News around the Muslim World on Friday 19 December 2014

US scientists say tracking data shows that five golden-winged warblers "evacuated" their nesting site one day before the April 2014 tornado outbreak.

What birds can teach us!

Source : BBC

Muslims seem to eat an inexplicably high amount of the meat sold here in the UK, so in this Khutba we look at what the Holy Quran has to say about the type of diet people should eat, to be healthy, and also look at how the Holy Prophet (pbuh) and the people at the time ate.

Meat is killing Muslims.

Source: www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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	My Non-Muslim Parents & Xmas Onislam.net I would like to ask a question in relation to my non-Muslim parents. My parents have brought a Christmas toy for my unborn son who I am to give birth ...
	Ohio Muslim Woman Sues Over Jail Church Attendance ABC News A Muslim woman who says she was forced to attend Christian church services during a 60-day jail stint on an assault charge has sued the county. Ohio Muslim woman sues over jail church attendance - Columbus Dispatch Full Coverage
	Muslim Women Sue in US Courts for Right to Wear Islamic Garb on the Job Breitbart News The Supreme Court has just agreed to hear a case concerning the rights of a woman to wear hijab, a headscarf, while working at Abercrombie and ...
	Frederick County, Md., school board adds Muslim holiday to calendar Washington Times “We are pleased that the school board voted to recognize Muslim holidays on the 2015-2016 school calendar,” said CAIR Maryland outreach manager ...
	Muslim charities lose govt grants, accused of 'extremist' links RT Two Muslim charities have lost their government grants following ... an umbrella organization for the UK's Muslim charities – had “failed to reassure us ...
	Muslim woman sues Cuyahoga County, says she was forced to attend Christian prayer services ... cleveland.com A Muslim woman sued Cuyahoga County on Thursday, alleging she was forced to attend Christian worship services while she was incarcerated in the ...
	10 years later, gruesome killing of pregnant Muslim woman in Jefferson Parish remains unsolved WDSU New Orleans Mohammad was a Muslim woman who taught school in the Jefferson Parish system. She was six months pregnant when her killer stabbed her 33 ...
	'We will free India of Muslims and Christians by 2021': DJS leader vows to continue 'ghar wapsi ... Daily Mail Speaking in Agra on Thursday, a Dharm Jagran Samiti (DJS) functionary saidMuslims and Christians will have to convert to Hinduism if they want to ...
	Sydney siege: Muslim funeral directors tell authorities to dump Man Haron Monis' body 'in the s ... The Independent Australian Muslim funeral directors have vowed not to accept the body of Sydney gunman Man Haron Monis, saying authorities should dump his ...

	Anger grows in Pakistan over supporters of 'radical Islam' BBC News There have been protests across Pakistan following the Taliban attack on a school in Peshawar, in which more than 140 people died, most of them ...
	Conversion to Islam solely for marriage not valid: Allahabad High Court IBNLive Allahabad: In a significant judgement, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the religious conversion of girls "without their faith and belief in Islam" ... Conversion to Islam solely for marriage not valid: High Court - Economic Times Full Coverage
	Anti-Islam Politician Wilders Faces Prosecution for Moroccan Comments Newsweek Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will be prosecuted in the Netherlands for alleged discrimination and inciting hatred against Moroccans during ...
	High School: Islamic vocabulary lesson part of Common Core standards Fox News The Islamic vocabulary worksheet was assigned to seniors. “I was reading it and it caught me off guard,” the student told me. “I just looked at it and ...
	Conversion to Islam solely for marriage not valid, says Allahabad High Court Daily News & Analysis In a significant judgement, the Allahabad High Court has ruled that the religious conversion of girls "without their faith and belief in Islam" and "solely ...
	Taliban massacre in Peshawar reflects disarray across the world of Islam The Australian (blog) It's more or less impossible to judge whether the culture of killing depends more on Islamic faith or ethnic identity. Take the example of the so-called ...
	Anti-Islam Protest Takes Place Near Sydney Hostage Site Sputnik International MOSCOW, December 19 (Sputnik) - A small group of Australian residents organized an anti-Islam protest near the notorious Sydney café, where ...
	Hindu outfit plans to 'finish' Islam, Christianity by 2021 The Indian Express By 2021, we will finish Islam and Christianity,” Manch head Rajeshwar Singh Singh said here on Thursday. “We have not done any conversion.
	Hindu Outfit Plans to "Finish" Islam, Christianity by 2021 The New Indian Express By 2021, we will finish Islam and Christianity," Manch head Rajeshwar Singh Singh said here yesterday. "We have not done any conversion. We have ...

