Saturday 12 July 2014

Around the Muslim World on Friday 12 July 2014


Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

                                                             


Source : Gatestone Institute


                                                                      


Source : www.theguardian.com


                                                                     

NEWS

Sri Lankan Muslim leader warns of radicalization after clashes
COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lanka's Muslimminority could become radicalized and turn to foreign Islamic groups for support because of violent attacks ...


Rouhani Calls on Muslim States to Help Palestinians in Gaza
TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian President Hassan Rouhani in separate letters to heads of Muslim states urged them to do their best to help the oppressed ...


BRITISH MUSLIM LEADERS CONDEMN ISIS
Muslim leaders in Britain have condemned the extremist group Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis), expressing their "grave concern" at continued ...


In Staging Muslim Identity, Playwright Explores Fault Lines Of A Faith
Long before this buzz, though, Akhtar grew up in aMuslim family with roots in Pakistan. He mines this background to bring the inner lives and conflicts ...


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BANGKOK: Three policemen were shot dead in an ambush by suspected Muslim militants in Thailand's insurgency-racked far south, an official said on ...


Sri Lankan Muslims deny extremism against India
Colombo: The Muslim allies of President Mahinda Rajapaksa in Sri Lanka on Friday emphasised that they do not support or tolerate any form of ...


Uhuru moves Muslim dinner to Kakamega
STATE HOUSE has been compelled to shift this year's Iftar dinner with the Muslim community after leaders in Nairobi and Mombasa threatened to ...


Rouhani urges Muslim countries to help Palestinians, end blockade in Gaza
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani urged heads of Muslim states on Friday to help the Palestinian people and lift the siege on Gaza, according to the ...


Muslim Brotherhood Cleric Authorizes 'Anal Jihad' for Lonely Terrorists
The anal jihad "catastrophe," he continued, was proof that "the (Muslim Brotherhood) is a bunch of hopeless and desperate peddlers who have ...


US spied on Muslim-American leaders: report
WASHINGTON // The FBI and National Security Agency monitored the emails of prominent Muslim-American activists, academics and a political ...

Australian Islamic extremist Musa Cerantonio arrested in the Philippines on his way to join jihadists...
An Australian convert to Islam who used the internet to urge people to join 'jihad' in Iraq and Syria has been arrested in the Philippines, local police ...


'Islamic terrorists' are thugs, not theologians
There have been several recent examples cited as evidence that Islam has a violent belief system and that Muslims, therefore, are a scourge that need ...


Path to leave Islam simple, but far from easy
Zarina Abdul Majid, the 32-year-old bride at a Hindu wedding disrupted by Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais) officials last month, claimed ...


Introducing Islam
ALLAH'S POWER. He is Ever-living, All-powerful, Almighty, the Omnipotent, the Omniscient. He is free from faults and failures, slumber, sleep, disease ...


Malawi Islamic Relief Donates Medicines
LILONGWE – Offering a helping hand to the country in the middle in drug crisis, Malawi IslamicRelief has donated pharmaceutical supplies to the ...


How Islamic is the Caliphate?
The title above might sound silly to some readers. Because the Caliphate (or the “Successorship” to Prophet Muhammad) is certainly an “Islamic” ...


Muslims urged to have recourse to Islam
He said that Islam gives us complete guidelines in the every sphere of the life. He urged the nation to apply the teachings of Islam so as to emerge as ...


Isma claims vilified simply for defending Islam
"We are only fighting for Islam and defending the country's Islamic identity," Isma president Abdullah Zaik Abdul Rahman said in an interview with ...


They say dropping prefix 'Islam' from Islamic banks will attract more customers
Dubai: After hitting headlines for non-conventional banking system, some of the major Islamic banks are now planning to drop the word “Islam” from ...


