Monday 31 March 2014

Around the Muslim World on Tuesday 1 April 2914




                                                                               



                                                                                

News
Christian Post
On Friday, March 28, in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo, Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked the Virgin Mary and Archangel Michael Coptic ...

The Hindu
The electoral behaviour of India's Muslims is often presented as one of the most inscrutable aspects of Indian politics. We are told that India's Muslims ...

Quereshi was raised Muslim by parents who immigrated to the United States from Pakistan and came to Christianity over several years through ...
See Ioanna Remouliotis's full report on the RCMP's Muslim outreach program on The National tonight at 9 p.m. on CBC News Network and 10 p.m. on ...
Several months ago, the Bettendorf Public Library applied for and received the “Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys” from the National ...
Students promote Islam
In order to fight misconceptions about the Muslim faith and educate people about specific aspects of Islam, the Notre Dame Muslim Students ...

Washington Post
Le Pen: 'We don't have problems with Islam'
Le Pen's party, which disdains the European Union and globalization and fears that Islamic culture will subvert French civilization, is seeking to build a ...
The Malay Mail Online
Bumi rights for Muslim converts would commodify Islam, say Pakatan MPs
Reuters picKUALA LUMPUR, March 31 — A former judge's proposal to extend Bumiputera privileges to Muslim converts would reduce Islam to a ...

Let's Go Forward, Not Backward, on the Issue of Homosexuality in Islam
They are more concerned about defending their understanding of Islam. Canadian lawyer and academic, Faisal Kutty, has opined, "Same-sex ...
Is Moderate Islam Possible?
Raymond Ibrahim's recent piece for CBN, “Why 'Moderate Islam' is an Oxymoron,” has prompted questions because it contradicts my views and yet ...

Onislam.net
My First Summer as a New Muslim Woman
There are many styles of Islamic clothing and you can find one to suit the activity you want to do. The other factor you have to keep in mind in such ...
Islamic intolerance and the Temple Mount
Clearly, though, there will never be peace, not in Israel nor anywhere else in the region, until Muslims reconcile themselves to a co-existence with the ...
BLOGS
NBC Allergic to Mentioning Islam As They Warn of Female Genital Mutilation In USA | NewsBusters
NewsBusters blogs  Tim Graham
That's about as close as the NBC reporters go to a mention of Islam. (Equality Now also has the same habit of evasion.) A report from the U.S. Agency ...

Cambrian Dissenters: Great Britain's Slow Surrender To Islam - Descent Into Oblivion Continues
Cambrian Dissenters  Daniel Thomas
The adoption of some aspects of Islamic law into its legal system is just one of a multitude of methods employed by the political establishment to ...

Scottish British National Party: Violent Islam converting people to Christianity?
Scottish British National Party  Scotland's British National Party.
Muslims are becoming disillusioned with Islam. They find out that the mechanistic ritual of praying five times per day, reciting verses that they do not ...





Sunday 30 March 2014

Around the Muslim World on Sunday 30 March 2014


Photograph of Hazrat Maulana Abdul Haque Vidyarthi who was a prominent Ahmadi scholar and missionary who wrote the article.

                                 

NEWS

ISTANBUL has always been in my bucket list and so I was elated to learn that it was our next port of call. Turkey has always intrigued me, being a ...
And they objected to characterizations of the event as anti-Islam, despite top billing for authors who have written at length about Islam's threat to ...
Onislam.net
Timbuktu is a historical Islamic city in the modern Republic of Mali. It is approximately 20 kilometers north of River Niger. The roots of Timbuktu is not ...

Shareef, one of the country's renowned scholars added: “However, Islam encourages the use of contraceptives on in extraordinary situations, where ...
The Sunday Times
MORE than a dozen schools in Birmingham are now under investigation by the Department for Education (DfE) over allegations of financial ...
CHANNELS
herdsmen The Jama'atu Nasril Islam (JNI), Kaduna State branch, has condemned the recent killing of innocent people in the northern part of the ...

According to some accounts, the earliest membership of the organization was made up of defectors from the Nation of Islam who had become ...

Washington Post
Thousands of Muslims stuck in C. African Republic
BODA, Central African Republic — There is only one neighborhood in Boda where Muslims are safe from the bullets and machetes of Christian militia ...
Irish Times
Judge apologises for 'incorrect' Muslim remark
Judge Anthony Halpin made the remark that “Muslims think they can actually beat their wives,” in Tallaght District Court on Thursday. Civil liberties and ...
SFGate
Kenya Christian, Muslim clerics debate radicalization
NAIROBI – Local Christian and Muslim leaders in Kenya are engaged in a debate over the radicalization of local youth in the country's coastal region, ...
Banking on Muslim votes
Muslims who have been loyal Congress vote banks for a long time since Indian independence have for some time made it known that they will vote ...
The Hindu
'You are Muslim, not Indian'
Almost every Pakistan fan is equally unmistakable: a devout Muslim, a young man with beautifully drawn kajal in the rim of his eyes, sporting the ...
SFGate
FBI pushed elder Tsarnaev to be informer, lawyers assert
Prosecutors have described him as a youngMuslim extremist who wanted to carry out jihad, or holy war, against the United States. They alleged the ...

