News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 26 November 2014

Lahori-Ahmadiyya Jamaat meeting at the Houses of Parliament.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

NEWS

	Muslim clerics meet in Iran to counter extremists Boston Globe This is the job of Muslim scholars, to preach the true, moderate face of Islam and expose the ugly face of IS ideology,'' said Shirazi, a prominent Shi'ite ...
	Muslim Somali-American Pens 'Average Mohamed' Cartoon to Lure Youth Away from ISIS Breitbart News A Muslim Somali man who lives in Minnesota has decided to combat the lure of ISIS in a very creative way. Mohammed Ahmed has created vivid and ...
	Muslim student groups take stand against youth radicalization Edmonton Journal EDMONTON - Edmonton Muslim students' groups are organizing events on local post-secondary campuses to deter youth radicalization. Muslim students' association aims to Stop the CrISIS - Calgary Herald Full Coverage
	Glick leaves hospital: The staff who treated me are realMuslims, not the man who shot me Jerusalem Post He went on to condemn his attacker, and praise Muslim physicians and staff, including a doctor named Mohammad, who helped save his life.
	Muslim Student Under Fire After Social Justice Parody Daily Caller A conservative journalist at the University of Michigan is crying foul after writing a satirical piece mocking the out-of-control liberal narrative of privilege ...
	Muslim pensioner 'arranged for acid to be thrown into 19-year-old ex-girlfriend's face' Daily Mail An 80-year-old Muslim pensioner arranged for sulphuric acid to be thrown in the face of his teenage ex-girlfriend in revenge for her breaking up with ... Muslim convert aged 20 describes horror acid attack after breakdown of relationship with 80-year ... - Mirror.co.uk Full Coverage
	60 Imams, Rabbis Meet In Washington For Muslim-Jewish Interfaith Summit Huffington Post (RNS) Frustrated by dangerously high tensions between Jews and Muslims in the Holy Land, 60 imams and rabbis gathered Sunday (Nov.
	Hardware store fires county GOP chair over anti-Muslimcomments TwinCities.com-Pioneer Press A rural Minnesota Republican Party official has been fired by his employers after he condemned Muslims on his Facebook page. In a Facebook post of ...

	Is Russia banning Islam? The Commentator Russia is taking a hard line against Sharia and Islamic texts because, for all of the criticism of Vladimir Putin, the country has understood the link ... Is Russia Banning Islam? - FrontPage Magazine Full Coverage
	Warned against Ponzi schemes: Nazrul Islam Times of India KOLKATA: Former IPS officer Nazrul Islam has claimed to have warned the government about Ponzi firms like Saradha and Alchemist. "But instead of ...
	Starving Syrians Protest Islamist Rebel Group Jaish al-Islam In Douma International Business Times “During the demonstrations, protesters stormed the warehouses of charities that are affiliated to Jaish al-Islam,” a protestor who went by the name ...
	Umno continues to uphold Islam New Straits Times Online “Blatant insults are made against Islam... and Muslims are now facing the threats of extremism and militancy which can have a bad effect on a nation," ...
	Reading Between the Seams at the Islamic Fashion Festival in Malaysia New York Times But even to a jaded observer, a fashion event took place last week that seemed — well, not like the other ones: the Islamic Fashion Festival in Kuala ...
	Islamism, Islamofascism, and Islam American Thinker Some on the Right would have you believe that Islam and its adherents are coherent ... Arabs, Muslims, and the Islamic Press use words like Islamism.
	BARÇIN YİNANÇ > Turkey should use Pope's visit to improve image of Islam Hurriyet Daily News Pope Francis will be visiting Turkey this weekend. This will be his sixth trip outside of Italy after he became pope in 2013. The fact that Turkey ranks ...
	Thanksgiving Thoughts on Our Immigrant Nation (2014) Huffington Post On this Thanksgiving Day of 2014, we are thankful for the President's executive action on immigration and the resistance to it. It brings the debate ...
	Bangladesh ex-minister Abdul Latif Siddiqui' surrenders after anti-Islam remarks Economic Times DHAKA: A former Bangladeshi minister, who created a flutter by his anti-Islamstatements, today surrendered to police after a court ordered his arrest ...
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	Islam and Nation: Separatist Rebellion in Aceh, Indonesia Stanford University Press Rooted in the latest theoretical debates about nationalism and ethnicity, yet written in an accessible and engaging style, Islam and Nation presents a ... Flag as irrelevant
	Lecturer in Islam Jobs.ac.uk We invite applications for a full-time permanent position as Lecturer in Islam in the Asia-Pacific region (equivalent to tenure track assistant professor).
	Anwar Ibrahim speaks on Islam and democracy in Malaysia Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies On November 20, the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL), in partnership with the Muslim Student Awareness Network ...

