News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 17 September 2014

A Muslim academic is vowing to push ahead with the launch of his woman and gay-friendly mosque in South Africa, despite receiving death threats. Taj Hargey, director of the Muslim Educational Centre of Oxford, a group of "forward thinking" Muslims, said his Open Mosque will welcome all genders, religions and sexual orientations when it opens in Wynberg, a Cape Town suburb, on Friday.

An unusual mosque.

Source : www.telegraph.co.uk

The Pakistan Federation of Wood Workers (PFBWW) has scored a major victory in a case

1. filed with the Muzzafarabad High Court in Pakistan. The case pertains to the violation of the right to freedom of association by Chinese consortium, CGGC-CMEC – the contractor at the Neelam Jhelum Hydro Power Project in the Azad Jammu & Kashmir area of Muzzafarabad

Another small victory for labourers of Pakistan

Source : Building and Wood Worker's International

fore he came to Colombia, all that Mohammed had ever heard about the country was "violence, drugs, and war." Certainly, when the 28-year-old Syrian fled Damascus just over a year ago, Colombia did not register as a possible place to resettle. "I never thought about South America at all," Mohammed says,

Uruguay opens its doors to Syrian refugees.

Source : http://www.foreignpolicy.com/

The structure's crescent shape stood out in the landscape, Wachtel told Live Science in an email. The shape may have had symbolic importance, as the lunar crescent is a symbol of an ancient Mesopotamian moon god named Sin, Wachtel said. An ancient town called Bet Yerah (which translates to "house of the moon god") is located only a day's walk from the crescent-shaped monument Wachtel noted. As such, the monument may have helped mark the town's borders.

Was this the house of the moon god?

Source : Christian Science Monitor

NEWS

	Muslim academic gets death threats over women and gay-friendly mosque Telegraph.co.uk A Muslim academic is vowing to push ahead with the launch of his woman and gay-friendly mosque in South Africa, despite receiving death threats.
	Muslim youths barred at garba venues in Godhra Times of India The samiti claims it issued the diktat as Muslim youths enter the garba venues with the intention of luring Hindu girls. "Muslim boys luring Hindu girls at ...
	German Muslim community announces protest against extremism Deutsche Welle Mosques across Germany are planning to unite against Islamist extremists this week. The country's Central Council of Muslims wants to reframe the ...
	The Muslim Brotherhood's Inter-Faith Charade FrontPage Magazine Dr. Christian, an Egyptian-born Christian convert from Islam related to high-ranking leaders of the MuslimBrotherhood, is now engaged in a battle to ...
	Women's rights activist speaks out at Yale against Muslim 'indoctrination' New Haven Register NEW HAVEN >> Ayaan Hirsi Ali, known worldwide for her crusade on behalf of women's rights in Muslimregions, brought her message to Yale ...
	Qatar orders expulsion of EgyptianMuslim Brotherhood leaders The Guardian Qatar has pledged to expel exiled leaders of Egypt'sMuslim Brotherhood as one of the conditions of an agreement forced on the wealthy Gulf state by ...
	Erdogan offers to host MuslimBrotherhood leaders ousted from Qatar Jerusalem Post Turkey would welcome senior figures from Egypt's outlawed Muslim Brotherhood after they were asked to leave Qatar under pressure from other Gulf ... Turkey could accept Muslim Brotherhood leaders - U-T San Diego Turkey could accept Muslim Brotherhood leaders - MiamiHerald.com Full Coverage
	Muslim Students Association offers cultural flavors The Daily Pennsylvanian The Muslim Students Association sought to share both flavors and culture at their event on Monday. At their Islamic Cultural Food Lounge event on ...

	Cameroonian football team converts to Islam The National DUBAI // Twenty-three young African footballers converted to Islam at the end of a two-month training camp in Dubai. The men, all in their twenties, are ...
	Russia: We warned the Yanks aboutIslamic State Aljazeera.com They will create "Islamic State 2", a bigger and better armed group, and let it deal with the original IslamicState group. And what happens when ...
	Moderate Islam: A MYTH! FrontPage Magazine interview, by proclaiming “there is no such thing as a radical or moderate form of Islam. You know, a woman is either pregnant or not pregnant”.
	John Esposito Takes 'Islam' Out of ISIS Campus Watch "He's the head apologist," read a note passed to this reporter from a liberal friend during Georgetown University professor John Esposito's August 28 ...
	Hear Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) Cover Edgar Winter's 'Dying to Live' RollingStone.com Last December, not long after the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame announced that it would be inducting him in its class of 2014, Yusuf (the ...
	Iran won't join US in Islamic State fight Washington Post PARIS — Iran on Monday spurned an American request for cooperation in the fight against IslamicState militants, but the United States said the door ...
	Australia's Imam Council Rebuffs Abbott Decision To Send Troops; Wants 'Islamic' Dropped From ... International Business Times AU Australia's Grand Mufti slammed militant group IslamicState of Iraq and Syria for their barbaric actions following the release of beheading videos to ...
	Minister: Haines murder 'has nothing to do with Islam' ITV News The murder of British aid worker David Haines byIslamic State militants has "nothing to do with Islam", the Immigration Minister has said.
	Teaching US Officials About Radical Islam Commentary Magazine When American forces first began fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, criticisms abounded about the lack of troops' cultural awareness when they entered ...
	BLOGS
	UK: Beheaded aid worker's brother says Islam “not to blame” Jihad Watch ⋅ Robert Spencer They will swear to their last dying gurgling beheaded breath that Islam is a religion of .... I never mentioned that Brother Rashid was critical of Islam.
	No True Islam Souciant » Souciant | Souciant ⋅ Bilal Ahmed Senior Muslim scholars are beginning to push back against Islamic State propaganda. Britain's Faith Associates consultancy organized a four-minute ...
	Why are all the excuses made for Islam? neo-neocon ⋅ neo-neocon From Bush to Obama, and around the world, Western leaders are falling all over themselves to proclaim that ISIS is not Islamic, whereas ISIS declares ...
	Will Arab States Help the Shine the Light on “PoliticalIslam”? True North Reports ⋅ TrueNorth By Robert Maynard. The Arab League recently announced that it would join in opposing the Islamic State, or IS, both militarily and politically. Now 10 ...
	Islam is a peaceful religion, according to John Kerry The Minority Report Blog ⋅ Michael Becker the face of Islam is not the butchers who killed Steven Sotloff,” he continued, to immediate applause. “That's [ISIS].” “The face of Islam is not the nihilists ...
	Which Islam? The Angry Arab News Service/وكالة أنباء العربي الغاضب ⋅ As'ad AbuKhalil My latest blog post for Al-Akhbar English: "Which Islam?" Posted by As'ad AbuKhalil at 6:54 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to ...
	The folly of taking Islam out of ISIS Tuvia Brodie ⋅ Tuvia Its goals center on Islam. Its mission is to establish a caliphate, “a state ruled by a single political and religious leader according to Islamic law, ...
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	Islam's Nightclub Brawl National Review Online Islam's Nightclub Brawl - Jihadis from Britain are acting out a brutality learned at home.