News around the Muslim World on Thursday 18 December 2014

Earlier this week, millions of people looked on in horror as the news filtered in of the devastating attack by the Pakistan Taliban on a school in Peshawar.

Sunni-Taliban murder children in Peshawar

The Principal who preferred to die with her students.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

After a day of intense lobbying, the Palestinians persuaded their fellow Arab diplomats here to support a draft Security Council resolution that sets a one-year deadline for negotiations with Israeland is aimed at the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the West Bank.

Is a Palestinian state on the cards?

Source : New York Times

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	No Backlash After Sydney Siege, but Muslims Are Fearful New York Times In the aftermath of the siege that left the gunman and two of his captives dead, Australian Muslims say that they are relieved that there has been no ...
	Dargah panel asks Muslim bodies to oppose Taliban Times of India JAIPUR: The dargah committee of the 12th century shrine of Khwaja Moinuddhin Chishty in Ajmer on Wednesday urged all Muslim schools of ...
	Just dump Man Haron Monis' body at sea, Muslim leaders say The Daily Telegraph SYDNEY'S chief Islamic funeral director yesterday declared no Muslim funeral home would accept the body of terrorist Man Haron Monis and ...
	Knoxville Muslim community hosts candlelight vigil for slain Pakistani children WATE-TV KNOXVILLE (WATE) – The Muslim Community of Knoxville is hosting a candlelight vigil in honor of the slain children in Pakistan. On Wednesday the ...
	What to say when your Muslim child asks about Peshawar Religion News Service Muslim parents want their children, and all children, to understand that Islam does not condone such horrific violence — just the opposite. When the ...
	Muslim scholar blames porn for jihad WND.com (INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT) Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., blamed pornography for the proliferation ...
	'I really don't think he was acting alone': Muslim community leader who had Sydney cafe gunman ... Daily Mail A Muslim community leader who had the Sydney cafe gunman at his house for lunch and dinner claims he was not capable of plotting and executing ...
	Texas School Board Let Anti-Muslim Group Pressure Publishers To Rewrite Religion Textbooks Free Speech TV Last month, the Texas State Board of Education approved a set of social studies textbooks after some disputes between Christian Right members of ...
	Texas Muslim Women's Foundation gets help fighting violence Dallas Morning News Two foundations recently presented grants to the Texas Muslim Women's Foundation, the only provider of domestic violence services specifically for ...
	'Muslim Reformers': Talking the talk, not walking the walk The Commentator But Salman avoids the bitter reality that the “twisted” and “barbaric” ideology he describes is specifically Islamic and the theocrats are all Muslim: “this ...

	Anti-Islam politician Wilders faces prosecution for comments about Moroccans Jerusalem Post AMSTERDAM - Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will be prosecuted in the Netherlands for alleged discrimination and inciting hatred against ... Wilders charged over anti-Islam comments - Financial Times Anti-Islam politician Wilders to face prosecution for anti-Moroccan comments - Reuters Dutch Anti-Islam Politician Geert Wilders Charged Over 'Fewer Moroccans' Speech - Wall Street Journal Full Coverage
	Anti-Islam politician Wilders faces prosecution for Moroccan comments Reuters Wilders, whose anti-Islam views have made him the target of death threats and who lives under 24-hour police protection, refused to respond to ...
	Boozy burlesque dancer swaps hedonism for the hijab after converting to Islam for the man of her ... Mirror.co.uk But after converting to Islam, she has now overhauled her unhealthy lifestyle, swapping a 40-a-day cigarette habit for a five-times-a-day prayer routine.
	Mahesh Bhatt : Militant Islam is never Islam IBNLive Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who maintains close cultural links with Pakistan, feels its morale has hit an all-time low with the savage ... Mahesh Bhatt on Peshawar Attack: Militant Islam is Never Islam - NDTV Full Coverage
	INSCT Co-Hosts International Workshop on Islam and Conflict Norms Syracuse University News Representatives from the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) traveled to the Arab Gulf recently to co-host a preparatory ...
	NATO: Taliban Don't Respect Islamic Faith FrontPage Magazine The Taliban are fighting for the Islamic faith and its doctrines. They respect it enough to kill for it. The question is what does NATO believe in?
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	ISIL defames Islam, says Jordanian PM Iraqi News Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Jordanian PM, Abdullah al-Nisour, said the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant terrorist group defamed Islam.” /End/ ...
	Conference and Graduate Student Workshop at Harvard University H-Net Islam in Russia takes many forms, from the Tatars' moderate EuroIslam to traditional Sufism in the Caucasus to the radicalized Salafi ideas found ...

