News around the Muslim World on Saturday 13 December 2014

From the White House

Forgotten "heroes" Forgotton because they were women

A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to visit the U.K. Prime Minister's residence at 10 Downing Street. During a tour of the residence, we were shown a painting of an elegantly dressed woman. "Of course, you know Lady Lovelace," we were told.

Imagine our surprise to learn that we were staring at a portrait of the woman who is considered to be the world's first programmer. Our group had never heard of her.

Ada Lovelace's experience remains all too familiar: So many of the breakthrough contributions of women in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields continue to go untold, too often fading into obscurity. . . .

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	We were misled into conversion in a Bajrang Dal exercise:Muslim families The Indian Express The 57 Muslim families, who were “converted” to Hinduism in a Bajrang Dal exercise in Agra, said Tuesday they were misled into believing that the ...
	Why the Muslim World Isnt Flipping Out Over the CIA Torture Report Daily Beast What happened to the outrage we were supposed to see across the “Muslimworld” after the U.S. Senate released its report documenting the CIA's ...
	UN sending thousands of Muslims to America WND.com WND reported in September that Syrians would make up the next big wave ofMuslim refugees coming to the U.S., as resettlement agencies were ...
	Will oppose Muslim reservation by Telangana govt: Praveen Togadia The Indian Express “VHP will oppose any move by the state government for providing 12 per cent reservations to Muslims and will take legal recourse if needed,” Togadia ...
	JUDSON PHILLIPS: Tennessee cop lets Muslim drive off with dead child in trunk Washington Times Then the driver told the officer his child was dead in the trunk, and he wanted to go bury the child in accordance with his Muslim religion.
	Birmingham EDL 'anti-Muslim' rioters jailed BBC News The court heard that a Muslim prayer cap and a Pakistani flag were set on fire in the street, while police were pelted with paving slabs and bottles.
	Chinese city in restive Muslim region bans burqa in public CNN A spate of recent violent incidents has rocked Xinjiang, a resource-rich region long inhabited by the Turkic-speaking, largely Muslim Uyghurs.
	Tackling extremism among Western Muslim converts The Straits Times Muslim converts in the West professing extremist beliefs have come under the spotlight for terrorism-related activities in and outside their home ...
	Orthodox groups file with Supreme Court in support ofMuslim head scarfs Jerusalem Post WASHINGTON — Seven national Orthodox Jewish groups filed a Supreme Court brief in favor of a Muslim woman's right to wear a head scarf at work.
	Druglord's 'house' inside Bilibid is a Muslim prayer area ABS CBN News Based on initial investigation, it's being used as a prayer area for the Muslim inmates, an intended area for Muslims. I will have it verified," she said.

	Merkel condemns racism as Dresden anti-Islam marches grow Yahoo News BERLIN/NUREMBERG (Reuters) - Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday condemned anti-Muslim demonstrations centered on the eastern city of ... Merkel Condemns Racism as Dresden Anti-Islam Marches Grow - Newsweek Merkel condemns racism as Dresden anti-Islam marches grow - Reuters Germany's new far-right populists rail against Islam - Yahoo News Full Coverage
	Q&A: 'Islam Has Been Held Hostage' Says Timbuktu' Helmer Abderrahmane Sissako Variety A politically-engaged drama depicting the barbarian occupation of Islamicfundamentalists in Mali, “Timbuktu” grossed over 109,000 Euros ($135,000) ...
	Jakarta Post editor 'amazed' by accusation of insulting Islamover anti-Isis cartoon International Business Times UK An Indonesian newspaper rejected accusations of blasphemy for a cartoon mocking the Isis (Islamic State) terror group, saying it was amazed police ... Indonesian police name newspaper editor suspect in anti-Islam blasphemy case- Fox News Full Coverage
	Taliban slams Malala over Nobel peace prize, calls her 'soldier against Islam' Hindustan Times The Pakistani Taliban hit out at teenage education activist Malala Yousafzai over her Nobel peace prize on Friday, slamming her as a "soldier against ...
	Merkel condemns racism as Dresden anti-Islam marches grow Yahoo News UK Reuters/Reuters - Participants hold up their mobile phones and wave German national flags during a demonstration called by anti-immigration group ...
	NATO ally launches mandatory Islam training for 6-year-olds WND.com The union demanded that Turkish children aged 3 to 6 be taught Islam. The government ultimately decided classes should be made compulsory for ...
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News around the Muslim World on Friday 12 December 2014

In between these torture sessions, he says, he was questioned on around 12 occasions by two MI5 officers who called themselves “Matt” and “Richard”, as well as by CIA officers.