News around the Muslim World on Tuesday 25 November 2014

Without Comment

How 'halal' is 'halal' meat?

Mistreating an animal means the meat is not 'halal' just because it throat is correctly cut.

The great 'halal' meat fraud!

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

Ku Klux Klan is alive and well and living in Ferguson, USA

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/24/ferguson-grand-jury-deliberations/19474907/

Source : US Today

Efforts to improve Punjab Education

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/c-m-rubin/the-global-search-for-edu_b_6209060.html

Source : Huffington Post

There are many Malala's in Pakistan.

We salute this brave girl.

Source : www.npr.org

NEWS

	Muslim Clerics Meet In Iran To Discuss Strategy For Countering Extremists Huffington Post This is the job of Muslim scholars, to preach the true, moderate face of Islam and expose the ugly face of IS ideology," said Shirazi, a prominent Shiite ...
	Yorkshire Muslim girl speaks of grooming ordeal BBC News A report has lifted the lid on the sexual exploitation of at least 1,400 children in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, by gangs of men who were ...
	The day Marion Barry was shot by black Muslims Washington Post The Hanafi Muslims who took over the John A. Wilson building weren't foreign nationals motivated by decades-long United States involvement in ...
	Arab ban on Muslim Brotherhood death knell for CAIR? WND.com 121130obamahillaryegypt Bans on the radical Muslim Brotherhood abroad combined with a historically large GOP majority in Washington could ...
	Muslims, dalits and tribals make up 53% of all prisoners Times of India NEW DELHI: Muslims, dalits and adivasis — three of the most vulnerable sections of Indian society — make up more than half of India's prison ...
	Sadly, it needs to be said again: being a Muslim is not a crime The Independent Modernist as well as conformist Muslims are relieved that some action is being taken against hard-line and backwards Wahabi Islam in schools.
	Prominent Muslim figures welcome Pope's visit to Istanbul Catholic Herald Online Two prominent Muslim religious figures in Turkey have welcomed the upcoming visit of Pope Francis to their country, saying they hoped it could shed ...

	President Erdogan and Islam: Piety and Ottomanitas RT (blog) Islam is currently going through a remarkable revival in Turkey. Prime Minister Ahmed Davutoglu and President Tayyip Erdogan are both working hard ...
	Radical Islam should be rooted out at kindergarten level – Austrian far-right party leader RT The newly re-elected leader of the Austrian far-right Freedom Party (FPO) has vowed to fight radical Islam in kindergartens and stop Vienna from ...
	Umno under threat, not Malays and Islam, forum told The Malaysian Insider National laureate A. Samad Said says it is absurd for Malays and Islam to be under threat in Malaysia when all the positions of power are filled by ...
	Islam shares fundamental truths with every belief: The Cold Lake Sun The Muslim scholar was in Cold Lake on Nov. 23 to share his teachings onIslam in an event held by the Cold Lake Chapter of the Muslim Association ...
	Religious parties accused of using Islam for political gains DAWN.com TIMERGARA: Awami National Party central secretary information, Senator Zahid Khan has accused the religious parties of using Islam for political ...
	Call to counter 'radical Islam' in kindergartens The Local Austria Freedom Party leader Heinz-Christian Strache was re-elected as Vienna's state party chairman on Sunday and has put fighting radical Islam, crime on ...
	Hifazat-e Islam threatens shutdown on Thursday demanding Latif Siddique's arrest Bangladesh News 24 hours Hifazat-e Islam has threatened a countrywide shutdown on Thursday, if former minister Abdul Latif Siddique is not arrested by Wednesday.
	Ends and means: 'Jihad the only permissible violence inIslam' The Express Tribune Hasan said that during natural calamities such as floods and earthquakes, thousands of JI workers had been in the forefront to provide help and ...
	Takfiris misrepresent Islam as violent religion: Ayatollah Sobhani Press TV Takfiri groups are seeking to tarnish the image of Islam, a senior Iranian cleric says at an international conference on the threats of Takfiri movements.

