Around the Muslim World on Friday 4 April 2014

Was World War I a just war? Part 3

                                                                                

                                                                                  

NEWS

	Muslim backlash against film will hurt women, says 'Honor Diaries' team Fox News The cast and production team behind “Honor Diaries,” the new documentary that probes violence against Muslim women including genital mutilation ...
	Muslim Brotherhood urges Britain not to yield to foreign 'pressure' over review Reuters DUBAI (Reuters) - The Muslim Brotherhood has urged Britain not to bow to foreign pressure in conducting a review of the group over concerns about ...
	Muslim leaders honor Cardinal George Chicago Daily Herald Cardinal Francis George was recognized Wednesday by Chicago-areaMuslim leaders for helping improve dialogue between Muslims and Catholics ...
	The Hindu Muslims no longer listen to Shahi Imam: Yahya Bukhari Zee News Speaking to a TV news channel, Imam Bukhari's brother Yahya Bukhari was quoted as saying, “Today's Muslims don't take such appeals and ...
	Do Muslim women need saving? Muslim women, advocates debate GazetteNET NORTHAMPTON — When Mehlaqa Samdani of Longmeadow told her friends in Pakistan that she was organizing a discussion on whetherMuslim ...
	Murdered Kenya Muslim cleric an avowed Al-Qaeda sympathiser GlobalPost Radical Kenyan Muslim cleric Abubaker Shariff Ahmed, better known as Makaburi, predicted his own violent death barely a month before being ...

	Islam and the teachings of 'extremism' DigiNews CHARLOTTE, N.C., April 2, 2014 — Islam is a religion that is, by definition, extreme. What is regarded as extreme by Western standards is, more often ...
	Islam faces challenges, writes former Indian envoy to the UAE The National “Islam now faces very serious challenges, like the nature of state, the place of sharia in legislation, the status of women and minorities and the nature ...
	'Clusters of Light' delivers tolerant, moderate message of Islam: Sharjah ruler Business Standard The operetta delivers the message of Sharjah to the whole world to see how the tolerant Islamic faith does not make any distinction between people ...
	Council of Islamic Ideology Declares Women's Existence Anti-Islamic AINA Islamabad -- Sharia Correspondent: The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) concluded their 192nd meeting on Thursday with the ruling that women are ...
	Times of India British woman jailed in Tehran for insulting Islam and Iranian government on Facebook fears ... Times of India A British woman has been locked up in Iran for five months after posting derogatory comments about the country's government on Facebook and fears ...
	Need for promoting Islamic Social Order Pakistan Observer They said the Pakistani nation is under solemn obligation to strive for a just social order based on the eternal message of Islam as reflected from the ...
	Breaking off ties strongly discouraged in Islam Arab News Maintaining the bonds of kinship (silatur-rahim) indeed enjoys extraordinary importance in Islam. Conversely, severing the ties (qata-ur-rahim) is very ...
	Onislam.net Finnish Muslims Want Police Hijab Onislam.net STOCKHOLM – Seeing her dream of joining police shattered over her hijab, a Finnish Muslim has urged the government to allow Islamic headscarf in ...
	Students and Faculty wear hijabs to raise awareness about Islam Campus Times To raise awareness and foster dialogue about the hijab and Islam, students and faculty from across religious and cultural backgrounds wore hijabs ...
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	Koenraad Elst: A quarter century ago: my first criticism of Islam Koenraad Elst ⋅ Koenraad Elst Just a quarter century ago, I published my first article criticizing Islam. It described the history of the death sentence by Ayatollah Chomeini on the ...
	Selective News Coverage of Islamic Violence | Crisis Magazine Crisis Magazine ⋅ William Kilpatrick Take the matter of Islamic terrorism. The media is by and large committed to the narrative that Islam is a religion of peace. Hence, they tend to ...
	Moderate Muslims, Hard Line Islam | Pak Tea House Pak Tea House ⋅ razaraja Raza Habib Raja. Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) is a body whose job is to give recommendations to the government for making the legal framework ...

