Saturday, 17 May 2014

Around the Muslim World on Friday 16 May 2014


Source : The Washington Post


                                                                                 



Source : The Washington Post

                                                        

News
Muslim Advocates Amplify 9/11 Museum Film Concerns
Muslim advocates and scholars are stepping up pressure on the Sept. 11 museum to edit or at least let more scholars see a documentary movie ...
Times LIVE
Muslim women in Greater New Haven take stand against Nigeria kidnapping
(Peter Casolino-New Haven Register) AreaMuslim women have made a demand to the Nigerian Kidnappers of some 200 Nigerian girls be returned ..
Washington Post
Muslim world should act on the Boko Haram kidnapping
They kidnapped the girls in the name of Allah to justify their shameful act (according to the kidnappers) and the Muslim world is yet to act. The Saudi ...
Muslim Spying Efforts Combine the Worst of the NYPD's Practices
Largely owing to Pulitzer-prize winning investigative work from the Associated Press, the NYPD's Muslim spying programs were revealed — and then ...
The Hindu
Muslim clerics back Kejriwal
After a meeting here, the Mufti Board of Varanasi issued a statement saying that it has decided to support Kejriwal in Varanasi, where Muslimsaccount ...
Times of India
In Varanasi, many Muslim voters find hope in Narendra Modi
Varanasi: Amid all talk of communal polarisation and the Muslim antipathy towards Narendra Modi, a section of the community has been working ...
Daily Mail
Muslim Cleric Struggles To Explain Satellite Phone To Jury
NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) — The hook-handed Muslim cleric on trial for terrorism told a jury contradictory stories Monday about a satellite phone ...
FrontPage Magazine
Muslim Mag that Praised Bin Laden Demands Jewish Student Reject “Islamophobic” Pro-Israel ...
The editorial board of Al-Talib, the MuslimNewsmagazine at UCLA, called on Jewish student Avinoam Baral to disassociate himself from the ...
IBNLive
Muslims vote in large numbers in Varanasi
Varanasi: Muslims voted in large numbers Monday in Varanasi, where BJP's prime ministerial aspirant Narendra Modi is facing a stiff challenge from ...
Telegraph.co.uk
Muslim father 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 ...



Daily News & Analysis
Muslim leaders hope BJP will focus on economic development
Muslim leaders and activists expressed cautious optimism that the Narendra Modi-led government will work towards the economic development of the ...
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Muslim clerics resist Pakistan's efforts to end child marriage
But advocates of the law say it is necessary to set age limits because poorer families can't support all their children; in Muslim culture, the bride joins ...
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The Express Tribune
Some Muslims React Warily to Hindu Party's Victory in India
Discrimination against Muslims in India is so rampant that many barely muster outrage when telling of the withdrawn apartment offers, job rejections ...
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Muslim Reaction to Schoolgirl Abductions Debated
The CEO of the Cairo-based Karama group, Hibaaq Osman, is among those who feel there has not been enough "noise" in the Muslimcommunity.
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Muslim-by-birth woman in Sudan sentenced to death for marriage to Christian and her faith
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Muslim-by-birth Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to ...
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The Hindu
Muslim vote splits between AAP, Cong
NEW DELHI: Muslims overwhelmingly cast their ballot against BJP but the minority community couldn't get the desired outcome as its votes got ...
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Muslim, woman, bio-chemist: Fairfield U. grad refuses to be defined by stereotypes
Abunar's leadership, and particularly her work through the MuslimStudent Association, has augmented the school's efforts to create a culture of ...
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COMMENTARY: Anti-Muslim bigotry taints Florida ban on foreign laws
This week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a measure widely touted as a “foreign law ban.” But proponents of such bans should not be too ...
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Muslim clerics resist Pakistan's efforts to end child marriage
LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) When police raided a marriage ceremony in Karachi on Wednesday (May 14) and found a 46-year-old groom about to ...
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Hyderabad riot and Muslim political leadership
From the various media report, it became clear that when Muslims and Sikhs clashed police remained muted spectators to Sikh mobs enraged over ...
Daily News & Analysis
Muslim leaders hope BJP will focus on economic development
Muslim leaders and activists expressed cautious optimism that the Narendra Modi-led government will work towards the economic development of the ...