News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 17 December 2014

Sixty nine percent of white evangelicals believe the CIA treatment was justified, compared to just 20% who said it was not. 

Turn the other cheek but not if you its a Muslim you want to torture.

Source : Religion Dispatches

The scientists also reported that for the first time, they had confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them.

H G Wells was right - there is life on Mars!

Source : New York Times

Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered.Researchers found it was possible to identify particular cows and calves from the exclusive sounds they made.

Animals do talk to each other.

Source : The Daily Telegraph

NEWS

	Lawyer: Free Speech at Stake in Anti-Muslim Film ABC News A low-budget anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to the actors involved was compared with the likes of "Titanic" ... Court reconsiders anti-Muslim film on YouTube - Washington Times Lawyer: Free speech at stake in anti-Muslim film - WRAL.com Full Coverage
	Sydney Siege Conspiracy Theories Floated By Iran, MuslimLeaders International Business Times Man Haron Monis was an Iranian refugee who came to Australia to be a ShiaMuslim cleric, heal people and expose the injustices of the Iranian ... In wake of hostage crisis, Australian Muslims say no backlash to faith (+video) -Christian Science Monitor Sydney Hostage Crisis Leads to #illridewithyou to Protect Muslim Commuters - The Nonprofit Quarterly Australian Muslim Says Sorry for Sydney Siege - International Business Times AU Full Coverage
	Jewish, Muslim New Yorkers To Host Hanukkah Action Against Police Brutality Huffington Post 16, Jewish and Muslim community members led by the Arab-American Association of NY (AAANY), Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), and ...
	Media Promote Twitter Meme for Nonexistent Anti-Muslim'Backlash' in Australia NewsBusters (blog) Why would Muslims be afraid to ride public transportation or feel "oppressed" in Australia? Again, there were no incidents reported of any Muslim ...
	Scholars urge science education reforms in Muslim world SciDev.Net [KUALA LUMPUR] Scholars are urging Muslim countries to reform their science education in the university level to boost scientific and technological ...

	Can America win a war against radical Islam when it refuses to even identify its enemy? Jerusalem Post I recently emceed an event in New York City featuring Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), ...
	'It's total fiction': New York Magazine's $US72 million teenage stock trader Mohammed Islam says ... Sydney Morning Herald Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he's a big shot. On his website, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, ...
	'Does Islam allow this?' Peshawar massacre: a father's story Channel 4 News We spent much of yesterday at Channel 4 News trying to get hold of our friend and former colleague Mushtaq Yusufzai in Peshawar. Late last night he ...
	Extremism's Innocent Victims: Children and Islam Huffington Post Islam, my Islam, the Islam of 1.6 billion followers condemns the killing of children. It is a religion of peace, tolerance and mercy. It celebrates children ...
	'Bigot' Eric King who was spared jail for Islam hate mail says he will continue to share his views ... West Briton A MAN branded a “vile, reprehensible bigot” by police after he sent offensive photographs and social media posts to an Islamic community centre near ...
	Killing of innocent people against principles of Islam: Afghan Taliban on Pakistan school attack The Indian Express “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has always condemned the killing of children and innocent people at every juncture,” the Afghan Taliban, which ...
	The Feminine Appeal of Islam Patheos (blog) “While she was pregnant with her second son, Mahdi, Torres converted to Islam. 'It was very hard for me because we do not have family here, just my ...
	Europe Should Learn Ethiopia's 'Islam Lesson' FrontPage Magazine “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they've sworn to uphold, are violating Christians' rights by forcibly closing, ...
	Murder of innocents has no place in Islam: Ulema Times of India Former principal Qari Mohammad Rashid Mujadidi of the renowned Islamic seminary Madrassa Aliya Oriental College of Rampur said, "This barbaric ...
	Fox Hosts React to Sony Fallout, Invoking Benghazi and Radical Islam Mediaite The hosts of Fox News' The Five got to break news today of Sony pulling The Interview entirely from its December 25th release date, and it included ...
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	Mohammed islam The Concourse - Deadspin Let's begin by stipulating that Mohammed Islam, the Queens teen who lied about making dozens of millions of dollars via after-school financial ...

