News around the Muslim World on 30 July 2014

Muslim Unity or the lack of it!

Source: www.virtualmosque.co.uk

                                                                        

Where have all the dinosaurs gone?

Source : Christian Science Monitor

                                                                        

Religious terrorism under state sponsorship

Source : The Washington Post

                                                                        

NEWS

	Muslim Leadership Must Act for World Peace Huffington Post Islam and the behavior of Muslims is no exception. Because of their fear of losing power and control, Muslim leaders and Muslim majority nations have ...
	Fars News Agency Rouhani Asks Muslim States to Help Gaza People Immediately Fars News Agency The Iranian president said that all Muslims are in a big historical test, adding, "Unity and cooperation is needed among Muslims to change living ...
	FrontPage Magazine Obama's Muslim Founding Fathers FrontPage Magazine obama2 In his message to Muslims on their holiday Eid al-Fitr, issued Sunday, Barack Obama asserted that “Eid also reminds us of the many ...
	Oneindia Muslim groups clash in Uttar Pradesh over offering Eid prayers Zee News Lucknow: Over a dozen people were injured in a Meerut village of Uttar Pradesh when clashes erupted between two sects of Muslims over offering Eid ...
	TheNewsTribune.com Tacoma Muslims end month-long Ramadan observance TheNewsTribune.com Bayyan Huhammad, the imam of Mas'Alah Muslim Center, gives the Eid al Fitr prayer for a group of about 20 muslims who gathered Tuesday outside ...
	Hindu Business Line Force feeding Muslim staffer: HC to hear PIL TwoCircles.net New Delhi : The Delhi High Court will Aug 8 hear a petition seeking de-recognition of the Shiv Sena and direction for disqualification of 11 of its MPs ...

	TIME Hidden Islam: Nicolo Degiorgis Charts the Challenges of Being Muslim in Italy TIME In Italy, Islam remains hidden. Despite being home to more than a million Muslims, Italy has put stringent limits on the number of government-approved ...
	Another bloodstain on Islam's holy calendar Telegraph.co.uk (blog) The Islamic world has just observed the end of Ramadan, the month-long spell of fasting that unites the world's 1.6bn Muslims. For the vast majority, ...
	Christian Post Islamic Jizya: 'Protection' from Whom? Christian Post Or was it simply extortion money meant to buy non-Muslims their lives, as Islam's scriptures mandate? The word jizya appears in Koran 9:29: "Fight ...
	Forbes The Current Spasm In Islam Forbes The convulsion that has over taken Islam–which began a quarter-century ago–is exceedingly complicated. And, sadly, few Western observers who ...
	AUDIT BANK ISLAM LOAN, WATER DEAL THEN: Pas insists Khalid not 'corrupt' Malaysia Chronicle PETALING JAYA - PAS central committee member Dr Mohd Zuhdi Marzuki has defended embattled Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim, saying that any move to ...
	US says Turkey favors Sunni Islam over other creeds Cihan News Agency A US State Department report has claimed that the Turkish government is prejudiced in favor of its Sunni Islamic citizens and neglects the needs of ...
	New York Times Iraqi Anger Rises as Militants Attack Mosul's Cultural History New York Times BAGHDAD — When the Sunni extremists ruling Mosul destroyed the shrine of a prophet whose story features the traditions of Islam, Christianity and ...
	BusinessDay Nigerian Islamic School Tries to Combat Boko Haram Voice of America In classrooms facing a sandy courtyard in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna, Maska RoadIslamic School teaches a creed that condemns the violent ...
	Telegraph.co.uk HSBC accused of being anti-Islamafter telling high profile Muslim groups it will close down accounts Malaysia Chronicle HSBC has been accused of racism after it closed down accounts held by high profile Muslim groups including two charities and a mosque.
	International Business Times UK Mosul Brigades: Local Armed Resistance to Islamic State Gains Support International Business Times UK Students and civil servants in the Iraqi city of Mosul, which has been overrun by Islamic State (IS) militants, have formed an armed resistance group to ...
	BLOGS
	The Challenge of Islam: Part 1 - the end of secularisation LMS Chairman ⋅ Joseph Shaw It made the sociologists realise that religion, or at least Islam, was actually stronger, in its ability to shape events, even in the West, than it had been ...
	The future of all Islam Sense of Events ⋅ Donald Sensing So what are the so-called "moderate" Muslims doing about this? Nothing. Watch this and weep, folks, for this is the future of all Islam everywhere.
	Desire for Sin in Islam Recent Questions - Islam Stack Exchange ⋅ Zain RS Here is what I'm trying to say, for example, If I drink alcohol I sin, but what If I don't have access to Alcohol, but I knew if I had access to it I would drink it ...
	the Caliphate debate - Interview with Reza Pankhurst Islamic Revival ⋅ youngmuslim Islam: the Caliphate debate - Interview with Reza Pankhurst. Mahan Abedin - Religioscope. 29 Jul 2014. Following its lightening offensive in northern ...
	Ex-Muslim critic of Islam expelled from Norway, faces deportation to Pakistan and death JEWSNEWS ⋅ Eliyokim Cohen The wellknown islam-critic Imran Firasat (36) was Monaday afternoon put on a plane and sent back to Spain. Firasat came to Norway July 8th, and ...

News around the Muslim World on Tuesday 29 July 2014

Gaza is burning but does anyone, including the Muslims, care?

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

                                                                        

Israel bombs school killing 16.

Source : New York Times

                                                                       

Religious Freedom Initiative by President Obama.

