News around the world on Wednesday 9 July 2014

Guilty until proven innocent - if you are a US Muslim

Source : www.wired.com

                                                                      

NEWS

	A Muslim citizen's US passport gets him everywhere but home Boston Globe Much of the positive rhetoric lauding immigrants has been meaningless to second-generation Muslim immigrants like myself. Each time I return from ...
	What a Muslim American Said to Defend His Patriotism The Atlantic Glenn Greenwald's latest scoop, reported and written with Murtaza Hussain at The Intercept, names five Muslim Americans who were spied on by the ...
	Muslim Cred * Drone View * Border Crisis : Wednesday's Roundup Religion News Service You think President Obama had trouble convincing America that he is notMuslim but Christian? (Actually, some people are still intent on disbelieving ...
	British Muslim leaders warn citizens against joining terrorist groups Al-Bawaba The Muslim leaders say youngsters are being brainwashed and manipulated into fighting for agendas they barely understand. Last week, some 100 ...
	MP LAMBASTS 'ANTI-MUSLIM' REPORTS Daily Mail Reports and comments on Muslims by the media and politicians bear the hallmarks of the portrayal of Jews in Nazi Germany, an MP has said.
	Japan Becoming Muslim-Friendly with Halal Food and More NDTV Prayer rooms, hijabs made from local silk and even halal-certified whale meat are appearing in Japan as tourism bosses wake up to the demand from ...
	Muslim school is criticised for all-female staff: Ofsted orders college to introduce male role models ... Daily Mail A muslim girls' state school which recruits only female staff has been criticised by Ofsted inspectors for a lack of male influence on pupils. Feversham ...
	No Muslim Filipinos in ISIS, Defense exec assures Inquirer.net Speaking on condition of anonymity as he is not authorized to speak to media, the official said there are no validated reports that 200 MuslimFilipinos ...
	Muslim Convert Seeks Funds To Win Back 'Unhappy' Kids From Hindu Mum malaysiandigest.com (PIC: The Malay Mail)0KUALA LUMPUR: After five years locked in a bitter interfaith custody row with his Hindu ex-wife, Muslim convert Mohd Ridzuan ...

	Muslim And Latina? Coed Claims She Lost Scholarship - And Eventually Got Expelled - Over ... Fox News Latino The woman, Moriah Elusta, who is a MuslimLatina, said in her lawsuit that initially she was awarded a $2,000 scholarship by the foundation, but ...
	Jokowi Seeks Muslim Vote With Mecca Pilgrimage Ahead of Election Businessweek The move may help the Jakarta governor shore up his Islamic credentials in the world's most populous Muslim nation, after he fended off allegations ...
	Kenyan Muslim leaders urged to boycott President Kenyatta Iftar invitation somalicurrent Kenyan Muslims want Muslims leaders in the country to boycott President Uhuru Kenyatta's planned invitation of iftar to their leaders in the state house ...
	Shut Muslim personal law courts, says PIL Times of India MUMBAI: The Bombay high court on Monday issued notices to the All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB), a Darul Qaza (personal law court) ...
	Muslims Banned From Forcing Shariah Law on People by India Supreme Court Christian Post Muslims offer prayers before having their Iftar (fast-breaking) meal during the holy (Photo: Mukesh Gupta/Reuters)Muslims offer prayers before having ...
	Muslim Brotherhood Org that Met with Obama WH Calls for Islamic War Against Israel Breitbart News The head of the International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS), a MuslimBrotherhood-affiliated group, called upon fellow Islamists and Arabs to ...
	Muslim and Christian leaders say don't waste food gulfnews.com Abu Dhabi: Wasting food and overspending on other items such as clothes has become a phenomenon that cannot be overlooked, especially in ...
	Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem fear more abductions, as rockets from Hamas fly Washington Post JERUSALEM — Jewish and Muslim parents here kept their children indoors Monday, as anxious residents formed neighborhood watch groups and ...
	Filming Philadelphia's Muslim past and present Newsworks.org For many Muslims born to immigrant parents in this country, our first encounters with an indigenous American Muslim tradition allowed us to see ...
	Under UPA, number of Muslim cops hit new low Times of India This marks a decline from the 6.5% Muslimcomponent in all-India police in 2012, 6.52% in 2011 and 6.9% in 2010. Incidentally, the percentage of ...