Around the Muslim World on Thursday 3 April 2014

Palestine as it was meant to be

                                                                                 

Pakistani honoured in the US

                                                                                

Hindus demand religious freedom

                                                                                 

News

	Don't let extremists hijack Islam Arab News This is with reference to the report “Extremists have hijacked Islam, says Madani” (April 2). I feel that OIC Secretary-General Iyad Madani is partially ...
	Swedish Islam critic convicted of shoe attack The Local.se The 55-year-old who battered a Muslim woman with a shoe in Malmö was on Wednesday handed a suspended sentence for assault. He also attacked ...
	Why 'Moderate Islam' The Jewish Voice The authoritative Encyclopaedia of Islam's entry for “jihad” states that the “spread of At a time when terrorism committed in the name of Islam is ...
	The Independent Why is the Law Society throwing its weight behind a regressive form of Islam? The Independent Instead of producing a neutral description of sharia, it has effectively issued a declamation on behalf of a regressive, reactionary version of Islamic ...

	Wall Street Journal Myanmar Muslims Face Checkpoints, Cite Growing Isolation Wall Street Journal The government has put up the checkpoints recently, a few months after allegations Muslimswere killed in a massacre have rocked the area.
	Economic Times Muslim quota, upper caste commission promised in Akhilesh Yadav led-Samajwadi Party manifesto Financial Express SummaryAkhilesh Yadav led-Samajwadi Party manifesto promised to release 'innocent' Muslim youths lodged in jail on terrorism charges.
	Washington Post Radical Muslim leader shot dead in Kenya Washington Post NAIROBI, Kenya — A radical Islamic leader who had been sanctioned by the United States and the United Nations for supporting an al-Qaida-linked ...
	Muslim Group's Lawsuit Against Author Proceeds Courthouse News Service (CN) - A Muslim-American group can press some, but not all, of its claims against the men who allegedly spied on it and then wrote a book based on ...
	Daily Mail Muslim couple claim they were victimised by Morrisons after they were refused holiday during ... Daily Mail A married couple claim they were victimised at work due to their religious beliefs after being refused holidays during the Muslim holy month of ...
	Kenyan Muslim groups threaten protest over Islamist shooting Reuters MOMBASA, Kenya (Reuters) - Two prominent Kenyan Muslim rights groups threatened on Wednesday to stage street protests in the port city of ... Flag as irrelevant
	SFGate Muslims Remain Trapped Voice of America In western Central African Republic, entire towns have been emptied of Muslims. Some have been killed, while thousands of others have fled the ...

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	Florida professor: “As memories of colonialism fade, the idea that Islam is linked to violence will ... Jihad Watch ⋅ Robert Spencer And to assert that the association of Islam with violence with fade with those memories of colonialism ignores the fact that it is not “Islamophobes,” but ...
	Saudi Arabia declares atheists terrorists, sets 20 years prison for criticism of Islam : Jihad Watch Saudi Arabia's Islamic religious authorities have spoken out against Saudi fighters going to Syria, but the Interior Ministry estimates that around 1,200 ...

Around the Muslim World on Wednesday 2 April 2014

Christian God and Allah are not the same - Christian preacher

                                                                                

Speak at your peril

                                                             

Food crisis in Pakistan

                                                                                 

Blasphemy Law misused again - Ahmadi arrested on fabricated charges

                                                                                                