Pakistanis, Afghans reject ISIL 'caliphate' as anti-Islam
Pakistani and Afghani clerics speaking with Central Asia Online rejected the recent declaration by the "Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant" (ISIL) of a ...
BLOGS

Islam: Reformation or Enlightenment?
Raedwald  Raedwald
An excellent piece in the Guardian today from Simon Jenkins, a man who would make a first rate new Chairman for the BBC. In suggesting thatIslam ...
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U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem Blog  U.S. Consulate General Jerusalem
U.S. Citizens Who Desire Assistance Departing the Gaza Strip The U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem alerts U.S. citizens who desire assistance ...


The Incompatibility of Islam with Western Civilization
Islam in its own words  echnaton
Modernity is radically incompatible with Islam. According to the Islamicworldview, man's life remains under the supervision of Allah; it is Allah who ...
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Things You Should Know About Islam
... well as the other practices and tenets of this fast-growing global religion. As an aid in that effort, here are nine things you should know about Islam.
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This chart will help you understand the divisions within Islam. This image, from a forthcoming book, is used by kind permission of the authors.












Friday 11 July 2014

News around the Muslim World on Thursday 10 July 2014


Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

                                                      

NEWS
Implementing the ruling of the Quran, yet he forbade anyone from being forced to convert toIslam. Belief, he said, had to be a free choice without ...
'Zakat' is obligatory for all Muslims and is one of the five pillars of Islam. A columnist wrote in Berita Harian today saying that pluralism is not ...
Representatives of two Islamic organizations met with editors of The Jakarta Post on Tuesday to protest its publication of an internationally syndicated ...
A noon breeze blows gently. While the sun blazes outside, cool air pervades an old mosque. This makes many of the people inside fall asleep on the ...
Running for president in Indonesia seemed also to entail having to show off one's commitment to Islam. The 2014 presidential election featured a ...
Iranian believers, especially those who convert from Islam to Christianity, face even more scrutiny. Now one television channel operating from multiple ...
A purported letter by the Islamic State, the jihadist group that controls chunks of Syria and Iraq, has warned world soccer body FIFA not to hold the ...
I must speak up to correct the inaccurate “historical records” used to excuse and defend the radical form of Islam in the June 18 “Other Voices” column ...
KUALA LUMPUR: All public authorities are subject to the Federal Constitution and the civil court could not avoid hearing an application for leave just ...

The attack has been attributed to the Islamicmilitant group Hamas. "They are the filthy swine they don't eat,” Sheres wrote. “Their ignorance to the ...

BLOGS

loonwatch.com  Emperor
And Islam continues to exercise an appeal for some Aboriginal peoples today, writes Janak Rogers. The white lines are faint but unmistakable.

Malaysia Today  Super Admin
Dina Zaman, Malay Mail Online. At the few Peacemeal, Crescent Collective and Third Space events I attended, I noticed many young Muslims, and a ...

An informative article looking into what the religion of Islam says about Orphans, through the teachings of the Holy Qur'an and the Ahlulbayt (as).
JEWSNEWS  Eliyokim Cohen
Allah did not create man so that he could have fun. The aim of creation was for mankind to be put to the test through hardship and prayer. An Islamic ..

Speaking with Encomium magazine, the single mother of one, said, “honestly, Islam is a peaceful religion. The aspect I love most is that you don't ...

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Thursday 10 July 2014

News around the world on Wednesday 9 July 2014


Source : www.wired.com


                                                                      

NEWS

Muslim citizen's US passport gets him everywhere but home
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
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
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
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
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
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 ...
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
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
(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 ...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Perhaps no two faith traditions are viewed as more divergent than Islamand Jainism. Indeed, the former is often associated with violence and ...


Introducing Islam
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
The former head of British intelligence warned that the threat of 'pathetic' British jihadis is being given undue attention in the government and media, ...
BLOGS
No man influenced my conversion to Islam
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
A wide selection of Islamic texts is available for download through IslamWeb. Some of the topics featured include: Women and Islam;Islamic customs ...