Monday 14 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Monday 14 April 2014


Source : Religion News


                                                                                 


Source : Christian Science Monitor


                                                                                 


Source : Religion Dispatches


                                                                               


Source : Religion Dispatches

                                                                              


Source : All Voices


                                                                                 

NEWS
Daily Mail

Muslim Brotherhood not leaving UK for Austria: leader
CAIRO – The Muslim Brotherhood has no plans to relocate its office from Britain to Austria, according to a senior leader. "I cannot imagine or accept to ...
BBC News

Muslim Preacher Faces NY Trial a Decade After Terror Charges
Abu Hamza al-Masri, the Islamic cleric accused of aiding an al-Qaeda affiliate's deadly attack in Yemen and trying to start a terrorist training camp in ...
Rocky Mountain Collegian

Muslim Student Association brings awareness to CSU
Muslim Student Association Editor's note: Moonier Said was previously employed by The Rocky Mountain Student Media Corp., the parent company of ...
Local Muslim Community Bleeds With Boston
The Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, and ranks as one of the largest and most popular events of its type worldwide. Tragedy ...
Firstpost

Who's afraid of Narendra Modi? It's intellectuals not Muslims
And Muslims know this as well, even though political leader after leader from Mayawati to Mamata are trying to rake up 2002 to scareMuslims into ...
Belfast Telegraph

'Muslim school plot' claims probed
An update is expected later on the progress of an investigation into an alleged plot by hardlineMuslims to seize control of schools.
The Hindu

Muslim outfit rethinks ties with AIADMK
After parting ways with the Left parties, the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam faces the prospect of losing the support of a key Muslimoutfit, ...
Telegraph.co.uk

Muslim woman urges Modi to take responsibility for mass murder
Minutes before he was hacked to death by a Hindu mob, veteran Muslim politician Ehsan Jafri dialed one last number to stop the carnage. According ...


Muslim Arabs in Israel: Part 2
Jews, the majority sect of Israeli society, and Muslim Arabs, the minority sect, do not recognize each other or even believe the other should exist.
Wall Street Journal

France, Islam and the 'Spreading Hatred'
They are said to demand an allegiance to fundamentalist Islam, thus ... 25 years of France'sIslamic communities, concentrated on what he called a ...

Naharnet

Libya Trial of Seif Al-Islam Gadhafi, Aides Adjourned
A Libyan court adjourned Monday until April 27 the trial of top figures from Moammar Gadhafi's regime, including heir apparent Seif al-Islam, ...
ANTARA

Commentary: No, we're not seeing the revival of political Islam
The people have spoken: 2014 is not the end forIslamic parties. Despite all the doom and gloom, not only did they manage to survive the 2014 ...

US Government Promoting Islam in Czech Republic
Critics say the project's underlying objective is to convert non-Muslim children to Islam by bringing proselytizing messages into public schools under ...
French explorer Gibran Hasnaoui globe-Trots to combat Anti-Islam sentiment
“It was here that I actually became connected with Islam,” says Hasnaoui. “I was introduced to many wonderful brothers from different countries and ...
HINDU MOM STANDS FIRM! I want my kids' conversion to Islam REVOKED, they can decide when ...
I have nothing against Islam, because there are Muslims in my family too," she told Malaysiakini, referring to her mother, Siti Aishah, who is a convert.


BLOGS
Oral Traditions in Islam and Judaism | loonwatch.com
loonwatch.com  Guest
The oral traditions in Islam and Judaism provide deeper context and meaning to many of the religions' texts and beliefs.
Resurgent political Islam, or astute Islamic parties?
New Mandala  Greg Fealy
Greg Fealy asks whether surprisingly good results for Indonesia's Islamicparties reflect their ideological appeal or strong grassroots campaigns.

Holy Qur'an: Al Baqarah (Chapter 2) recited by Abdullah Al Matrood | The Islam Papers
The Islam Papers  Islam Papers
Soothing recitation of the chapter 2 of the Holy Qur'an to calm your heart, mind and soul. The recitation is by Abdullah Al Matrood – one of my favourite ...


WEB
Fatimiyyah Night 1: Love and Hate in Islam on Vimeo
Part 1 of Sheikh Jaffer Jaffer's lectures on Love and Hate in Islam at the Yaseen Educational Foundation in Orange County.


Sunday 13 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Sunday 13 April 2014



                                                               

