Wednesday, 19 March 2014

Around the Muslim World on Tuesday 18 March 2014


 When will you serve Allah?



                                                                                  

News


NDTV
Top Muslim cleric drops bombshell on Mamata Banerjee, says she could go with Congress
Kolkata: After the Anna Hazare fiasco, a Muslimcleric who is close to West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, has now dropped a bomb.

Muslim herdsmen kill 100 Christians in Nigeria
KADUNA, Nigeria (BP) -- Muslim Fulani herdsmen killed more than 100 Christians and destroyed homes in Kaduna state in North-Western Nigeria ...

Fars News Agency
Muslim Brotherhood Denies Top Officials' Arrest in Persian Gulf
TEHRAN (FNA)- Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood denied on Monday that two top officials were arrested last week in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia and were ...

New York Daily News
Muslim convert held in Washington state on way to fight in Syria
A Californian who prosecutors say was on his way to Syria to join an al-Qaeda splinter group has been arrested near the US-Canada border in ...


The Malay Mail Online
Non muslim appeals for Khalwat case
The case involving Halimah, a non-Muslimcharged and convicted in a Syariah court, is believed to be the first of its kind in Penang. The 42-year-old ...

Daily Mail
Muslim woman, 22, who refused to remove niqab in court jailed for six months for terrorising ...
Muslim convert who refused to remove her niqab in court was jailed for six months today after she terrorised a mosque security guard because he ...

Charisma News
Muslim University Refuses to Hire Christians for Anything But 'Menial' Jobs
A public university in Pakistan defies court orders and misleads government authorities to avoid giving federally approved jobs to non-Muslims...
Muslim Terrorists Still Having Trouble Figuring Out How Bombs Work
Three Al Qaeda operatives accidentally blew themselves up while outfitting a car with explosives, Yemen security officials said. Tribesmen from the ...

Speaking of language, we may well ask: What is moderate Islam? What is extremism? Who is defining these terms? What do they mean? Soon one'll ...
Psychoanalysis, Islam, and Joseph Massad
What do psychoanalysis, liberalism, and Islam have in common? A recent lecture at Stanford University with the curious title, "Psychoanalysis and the ...
How oppressive Islam triggers atheism
Throughout the Islamic world, there is probably no idea as despised as atheism. For most Muslims, the fact that some people can deny the very ...
Extremism, terrorism alien to Islam: Pervaiz
ISLAMABAD, March 18 (APP): Minister for Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage Pervaiz Rashid said on Tuesday Islam, being the religion ...
CHANNELS

Counter-terrorism Not Against Islam– NSA
The federal government yesterday said the counter-insurgency war in the northeast zone of the country is never against Islam or Muslims, since ...
Islamic Jihad leader: We must love Jerusalem as Jews do
Unfortunately, many Muslims do not see just how important Jerusalem is to Islam and to our culture," Islamic Jihad leader Ramadan Shalah said last ...

Sun.Star

Islamic Economic System?
As many Muslim thinkers and political activists would agree with me would say that "Islamprovides humanity with solutions to problems created by ...

Conn. Schools Approve Muslim Holidays
“We welcome the inclusion of Islamic holidays in the school calendar because it will serve to enhance the learning environment for Muslim students,” ...
BLOGS
Maryam Sakeenah: Waa Islaamah! (Alas, for myIslam!)
Maryam Sakeenah  Maverick
A grotesque wrong has been committed against Islam by extremists and fanatics, and our collective inability to reject it in clear terms has had grave ...
is it allowed in Islam to load Quran into smart phone as pdf or audio format - Islam - Stack Exchange
is it allowed in Islam to load Quran into smart phone as pdf or audio format.... Reciting Quran for personal goals, is this allowed in Islam?
Robert Spencer, 1st International Symposium on Liberty and Islam in Australia | Vlad Tepes
Vlad Tepes  Eeyore
This entry was posted in Islam in Australia, Robert Spencer, West fights back. Bookmark the permalink. ← BREAKING: More evidence that the missing ...
Islam: the sun revolves around the Earth and Einstein was a shiite Muslim — Winds Of Jihad By ...
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami  sheikyer mami
“Einstein wrote something in which he said he had converted to Islam and had become a Shiite Muslim and that he was a disciple of Imam Jafar ...
Doug Ross @ Journal: Misunderstanderers of Islamcall for car bombs in U.S. cities
Doug Ross @ Journal  directorblue
Misunderstanderers of Islam call for car bombs in U.S. cities. Last week, Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) released the 12th issue of their ...