	Jainism and Islam: More Similar Than You Might Think Huffington Post Perhaps no two faith traditions are viewed as more divergent than Islamand Jainism. Indeed, the former is often associated with violence and ...
	Introducing Islam Oman Daily Observer Muhammad called the prevailing spirit of his time as 'Jahiliyyah' or 'time of ignorance', that is the pre-Islamic Arabia. However, 'Jahiliyyah' does not ...
	Man Disenchanted with IslamConfesses to Dearborn Qur'an Burnings Patch.com Ali Hassan Al-Asadi claims he's burned about a dozen Islamic holy books because a local Muslim defrauded him of a large sum of money and ...
	Malaysia will suffer if Islam is used as a political weapon The Daily Star The government argued that the word is unique toIslam, and restricted its use to Muslims. This goes against the established fact that non-Muslims ...
	ISIS antithetical to Islam's notion of peace and governance Milwaukee Journal Sentinel People rally outside the White House in Washington, D.C., last month against terrorism and the al-Qaida splinter group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ...
	Munyagwa's actions are anti-Islam - Muslim clericsPublish Date: Jul 08, 2014 New Vision TOP Muslim clerics have condemned the 'duwa' (Islamic prayers) held over the weekend by the Kawempe Mayor Mubarak Munyagwa and a group of ...
	Accused mum fears anti-Islam threats-court Daily Mail Ms Burrows said the "ADL (Australian Defence League) or anti-Islamicgroups" could target her client if her address was published. Magistrate Ellen ...
	Islamic terror peril hits US giants' phone wallets Register US mobile payments biz Isis has decided to change its name to avoid associations with terrorist group the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
	Islamic Modernism Series III: Islamand science Today's Zaman (blog) The previous two articles showed that traditionalIslam and modernism do not necessarily contradict each other in terms of the main components of ...
	Islamic threat is exaggerated by 'oxygen of publicity,' says former MI6 chief RT The former head of British intelligence warned that the threat of 'pathetic' British jihadis is being given undue attention in the government and media, ...
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	No man influenced my conversion to Islam Welcome to Linda Ikeji's Blog ⋅ Linda Ikeji Nollywood actress Moji Olaiya finally opens up about her conversion from Christianity to Islam which she did about a year ago. Speaking with ...
	Hannity hosts epic battle over Islam WND ⋅ Drew Zahn Hannity hosts epic battle over Islam. Tea-party icon calls confrontation 'one of best ever in history of Fox'. Published: 17 mins ago. author-image ...
	Facts are stubborn things: Islam by the numbers Fatwa on Islam ⋅ Fatwa on Islam As the numbers below should make clear, far too large a portion ofIslamic doctrine is dedicated to the kuffar and waging war against us. 64% of the ...
	Al Jazeera gets destroyed on this interview about Jerusalem and Islam JEWSNEWS ⋅ Eliyokim Cohen Al Jazeera gets destroyed on this interview about Jerusalem and Islam. Posted on 7/7/2014 by Eliyokim Cohen. Tweet. Email This Page ...
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	Digital Islamic Library Hukoomi A wide selection of Islamic texts is available for download through IslamWeb. Some of the topics featured include: Women and Islam;Islamic customs ...

News around the Muslim World on Tuesday 8 July 2014

Drink if you want your scholarship

Source : rt.com

                                                                     

Food during Ramadan

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

                                                                     

NEWS

	Muslim leaders reject Baghdadi's caliphate Aljazeera.com Muslim scholars and movements from across the Sunni Islamic spectrum have rejected the caliphate declared by the Islamic State group, with the ...
	Muslim-run Charity Thrives in Washington Suburb Voice of America In a sleepy suburb of Washington, D.C., a Muslim-run charity is thriving as it serves a diverse community and helps those in need. In downtown ...
	Local Muslim population observes 'Americanized Ramadan' Sioux Falls Argus Leader The delighted, high-pitched screams of about two dozen children racing around the parking lot at the Muslims Community Center of South Dakota ...
	Anti-Muslim trolling 'rampant' on UK Twitter – report RT The UK government must to do more to mitigate “rampant” anti-Islam abuse suffered by Muslims, says a report. It documents a rise in online ...
	Muslim Group Asks Sultan to Dialogue With Boko Haram AllAfrica.com CMP, while expressing concern over the activities of the sect, said the insurgency persisted because of the failure of Muslim leadership to intervene.
	Muslim Athletes For Commonwealth Games Told To Take More Sugary Food Bernama KUALA LUMPUR, July 7 (Bernama) -- A nutritionist and a physician have advised Muslim athletes taking part in the 2014 Commonwealth Games in ...
	Muslim Scholar's Abduction Roils Nigeria Onislam.net "The Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, charges Nigerian security agents to produce the Islamic scholar and his wife whose abduction has started ...
	Muslims in Britain take part in flashmob style 'Big Iftar' TwoCircles.net London : The tradition of breaking fast among friends, neighbors and the needy has been part of the Islamic tradition for centuries. Here in the UK, the ...
	Muslim sects clash over woman's burial rites in Shahjahanpur Times of India BAREILLY: Two Muslim sects clashed over the issue of rituals and customs pertaining to burial of a woman in Dabhora village, Tilhar tehsil in ...

