Wednesday 30 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Thursday 1 May 2014








                                      

NEWS
Muslims to meet with lawmakers in Springfield
The Muslim leaders plan to hold private meetings during the day with state legislators to present their legislative agenda. They support an increase in ...
Radio Australia

India's Muslim community divided on prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi
More than 140 million Muslims call India home - only Indonesia and Pakistan have more believers of the faith - but in the vast nation of 1.2 billion ...
New York Daily News

Afghan couple cuts off Muslim cleric's ears, nose for allegedly raping their daughter
A married couple in northern Afghanistan invited aMuslim cleric to their house and then attacked him in revenge for allegedly sexually assaulting their ...
defenceWeb

Muslim convoy ambushed in CAR
Muslim convoy ambushed in CAR Gunmen attacked an evacuation convoy carrying hundreds of Muslims north from Central African Republic's capital ...
New York Daily News

Developer Scales Back Plans for Muslim Center Near Ground Zero
The developer whose proposal to build a Muslim community center and mosque near the World Trade Center failed amid a national controversy three ...
Muslim Brotherhood leader among 683 sentenced to death in Egypt
CAIRO — A court in southern Egypt on Monday decreed a mass death sentence for nearly 700 people, including the spiritual leader of the Muslim ...
Mirror.co.uk
Vandal admits painting 'Islam' on war memorial days after murder of Lee Rigby
A man daubed 'Islam' on a war memorial days after murder of Lee Rigby during a £50,000 vandalism spree. Andrew Patterson, 31, daubed the word ...

When critique of Islam goes too far
Regarding “An honor rescinded at Brandeis” (Letters,April 15): Brandeis University rescinded an invitation to Ayaan Hirsi Ali to receive an honorary ...

Asian Image
'I had a twisted version of Islam'
'I had a twisted version of Islam'. Shoe-bomb plotter Saajid Badat admits he was once in the thick of al Qaida's plans, winning a hug from Osama bin ...

Nigerian Kidnapped Schoolgirls Forced Into Islam, Taken as Wives
Schoolgirls in Nigeria abducted by suspected members of Boko Haram are being converted to Islam and taken as brides in forced marriages, said ...
New York Daily News
Developer behind 'Ground Zero mosque' plans Islam museum near World Trade Center
The developer behind the scrapped “Ground Zero mosque” announced Tuesday that he plans to build a museum dedicated to Islam on the same ...

The Malay Mail Online
Non-Muslim students asked to name prophets of Islam at scholarship interviews
Two non-Muslim students were allegedly asked questions about the Islamic faith as part of a scholarship interview in Sarawak. ― File picKUALA ...
BLOGS
Islamophobia vs dislike of Islam « Why Evolution Is True
Why Evolution Is True  whyevolutionistrue
There have been an increasing number of articles in the media portraying those who criticize Islam as "Islamophobes," and about the pressure ...


UKIP candidate compares Islam to Nazism | loonwatch.com
loonwatch.com  Amago
A UKIP candidate has defended tweets in which he said comedian Lenny Henry should emigrate to a “black country” and compared Islam to the Third ...


Prison Planet.com » Criticizing Islam Now a Thought Crime
Prison Planet.com  admin
Political party leader Paul Weston was arrested by police and faces up to two years in jail for criticizing the religion of Islam during a public speech in ...


Christian Zionist Baroness Cox Tells Israeli Audience, 'Islam is using the freedoms of democracy to ...
Islam is using the freedoms of democracy to destroy it,” as some of its adherents try to “inhibit criticism,” said Cox, speaking at the Green House next to ...


WEB
RealClearReligion - Get the Hell Out of Islam
Earlier this month I asked a Muslim friend to help resolve an important question: Does Islam teach that hell is eternal? It started as a simple ...


EAS Seminar - Japan and Islam between Two World Wars — Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern ...
East Asian Studies Seminars. Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. Easter Term, 2014. The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies ...




Around the Muslim World on Wednesday 30 April 2014



Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk



                                                       


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Source : Saudi Gazette

                                                                              

NEWS
Toronto Star

Canada outlaws Toronto-based Muslim relief group, adds it to terrorist list
TORONTO — A Toronto-based Muslim relief organization that federal charities auditors accused of funding the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas has ...

Sikh, Muslim group to file complaint against amusement parks
Sikh and Muslim rights group in California will file multiple complaints against an amusement parks chain that denied access to people from the two ...