The Express Tribune
Some Muslims React Warily to Hindu Party's Victory in India
Discrimination against Muslims in India is so rampant that many barely muster outrage when telling of the withdrawn apartment offers, job rejections ...
Muslim Reaction to Schoolgirl Abductions Debated
The CEO of the Cairo-based Karama group, Hibaaq Osman, is among those who feel there has not been enough "noise" in the Muslimcommunity.
Muslim-by-birth woman in Sudan sentenced to death for marriage to Christian and her faith
KHARTOUM, Sudan — A Muslim-by-birth Sudanese woman who married a Christian man was sentenced to death Thursday after she refused to ...
The Hindu
Muslim vote splits between AAP, Cong
NEW DELHI: Muslims overwhelmingly cast their ballot against BJP but the minority community couldn't get the desired outcome as its votes got ...
Muslim, woman, bio-chemist: Fairfield U. grad refuses to be defined by stereotypes
Abunar's leadership, and particularly her work through the MuslimStudent Association, has augmented the school's efforts to create a culture of ...


COMMENTARY: Anti-Muslim bigotry taints Florida ban on foreign laws
This week, Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed into law a measure widely touted as a “foreign law ban.” But proponents of such bans should not be too ...


Muslim clerics resist Pakistan's efforts to end child marriage
LAHORE, Pakistan (RNS) When police raided a marriage ceremony in Karachi on Wednesday (May 14) and found a 46-year-old groom about to ...


Hyderabad riot and Muslim political leadership
From the various media report, it became clear that when Muslims and Sikhs clashed police remained muted spectators to Sikh mobs enraged over ...

Onislam.net
Islam, America's Sacred Cow
For their part, Islamic Americans keep portraying themselves as victims of bigotry, although there has been no evidence of it over the past 13 years.
Militant Islam in Africa
Militant Islam in Africa. Witnesses testified at a Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs hearing about U.S. policy following the ...
The Guardian
Anti-Islam Comments Put UKip in Trouble
LONDON – A UK Independence party candidate for London Borough of Brent has stirred wide condemnations after accusing Muslims of “grooming ...
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Gulf Today
'Propagating what Islam says'
Islam is very good but some Muslims do not reflect this reality,” says the body's General Secretary, Majed Abedullah Bu shlaibi. “SinceIslam has ...
Prague Post
Poll: Two-thirds of Czechs afraid ofIslam
Prague, May 16 (ÄŒTK) — About two-thirds of Czechs who have used the European election calculator EUvox consider Islam a threat to Czech society, ...
Boko Haram is a Child of Islam, Says Cleric
The President of Church of Christ in Nations (COCIN), Rev Dachollom Datiri has described Boko Haram as "a child of Islamic fundamentalism nurtured ...
Scotsman
Sudan: Woman sentenced to hang for giving up Islam
“We gave you three days to recant but you insist on not returning to Islam. I sentence you to be hanged to death,” the judge told the woman. Human ...
Design & Trend
What if I led protest against Islamicextremism in lingerie, on prayer rug in Harvard Yard?
Nope, I'll be urging my fellow protesters to buckIslamic law and show up in lingerie (as people did at Harvard's recent Black Mass, a poke in the 
Osun Defender
Nigerian 'Sex-Slaves' Throw Wrench in Obama Narrative on Islam
Islamic law permits the possession of concubines, or sex slaves. This has been demonstrated countless times, including through Islamicclerics ...
NDTV
Twelve killed as Libyan militia clashes with Islamists in Benghazi
Libyan irregular forces backed by helicopters clashed with Islamist militias in Benghazi on Friday in fighting that left at least 12 people dead and posed ...


BLOGS
Muslim leader decries 9/11 Museum for linking Islamwith terrorism, ignores fact that jihadist ...
Jihad Watch  Robert Spencer
It's funny also that Zafar here is arguing with Dinesh D'Souza, who a few years ago repeatedly insisted that Islam was a Religion of Peace in several ...


