Around the Muslim World on Saturday 5 April 2014

An old town

Source : Christian Science Monitor

                                                                               

Designer drugs - Are they here?

Source : Christian Science Monitor

                                                                                

Pakistani animated series "Burka Avenger" wins award

Source : Peabody Awards Press Release

                                                                               

NEWS

	NDTV Muslim leader endorses ruling party as religion rises in India election Chicago Tribune NEW DELHI (Reuters) - The imam of India's largest mosque endorsed the ruling Congress party on Friday ahead of a general election, a boost for the ...
	The Sanatoga Post Muslim parents upset over school flyer promoting church's Easter egg hunt Detroit Free Press Some Muslim parents are concerned about public schools in Dearborn handing out flyers to all students advertising an Easter egg hunt, saying it ...
	The Guardian Muslim Brotherhood responds to UK review Turkish Press LONDON – The Muslim Brotherhood has responded to the U.K. government's decision to initiate a review into the organisation by saying that they will ...
	Jagran Post Dalit-Muslim unity is the need of the hour- Asaduddin Owaisi TwoCircles.net From a messiah of oppressed sections to a vocalMuslim leader, from a socialist rant to a feminist brand, this London educated barrister is bringing it ...
	Christian Post Muslims Drag Christian Woman From Car in Egypt, Stab and Brutally Beat Her for Having Cross on ... Christian Post Sisi played an integral role in the ousting of former President Mohamed Morsi, who was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood political party. Morsi's ...
	Muslim Brotherhood Supporters Slaughter Christian Woman FrontPage Magazine mary-coptic-martyr On Friday, March 28, in Ain Shams, a suburb of Cairo,Muslim Brotherhood supporters attacked the Virgin Mary and Archangel ...
	Indian Express Muslim woman minus hijab is Left choice in Malappuram Indian Express In a first, a Muslim woman is contesting as the Left candidate in this constituency, traditionally a pocket borough of Indian Union Muslim League, ...

	The Brandeis Hoot Islam Awareness Week seeks to promote positive understanding ofIslam on campus The Brandeis Hoot This week on campus, Brandeis hosted its annual “Islam Awareness Week,” established to raise awareness about Islam and to remove ...
	Christian Post 'Atheist Thought,' 'QuestioningIslam' Defined as Terrorism in Saudi Arabia; Human Rights Group ... Christian Post Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah arrives at the the opening ceremony of the Organisation of IslamicConference (OIC) summit in Mecca August 14, 2012.
	euronews Syria is What Happens When IslamWins AINA Money and weapons are only the symbols. What they represent is Islam. And what Islam represents is the intersection between identity and power.
	Daily Star David Cameron promises to crack down on Islam fanatics who want to take over schools Daily Star Cameron promises to crack down on Islamfanatics who want to take over schools. DAVID Cameron has vowed “swift action” to crack down on an ...
	RollingStone.com The Cat Looks Back: Yusuf Islam on His Rock Hall of Fame Honor RollingStone.com The announcement of my enrollment into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame will certainly bring happiness to a lot of my loyal fans, and fulfillment to all ...
	The Way Is Britain providing the foundations for an Islamic state? The Way Fraser Nelson who writes for the Telegraph leads with this statement on the 4th of April: “The integration of mainstream Islam in the UK is one of our ...
	BLOGS
	Illiterate Islam | The New Oxonian The New Oxonian ⋅ rjosephhoffmann Islam is illiterate. Its teachers are illiterate. Its educational system, to the extent it calls itself Islamic, is impoverished. Not particularly in its faithful, who ...
	Raymond Ibrahim believes in Moderate Muslims but not in Moderate Islam says Daniel Pipes ... Dialogue Ireland ⋅ dialogueireland The Middle East Forum Debates Moderate Islam by Daniel Pipes Mar 30, 2014 Cross-posted from National Review Online, The Corner ...
	BBC, 'Free Speech' and Islam (Epic Fail) | Creeping Sharia Creeping Sharia ⋅ creeping via BBC, 'Free Speech' and Islam: A Potent Mix. 'Fear' is the main modus operandi of political correctness, and in the Western World, many live in fear ...
	The False Dichotomy: Moderate Muslims vs. Radicals | FrontPage Magazine FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage ⋅ Majid Rafizadeh islam-will-dominate-the-world The liberal mainstream media has long portrayed the picture of moderate (good) Muslims versus extremist Muslims.

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 ...
	BLOGS
	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 ...

	BLOGS
	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 ...