News

	Muslims Remain Trapped in CAR Town Voice of America BODA, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC — In western Central African Republic, entire towns have been emptied of Muslims. Some have been killed, ...
	Muslim protest rioter Mohammed Issai Issaka to serve 6 months in jail The Australian A SYDNEY man will serve six months in jail for his role in a violentMuslim protest after a court rejected his appeal. Mohammed Issai Issaka, 44, was ...
	swissinfo.ch Egypt Muslim Brotherhood chief calls Sisi a 'tyrant' Chicago Tribune CAIRO (Reuters) - The top leader of Egypt'sMuslim Brotherhood accused Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the former army chief widely tipped to become the ...
	Capital FM Kenya Muslim cleric Sheikh Abubakar Shariff alias Makaburi shot dead The Standard Digital News Mombasa, Kenya: Tension is high in Mombasa following reports that Muslim cleric Sheikh Abubakar Shariff, alias Makaburi had been shot dead ...
	Muslim Student Journalist Noor Tagouri Shows The Best Way To Deal With Fear And Loathing In ... Huffington Post Muslim college student and aspiring journalist Noor Tagouri received an unexpectedly ugly reception when she arrived in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, ...
	Indian Express Muslim anxiety vs Hindu anger in barometer of divide Indian Express While Muslims in UP are traditionally reputed to wait until the last day or hour before deciding in favour of the candidate apparently best placed to ...
	OneNewsNow Muslim 'disinformation' campaign strategic ... and dangerous OneNewsNow A Christian apologist says a Muslim disinformation campaign in Ohio is very dangerous to individuals who aren't informed and really don't understand ...
	UPI.com Muslim journalist harassed at hearing about mosque UPI.com March 31 (UPI) -- A Muslim student journalist covering a hearing in Tennessee about a mosque cemetery was harassed and told that Islam was "not a ...
	Why some Muslim countries won't screen 'Noah' Washington Post Worried there weren't enough quality retellings of Muslim stories for children, Adiba Ataeva decided to start her own publishing company. But rather ...
	Daily Mail Rising number of 'convenience Muslims' behind bars threaten order in jails and are tomorrow's ... Daily Mail Rising numbers of prisoners are becoming 'convenience Muslims' leading to heightened tensions with guards and fuelling extremism, the head of the ...

	The Globe and Mail Anti-Islamic pamphleteer gets nine months for promoting hate, but can still hand out flyers The Globe and Mail A man charged for handing out anti-Islam flyers in Toronto was sentenced Tuesday to nine months in jail for promoting hate, among other charges, but ...
	Extremists have hijacked Islam, says Madani Arab News Extremist voices and groups have hijacked Islam and misappropriated the right to speak on its behalf, according to Organization of Islamic ...
	Billboard Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam: 'Peace Train' singer surprised at inclusion Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ... The Plain Dealer There we have Linda Ronstadt and Cat Stevens, who now goes by the name Yusuf Islam. And while the Rock Hall Foundation traditionally has a ...
	Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Banning the Muslim Brotherhood would be a welcome step in the war on militant Islam Telegraph.co.uk (blog) Reports today that David Cameron is planning to ban the Muslim Brotherhood from operating in Britain is a welcome signal that the Government is ...
	Orientalists 'spreading false views on Islam' Arab News A leading Islamic scholar, and a winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, has slammed orientalists in the West for spreading ...
	Cultural Clash: the Islam-West Conflict (Part III) Morocco World News Casablanca - In the previous part of this series (Cultural Clash: TheIslam-West Conflict part II), I dealt with the notion of new racism, a contemporary ...
	Golden Thread to Stage THE FIFTH STRING: ZIRYAB'S PASSAGE TO CORDOBA as Part of 'Islam ... Broadway World Golden Thread Productions presents The Fifth String: Ziryab's Passage to Cordoba, the second play to come out of its innovative "Islam 101" initiative, ...
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	Raymond Ibrahim Discusses Why 'Moderate Islam' Is an Oxymoron | FrontPage Magazine FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage ⋅ Frontpagemag.com Raymond Ibrahim's recent article, “Why Moderate Islam Is an Oxymoron,” has provoked controversy and many responses, including from Daniel Pipes ...
	Diana Steigerwald: Shī'ī Islam and its Later Development | Ismailimail Ismailimail ⋅ Ismailimail Blog Shī‛ism is a way to understand and live Islam that goes back to the time of Prophet Muhammad. The Arabic word Shī'a, rendered in English as ...
	Cameron panders to Islam again, promises halal slaughter will not be banned in Britain :: Britain First Britain First ⋅ Britain First News cameron_integrate_islam Dhimmi Dave Cameron, not known for keeping his promises and cast iron pledges, has for once uttered words that we know ...