NEWS
Astro Awani
Muslim parliamentarian should share the same stand on hudud, says Mustapa
State BN chairman Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said that parliamentarians, including non-Muslims ones have to fully understand the mechanism on ...
The Express Tribune
Muslim countries: President presses for economic cooperation
“Such steps would not only enhance trade and economic cooperation between the Muslim countries but would also pave way for progress and ...
Eurasia Review
Muslim worshippers riot on Temple Mount
JERUSALEM (JTA) — The Temple Mount was closed to visitors after Muslim worshippers threw stones and firebombs at police offers guarding the ...
Daily Mail
Report: Muslim Brotherhood transfers HQ from London to Austria
The Muslim Brotherhood are reportedly moving their headquarters from London to Austria due to a new investigation of the group by Prime Minister ...
Modi 'unites' Muslim sects
What the ulemas couldn't do, BJP prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi has achieved. He has succeeded in uniting different sects of Muslims in ...
Times of India
Muslim, gay, and making no apologies
He was born inside the public library of Rabat in Morocco where his dad worked as a janitor and where his family lived until he was 2. For most of his ...
The Nation
Modi reassures Muslims on traditions
NEW DELHI - Hindu hardliner Narendra Modi, tipped to be India's next premier, sought Saturday to reassure Muslims he would respect their religious ...
Daily Mail
Probe into allegations of Muslim extremists forcing out headteachers and governors is widened to ...
An investigation into Muslim extremists forcing moderate headteachers and governors to quit their jobs has been widened to include 15 schools.
Muslim village decides to teach Congress a lesson
In the 2009 Lok Sabha elections, the 5,000-odd voters of Sakhri Nate, a Muslim village, took their day off from fishing activities, sacrificing a day's ...
Disciple of Your Black Muslim Bakery raises new group in Oakland
Another Black Muslim whom Dahood Bey was charged with torturing in 2009 described him in court as a "more than zealous" disciple of Yusuf Bey 
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - abna.ir
Islam in Puerto Rico
The Commonwealth of Puerto Rico is unincorporated, organized territory of the United States with area 13,790Km2. It has been under US control ...
AsiaOne
Islamic parties bounce back in Indonesia
Surveys had predicted that the five Islamic parties running at the polls in the world's most populous Muslim-majority country would see their support ...
MSN Malaysia News
Why no action on mass conversions into Islam, ask Sabah Christians
Sabah religious authorities have been asked to “nullify without further delay” all the mass conversions of natives into Islam that had ...
Q&A with Islamic studies scholar John L. Esposito
Islamic studies scholar John L. Esposito, a recent keynote speaker for an Oklahoma City event, discusses his career and interest in Islamic studies.
How Hatred of Islam Creates Strange Bedfellows of Christians and Atheists
Islam is an unmitigated evil,” said Dawkins in response to whether or not atheists should support faith-based NGOs in Africa, while simultaneously ...
CNN
Brandeis' mistake on critic of Islam
(CNN) -- First, Brandeis University offered an honorary degree to Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an outspoken critic of Islam. Then apparently when officials actually ...
Ethiopia: The Brotherhood of Islam and orthodox christianity
Harar (HAN) April 12, 2014 – By: Pastor Sutton Turner- WHY I LOVE ETHIOPIA – “Go and stand in the temple and speak to the people all the words of ...
Channel 4 News
Divided by faith: inside the segregated Madani schools
"Islam is absolutely compatible with modern Britain," Mr Suleman told me. "And it is something our parents want and something our pupils want.".

Onislam.net
Alexandria Declaration on Women Rights in Islam
This declaration is grounded on the sublime principles of Islamic Shari`ah, along with some genuine Ijtihad-based efforts, the rich sessions of the ...
BLOGS
Gulen Movement » Hizmet in Context: Societal Islam Versus Political Islam
Gulen Movement  Omer Levent
This other Islam has been given various western labels such as reformist, ... Furthermore, societal Islam may be more progressive and advocate the ...

Cut the Clitoral Relativism: Islam, Sharia, and Female Genital Mutilation/“Circumcision”: Andrew ...
RUTHFULLY YOURS  Ruth King
Ibrahim Hooper of CAIR issued the following statement (which Fox News host Megyn Kelly aired on her broadcast), that melds Islamic negationism (in ...

Saturday 12 April 2014

Around the Muslim World on Saturday 12 April 2014


Source : Ma'an News Agency


                                                                                 



Source : Indian Express


                                                                                 

NEWS

That is right, but it skates over the deeper problem within Islam, which is a single political, religious and legal system, taking its authority solely from the ...
ANTARA

Medan, North Sumatra (ANTARA News) - Islam-based political parties did not win many votes in the recent parliamentary election, but will be in ...
A "how-to" guide published by a prominent journalism school to help reporters covering Islam-related issues is under fire from critics who say it ...
Toronto Sun

Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born Dutch politician known for her criticism of Islam, speaks at a news conference in The Hague, The Netherlands in this ...
The Fityanul Islam of Nigeria held its 50th anniversary and awards presentation last Sunday at the Arewa House in Kaduna. A non-governmental ...
It is now an experiment unique in the world, the hybridation of the Magna Charta and Islam. This is not Londonstan or Islamisation, the multicultural ...


CHENNAI: In Tamil Nadu, the government grouped Muslims by caste names such as marakaiyar and rowther and provided them reservation by ...
Press TV

Numerous Islamic injunctions have supported the thirst for knowledge which transcended cultures and integrated the insights of the ancient world of ...
Montreal Gazette

Art Garfunkel had the honor of inducting his friend Yusuf Islam into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame tonight, and the Simon and Garfunkel star did a fine ...
BLOGS
Butterflies and Wheels  Ophelia Benson
Islam as compiled in the Qur'an and Hadith could be viewed as static. The way Muslims believe or practice their religion is dynamic. The individual ...
Bosch Fawstin  Bosch Fawstin
And many of us, especially those in power, have stayed quiet about Islamor lied to themselves and to us about its true meaning, in order to appease ...
WATCH: Megyn Talks to Islam Critic, Takes on CAIR Member. Hirsi Ali, a Somali-born woman and United States citizen, was subjected to genital ...

Creeping Sharia  creeping
Over at New English Review they have a new series of posts on Adult-Onset Islam. via Annals Of Adult-Onset Islam, Academic Division: Sheik Abdal ...

Britain First  Britain First News
CadburyEasterEgg 170x107 Christians around the world will be soon embarking on Easter celebrations, but if Cadbury's actions are to be understood, ...
Rat Nation  Cultural Limits
As a policy advisory council debates whether to allow physical education classes for girls in Saudi public schools, some hardline Islamic clerics are ...