Monday, 17 March 2014

Around the Muslim World on Monday 17 March 2014

When will you serve Allah? Part II



News
Her husband, who is a Muslim, escaped through a back window. Clutching knives, the fighters looted their possessions. Then, they prepared to kill ...

The Hindu
And to this end, it is leaving no stone unturned in reaching out and consolidating every possible vote. No wonder, then, that the Muslim vote will play a ...

Firstpost
The Muslim factor continues to bedevil parties across the political spectrum in the State. Particularly, in the changed political landscape post ...

EMOTIONS ran high in Mombasa on Friday as families and friends of slain contro- versial Muslim clerics narrated treatment they have undergone in ...

TEANECK — As part of an ongoing outreach program, a few weeks ago New Jersey State Attorney General John Hoffman met with localMuslim ...

DELANCO — The Burlington County Muslim Association is proposing to build a house of worship, elementary school and day care center on Creek ...

Muslim leaders in Mombasa have initiated dialogue with youth from the controversial mussa mosque that was recently renamed to masjid shuhadaa.

New York Times (blog)
BANGALORE, India — An Indian play on the Muslim identity, “Ali J,” had a strong start last year, premiering at the Edinburgh Fringe festival in August ...

VARANASI: A group of Muslim women prayed for Narendra Modi in Lallapura area on Saturday. "Hum Modi ke liye dua maang rahe hai ki wo Banaras ...


Sunday, 16 March 2014

Around the Muslim World on Sunday 16 March 2014

When will you serve Allah?




News
This is imposing Islam in Minneapolis. This is dhimmitude on steroids. A municipality celebrating “Hijab Day” is a violation of the establishment clause.

The Guardian

A new project to connect Islam to feminism has been launched to tackle long-standing concerns that religious women are excluded from the women's ...


CAIRO – A group of New Jersey citizens have volunteered to remove hate graffiti sprayed on the Islamic society in Princeton city, showing solidarity ...

The Express Tribune (blog)

In Pakistan, if a woman is raped and she reports the incident, she is considered shameless, unworthy and the society shuns her. No one wants to ...

BLOGS

Islam-Australia  islamAustralia
In Islam, limited polygyny is permitted; whereas polyandry is completely prohibited. Now coming to the original question, why is a man allowed to have ...

Islam News Room .com  Yusuf Estes
We ask Allah to guide and protect those who are coming close to Islam, ameen. We hope the media and their 'Islam-o-phobia' doesn't attack Bill ...
SermonAudio.com - Son Alienated From Family After Leaving Islam for Jesus
Growing up, Nabeel Qureshi and his mother were incredibly close. Mother walked Son through her faith of Islam, the most important thing her in life, ...
How would a non muslim differentiate between Magic and Miracle of Prophet - Islam Stack Exchange
There are few conditions which easily show the difference between miracle and magic etc. First of all the Mujiza appears to prove the truth of the claim ...



Islam on the Internet; Saturday 15 March 2014





News
The funding went to a full-time Nation of Islam farming operation in Georgia. No funds were ever sent to Chicago. Any actual subsidies received went ...
The fact is that the Islamic form of 'adoption' is called KafĂ¢la, which literally means sponsorship but comes from the root word meaning 'to feed.

More than 1,300 people have been killed in attacks by radical Islamist group Boko Haram in northern Nigeria, with 300,000 fleeing the area. More than ...

The Guardian

A man reading the Qur'an. 'In Islam … the text of the Qur'an [is] something supposedly eternal and never changed or edited.' Photograph: Christopher ...

Montreal Gazette

QUEBEC — Parti QuĂ©bĂ©cois leader Pauline Marois tackled the issue of radical Islam in Quebec during a radio interview Friday morning, telling ...

A non-resident laborer on Friday embraced Islam here in a Mosque in Old City of Srinagar, a news agency reported on Friday. 19-year-old, Bajrang, ...

Telegraph.co.uk

“Content from a pre-recorded segment, which covered the topic of homosexuality and Islam, was played ahead of transmission on Radio 1 and on ...

www.worldbulletin.net

CAIRO – Bishkek, the capital city of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, has been declared the capital of Islamic culture in 2014, hosting five month activities to ...

National Post

Hedayat, the narrator of Ghalib Islam's ambitious debut novel Fire in the Unnameable Country, considers himself a glossolalist. The term has a long
BLOGS

Liberty's Torch  Col. B. Bunny
At the end of its two-day session on Tuesday, the CII said that according to Islam there is no minimum age of marriage. Islam does not forbid marriage ...
Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain  siteadmin
Islamic values are now openly criticised. This is the underlying theme that underpins all these events. Whether it is responding to oppression in the ...
loonwatch.com  Emperor


Dr. John Morrow has an ideal Islamic Studies background - he has done both academic Religious Studies AND traditional Islamic scholarship.
Islam News Room .com  Mutahhir Sabree
Learn From Those Who Spend Their Lives Calling To Allah - And His 'Way' - Islam. Taken from an email regarding dawah from Sheik Yusuf Estes, ...