Brits also complicit in torture of suspects.

Source : The Guardian 

the killings stemmed from her mother's first marriage nearly 30 years ago to another man

More honour killings in Pakistan.

Source : http://news.yahoo.com/

NEWS

	Indian Agra Muslim fear conversions to Hinduism BBC News Nearly a dozen Indian Muslim families have fled their homes in Agra after 57 families were reportedly converted to Hinduism against their will. Muslim ... 'Neither Hindu nor Muslim', Agra's 'converts' trapped in limbo - Times of India Neither Hindu nor Muslim: Agra 'converts' caught in RSS-clerics crossfire -Firstpost Full Coverage
	The Muslim father behind the Pakistani Nobel Prize winner MiamiHerald.com Muslim men who comprehend Islam's ideals are well attuned to following the example of their beloved Prophet Muhammad who treated his daughters ...
	Local Muslim-Americans condemn terrorism Atlanta Journal Constitution (blog) Last week, the Kennesaw City Council rejected a zoning request to open a Muslim prayer center in a strip shopping center. Some protesters said it ...
	Muslim mother-of-six who posted pictures of her young children posing as jihadists on Facebook ... Daily Mail A Muslim mother-of-six who posted pictures of her young children posing as jihadists on Facebook and advised an undercover policeman how to ... ISIS-obsessed mum urged Muslim women to send their men to fight jihad -Mirror.co.uk Full Coverage
	Brownstein: Jewish and Muslim comics unite Montreal Gazette One of the more unlikely albeit more gratifying bonds in this city is that between its Jewish and Muslimcomics. Local wits Eman and Jeff Schouela offer ...
	In fighting religious extremism, capital of China's Muslimregion bans veiled robes Fox News The measure in the predominantly Muslim region comes as Beijing intensifies a campaign against religious extremism that it blames for the violence ...
	Urine placed at Muslim chaplain's office at WFU Winston-Salem Journal Wake Forest University is rallying behind Imam Khalid Griggs, an associate chaplain at the university who found a bucket of urine in front of his office ...

	'Mary in Islam' is focus of Saturday event Columbus Dispatch The importance of Mary in both Islam and Christianity will be discussed on Saturday at an event sponsored by the Women's Auxiliary of Ahmadiyya ...
	Pakistani Taliban Call Malala Yousafzai an 'Enemy of Islam' Wall Street Journal She represent the bright shine of muslim women, and her enemy are enemy of Islam as well. I wish American media and people do not look to Taliban ...
	Muslim cool: New broadcaster beams a vibrant vision ofIslam's cultural impact Aquila Style In an era of negative portrayals of Islam, Alchemiya aims to shift the discourse by sharing content they love, which evokes grand memories of a ...
	The state and Islam The Economist The move is ostensibly meant to prevent theft and regulate energy use, but few doubt the real intention is to tighten the state's grip on Islam, part of a ...
	Gambian President attends rally with protesters declaring: 'Homosexuality is forbidden in Islam' PinkNews The President of Gambia, Yahya Jammeh, has attended a mass rally against homosexuality in the country's capital Banjul. AllAfrica reports thousands ...
	Premarital sex in Islam Health24 Religion plays a significant role in how we raise our children, and in the Islamicfaith a child's identity and status within the family can be affected by ...
	Thanks To Islam, Christianity About To Become Extinct In Great Britain Western Journalism Gov. Mike Huckabee recently retraced the steps of Pope John Paul II, Margaret Thatcher, and Ronald Reagan with a group of ministers and faith ...
	No racism, racial supremacy, inequality in Islam Free Malaysia Today syariah GEORGE TOWN: No one can use the philosophical concept of “maqashid syariah” (true aim of Islamic law) to defend racism, racial supremacy ...
	Christmas from viewpoint of Islam The Guardian Nigeria There are six articles of faith in Islam. These include belief in the oneness of the Almighty as the lord, creator and cherisher of the world; belief in His ...
	Flashback: How 800 Dalit Hindus in Meenakshipuram were converted to Islam 33 years ago indiatvnews.com (press release) (blog) There were nearly 300 Dalit Hindu families who embraced Islam, tired of upper caste atrocities, mostly by the landed OBC Thevar community in the ...

