Tuesday 13 May 2014

Around the Muslim World on Monday 12 May 2014


                              


News
Telegraph.co.uk

Nigerian Muslims in DC area denounce extremist kidnappers as un-Islamic
On Friday, in a Brentwood, Md. mosque full of Nigerian-born Muslims, the imam delivered a thundering sermon calling for “Boko Halal,” or “books are ...
The Hindu

Varanasi: Why many Muslims find hope in Narendra Modi
Varanasi: Amid all talk of communal polarization and the Muslim antipathy towards Narendra Modi, a section of the community has been working ...
The Hindu

Muslim cleric backs Arvind Kejriwal
SummaryA day before Varanasi goes to polls, a clerics' body here extended support to AAP candidate Arvind Kejriwal, who is pitted against BJP's ...
Indian Express

A diversified Muslim vote, and yearning for change in Poorvanchal
*All of the 11 Muslim candidates fielded by the SP — considered the biggest party of Muslims in UP — lost in the state in 2009. Murli Manohar Joshi ...


Muslim leaders must condemn Islam's extremes
I have lived in the Middle East where I had many Muslim friends who were good, decent people. Behind closed doors they would distinguish Muslims ...
New York Police Recruit Muslims to Be Informers
Bobby Farid Hadid is a former sergeant with the Citywide Debriefing Team who is a Muslim immigrant from Algeria. Credit Ozier Muhammad/The New ...
The News on Sunday

The Muslim League and Pakistan
Recently I have been reading the voluminous book on the All India Muslim League from its inception to 1947 by Professor Rafique Afzal. This is a very ...

Indian Express

Last day, Mulayam tells Azamgarh Muslims: Have taken risk for you
Hoping to woo the Muslim community, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav tried to strike an emotional chord at a rally in Saraimeer Saturday.

BBC News
Protecting Islam By Telling the Truth
By Salafism, Shekau was referring to a fundamentalist interpretation of Islam that grew up to counter Western influence in the Middle East and Africa.
ABC News
Islam Is Innocent of "Boko haram"
The followers of Boko haram resist the school education and seek to establish what they call a pure Islamic state ruled by Sharia laws, putting stop to ...
Daily Sun
Sultan: Islam Does Not Support Terrorism
The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa'ad Abubakar III, Monday said Islam does not in any way support terrorism and other obnoxious acts being ...
This Is Lancashire
Challenging lazy views of Islam – on all sides
BARRISTER Zia Chaudry has written a new book to help debunk some of the harmful stereotypes people may perceive of Islam – and which he hopes ...
Over 1000 convert to Islam this year
As per official statistics just released, Dubai has seen over 1,000 new Muslims at the Islamic Information Centre of the Dubai government-run Dar Al ...
Islam encourages education of women
Education elevated women in Islam to a status of equality and elevated Europe out of the Dark Ages. Indeed, education is the solution to defeating ...
The Malaysian Insider
Isma: Malays, Islam Under Siege From Proxies Of 'Jewish Zionist Evangelists'
PIC: The Malay MailKUALA LUMPUR: Malay-Muslims are being assailed by agents of “Jewish Zionist Evangelists” out to dilute the race's construct ...
National Post
Boko Haram's Terror Is Based on Thuggery, Not Islam
He refers to his actions as God's instructions and in the most recent video, he claims to have converted all of the hostages to Islam. Shekau thus is not ...
Bradford Telegraph and Argus
Keighley student Islam's Dark Room poem wins award
Islam said: “Dark Room is based on a young person who is depressed and can't leave their room. It talks about the social life of young children who ...
Onislam.net
An Open Letter to Bill Maher From a Muslim American
Hey there, Bill. You hate religion. You particularly hate Islam. We get it. Your liberal bigotry against Muslims and Islam is no secret. For a while now I've ...


BLOGS
Prison Planet.com » Bill Maher Shocks: 'Islam Is The Problem'
Prison Planet.com  admin
Truth Revolt May 12, 2014. Christian-hater Bill Maher turned his dim wit on Muslims in his latest show on HBO. “Islam is the problem. … All religions ...