How to be a complete bastard: Islam is not a race - so what?
As though it were a dog whistle, whenever a Ukipper makes racist remarks about Islam and I make mention of it, within moments a Ukipper will be ...


Video: Al-Muhaddithat – The Female Scholars ofIslam - SuhaibWebb.com
SuhaibWebb.com  WebbStaff
Tweet Tweet In light of Imam John Yahya Ederer's recent article on Female Scholars and Preachers of Islam, we wanted to share a very informative ...


Patent & Trademark Office defends Islam, rejects trademark of 'Stop Islamisation of America ...
Creeping Sharia  creeping
The USPTO rejected AFDI's trademark application based on the following analysis: (1) “Islamisation” means converting to Islam or “to makeIslamic;” ...


Islam, Religion of Peace – unless you convert to Christianity – Conservative Hideout 2.0
Islam is a religion of peace. That HAS to be true, I mean President Bush said it, President Obama says it all the time and former Pakistan President, ...


Sudanese Court Sentences Pregnant Christian Woman to Death for Renouncing Islam | Clutch ...
Clutch Magazine  Clutch
A Khartoum, Sudan, court has sentenced Meriam Yehya Ibrahim to death for apostasy, or the renunciation of Islam. The 27-year-old woman – who is ...


hussain - Why should we mourn for the killing of Imam Al Hussein? - Islam Stack Exchange
Both shia and sunnis agree that the martyrm of Hussien is one of the most tragic incidents in Islam. However, sunnis and shia differ on the way we ...


More of that 'Nothing to do with Islam' BS — Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami  sheikyer mami
Islamic Spokesturds Keep Denying That the Global Jihad is Islamic. Muslim leader decries 9/11 Museum for linking Islam with terrorism, ignores fact ...


Pastoral Meanderings: So much for the temperate side of Islam. . .
Pastoral Meanderings  Pastor Peters
So much for the temperate side of Islam. . . Let me say that I want to believe that the fundamentalist radicals distort Islam, that temperate Islamis the ...
Boko Haram and the crippling of Islam in Africa – Radical movements in Africa are hurting the ...
The Muslim Times  Rafiq A. Tschannen
One can just look at the difficulties still facing affirmative action for African Americans (some of them have, ironically, reverted to Islam as a tool of ...

Friday, 16 May 2014

Around the Muslim World on Thursday 15 May 2014


Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk


                                                        

NEWS
Washington Post
Jew, Muslim join pope's delegation in Holy Land
VATICAN CITY — A rabbi and a Muslim leader will join Pope Francis on his upcoming trip to the Holy Land, the first time an official papal delegation ...
Indian Express
The Muslim vote
The much-touted Muslim card will play a role in 14 of the 48 Lok Sabha seats in the state. The community constitutes 10.6 per cent of Maharashtra's ...


Jewish, Muslim schools bridge faiths through learning
When she lived near Israel, in the predominantly Muslim country of Jordan, Katie Al-Akhras observed that much of the conflict between people of ...
Dallas Morning News
Paris' Muslim mayor steps aside to focus on district, think about future
<bold>Dr. Arjumand Hashmi, a cardiologist </bold>and mayor of Paris, Texas, said he's proud of what's been accomplished in the past three years.
Times of India
Indian Muslims wary of man poised to take reins
As much of Ahmedabad has flourished, the camp has become a permanent Muslim slum, forgotten by the authorities and suffocating the aspirations of ...

FrontPage Magazine
Gun Used by Muslim Marathon Bombers Linked to Muslim Drug Gang
This is an interesting development because it raises questions about the nature of the relationship between the Muslim Tsarnaev bombers and other ...


Muslim Persecution of Christians, January 2014
January's roundup of Muslim persecution of Christians around the world includes (but is not limited to) the following accounts, listed by theme and ...
The Guardian
Ukip candidate lambasts Islam as 'totalitarian ideology'
The UK Independence party has become embroiled in a fresh race row after it emerged that one of its local election candidates has described Islam as ...