Source : Religion Dispatches

                                                                       

This is what Sunni jihad is

Source : Aljazeera

                                                                       

NEWS

	Muslims Around the World Celebrate Eid al-Fitr ABC News Monday marked the beginning of the three-day Eid al-Fitr holiday, which caps the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Muslims usually start the day ...
	Iranian President Asks MuslimStates to Help Gaza People Immediately Fars News Agency Erdogan, for his part, congratulated the Iranian people and government on the advent of Eid Al-Fitr (the Muslim Feast, marking the end of the fasting ...
	Muslim youth in Taguig call for peace on Eid'l Fitr GMA News Muslim kids flash the peace sign as they enter the Blue Mosque Learning Center in Taguig City for the Eid Palarong Pambata spearheaded by the ...
	Muslims in Joplin celebrate new mosque Kansas City Star Two years after Muslims in Joplin suffered the traumatic loss of their place of worship at the hands of an arsonist, a new $2 million mosque has opened ...
	Muslim Leadership Must Act for World Peace Huffington Post (blog) Because of their fear of losing power and control, Muslim leaders andMuslim majority nations have shown shameful complacency and duplicity.
	Times of India Indian-controlled Kashmir Muslimsflood markets ahead of Eid-ul-Fitr Xinhua SRINAGAR, Indian-controlled Kashmir, July 28 (Xinhua) -- Muslim shoppers in restive Indian-controlled Kashmir Monday thronged market places ...
	In Gaza, Muslim Holiday is Tinged With Sadness Wall Street Journal The Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr brought a brief lull in the fighting between Israel and Hamas. But instead of the customary feasting and celebration, ...
	Hindustan Times Saharanpur's silver lining: Sikh employer helps Muslim artisans celebrate Eid Hindustan Times The 59-year-old businessman has set an example of harmony in the conflict-hit Uttar Pradesh town, helping his Muslim employees celebrate Eid with ...
	The Arab Daily News Muslims gather in Bridgeview to celebrate end of Ramadan The Arab Daily News More than 15,000 Muslims gathered together on Monday morning July 28 to celebrate the end of Ramadan and the beginning of the three day feats of ...
	Khabar South Asia Muslim numbers on Indian police force falling Khabar South Asia Despite the Muslim community's long-standing demand for increased representation in the police department, its recruitment rate has dropped across ...

	Islam Catholic Connection 2 News24 The succession game is played to a varying degree by Islam and the Holy see. A series of power grabs, coups and assassinations - all the marks of ...
	Islam Nagar celebrates Eid after 3 years Times of India RANCHI: Three years after the anti-encroachment drive left their houses destroyed, the residents of Islam Nagar celebrated Eid without much pomp ...
	Daily News Terror, Islam not linked - Cleric Daily News ISLAM should not be linked to the terror attacks that have been gaining momentum in Tanzania and in other areas in the world, the Dar es Salaam ...
	The Rakyat Post ISLAM GIVES WAY TO RACISM: Open secret that some in PAS want to push Malay agenda' Malaysia Chronicle That is how Monash University's political analyst Professor James Chin has described the recently leaked message written by PAS central committee ...
	Religioscope Islam: the Caliphate debate - Interview with Reza Pankhurst Religioscope To gain an in-depth understanding on the circumstances surrounding the “Islamic State's” declaration of a Caliphate and the extent to which the ...
	Christian Science Monitor In Nigeria, a civil war within Islam Christian Science Monitor Assassins tried to take out Muhammadu Buhari, probably the most popular politician with the 'street.' He was a presidential candidate in 2003, 2007, ...
	New York Daily News The True Meaning Of Islam spyghana.com Islam means peace and submission to the will of Allah. For that matter Believers are enjoined to engage in regular prayers, supplications, payment of ...
	San Diego Jewish World Israel to EU envoys: Islam will target you next San Diego Jewish World He further warned that “if you do not stand by our side, the day when Islamic terror will reach your homes, your beds and your kindergartens will come ...
	Mintpress News President Kirr Warns Against Importing Radical Islam AllAfrica.com Juba — South Sudanese president Salva Kiir has warned against the importation of radical Islam, saying he would not tolerate extremism in religion.
	TIME Bloodcurdling Images of Australian Jihadists Puts 'Lucky Country' on Edge TIME It follows the uploading last month of a youtube video by the extremist Sunni group known as theIslamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) of two ...
	BLOGS
	US Muslim leader: Blasphemy not punishable by death in Islam Jihad Watch ⋅ Robert Spencer In 2011 at IslamiCity it was called “Is Blaspheme Punishable by Death inIslam?“; Tikkun has corrected the title to “Is Blasphemy Punishable by Death ...
	The Unseen Face of Islam Unraveling Islam ⋅ Robert Sievers There are many people who study Islam. Some, like myself, focus on theological differences. However, one of the things I have learned is that the use ...
	Intolerance: Islam will never accept a non-Islamic state in lands once conquered in the name of Allah Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami ⋅ sheikyer mami We are witnessing Arab and Muslim war crimes on a never ending spiral of horror inflicted upon Israel's civilian population as endless salvos of ...
	WEB
	Germany, Islam in Brill Online - BrillOnline Muslims in twenty-first century Germany form an integral part of German society, and a vibrant process of establishing a religious infrastructure has ...
	Is Blasphemy Punishable by Death in Islam? Tikkun Magazine If blasphemy was punishable by death in Islam, then the Prophet would have been the first one to order the killing of hundreds of his foes who later ...