News around the Muslim World on Thursday 3 July 2014

Sunnis can you answer this? Of course not, only Ahmadis can!

Source : Pamelageller.com

                                                                          

Sunnis continue to dishonour women.

Source : http://blog.amnestyusa.org/

                                                                     

NEWS

	Local Muslim leaders reject Iraq extremists' call to arms Florida Times-Union A Northeast Florida Muslim leader decried as “silly” an extremist group's recent call for Muslims worldwide to help build an Islamic state in conquered ...
	China Bans Ramadan Fast in Muslim Northwest ABC News Students and civil servants in China's Muslim northwest, where Beijing is enforcing a security crackdown following deadly unrest, have been ordered ...
	Syria-Iraq 'caliph' incites Muslims to holy war Chicago Tribune DUBAI (Reuters) - The leader of the al Qaeda offshoot now calling itself the Islamic State has called on Muslims worldwide to take up arms and flock to ...
	Muslim shops and mosque damaged in Myanmar violence BBC News Muslim shops and a mosque have been damaged by Buddhist mobs in Myanmar's second city of Mandalay. The incident was apparently triggered by ...
	Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood biding its time Deutsche Welle One year after Egypt's military deposed Mohamed Morsi, the country's first Muslim Brotherhood president, members of the Islamist group say they have ...
	Australian Muslim extremist who spreads Jihad by social media is off to Syria to preach hate in new ... Daily Mail Cerantonio, who is known to capitalise on social media to recruit supporters for a world-wide jihad against the West and encourage Muslims to join the ...
	Muslim cemetery development application in Marulan rejected by council ABC Online The Goulburn-Mulwaree Council in the New South Wales Southern Tablelands has rejected a development application for a Muslim cemetery in the ...
	Muslim Aid distributes Ramazan food packets The News International Muslim Aid, a UK-based Muslim charity organisation, has distributed Ramazan food packs worth Rs7.8 million among 2,000 vulnerable and poor ...
	Muslim properties: more rot exposed The Observer (blog) In the second part of a three-part series on wrangles in Uganda's Muslim community, The Observer continues to report on the 60-page Joint Muslim ...
	Muslims have deeper problems than Bill Maher's caustic critique Los Angeles Times Can he be OK with Boko Haram, the Muslim rebel group in Nigeria that kidnapped hundreds of teenage girls and threatens to sell them into slavery?

	Islam should be encouraged to find enlightenment The Australian (blog) IF, as R. C. Warn says (Letters 2/7), Islam's problem is that it never had an Enlightenment, the answer is to give it one. Ireland's experience shows how ...
	Islamic State's Baghdadi calls for Muslims to fight until Rome is conquered Telegraph.co.uk Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the self-proclaimed leader of the Islamic State stretching across Iraq and Syria, has vowed to lead the conquest of Rome as he ...
	Introducing Islam Oman Daily Observer The two main sources of Islamic teachings are the Quran and Sunnah. The Quran is the last revealed word of God to mankind, and it is the prime ...
	Jaish al-Islam captures East Ghouta from IS Syria Direct Jaish al-Islam captured the strategic village of Medaa in East Ghouta from the Islamic State on Tuesday, reported the monitoring group the Syrian ...
	Islam in Africa Brnow Fasting and giving to the poor are important because they fulfill two of the five pillars of Islam. The other pillars include praying five times a day, ...
	What's in a name? Islamic banking rebrands in attempt to go mainstream Reuters July 2 (Reuters) - Islamic banking is based on core principles of the religion. So it is striking that some banks are removing the word "Islam" from their ...
	Hujjat al-Islam Farahzad speaks about rewards of fasting Ahlul Bayt News Agency - abna.ir Hujjat al-Islam Habibollah Farahzad spoke about the rewards of fasting from ahadith (narrations), in a sermon delivered at the Holy Shrine of Lady ...
	Radically Queer Islam: An Interview with the Cast of Coming Out Muslim Huffington Post Having roots within Islam as a queer activist, I was more than honored to invite castmates Wazina and Terna, to share a bit about themselves, their ...
	Islam: Greece; Council of State allows for mosque in Athens ANSAmed (ANSAmed) - ATHENS, JULY 2 - The Council of State gave the green light to the construction of a mosque in Athens, as GreekReporter website writes ...
	Repression no cure for challenge of political Islam CNN (blog) The events in Iraq, where the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has been mounting an offensive against the ill-prepared Iraqi army, raises important ...
	BLOGS
	Obama's Dance With Radical Islam FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage ⋅ Daniel Mandel Because he supports engagement with radical Islam – not merely moderate Muslims, Arab liberals, or secular reformers. Al-Qaeda notwithstanding ...
	Is there room for pacifism in Judaism and Islam? Jihadi Jew ⋅ Lee (Tzvi) Weissman Judaism and Islam both decry the intentional attack on innocents and the wanton destruction of property. We are not pacifist religions in principle.