A united Muslim Ummah
Problems facing the Ummah are complex and varied, warranting a collective endeavor of all Muslim countries to join hands in finding a credible ...
Vancouver Sun
Crimea's Tatars condemn annexation, seek autonomy
Crimean Tatars greet Russia's top Muslim Cleric Ravil Gainutdin, foreground right, during the Crimean Tatar Qurultay, a religious congress, ...
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Ansari exhorts Muslims to participate in decision making
Addressing the 61st convocation at Aligarh Muslim University, Ansari said in the eyes of the Muslim community their main priorities were "physical ...
BLOGS
Islam always manages to amaze. | Vlad Tepes
Vlad Tepes  Eeyore
After years of chronicling the horrors that Islam as an ideology drives people to do, it never ceased to amaze me how no matter how numb I get to the ...
word faith preacher brian houston attempts to clarify his recent statement concerning islam
Apprising Ministries  Ken Silva pastor-teacher
It would seem pretty clear above that Houston has just told us those who adhere to the world religion of Islam, the followers of the prophet Muhammad, ...
KNOW ISLAM! How criminals are dealt with under Sharia Law :: Britain First
Britain First  Britain First
KNOW ISLAM! How criminals are dealt with under Sharia Law. news358 Blindfolded, shot in the head and strung up on a crucifix for all to see, the ...

Around the Muslim World on Saturday 29 March 2014




                                                                               

News

At the Capitol Thursday, Lori Saroya used an example from her own life to tell a group of Muslim and Jewish high school students about the impact ...
Mohammad Hassan Hamdan, a 22-year-old from Dearborn Heights, Michigan was arrested on Sunday, March 16 at Detroit Metro Airport by the FBI ...
Joyous shouts of “Allahu akbar” echoed across the headquarters of the Philippines' biggest Muslim rebel group as a pact to end four decades of ...
Deseret News
Up to this point, the comic book, which was created to present a positive portrayal of Muslimsin a post-9/11 world, has received praise from a variety of ...
AJC DETROIT (Press Release) — A survey of Detroit area Jews andMuslims reveals high levels of interest to learn more about the other, find ways to ...
Emirates Airline's launch last month of a direct flight between Taipei and Dubai has motivated more five-star hotels to offer Muslim-friendly cuisine to ...

A youth program aimed at building understanding of Muslim culture is underway at the Cromaine District Library. The Hartland Township library is one ...
Spectator.co.uk
The other day I was looking for a good visual to go with an article about media perceptions and stereotyping of Muslims. Finally, failing to find what I ...
Asian Image
A delegation of Muslim and Jewish leaders have called for a ban on Halal and Kosher meat to be reversed in Denmark. The group visited the country ...
Your Local Guardian
They are the only the Muslim VA school in the country to have achieved the rating. The report, released on March 13, heaped praise on the ...

Islam promotes love among mankind: Najib
KUALA LUMPUR: Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak has reminded Muslims that Islam is an all-encompassing religion and a way of life that ...

ISLAM OR EXTREMISM? Marina Mahathir slams Jawi for grilling 81-yr-old Kassim Ahmad TILL 4AM
Kassim, 81, was arrested by the Federal Territories Islamic Affairs Department (Jawi) yesterday and is facing two charges, over his views on the hadith ...
London Free Press
Pilgrimage a window to Islam's universality
Muslim pilgrims run in the Al-Safa direction between Safa and Marwah where Muslims walk back and forth seven times during the Umrah pilgrimage.

Sharnoff's Global Views
What Does Islam Say About Marriage?
Marriage is so serious and so important that it is clearly defined in the Quran and in the teachings ofIslam by the prophet (Peace Be Upon Him).
BLOGS
Answering Muslims: Islam and the Deification of Muhammad
Answering Muslims  David Wood
Our Muslim friends tell us that Islam is the religion of submission to Allah alone. But when we open the Qur'an, we find that Islam demands complete ...
Centre on Aging: Studying Islam in the Academic Context, Dr. Andrew Rippin | Ismailimail
Ismailimail  Ismailimail Blog
Andrew Rippin, professor emeritus of Islamic history, has written many books and articles on Islam. Drawing on personal experience, his presentation ...
Muslim groups claim anti-Islam agenda in US reports on MH370 | Malaysia Today
Malaysia Today  Super Admin
(MM) - US media outlets are attempting to tarnish Malaysia's moderate-Muslim image by highlighting the religion of the pilots from Malaysia Airlines ...

The Story of Mohammed, Islam Unveiled | David's Commonplace Book
David's Commonplace Book  David Hoffman
After the terrorist attack on September 11, 2001, many of our political leaders took pains to assure us that Islam is a religion of peace. The nineteen ...

Islam, Globalism and Freedom « Attack the System
Attack the System  Keith Preston
Islam, Globalism and Freedom. “Only an engaged and informed citizenry can bring about a reversal of the neo-imperial foreign policy that has been ...