Wednesday 3 September 2014

News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 3 September 2014




May be this will encourage the Pakistani parliamentarians to clamp down on misuse of the Blasphemy Law


Source : Economic Times



This situation is detrimental not just to the rights of children, but ultimately to the state's ability to combat extremism. ICG suggest that this neglect can only be reversed by overhauling a Pakistani curriculum that cultivates intolerance and xenophobia in young people.
The International Crisis Group recommends a number of urgent measures that would enable the Pakistani public education system to foster a more tolerant citizenry, encouraging peaceable attitudes both domestically and towards the outside world.

Source : http://tonyblairfaithfoundation.org/


it was a maverick British official, who helped embed the gene into the new state. The British official attached to Aziz, was one Harry St. John Philby (the father of the MI6 officer who spied for the Soviet KGB, Kim Philby). He was to become King Abd al-Aziz's close adviser, having resigned as a British official, and was until his death, a key member of the Ruler's Court. He, like Lawrence of Arabia, was an Arabist. He was also a convert to Wahhabi Islam and known as Sheikh Abdullah.
St. John Philby was a man on the make: he had determined to make his friend, Abd al-Aziz, the ruler of Arabia.


Source : The Huffington Post

Contributor : Mr Hameed Jahangiri, Our Staff Reporter California (US)

Whom shall British Shi'ites heed? Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani (left) has called on Iraqi Shi'ites to take up arms against Sunni jihadists, while Iranian Grand Ayatollah Makarem Shirazi (right) has called on Shi'ites around the world to form armed forces in Iraq.


Source : GATESTONE Institute



This scene of a Christian student leading a class in protest against a supposedly anti-Christian educator isn’t an isolated event. A week earlier, a professor at the University of Central Florida sent an open letter to his class after a student allegedly stood up in class and called on his fellow students to refuse to participate in a discussion of “religious bigotry.”



NEWS


Barack Obama looks to Muslim countries for help in crushing Isis
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France's new Muslim education minister calls for respect after slurs in media
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Southern California Muslim group condemns journalist's killing
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A Muslim inmate's beard isn't a security risk. It's his constitutional right
In my communications with Muslim prisoners, many of whom have converted to Islam while in detention, I came to understand their struggles: ...


Muslim groups speak out against beheading
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Thailand picks team for talks with Muslimrebels
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thailand will assemble a peace negotiating team by the end of the week to revive talks with Muslim separatists whose ...


Travelblog: 3 things Indonesia can teach the Muslim world
Sure, they may be Muslims acting in the name of Islam, but the Muslimleaders I've met here are clear that it's not a form of Islam that they recognize, ...


Study finds despite stereotypes, Muslim nations take nuanced approach to 'haram' imports
Bhala and Keating analyzed the tariff schedules of every Islamic country in the world with a majority Muslim population who are members of both the ...


Watch Live: Kerry To Honor US Special Representative ToMuslim communities
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Here's how 'Duck Dynasty's' Phil Robertson would fight the Islamic State: 'Convert them or kill them'
Hannity, who invited Robertson on his show to weigh in on “the rise of radical Islam” and to plug his new book “unPHILtered: The Way I See It,” went ...


16 Suspected Islamic Militants Arrested in Bosnia
Bosnian police have detained 16 people suspected of having fought in Syria and Iraq or of recruiting and funding other Balkan men to join the Islamic ...


Saudi court upholds 10-year term for blogger who insulted Islam
Raef Badawi had been convicted of creating an anti-Islam website, criticizing senior scholars and mocking national symbols, Al-Madinah newspaper ...


Brutal Efficiency: The Secret to IslamicState's Success
Islamic State's stunning success this summer as it swept across northern Iraq and Syria flows from a highly organized structure controlled by a tightknit ...


Islamic State to Putin: We Are on Our Way to Russia
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Yazidi girl tells of escape from IslamicState kidnappers
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Adeba Shaker arrived at a house in Raabia, Iraq, after being kidnapped by Islamic State militants ...


How Dissimulation about Islam is Fuelling Genocide in the Middle East – Part III
An extreme example is Yale theologian Miroslav Volf's preposterous claim that the use of military force to expand Islam is 'rejected by all leading ...


Sabah politician charged with allegedly insulting Islam on Facebook
Orok who was produced before judge Ummu Kalthom Abd Samad was accused of posting a statement insulting Islam and Prophet Muhammad on his ...
BLOGS
Ayesha's Age at Marriage
Islam News Room .com  Historical
Ayesha's Age at Marriage Was she 6, or 9? Too young? Big story.


India: Two Dalit Youth Arrested For Converting to Islam
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Shivpuri police have booked two Dalit youths for allegedly converting to Islam without seeking permission from the district authorities as mandated by ...


Christianity, Islam and the Future
Mary Victrix  Fr. Angelo M. Geiger
Our options are to ignore the fact that Islam by its very nature is subject to fanaticism and radicalization of the worst kind, or to symbolically take the ...


Islam 101: What is a Caliphate?
Jerusalem Dateline  Chris Mitchell
For some Muslims, the announcement of a Muslim caliphate by Al-Baghdadi of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria – which became the Islamic State ...


Marrying Someone Younger in Islam?
Answers  Souphienne Goufi
Marrying a younger man is permissible in Islam, as seen by the example of Prophet Muhammad (upon him be blessings and peace) and his first wife, ...


barbarity of islam
VENITISM  Basil Venitis
A new video shows Islamic State militants beheading American journalist Steven Sotloff. The Islamic State has posted the video of the execution ...


Why Islam bollixes the Left
Sense of Events  Donald Sensing
Why the Secular Humanists Cannot Cope With Islam. The Qur'an states. Men are the maintainers of women because Allah has made some of them to ...


Coexist with Islam? Is Cardinal Koch Smoking Crack?
DavidLGray.INFO  David L. Gray
There is no coexistence with Islam! None whatsoever! The work of Islam has always been to gain the majority so that they might suppress the minority.


OJ Simpson…Converting to Islam?
2.0: The Blogmocracy  Macker
The National ENQUIRER has learned Simpson became interested in Islamthrough fellow inmates, and his current “cellie,” Smoke, put him in touch ...


WEB
Exclusive: Phil Robertson on the rise of radical Islam
Exclusive: Phil Robertson on the rise of radical Islam. Sep. 02, 2014 - 8:20 - 'Duck Dynasty' star talks new book 'unPHILtered'. Interact with the Show.


Catholic priest: Islamic State misunderstands Islam, Qur'an doesn't command beheading
Not only the Islamic State, but also Saudi Arabia, a kingdom that loudly proclaims its absolute fidelity to the Qur'an and Islamic law, regularly performs ...


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