Jihadist Trophies of War | FrontPage Magazine
FrontPage Magazine » FrontPage  Dawn Perlmutter
How the jihadist warrior achieves status and honor in Islamic holy war.


Pregnant Christian Sentenced to Death for 'Apostasy' Pressured to Embrace Islam
Morningstar News  Our Sudan Correspondent
The El Haj Yousif Public Order Court in Khartoum yesterday (May 11) told her she had until Thursday (May 15) to convert to Islam, suggesting she ...


Hudud testing PAS, Umno's allegiance to Islam, ex-NST boss says | Malaysia Today
Malaysia Today  Super Admin
(Malay Mail Online) – The ongoing hudud issue is an acid test for both PAS and Umno in their willingness to cast aside political differences for the ...


Taking the Islamic Challenge Seriously - Crisis Magazine
Crisis Magazine  William Kilpatrick
So it's refreshing to finally hear a world leader (in this case, a former world leader) admit that global Islamic terror actually does have something to do ...


Female Scholars and Preachers in Islam - SuhaibWebb.com
SuhaibWebb.com  John (Yahya) Ederer
... “re-interpreting” scripture. The beauty of Islam among religions is in its universality, its compatibility with science, and its versatile legal tradition […]


[WATCH] Boko Haram Kidnapped Girls New Video — Converted To Islam - Hollywood Life
Hollywood Life  Lauren Cox
Boko Haram has released new video which allegedly shows some of the 200 kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls, claiming they have been converted to ...


France Submits to Islam by Guy Millière | RUTHFULLY YOURS
RUTHFULLY YOURS  Ruth King
Polls show that more than 70% of the French… expect that France will become a country under submission to Islam. Last month, between April 18-21, ...


Forum: Is The Kidnap Of Young Girls By Boko HaramIslam? And If So What Conclusions Should ...
Boko Haram is one form of Islam: a politicized violent Islamists form ofIslamIslam, like all religions, is practiced by people in varying degrees. To say ...


WEB
Calenda - Islam and Regional Cultures in Pakistan
This conference hopes to partly fill this gap by inviting participants to illustrate the complex, lived experience of Islam in Pakistan, the identity ...


Boko Haram and the crippling of Islam in Africa - Al Jazeera English
Radical movements in Africa are hurting the future of Islam on the continent. In the 1980s, there was much talk in Nigeria about the "Kaduna Mafia", ...


Twitter / BBCRadio4: Converts to Islam are far more ...
Converts to Islam are far more likely to be involved in terrorism than those born into Muslim families. The Report: http://bbc.in/1hEuGgw.











Sunday 11 May 2014

Around the Muslim World on Sunday 11 May 2014



Source : Voice of America


                                                                               


                                                                              

News
Prague Post

Ministry says raid on Muslim centers appears lawful
Prague, May 9 (ÄŒTK) — The raid carried out by the Czech police squad for uncovering organized crime (ÚOOZ) on Muslim centers in Prague two ...
eParisExtra.com

Religion aside, Muslim mayor of Paris is making a name for himself
Dr. Arjumand Hashmi is a cardiologist as well as the mayor of Paris. When he's not monitoring hearts, as he did with Missy Clark earlier this month, ...
Ahram Online

Senior Muslim Brotherhood chief fined for libel
Senior Muslim Brotherhood figure Mohammed El-Beltagy, who is in prison facing a number of charges, has been fined LE20,000 ($2,800) and ...
Indian Express

Mumbai body asks Muslims to vote for Kejriwal
MUMBAI: The Bombay Muslim Federation, an umbrella body of Muslim organizations, has sent 35 of its volunteers to campaign for AAP candidate ...
Muslim-Americans denounce Boko Haram kidnappings
A group of Muslim-American organizations on Thursday condemned the abduction of a group of nearly 300 schoolgirls in Nigeria by Boko Haram ...
Daily Mail

Australian Muslim 'Ahmed Shaheed III' shares startling vision of gunfire and bombing raids from the ...
'By performing jihad, bithni'lah it will liberate the muslims from oppression and restore back our honor. Support the mujahideen and don't fear the ...