News around the Muslim World on Thursday 18 December 2014

Earlier this week, millions of people looked on in horror as the news filtered in of the devastating attack by the Pakistan Taliban on a school in Peshawar.

Sunni-Taliban murder children in Peshawar

The Principal who preferred to die with her students.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

After a day of intense lobbying, the Palestinians persuaded their fellow Arab diplomats here to support a draft Security Council resolution that sets a one-year deadline for negotiations with Israeland is aimed at the full withdrawal of Israeli forces from the West Bank.

Is a Palestinian state on the cards?

Source : New York Times

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	No Backlash After Sydney Siege, but Muslims Are Fearful New York Times In the aftermath of the siege that left the gunman and two of his captives dead, Australian Muslims say that they are relieved that there has been no ...
	Dargah panel asks Muslim bodies to oppose Taliban Times of India JAIPUR: The dargah committee of the 12th century shrine of Khwaja Moinuddhin Chishty in Ajmer on Wednesday urged all Muslim schools of ...
	Just dump Man Haron Monis' body at sea, Muslim leaders say The Daily Telegraph SYDNEY'S chief Islamic funeral director yesterday declared no Muslim funeral home would accept the body of terrorist Man Haron Monis and ...
	Knoxville Muslim community hosts candlelight vigil for slain Pakistani children WATE-TV KNOXVILLE (WATE) – The Muslim Community of Knoxville is hosting a candlelight vigil in honor of the slain children in Pakistan. On Wednesday the ...
	What to say when your Muslim child asks about Peshawar Religion News Service Muslim parents want their children, and all children, to understand that Islam does not condone such horrific violence — just the opposite. When the ...
	Muslim scholar blames porn for jihad WND.com (INVESTIGATIVE PROJECT) Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf, president of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, Calif., blamed pornography for the proliferation ...
	'I really don't think he was acting alone': Muslim community leader who had Sydney cafe gunman ... Daily Mail A Muslim community leader who had the Sydney cafe gunman at his house for lunch and dinner claims he was not capable of plotting and executing ...
	Texas School Board Let Anti-Muslim Group Pressure Publishers To Rewrite Religion Textbooks Free Speech TV Last month, the Texas State Board of Education approved a set of social studies textbooks after some disputes between Christian Right members of ...
	Texas Muslim Women's Foundation gets help fighting violence Dallas Morning News Two foundations recently presented grants to the Texas Muslim Women's Foundation, the only provider of domestic violence services specifically for ...
	'Muslim Reformers': Talking the talk, not walking the walk The Commentator But Salman avoids the bitter reality that the “twisted” and “barbaric” ideology he describes is specifically Islamic and the theocrats are all Muslim: “this ...

	Anti-Islam politician Wilders faces prosecution for comments about Moroccans Jerusalem Post AMSTERDAM - Anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders will be prosecuted in the Netherlands for alleged discrimination and inciting hatred against ... Wilders charged over anti-Islam comments - Financial Times Anti-Islam politician Wilders to face prosecution for anti-Moroccan comments - Reuters Dutch Anti-Islam Politician Geert Wilders Charged Over 'Fewer Moroccans' Speech - Wall Street Journal Full Coverage
	Anti-Islam politician Wilders faces prosecution for Moroccan comments Reuters Wilders, whose anti-Islam views have made him the target of death threats and who lives under 24-hour police protection, refused to respond to ...
	Boozy burlesque dancer swaps hedonism for the hijab after converting to Islam for the man of her ... Mirror.co.uk But after converting to Islam, she has now overhauled her unhealthy lifestyle, swapping a 40-a-day cigarette habit for a five-times-a-day prayer routine.
	Mahesh Bhatt : Militant Islam is never Islam IBNLive Mumbai: Bollywood filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt, who maintains close cultural links with Pakistan, feels its morale has hit an all-time low with the savage ... Mahesh Bhatt on Peshawar Attack: Militant Islam is Never Islam - NDTV Full Coverage
	INSCT Co-Hosts International Workshop on Islam and Conflict Norms Syracuse University News Representatives from the Institute for National Security and Counterterrorism (INSCT) traveled to the Arab Gulf recently to co-host a preparatory ...
	NATO: Taliban Don't Respect Islamic Faith FrontPage Magazine The Taliban are fighting for the Islamic faith and its doctrines. They respect it enough to kill for it. The question is what does NATO believe in?
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	ISIL defames Islam, says Jordanian PM Iraqi News Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) The Jordanian PM, Abdullah al-Nisour, said the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant terrorist group defamed Islam.” /End/ ...
	Conference and Graduate Student Workshop at Harvard University H-Net Islam in Russia takes many forms, from the Tatars' moderate EuroIslam to traditional Sufism in the Caucasus to the radicalized Salafi ideas found ...