News around the Muslim World on Tuesday 16 December 2014

"Even the children are dying on the frontline in the war against terror. The smaller the coffin, the heavier it is to carry. ... It's a very, very tragic day."

Silence of the lambs - murder of Pakistani school children.

Source : CNN

This expectation we place on Muslims, to be absolutely clear, is Islamophobic and bigoted. The denunciation is a form of apology: an apology for Islam and for Muslims. The implication is that every Muslim is under suspicion of being sympathetic to terrorism unless he or she explicitly says otherwise. 

Sydney v Peshawar

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

NEWS

	'Hate crimes against Muslims very possible following Sydney siege' RT (blog) The Australian government needs to provide more backing for Sydney's Muslimcommunity, student activist Fatema Ali told RT. She said she believes ... Sydney siege sparks 'I'll ride with you' campaign for worried Muslims - Reuters Australian Muslims condemn 'madman' gunman as #illridewithyou trends - SBS Sydney siege: Australian Muslim woman explains why she kept her children at home following attack -ABC Online Full Coverage
	Appeals court rehears copyright case over anti-Muslim film Los Angeles Times In a case closely watched by the technology and Hollywood industries as well as free speech advocates, a federal appellate panel heard arguments ... Lawyer: Free speech at stake in anti-Muslim film - U.S. News & World Report Court reconsiders anti-Muslim film on YouTube - LA Daily News Full Coverage
	Google Attorney Argues Against Actress' Copyright Claim In Anti-Muslim Film CBS Local Arab-Israeli Muslim men protest in front of the US embassy in the Mediterranean coastal city of Tel Aviv on September 13, 2012 against a film mocking ...
	Why Australians Are Telling Muslims, #illridewithyou, Amid Sydney Hostage Situation ABC News Hours after an armed gunman took control of a chocolate shop in Sydney, Twitter users did their best to show compassion in the face of the standoff.
	Campus turns on Muslim conservative who penned satire Fox News A Muslim conservative who took on political correctness at his college campus found out just how angry the very folks he was lampooning can get.

	Sydney siege: Abbott refuses to blame Islam for Man Haron Monis's actions The Guardian Tony Abbott has refused to link Sydney hostage taker Man Haron Monis withIslam, pointing out: “We don't blame the pope for the IRA and we don't ... Sydney's 'sheik' gunman described as 'damaged' and confused about Islam -Washington Post Full Coverage
	Mohammed Islam now says he made the whole thing up Daily Mail Mohammed Islam, 17, who said he had made millions of dollars by trading oil and gold futures and equities, has now hired a pricey crisis PR firm and ... Mohammed Islam: Boy who 'made $72m' in his lunch break admits he made the story up - The Independent The High-School Trader Rumored To Have Made $72 Million Admits He Made The Whole Thing Up -Business Insider Did High School Student Mohammed Islam Make $72 Million Trading Stocks? No. - Business 2 Community Full Coverage
	What's behind the astonishing rise of an anti-Islammovement in Germany? Washington Post (blog) Anti-Islam protesters have been chanting "We are the people!" – a slogan that was used in 1989 when eastern Germans rallied to bring down the ... 10000 People Protest Against Islam in the German City of Dresden - TIME Full Coverage
	The Shahada in Sydney Reminds Us That Political Islam Is Deadly TIME But, as a former Muslim who would dearly love to see Islam reform itself (as Christianity began to do five centuries ago), I disagree. The reality is that ...