WND.com

Muslim group's spokesman promotes wife-beating
The same Muslim group pressuring universities across the country to cancel screenings of a film documenting Islamic abuse of women is distributing ...
AINA

Muslim Brotherhood Threatens Terror Attacks on Pepsi
The Muslim Brotherhood has big ambitions. Not only are its branches at war with different countries around the world, but now it's taking on Pepsi.
WPMI Local 15 News

C. African Republic: Militants decapitate Muslim
BANGUI, Central African Republic (AP) — Christian militiamen in Central African Republic's capital have decapitated a young Muslim man just two ...
9/11 Museum's Muslim Problem
Museum officials say the video “does not purport to be a film about Islam or in any way generalize that Muslims are terrorists.” They also note that “Rise ...
Pastor's Daughter, Who Converted to Islam, Charity Uzoechina, Set to Wed
Aishat (Charity) Uzoechina, the 26-year-old daughter of Pastor Raymond Uzoechina, who converted to Islam last year, is set to wed. The Executive ...


Masing: Asking questions on Islam to non-Muslims wrong
According to Nigel, candidates were asked on Islamic matters such as their understanding and opinion on the Hudud law, 'rukun Solat' and 'adat ...

AhlanLive.com

Scorpions drummer jailed for insulting Islam in Dubai airport
DUBAI // A member of the heavy metal band Scorpions will spend a month in jail after he was convicted on Tuesday morning of insultingIslam, ...
Former HM spokesman Junaid ul Islam 'critically' Injured
The ex-militant injured in Tuesday firing incident at Sangrama is said to be former 'sensational' spokesman of Hizbul Mujahideen, Junaid ul Islam.


Andrea Tantaros' Not Very Good, Very Bad Anti-Islam Campus Hate Speech
During the Fox abetted outrage over Brandeis U's revocation of an honorary decree for Islam critic Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Fox's "The Five" weighed in with ...
BBC News

Iraq Elections Revive Sunnis Fears
The Sunni Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has recently seized Anbar's Fallujah as well as other parts. “Fallujah residents held no brief for ...


Mosque Raids Anger Czech Muslims
Yulianto was at the headquarters of the Islamic Foundation, a community center in Prague, the Czech capital, last Friday to attend congregational ...


BLOGS
Prison Planet.com » UK party leader arrested for quoting Churchill on Islam
Prison Planet.com  admin
RT April 29, 2014. Quoting Winston Churchill can get you arrested, as one British candidate in the European elections found out after referring to the ...


Pat Robertson Likens Islam To Nazism, Again | Islamophobia Today eNewspaper
Islamophobia Today eNewspaper  RightWingWatch
Today on the 700 Club, Pat Robertson once again compared Islam to Nazism, telling a viewer that he shouldn't “turn the other cheek” when it comes to ...

Facing Islam Blog: ISLAM IS ACTIVELY FORCING OUT CHRISTIANITY IN THE UK
Facing Islam Blog  Zosimas
The widespread apostasy of Western Christianity is soon to claim its most visible victim. In place of the Cross, the Black Flag of Islam will unfurl atop ...
WEB
The sharia as a vocation: Islam, law and civility in Lebanon | University of Oxford Podcasts - Audio ...
This discussion of sharia discourse in different contexts focuses on the experiences of four individuals. An anthropology departmental seminar by ...


BEGÃœM BURAK The fall of democracy and predicament of political Islam in Turkey - Today's Zaman
The Feb. 28 process in 1997, which has been defined as a “post-modern coup” in the history of Turkish politics, opened a brand new chapter for both ...


Sun.Star Cebu - Verdict expected for Islam chief, 700 others - PressDisplay.com
Verdict expected for Islam chief, 700 others. (AFP) WORLD MINYA, Egypt — The Egyptian judge who sentenced to death hundreds of supporters of ...





Monday 28 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Tuesday 29 April 2014



Source : Christian Science Monitor


                                                                               

NEWS
Firstpost
BJP's 'anti-Muslim Ambedkar' pitch is a big, fat lie
Suddenly there were statements and TV channel discussions on how Ambedkar viewed the Muslims of India negatively. A nameless Twitter account ...
Prague Post
Muslim Leaders Denounce Police Over Raids in Czech Capital
PARIS — Muslim leaders in the Czech Republic on Monday accused the police of abusing their power after armed officers raided Islamic institutions in ...

www.worldbulletin.net
Muslim student ordered to remove face-veil in Germany
An 18-year-old Muslim student in Germany's Bavaria has been banned from wearing her face veil in class at her state run vocational college after a ...

Muslim doctors don't see eye to eye
PETALING JAYA: A group representing Muslim physicians has defied the Health Ministry and Malaysian Medical Association on the hudud issue, ...
Livemint
Being Muslim will be tougher after 16 May: Historian Mushirul Hasan
New Delhi: Being a Muslim in India will become more difficult after 16 May, the day the Lok Sabha election results will be declared, historian Mushirul ...


To counter stereotypes, Chicago Muslims dance in 'Happy' video
A video of Chicago area Muslims dancing and smiling to Pharrell Williams' smash hit “Happy” has struck a chord, attracting more than 50,000 views on ...