News around the Muslim World on Thursday 11 December 2014

India's opposition politicians have protested inside parliament against the alleged mass conversion of about 200 Muslims to Hinduism in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh.Opposition MPs on Tuesday attacked the conservative Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party over the conversions in Agra city, reportedly under allurement by groups linked to the ruling party's ideological parent, Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

Muslims convert to Hinduism while Maulvis attack Ahmadis

Source : Al Jazeera

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	Furor over 'conversion' of Muslims in India Aljazeera.com India's opposition politicians have protested inside parliament against the alleged mass conversion of about 200 Muslims to Hinduism in the northern ...
	Israel: American arrested for allegedly plotting attacks onMuslim sites CNN Jerusalem (CNN) -- An American man has been arrested in Israel for allegedly acquiring explosives stolen from Israel's military that he planned to use ... American Man Arrested In Israel Over Alleged Plot To Bomb Muslim Holy Sites -BuzzFeed News Israel Charges U.S. Citizen With Planning to Bomb Muslim Holy Sites in Jerusalem - TheBlaze.com Israel indicts American over plot to bomb Muslim holy sites - Fox News Full Coverage
	Muslim breakaway group blamed for deadly Philippine bombing Daily Mail Muslim rebels in the southern Philippines who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group are suspected of carrying out a bus bombing that ...
	Iran: Fall in Oil Prices Is Muslim 'Treachery' ABC News Iran's President Hassan Rouhani says the sharp fall in oil prices is the result of "treachery," in an apparent reference to regional rival Saudi Arabia, ...
	Ayad Akhtar, master Muslim ironist The Guardian She is a champion of Islamic achievements in history. At one point she says, “The Muslims gave us Aristotle.” Amir and his wife invite another couple to ...
	Man charged with running down Muslim teen in court KSN-TV The man charged with deliberately running down the Muslim teenager ... of Minneapolis, said through an interpreter that her Somali son is Muslim, ...
	Mass polygamy in UK Muslim community – claim Telegraph.co.uk Polygamy is being practised on an “enormous” scale within the British Muslimcommunity without any official attempt to stop it, it has been claimed.

	Uzbek President Asks Putin to Help Fight Radical Islam Voice of America TASHKENT—. Uzbekistan urged Russia on Wednesday to help protect Central Asia against what it said would be a rising threat from militant Islam as ... Uzbek president asks Putin to help fight radical Islam in Central Asia - Reuters Full Coverage
	Anti-Islam protests 'paint a twisted picture' of German sentiment EurActiv The “Patriotic Europeans against the Islamisation of the West” (Pegida) is winning over more and more supporters, causing Germany's Justice Minister ...
	Islamic State BEHEADS four CHRISTIAN CHILDREN when they refused to renounce Christ and ... Catholic Online Islamic State terrorists have beheaded four children who refused to convert toIslam according to the British Vicar of Baghdad, Canon Andrew White.
	Use of Islam to defend racial supremacy and draconian laws disturbing, says Anwar The Malaysian Insider Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim last night expressed alarm at a trend by right-wing Malay groups who use Islam to promote racial supremacy and inequality ...
	Islamic scholar to train peace volunteers Times of India MUMBAI: Noted scholar and the face of moderate Islam in India Maulana Wahiduddin Khan is in the city for three days to hold lectures for peace ...
	German Eurosceptics embrace anti-Islam protests Telegraph.co.uk The wave of anti-Islam protests gripping the German city of Dresden have ignited a political row, after the leader of the country's rapidly growing ...
	Sisters in Islam can challenge fatwa ruling Free Malaysia Today PETALING JAYA: Sisters in Islam (SIS) can now challenge the Selangor fatwa which declared it as one which promotes deviant teachings. The High ...
	Islam not to blame for violence Waterbury Republican American It is surprising just how little most Americans understand the monotheistic religion, Islam. Attacks against international embassies, beheadings and ...
	Yusuf Islam at the Chicago Theatre: Cat Stevens songs and more Chicago Tribune In his former incarnation as Cat Stevens, Yusuf Islam had a reputation as a bit of a self-serious fellow, the young man with the furrowed brow ...