News around the Muslim World on Monday 23 November 2014

Climate change is a controversial subject that can raise strong emotions. We are all susceptible to being less open-minded and rational about it than we may appreciate. 

Climate change is about our future.

Source : The Guardian

The Holy Quran asks us why do humans abuse Allah's bounties (Chapter Rehman) to draw our attention to respect for His bounties of which nature is one.

Islam teaches sustainable development.

Source : New Straits Times

NEWS

	Muslims Discovered the Americas, Claims Turkish President Foreign Policy For this week's outlandish remark, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed that the Americas were actually discovered by Muslims back in ...
	A Muslim H&M? The National There's a decided gap in the market and it's for a Muslim clothing brand that offers affordable conservative fashion everywhere. It's not just the UAE, ...
	Muslim MP: 2000 Britons fighting for Islamic State Telegraph.co.uk However, Khalid Mahmood, the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, a constituency with a significant number of Muslims, has suggested this was a ... '2000 British Jihadis Fighting With ISIS', Says Muslim MP - Breitbart News Full Coverage
	Slain aid worker Peter Kassig receives prayers at convention of Indiana's Muslim Alliance Indianapolis Star The Muslim Alliance of Indiana hosted the funeral prayer service as part of its annual convention Saturday. It's one of three memorial services ...
	Muslim clerics from 80 countries gather in Iran, plan how to counter extremism Fox News Participants sit in an anti-extremism conference in the city of Qom, 78 miles (125 kilometers) south of the capital Tehran, Iran, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2014. Muslim Clerics Meet in Iran to Counter Extremists - ABC News Full Coverage
	Jihadi gunmen kill 28 passengers on Kenyan bus... for not beingMuslim Daily Mail Islamic terrorists hijacked a bus at gunpoint in Kenya yesterday and executed 28 passengers – including nine women – who failed a 'Muslim test'.
	Pakistanis hold mass rally in Lahore for Muslim unity Press TV Pakistanis hold mass rally in Lahore for Muslim unity ... The participants slammed the West for trying to stretch Muslims away from their religious ...
	Isis propaganda image showing 'abuse of Muslim woman by soldiers' is actually taken from ... The Independent The US foreign ministry has accused the Isis militant group of trying to “trick” social media users with an image claiming to show the abuse of Sunni ...

	Marine dad banned from school over Islam lessons fights back WND.com Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he ...
	India's Islamic State headache i24news "Islam has its own particular ideological standpoint and practical program to carry out reforms for the welfare of mankind. Islam wishes to destroy all ...
	From Malaysia, divergent paths for political Islam? Malay Mail Online Reuters picANALYSIS, Nov 24 — Amid debate on the future of political Islam and its compatibility with democracy, Malaysia recently offered ...
	Assassinations target two Islam Army figures The Daily Star BEIRUT: The Islam Army, a leading conservative rebel militia, saw two of its senior figures assassinated Saturday. The group, a member of the Islamic ...
	Symbols of Islam losing the spirit Today's Zaman (press release) (blog) It claims to present an image of Islam, but has nothing to do with the real spirit of Islam. Even if permission was given for a Cuban mosque construction, ...
	France Struggles to Understand Converts to Radical Islam Big News Network.com In a Skype interview with French television a few months ago, Hauchard said he converted to Islam at age 17. He said he learned about the religion ...
	PROTECTING OR DAMAGING ISLAM? When calling a temple a 'masjid' can get you arrested Malaysia Chronicle ALOR SETAR - Non-Muslims in Kedah need not be worried or confused over the recent amendment to an 1988 enactment that bars non-Muslims from ...
	Newly crowned Miss Islam calls for 'liberation of Palestine' Israel Hayom The Miss Islam pageant, as the competition has been dubbed, first drew international attention in 2013, when organizers presented it as a peaceful ...

News around the Muslim World on Saturday 22 November 2014

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Morocco is a land of tolerance, acceptance and coexistence. King Hassan II has described it as a tree whose roots are in Africa, its trunk in Morocco, the side branches in the Middle East and its top foliage in Europe.

Is Morocco a model multireligious and multicultural society?