CNN
How Islam can fight back against Boko Haram
Jordan (CNN) -- When religion is used, or misused, as a violent tool against the innocent, then it is the user not the tool that is the source of violence.


Islam hijacked
It is thinking like J.J. Smith's, "It's safe, therefore, to conclude that Islam is clearly not a religion of peace - quite the contrary," that we western Muslims ...


'Stop ascribing Boko Haram's actions to Islam'
“Nobody can force another person to become a Muslim. Islam cannot be spread by force or war but by self-conviction through preaching with wisdom.”.
Chron.com
Islam Vs. Girls With Books - Mike McManus
For the past month the world's attention has focused on the abduction of 276 teenage Nigerian girls by the Islamic militant group Boko Haram, whose ...


'Islam gives leeway to human rights'
PETALING JAYA: No religion on Earth is against human rights and Islam gives a lot of emphasis to civil liberties, political activist Hishamuddin Rais ...


Charting the influence of Islam on black American music and culture
He traces a path from the first Spanish and Portuguese immigrants to America in the 1500s and the Islamic Moorish culture they brought with them all ...
Arab News
I found the message of Islam appealing
I AM deeply grateful for this opportunity of saying a few words as to why I embraced Islam. I was reared under the influence of Christian parents.
uznews.net
Uzbek otins preach Islam to women
There is a prevailing opinion that during Soviet times the Islamic tradition was preserved in Uzbekistan mainly thanks to the efforts of female preachers ...


BLOGS
Hudud and the distortion of Islam | Malaysia Today
Malaysia Today  Super Admin
When the same legislation subjected a pregnant rape victim to the irrefutable presumption of zina (illicit sex), we were convinced that it was not Islamic ...


In Isma, a portrait of political Islam driven by urban middle-class professionals | Malaysia Today
Malaysia Today  admin-j
Urging unity under Islam, Isma wants Malays to counter the “threat” posed by-non-Muslims. It has also called on Malays and Muslims to be aggressive ...


Victims of Islam - Student News Daily
Student News Daily  StudentNewsDaily.com
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau. (by Ralph Peters, NY Post) – When it comes to fanatical Islam, we're entranced by the symptoms but refuse to ...


Islam, terror and attitudes | Warren Kinsella
Warren Kinsella  Warren
Twitter Updates · follow me on Twitter. Islam, terror and attitudes. May 15th, 2014, 5:01 pm. 20140515-180057.jpg . « Toronto needs a mayor: …and it ...


Washington DC: Geller is back with another anti-Islam Metro ad | Islamophobia Today eNewspaper
Islamophobia Today eNewspaper  IslamophobiaWatch
In 2012, anti-Islam blogger Pamela Geller's American Freedom Defense Initiative funded ads throughout the Metro system with a quote from the Quran ...


Is political Islam rising in Indonesia? | Islam21c
Islam21c  Aljazeera
Indonesia's Muslim parties fared better than expected in April's parliamentary vote but are unlikely to win power. Cross-posted from Aljazeera - Read it ...


Hollywood's hotel boycott: Shariah or Islam? - WND
WND  Larry Elder
Larry Elder is a best-selling author and radio talk-show host. His latest book is "Dear Father, Dear Son: Two Lives … Eight Hours." Follow Larry on ...


WEB
BBC News - Sudan death penalty reignites Islam apostasy debate - BBC.com
Sudan death penalty reignites Islam apostasy debate. Meriam Yehya Ibrahim Ishag pictured on her wedding day with her husband Meriam Yehya ...


Nabeel Qureshi - A Journey From Islam on Vimeo
An amazing story of a Muslim man in search of truth! More Muslims have come to Christ in the past 15 years than in the previous 15 centuries.


Islam Bai Yarda da Haka ba - VOA Hausa
Islam Bai Yarda da Haka ba. An yi kira ga 'yan boko haram dasu sako 'yan matan da suke garkuwa dasu. Gurza; Sharhi; Share: ...