News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 10 December 2014

C.I.A. used to torture and imprison terrorism suspects. Detainees were deprived of sleep for as long as a week, and were sometimes told that they would be killed while in American custody. With the approval of the C.I.A.'s medical staff, some prisoners were subjected to medically unnecessary “rectal feeding” or “rectal hydration” — a technique that the C.I.A.'s chief of interrogations described as a way to exert “total control over the detainee.”

Should President Bush and CIA directors be tried for crimes against humanity?

Source : New York Times

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	Israelis indict American in alleged plot to attack Muslim holy sites Los Angeles Times Livix, described as a Christian, allegedly told friends and acquaintances repeatedly that he intended to blow up Muslim holy sites and expressed ... Israel indicts US fugitive who allegedly planned to bomb Muslim holy sites -Jerusalem Post Adam Everett Livix of Texas Arrested In Israel for Anti-Muslim Plot - NBCNews.com Israel indicts American Christian for plotting to blow up Muslim holy sites in Jerusalem - Fox News Full Coverage
	RSS holds 'ghar vapsi' event for 200 Muslims Times of India Agra: Members of at least 57 Muslim families were converted to Hinduism at a ceremony called 'Purkhon ki ghar vapsi', a mass conversion jointly ...
	Man charged with running down KC Muslim teen KSDK A man charged with deliberately running down a Muslim teenager outside a Somali center has made his first court appearance. Loading… Post to ... Man Charged With Running Down Muslim Teen in Court - ABC News Full Coverage
	Bold Modi tackles Muslim Kashmir head on BBC News A Hindu nationalist prime minister of India addressing a big election rally inMuslim majority Kashmir, the most troubled and disaffected corner of his ...

	Far Right Numbers Swell As 10000 Germans March Against 'Extreme Islam' Huffington Post UK German extremists converged on Monday night for one of the biggest far-right rallies the country has seen in years, with so-called "anti-Islam" marches ... The night the world can't ignore - NEWS.com.au Full Coverage
	Germany: Thousands join anti-Islam protest against European spread of ISIS and al-Qaeda International Business Times UK The Deutsche Welle reported that in early December around 80 anti-Islamprotesters in Kassel were stopped by some 500 demonstrators who ...
	France's National Front sacks councillor who converted toIslam FRANCE 24 A local councillor for France's far-right National Front (FN), who made headlines earlier this year after converting to Islam, has been sacked, the party ... French Far-right Party Dismisses Member After Conversion to Islam - Morocco World News Full Coverage
	New Islamic grade school opening in Grand Rapids Fox17 Funded initially through donations, the Islamic Academy is scheduled to open its doors in July 2015. FOX 17 toured the school and learned that it's not ...
	Islam in Malaysia 'sliding towards fundamentalism and violence', expert says The Australian ISLAM in Malaysia is on “a steady slide towards fundamentalism and even violence”, according to a leading expert who is backed by a growing chorus ...
	Philly NAACP elects new North Philly Nation of Islam leader president Newsworks.org Minister Rodney Muhammad has led North Philadelphia's Mosque Number 12 of the Nation of Islam for 23 years. He's moving from first vice president ...
	Football and Islam, are They Compatible? Sputnik International MOSCOW, EDINBURGH, December (Sputnik), Sergey Lunev, Adlan Chaykin — Qatar winning the hosting rights for the 2022 FIFA World Cup aroused ...
	Saudi Arabian Researcher Praises Model of Islam Practiced in Morocco Morocco World News In his article The Moroccan Model of Islam published in Makkah Online he specifies that the MoroccanIslamic discourse focuses on propagating ...