	Islam's holy month of Ramadan enters its tenth day today spyghana.com Islam's holy month of Ramadan enters its tenth day today. Religious obligations of the status of the Ramadan fasting are periods of trials for the faithful: ...
	Islam can';t override basic right of citizens, says dissenting judge in Allah case MSN Malaysia News A dissenting judge in the Allah case said the position of Islam in the Federal Constitution should not be used to override the basic rights accorded to ...
	Introducing Islam Oman Daily Observer LANGUAGE OF THE QURAN The Quran was revealed in Arabic. Pre-Islamic Arabic was a spoken language with an oral literature of elaborate poetry ...
	DKNY releases Islam-inspired 'Ramadan' collection Philly.com (blog) There, said Shah, using Islamic practices to promote clothing sales is commonplace. “And it isn't just restricted to clothes,” she wrote. “Everything is ...
	Eric Ollerenshaw MP: Islam needs to deliver an Amman Message Conservative Home His statement sought to affirm what Islam is (and what it is not), and to clarify to the modern world “the true nature of Islam and the nature of trueIslam”.
	UN: Islamic State executed imam of mosque where Baghdadi preached MiamiHerald.com GENEVA -- The Islamic State's executions of 13 Sunni Muslim clerics last month in Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, was a move by the radical Sunni ...
	Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman.—File photo DAWN.com ISLAMABAD: Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman claimed on Sunday that the Taliban had agreed to accept the writ of the ...
	Have recourse to Islam, Muslims urged The Nation Addressing a gathering in Masjid Bilal Nowshera VIrkan, he said thatIslam is complete code of life and everyone should live his life according to the ...
	Europe takes rehab approach toIslamic extremists SFGate BERLIN (AP) — Chris Boudreau's son Damian told her over dinner on a November evening in 2012 that he was going to Egypt to study Arabic, the ...
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	Professor Lara Deeb co-authors Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi'ite ... Scripps College Office of Communication and Marketing ⋅ Scripps College Leisurely Islam: Negotiating Morality and Geography in Shi'ite South Beirut is available as an ebook and in print through a variety of retailers.
	10 Things to Follow in Islam for a Better Life in this World Orbit Islam ⋅ OrbitIslam Say (O Muhammad SAW): “Shall we invoke others besides Allâh (false deities), that can do us neither good nor harm, and shall we turn on our heels ...
	The Geopolitics of Islam from the caliphate to China and beyond. July 6 2014 post 1 Vlad Tepes ⋅ Eeyore Despite all of the persecution against Chinese Christians from the government, changes in society and their attitudes toward Islam are beginning to ...
	List of Islamic Softwares for Windows Orbit Islam ⋅ OrbitIslam Islamic Softwares for Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 and Windows 8 - includes Quran, Hadith, Prayer Times and other Islamicapps for ...
	United States of Islam banknote art zenpundit.com ⋅ Charles Cameron Sacagawea is for sure my favorite of the women hijabbed to the hilt in artist Stephen Barnwell's renderings of Islamic banknotes, US -- it's those two...
	Eleven reasons why Islam is a problem The Hesperado ⋅ Hesperado Islam is a problem for the West (and for the Rest of the world). This problem is not simplex, but complex, with many distinct, though interlocking facets.
	The Decline and Fall of Islam Had Enough Therapy? ⋅ Stuart Schneiderman A THOUSAND years ago, the great cities of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo took turns to race ahead of the Western world. Islam and innovation were ...

Around the Muslim World on Monday 7 July 2014

No Sunni jihad as China bans Ramadan!