News around the Muslim World on Monday 15 December 2014

This is an interesting video I stumbled upon on Youtube. In just ten minutes (hence the name Crash Course) the host John Green tries to teach you the history of Islam, including the revelation of the Qu’ran to the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), the five pillars of Islam, how the Islamic empire got its start, the Rightly Guided Caliphs, and more..

A crash course in the history of Islam.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

The earth could face a mass extinction by the next century if species continue to disappear at the current rate, according to a report by the scientific journal Nature.

We will all be dead soon.

Source : The Independent

NEWS

	Sydney hostage crisis prompts #Illridewithyou show of solidarity with Australian Muslims Washington Post (blog) The hostage standoff in Sydney, carried out by a suspected radical Muslimrefugee, has threatened to fan anti-Islam sentiment in Australia. A poll in ... Sydney Siege: #IllRideWithYou Shows Support for Muslims - NBCNews.com I'll ride with you: Twitter shows support for Australia's Muslim community - Daily Mail Australia hostage siege: Muslim leaders condemn 'criminal' act as IllRideWithYou trends worldwide -The Independent Full Coverage
	Court Reconsiders Anti-Muslim Film on YouTube ABC News A federal appeals court will reconsider a decision to order YouTube to take down an anti-Muslim film clip that sparked violence in the Middle East and ... Appeals Court Reconsiders Anti-Muslim Film Removed From YouTube - CBS Local Full Coverage
	Sisters in the vanguard as Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood battles to survive Reuters They teach Muslim Brotherhood values to children, organize its protests, preserve its networks, and take an ever more prominent role in politics.
	'Islamic doll' for children launched in Britain with no FACE in line with Sharia rules Daily Mail It has been designed to comply with strict Muslim teachings which rule against the representation of humans and animals in other forms, and ...

	The Story Of The High School Trader Who Made $72 Million Is A Rumor Spun... Business Insider A lot of folks are buzzing about 17-year-old Stuyvesant High School senior Mohammed "Mo" Islam, who is rumored to have made $72 million from ... Meet the 17-Year-Old Rumored to Have Made $72 Million During His High-School Lunch Breaks ... - Vanity Fair Full Coverage
	Sydney siege: gunman 'demands Islamic State flag' Telegraph.co.uk Sydney siege: follow latest updates. A man holding hostages in a Sydney cafe on Monday has demanded that a flag of the Islamic State in the levant ... Sydney siege: Five hostages escape Lindt cafe as suspected gunman withIslamic flag is named ... - The Independent Full Coverage
	Dresden marchers fan anti-Islam flames in Germany Telegraph.co.uk Heavily armed riot police were out in force on the streets of Dresden on Monday night as more than 10,000 people demonstrated against the ... Some 15000 anti-Islam demonstrators march in Dresden - Jerusalem Post German police gird for anti-Islam march in Dresden - Haaretz Merkel in dilemma as German anti-Islam marches gain support - Daily Mail Full Coverage
	Muslims Go 'BOOM' to Defend Islam Christian Post And so, in defense of "Islamic values" and to dispel "propaganda" about "suicide ... A central tenet of Islam is to convert, enslave or kill the infidel.
	12. Because a Stuyvesant Senior Made $72 Million Trading Stocks on His Lunch Break New York Magazine Late last year, a rumor began circulating at Stuyvesant that a junior named Mohammed Islam had made a fortune in the stock market. Not a small ...
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	Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs Hukoomi The Ministry of Endowments and Islamic Affairs was established in 1993 to help modern society understand and comply with Islam. Flag as irrelevant
	Nūr Wikipedia Nūr (Arabic: النور‎‎) is the "Light of God" in Islam. The word means "light" in Arabic, Persian and Urdu. The term is often used in the Quran, notably in a ...

BBC Breaking News on Twitter: "Australian Muslim groups condemn #SydneySiege in statement ... twitter.com Australian Muslim groups condemn #SydneySiege in statement: "This is a time for all ... I am sure mostMuslim are happy to see Koran in practice.

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	Muslim Imam on European Welfare Passes Time by Urging Murder of Jews, Molesting Little Girls FrontPage Magazine Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is a New York writer focusing on radical Islam. He is completing a book on the ...