Source : Gatestone Institute

NEWS

	DFL calls MNGOP official's anti-Muslim posts "an embarrassment to our state" FOX 9 News Last night, the Bluestem Prairie political blog unearthed a string of anti-MuslimFacebook posts recently published by Jack Whitley, chairman of the Big ... Party chair for Big Stone County said “Muslims are terrorists.” - Minneapolis Star Tribune Full Coverage
	The Good Muslim Terrorist FrontPage Magazine Our leaders and our experts, the wise men of our multicultural tribes, who huddle in their shiny suits around heavy tables, believe in the good Muslim ...
	Why Does Turkey's President Think Muslims Discovered America? RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sparked controversy at home and abroad by backing a widely disputed claim that Muslims reached ...
	Chinese courts crack down on journalist Gao Yu andMuslim professor Ilham Tohti Washington Post BEIJING — In a double-barreled attack on freedom of expression, Chinese authorities Friday put a prominent journalist on trial and denied the appeal ...
	Jordan arrests deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood for criticizing UAE Reuters AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan arrested the deputy head of the country's mainstream Muslim Brotherhood on Thursday for criticizing the UAE's move to ...
	Jordan arrests deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood for criticising UAE Reuters UK Jordan arrests deputy head of Muslim Brotherhood for criticising UAE ... Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood is the country's biggest political opposition party.
	Muslim cemetery vandalized; Bosnian refugees fear hate crime Q13 FOX “We have two parts of the cemetery, one Christian, one Muslim,” Babic said. “It seems like all of the damage was in the newer part where the Muslim ...
	Indonesian Muslim pageant challenges Western beauty contests Bangkok Post An eclectic mix of women from around the world will compete in Indonesia Friday in the finale of a pageant exclusively for Muslims seen as a riposte to ...
	Ofsted head warns of 'extremist influences and radicalisation' in east London Muslim schools Evening Standard Pupils at six independent Muslim faith schools in east London could be at risk from “extremist influences and radicalisation”, Sir Michael Wilshaw ...

	Is Islam a violent religion? ChristianToday Queen Rania of Jordan has called on the Arab world to reclaim Islam as a religion of peace. Referring to Islamic State extremists, she said: "A minority ... Faith Matters: Be resolute in pursuit of truth about Islam - New Haven Register Full Coverage
	Should Presidents Call Islam a 'Religion of Peace?' Two George W. Bush Officials Debate Christian Post "What is authentic Islam? Is ISIS an authentic form of Islam, or is it not? I think it's very important that the United States government shut-up about that ...
	Muslim schools focusing solely on Islamic themes, says Ofsted BBC News A snap inspection of the Mazahirul Uloom School in Tower Hamlets says the school focused only on Islamic themes. Pupils believed it was wrong to ...
	BREAKING: Shamsul Islam guilty of Knarersborough bomb hoax Harrogate Advertiser Judge Stephen Ashurst told Islam: “This was an extremely serious series of hoaxes which caused a very considerable degree of distress to other ...
	Islamic State's execution of Kassig 'barbaric...againstIslam,' Syrian cleric tells Ind. mourners Youngstown Vindicator The death of an Indiana aid worker at the hands of Islamic State militants is “barbaric” and is not a true reflection of Islam, a cleric told hundreds of ...
	Qamarul Islam slams BJP for threat to boycott him, three Ministers for Winter Session The Hindu Mr. Islam is among the four ministers who would be boycotted by the BJP during the assembly session at Belagavi and the other three Ministers ...
	Muslim Columnist: Regulation, “Diversity” Could Stop Negative Newspaper Coverage of Islam The New American While Britain already has hate-speech laws that stifle criticism of Islam, this isn't enough for the political director of the Huffington Post UK, Mehdi ...
	There Are 1.5 Million Muslims in Italy and Only 8 Mosques. Here's Where They Go to Pray. The New Republic Italian photographer Nicolò Degiorgis has documented this phenomenon in a self-published monograph called Hidden Islam. The book features ...
	RHS director general backs positive message of The Beauty of Islam garden Horticulture Week RHS director general Sue Biggs says a Chelsea Flower Show 2015 garden called The Beauty of Islam has a "positive message" about the religion at ...
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	Reza Aslan On Being In a probing and personal conversation, Reza Aslan opens a refreshing window on religion in the world and Islam in particular. It's a longer view of ...
	Religious Studies Seminar Series 2014 Victoria University of Wellington This is also true of Indonesian Muslims. From this perspective, Islamic Law is characterized by its societies (“local Islam”), on the one hand, and on the ...