Middle East Online
Seif al-Islam Gathafi answers court questions via video link
TRIPOLI - A Libyan court said Sunday that it would appoint a lawyer for slain dictator Moamer Gathafi's son Seif al-Islam after he insisted in a ...

Morocco World News
Is Islam Only About What's Permitted or Prohibited?
Nearly one in five people in the world today claim the faith of Islam. Over fifty countries have Muslim-majority populations. Not only is it the official ...


BLOGS
Pastor's daughter who converted to Islam set to wed the lawyer - Linda Ikeji's Blog - Blogger
Charity Uzoechina, the daughter of Pastor Raymond Uzoechina of the Redeemed Christian Church of God who converted to the Islamic faith in Feb.

WEB
BBC News - Euro candidate Paul Weston arrested over Islam remarks
A candidate in the South East European elections is arrested after making a speech quoting from a book by Winston Churchill about Islam.





Sunday 27 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Monday 28 April 2014



Source : WWW.BND.COM


                                                                                 



                                                                                 


News

Muslim world body heading to C. African Republic
International forces have struggled to contain the fighting that has displaced tens of thousands of Muslims in what the United Nations' human rights ...
Channel 4 News
Muslim schools 'plot' teacher: 'I am not an extremist'
A senior teacher connected to an alleged Muslimplot to take over a number of Birmingham schools tells Channel 4 News there was a campaign to ...


Muslim Apprehensions About Modi Will 'Go Away': Shah
The apprehensions about Narendra Modi thatMuslims have will "go away" once he becomes prime minister as there will be policy initiatives to ...
Washington Post
Scores of Muslim Rohingya children flee Myanmar in boat exodus
They couldn't go back to their tiny Muslim village in Myanmar's northwest Rakhine because it had been burned down by an angry Buddhist mob.

Daily Mail
The mind of the Muslim voter
Do Muslims vote en bloc? Will clerics swing the votes? Which G word will be more important this election: growth or Gujarat? Sunday Times puts its ...


Book review: The Muslim League in Barabanki - perplexities of partition
A collection of 11 polemical essays on IndianMuslims and the Partition, mostly reprinted or revised short articles, make up The MuslimLeague in ...


Non-Muslim Filipinos urged to prepare wills
Dubai: Non-Muslim Filipinos in the UAE have been urged not to treat making wills a taboo and instead draft one to ensure their assets go to their ...

Onislam.net
Is Islam the Truth? (Watch)
So sometimes we can forget the reasons why we believe in Islam. So maybe you can help us to answer that question. Why do we believe Islam is the ...


Malaysian Islam gets thumbs up from Obama
US President Barack Obama has paid homage to Malaysia's moderate brand of Islam and picked his way through his hosts' contentious politics on the ...
Newsweek Pakistan
Warriors of Islam
It took two lines toward the end of the Inter-Services Public Relations' press release for the ruling Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) to scurry for cover.


The rise of radical Islam – Yin
Tony Blair's call to confront radical Islam echoes that of many liberal tolerant politicians who have seen how radical Islam has eaten into the fabric of ...

Onislam.net
UK Far-right Anti-Islam Ad Criticized
CAIRO – In an attempt to garner Islamophobic voters in looming European elections, a British far-right party has produced an anti-Islam video to ...
Oman Daily Observer
Challenges facing Islamic world, role of OIC reviewed
MUSCAT — On behalf of His Majesty Sultan Qaboos, His Highness Sayyid Fahd bin Mahmood al Said, Deputy Prime Minister for the Council of ...
WND.com
'Tolerance and the Fear of Islam' interfaith dialogue
LITTLE FALLS — Interfaith leaders and community members will gather a community dialogue on “Tolerance and the Fear of Islam” from 6-8 p.m., ...
Tasnim News Agency
DM: Enemies Opposing IslamicIdentity of Iran
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran's defense minister once again raised the alarm over the enemies' continued hostility towards the country, saying the ...
Channel 4 News
Muslim schools 'plot' teacher: 'I am not an extremist'
It's not about making them more Islamic." He points out that many parents in the community support the schools, which have turned themselves around ...
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BLOGS
Blair, Russia and Islam - Anna Raccoon
Anna Raccoon  Atticus Flinch
Post image for Blair, Russia and Islam. by Atticus Flinch on April 27, 2014. It is a voice which I truly loath. Smooth, apparently tinged with the slightly ...


Islam at the centre of fresh UKIP row - The Freethinker
The Freethinker  Barry Duke
Lampitt, who describes himself as “born British in Rhodesia” said in one tweet that Islam is not a religion and calls it an “evil organisation”. He also ..

WEB
Lashkar-i-Islam threat forces tribal families to leave Bara | Informed Comment
PESHAWAR: After threats from the Bara-based outlawed Lashkar-i-Islam, scores of Afghan and Zakakhel tribesmen from Khyber tribal region's Bara ...