News around the Muslim World on Wednesday 17 December 2014

Sixty nine percent of white evangelicals believe the CIA treatment was justified, compared to just 20% who said it was not. 

Turn the other cheek but not if you its a Muslim you want to torture.

Source : Religion Dispatches

The scientists also reported that for the first time, they had confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them.

H G Wells was right - there is life on Mars!

Source : New York Times

Cows and their calves communicate using calls that are individualised in a similar way to human names, scientists have discovered.Researchers found it was possible to identify particular cows and calves from the exclusive sounds they made.

Animals do talk to each other.

Source : The Daily Telegraph

NEWS

	Lawyer: Free Speech at Stake in Anti-Muslim Film ABC News A low-budget anti-Muslim film that sparked violence in the Middle East and death threats to the actors involved was compared with the likes of "Titanic" ... Court reconsiders anti-Muslim film on YouTube - Washington Times Lawyer: Free speech at stake in anti-Muslim film - WRAL.com Full Coverage
	Sydney Siege Conspiracy Theories Floated By Iran, MuslimLeaders International Business Times Man Haron Monis was an Iranian refugee who came to Australia to be a ShiaMuslim cleric, heal people and expose the injustices of the Iranian ... In wake of hostage crisis, Australian Muslims say no backlash to faith (+video) -Christian Science Monitor Sydney Hostage Crisis Leads to #illridewithyou to Protect Muslim Commuters - The Nonprofit Quarterly Australian Muslim Says Sorry for Sydney Siege - International Business Times AU Full Coverage
	Jewish, Muslim New Yorkers To Host Hanukkah Action Against Police Brutality Huffington Post 16, Jewish and Muslim community members led by the Arab-American Association of NY (AAANY), Jews for Racial & Economic Justice (JFREJ), and ...
	Media Promote Twitter Meme for Nonexistent Anti-Muslim'Backlash' in Australia NewsBusters (blog) Why would Muslims be afraid to ride public transportation or feel "oppressed" in Australia? Again, there were no incidents reported of any Muslim ...
	Scholars urge science education reforms in Muslim world SciDev.Net [KUALA LUMPUR] Scholars are urging Muslim countries to reform their science education in the university level to boost scientific and technological ...

	Can America win a war against radical Islam when it refuses to even identify its enemy? Jerusalem Post I recently emceed an event in New York City featuring Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, founder and president of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD), ...
	'It's total fiction': New York Magazine's $US72 million teenage stock trader Mohammed Islam says ... Sydney Morning Herald Sixteen-year-old Mohammed Islam wants you to think he's a big shot. On his website, Ettaz Financial, he wears a pair of fogged-over glasses, ...
	'Does Islam allow this?' Peshawar massacre: a father's story Channel 4 News We spent much of yesterday at Channel 4 News trying to get hold of our friend and former colleague Mushtaq Yusufzai in Peshawar. Late last night he ...
	Extremism's Innocent Victims: Children and Islam Huffington Post Islam, my Islam, the Islam of 1.6 billion followers condemns the killing of children. It is a religion of peace, tolerance and mercy. It celebrates children ...
	'Bigot' Eric King who was spared jail for Islam hate mail says he will continue to share his views ... West Briton A MAN branded a “vile, reprehensible bigot” by police after he sent offensive photographs and social media posts to an Islamic community centre near ...
	Killing of innocent people against principles of Islam: Afghan Taliban on Pakistan school attack The Indian Express “The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan has always condemned the killing of children and innocent people at every juncture,” the Afghan Taliban, which ...
	The Feminine Appeal of Islam Patheos (blog) “While she was pregnant with her second son, Mahdi, Torres converted to Islam. 'It was very hard for me because we do not have family here, just my ...
	Europe Should Learn Ethiopia's 'Islam Lesson' FrontPage Magazine “Corrupt officials willing to defend their religion [Islam] rather than the laws they've sworn to uphold, are violating Christians' rights by forcibly closing, ...
	Murder of innocents has no place in Islam: Ulema Times of India Former principal Qari Mohammad Rashid Mujadidi of the renowned Islamic seminary Madrassa Aliya Oriental College of Rampur said, "This barbaric ...
	Fox Hosts React to Sony Fallout, Invoking Benghazi and Radical Islam Mediaite The hosts of Fox News' The Five got to break news today of Sony pulling The Interview entirely from its December 25th release date, and it included ...
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	Mohammed islam The Concourse - Deadspin Let's begin by stipulating that Mohammed Islam, the Queens teen who lied about making dozens of millions of dollars via after-school financial ...