Muslim spokesman denounces Christian's slaying in Bangui
BANGUI – A Muslim spokesman on Thursday denounced the recent slaying of a Christian sheep vendor in the predominantly MuslimKilometer 5 ...

INLD plays muslim card, trumps Congress in Gurgaon
The Congress had been considering playing theMuslim card by fielding state transport minister Aftab Ahmed (Mewat) from there, after its three-time ...
Muslim American group seeks bigger role in American politics
The new organization, called the US Council of Muslim Organizations will be based in Washington D.C. and will work to advance AmericanMuslims ...
Philippines, Muslim rebels to sign peace treaty on March 27
The Philippines and Muslim rebels are to sign a treaty on March 27 to end one of Asia's longest and deadliest rebellions, a senior aide to President ...

Muslim Community In Ho Chi Minh City Express Sadness Over Disappearance Of MH370
HO CHI MINH CITY, March 14 (Bernama) -- TheMuslim community in Ho Chi Minh City also shared their sadness following the mysterious ...

Muslim insurgents shoot then set on fire Buddhist teacher in Thailand
A 42-year-old Buddhist teacher on her way to school in southern Thailand on Friday was targeted and shot twice in the head, then doused in gasoline ...

Muslim-Americans form umbrella group
The leaders of 8 Muslim-American organizations on Wednesday announced the launch of an umbrella group to better voice the concerns of the ...

Friday, 14 March 2014

Around the Muslim World; Friday 14 March 2014



                    




                     

News
Canadian Univ. Hosts Islam Awareness Week
CAIRO – For years, the campus building of Canada's University of Windsor has been hosting Islamic awareness week, allowing its Muslim students to ...
magharebia.com

Islamic TV channel promotes moderation
Mauritania's first religious cable channel aims to counter extremist rhetoric by broadcasting a message of moderation and tolerance. Radio Mauritanie ...

Press TV

18th volume of Islamic Encyclopedia unveiled in Tehran
The encyclopedia of the world of Islam foundation, known as Encyclopedia Islamica Foundation, is a non-profitable organization whose main objective ...

Underage Marriage Splits Pakistan
KARACHI – A ruling by a prestigious religious council terming laws banning underage marriage in Pakistan as un-Islamic has divided the country's ...
Making waves
Egypt's Al-Azhar, the highest scholarly institution in Sunni Islam, denounced the film last week, saying it "renewed its objection to any act depicting the ...
Rights of minorities in Islam
Islam never allows anybody to use its sacred name for achieving one\'s own ulterior ends. The article under reference when put to unbiased analysis ...


BLOGS
Transnational Islam » Religion » University of Florida
Religion  John Balch
Our new graduate certificate in Transnational Islam will provide a unique interdisciplinary opportunity for students to deepen their understanding of the ...
Muslic Cleric States 'As Per Quran As Per Islam, Westgate Mall Massacre Was 100% Justified
JEWSNEWS  admin
Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, claims to be teaching “true Islam.” I have reported on many such claims by jihadists andIslamic ...
“The first thing we are calling you to is Islam…” — Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami
Winds Of Jihad By SheikYerMami  sheikyer mami
It regulates our life perfectly. It is the best legislation in the history of mankind; it is the word of Allah. There is nothing better than Allah's law. Only Islam ...
Daphne Anson: "Islam Has Given Us This Wish, Capacity & Power To Destroy the Zionist Regime ...
Daphne Anson  Daphne Anson
'Lieutenant Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Brigadier General Hossein Salami underlined that Iranian military ...

Five Things This Christian Learned From Islam, Your Turn | Djibouti Jones
Djibouti Jones  Rachel Pieh Jones
For the past five weeks I wrote about what I have learned from Islam, only scratching the surface. Learning from things outside our idea of 'normal' is ...
A Frat Of Their Own: Muslims Create A New Space On Campus - Why Islam
877-WHY-ISLAM  saulat
By NPR Staff Toga parties and keg stands have become stereotypes of college fraternities. But Ali Mahmoud had something else in mind when he ...
Facing Islam Blog: Demons, Jinns, Exorcisms, andIslam
Facing Islam Blog  Zosimas
Is this modern-day evidence that alleged divine guidance in Islam is/was actually diabolical? Several of the sirĂ¢t or “biographies” of Islam'sfounder ...