What Conclusions Should ...
Boko Haram is one form of Islam: a politicized violent Islamists form ofIslamIslam, like all religions, is practiced by people in varying degrees. To say ...


WEB
Calenda - Islam and Regional Cultures in Pakistan
This conference hopes to partly fill this gap by inviting participants to illustrate the complex, lived experience of Islam in Pakistan, the identity ...


Boko Haram and the crippling of Islam in Africa - Al Jazeera English
Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent. In the 1980s, there was much talk in Nigeria about the "Kaduna Mafia", ...


Twitter / BBCRadio4: Converts to Islam are far more ...
Converts to Islam are far more likely to be involved in terrorism than those born into Muslim families. The Report: http://bbc.in/1hEuGgw.