Washington Post

Catholic leaders in Israel call for crackdown on attacks targeting Christian, Muslim property
Either way, Israeli law enforcement officials said this week patrols were being stepped up in Jerusalem and in the country's north, where Muslims have ...
Bombay Muslim Federation asks Muslims to vote for Kejriwal
MUMBAI: The Bombay Muslim Federation, an umbrella body of Muslimorganisations, has sent 35 of its volunteers to campaign for AAP candidate ...
Ammon News

Muslim Brotherhood "Separatist" Escalate their Demands
Ammon- The Muslim Brothers Leadership was warned against internal devisions caused by MB's court decision to expel the three members of the ...
ABC News

Islamic bloc chief: Nigeria kidnappings barbaric
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The secretary-general of the world's largest bloc of Islamiccountries said Saturday that the kidnapping of more than 270 ...
Aljazeera.com

Islam, Saudi and apostasy
It is a commonly held belief that Islamic law dictates the death penalty as an absolute punishment for apostasy. However, this reading of the Islamic ...
BlogHer

Extremist Islam is scared of little girls
Meaning that night more than three weeks ago when a caravan of trucks and buses descended on a boarding school in rural Nigeria and more than ...
Vancouver Sun

Nigerian Islamic extremists blow up 2nd bridge, kill many in village attack, abduct 2 kids
YOLA, Nigeria - Islamic extremists blew up a bridge, killed an unknown number of people and abducted the wife and two children of a retired police ...

Standard Freeholder

Boko Haram reflects flaws in Islam— Casely-Hayford
This Boko Haram has brought fundamentally to bear, the weakness in Islam as a religion to control its insurgents and its fundamentals,'' he said on ...


Boko Haram misguided, kidnapping anti-Islamic, says Saudi top cleric
DUBAI: Saudi Arabia's grand mufti, the top religious authority, has condemned Nigeria's Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam” ...


BLOGS

THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS: BILL MAHER AGREES ISLAM IS A PROBLEM
THE ASTUTE BLOGGERS  Avi Green
The leftist TV host is willing to admit Islam is a serious problem: Bill Maher went after Islam Friday night on his HBO show “Real Time.” With the ...

The Battle of Tours: Women are equal in Islam... except when they aren't
The Battle of Tours  Peter
Apologists for Islam tie themselves into pretzels trying to excuse its misogynist texts. Here's a good example from The Muslim Times, by one M. Imran ...


The Battle of Tours: "If any state prevents us from spreading Islam on its soil we will wage Jihad on ...
The Battle of Tours  Peter
Apologists for Islamic Jihad say that jihad is only "defensive". But defensive includes fighting those who simply oppose the spread of Islamor Islamism.


Malala Tells Boko Haram to Learn Islam | DeenTV
DeenTV  News Room
LONDON – Pakistani young rights activist Malala Yousafzai has advised Nigeria's Boko Haram to “go and learn Islam”, saying the dreaded extremist ...


(The Economist) Malaysia, Turkey and Islam – Paragons, piety and politics | Mediarakyat
Mediarakyat  admin
MALAYSIA and Turkey have quite a lot in common. They are both countries where Islam is the most widely followed religion. Both countries have been ...


WEB
Islam, Saudi and apostasy - Al Jazeera English
It is a commonly held belief that Islamic law dictates the death penalty as an absolute punishment for apostasy. However, this reading of theIslamic ...


Islamic Dua - 40 Rabbana Duas from Al Quran, 100 Dua's of Prophet Muhammad (Pbuh) ( Islam ...
Dua (supplication) is one of the most excellent forms of worship in Islam, one of the deeds most beloved to Allah (SWT), one of the best gifts that a ...


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