Source : http://www.thenews.com.pk/

News

	Muslim children join their parents in fasting for Ramadan Washington Post Muslims are the most diverse faith group in the United States, and views and practices related to fasting — and at what age children should participate ...
	Buddhist-Muslim conflict in Myanmar: Mob torches school in riot-hit Mandalay Daily News & Analysis myanmar-buddhist-muslim-conflict-unrest Buddhist monks walk during a prayer ceremony for the victims of the recent unrest between Buddhists and ...
	Jewish, Muslim students work together for dining options San Angelo Standard Times Jewish and Muslim student groups at University of California at San Diego had an idea they could work on together _ creating a campus dining spot ...
	Obama, Muslim Brotherhood, and Mideast Chaos: Presidential Study Directive 11 Christian Post A recent Gulf News report sheds some light on how and why the United States helped bring the Muslim Brotherhood and its Islamist allies to power, ...
	Muslim Wakf Board a damp squib? GreaterKashmir.com Srinagar, July 6: Conceived in 1940 by National Conference founder Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah as Muslim Auqaf Trust with a broader aim to serve ...
	Muslim quota OK, but government must focus on social reforms: Activist Daily News & Analysis Muslim organisations have also pointed to lapses in the inclusion of communities in the quota, which will be detrimental to lower-caste Muslims since ...
	Muslim Leadership Bashed Over Failed Responsibilities spyghana.com An Islamic organization under the aegis of Concerned Muslim Professionals has expressed concern over the activities of the Boko Haram Islamic sect ...
	Muslim Brotherhood leader Badie jailed for life RTE.ie An Egyptian court has sentenced Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie to life in prison, Egypt's ON TV said. Badie was jailed for inciting the ...
	Non-Muslims fast in Ramadan in religious harmony gulfnews.com Abu Dhabi: Arun Lal grew up in a village in India where Hindus arranged iftar meals for Muslims. He was used to Hindu temples offering iftar meals ...

	Islam saved me, claims Syria rebel from Derry Belfast Telegraph A man from Northern Ireland who joined a Syrian rebel group has said that Islam saved him from destroying his life with drugs.
	Islamic banks drop 'Islam' Independent Online So it is striking that some banks are removing the word “Islam” from their names – a sign of both the potential of Islamic finance to grow, and the ...
	Radical Islam will not prevail against Israel Jerusalem Post (blog) Not all ideologies are created equal. In the past few weeks, since the terrorist group, ISIS, (The jihadist terror group Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) ...
	How Islam Guides Man's Behaviour Oman Daily Observer By Dr Yusuf bin Ibrahim A'Sarhani – Expert Ministry of Higher Education — In Islam there are two ways to control Man's behaviour. First, Loving Allah ...
	Introducing Islam (1-2) Oman Daily Observer INTRODUCTION In the Qur'an there are many justifying statements that it is a revelation directly from the Almighty God (Qur'an 27:6, 32:2, 39:1, 40:2, ...
	Islamic way of life in the contemporary age Tehran Times Undoubtedly, Islam is the most important force for shaping a descent, humane, compassionate and more value-inspired pattern of life. It has brought ...
	Filipina convert to Islam celebrates first Ramadan in the UAE Ahlul Bayt News Agency - abna.ir "I started the wrong way," said Ms Mainit, 34, a secretary from Cotabato City. "I only learnt how to pray, read the Quran and know more about Islamthis ...
	PAS Sabah will not tolerate those insulting Islam The Borneo Post KOTA KINABALU: PAS Sabah and Muslims will not tolerate any party or individual issuing statements or comments insulting or humiliatingIslam, ...
	'Islamic State' Jihadists Reportedly Mowing Down More Than Just People Who Oppose Them TheBlaze.com Militants with the Islamic State jihadist group have demolished shrines and mosques holy to ShiiteIslam – their sworn enemy – and posted a detailed ...
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	DPM wants Muslims united to counter threat toIslam, Shariah courts Malaysia Today ⋅ Super Admin (The Malaysian Insider) – The deputy prime minister has called for Muslims in the country to unite against “various quarters” questioning Islam and the ...
	Fast of Ramadan: One Of The Five Pillars of Islam Islamic Invitation Turkey ⋅ furkan furkan The fourth Pillar of Islam, the Fast of Ramadan, occurs once each year during the 9th lunar month, the month of Ramadan, the ninth month of the ...
	Ten Features of the Islamic Khilafah Hizb ut-Tahrir Britain ⋅ siteadmin Against this background, we have listed ten distinct features about theIslamic Khilafah that would address some glaring problems in the Muslim world ...
	Sunni clerics: ISIL extirpating Islam Islamic Invitation Turkey ⋅ furkan furkan A group of Zahedan Sunni clerics have condemned atrocities committed by ISIL as extirpating the true Islam. The group, comprising of Friday Prayer ...
	Legacy of Islam in early centuries in Iranian culture and society Islamic Invitation Turkey ⋅ src asr In her book “The New Muslims of Post-Conquest Iran: Tradition, Memory, and Conversion,” Sarah Bowen Savant talks about Iran's conversion toIslam ...