Saturday 17 January 2015

News around the Muslim World on Friday 16 January 2015

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Saturday 10 January 2015

News around the Muslim World on Saturday 10 January 2015


It’s possible that Rushdie intended “religion” as a diplomatic synonym for “Islam.” After all, the attackers, who claimed allegiance to al Qaeda, clearly singled out Charlie Hebdo for its disrespectful cartoons about Islam. Yet to blame the attack on all the adherents of an entire religious community of more than 1.7 billion people seems like a stretch. 


source : Foreign Policy


Maurice Sinet, 80, who works under the pen name Sine, faces charges of "inciting racial hatred" for a column he wrote last July in the satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo. The piece sparked a summer slanging match among the Parisian intelligentsia and ended in his dismissal from the magazine.

Source : The Telegraph (27 Jan 2009)

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France's New Hero Is The Muslim Police Officer Killed Confronting The Charlie Hebdo Gunmen
The police officer executed by gunmen in a street outside the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris was a Muslim. His name was Ahmed Merabet. The story ...


Rep. Peter King: Unlike U.S., France Has 'Very Angry Muslim Population'
It was towards the end of his interview with Tapper that King decided to give the host and his CNN viewers a little history lesson on France's Muslim ...


Muslim Police Officer Was Among Victims of Paris Attack
"He himself was a Muslim," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told reporters. "This is another reminder of we're facing together. This is not a war on ...


Charlie Hebdo: Muslim police officer killed in Paris attack commemorated with #JeSuisAhmed
The family of Mr Merabet have wished to bury him at Bobigny cemetery near Paris where around 7,000 Muslims mainly from North Africa have been ...


More Americans Say Muslim Extremists Are True MuslimsThan Christian Extremists Are True ...
A Turkish court issued an arrest warrant on Friday for the U.S.-based Muslimcleric whose followers are accused by President Tayyip Erdogan of ...



Saudi blogger Badawi 'flogged for Islam insult'
A Saudi Arabian blogger has been publicly flogged after being convicted of cybercrime and insulting Islam, reports say. Raif Badawi, who was ...


From Egypt's leader, an ambitious call for reform in Islam
Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi's makes boldest effort yet to position himself as a modernizer of Islam and states professed goal to purge Islam of extremist ideas ...


Hezbollah Chief: Extremists Harm Islam More Than Cartoons
The leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group says Islamic extremists have insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad more than those who published ...


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Islam Is Not a Country
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Mark Steyn says media maneuvered Islam into 'victim seat'
Mark Steyn says media maneuvered Islam into 'victim seat'. Jan. 08, 2015 - 8:46 - Author sounds off about the Charlie Hebdo attack. Interact with the ...


Cautious attitudes to criticising Islam in Britain
British people are more likely to have a negative view of Islam than Christianity – but are less likely to feel comfortable criticising it.


Europe, Let's Talk About Islam
Peter Bergen on the history of attacks against those purportedly defame Islam, asking if reaction to Hebdo massacre might be different.


Wednesday 7 January 2015

News around the Muslim World on Tuesday 6 January 2015


Holy Prophet Muhammad Day’, marked only by Ahmadis in Lahore, in April 1908



Source: www.virtualmosque.co.uk


Scientists are hoping the fountain of youth might be hidden inside a whale species that can live up to 200 years.


Source : CBS NEWS


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Yoga, Petting Puppies, Halloween: Banned By Malaysia's MuslimClerics
All Muslims know pork, booze and premarital canoodling violate Islamic teachings. But in Malaysia, home to a rising tide of fundamentalist Islam, ...



Muslim clerics issuing so many fatwas in Malaysia there's a website to keep up
Muslim clerics have issued fatwas banning everything from yoga to Valentines Day in Malaysia in a bid to stop the influence of Western culture.



Prominent Muslim leader Maher Hathout remembered by family, friends
Dr. Maher Hathout, who died Friday night, was a prominent Muslim-American leader who co-founded the Muslim Public Affairs Council. Los Angeles ...

Religious Profiles: Michigan's American MuslimCommunity (PHOTOS)
The American Muslim community is incredibly diverse, ethnically, religiously, linguistically, ideologically, socially and economically. Mirroring that rich ...



Author of book envisioning 2022 France under Muslim rule says novel is not Islamophobic
The leader of France's Muslim party has beaten the far-right Front National in the Presidential election, women abandon Western dress and leave ...





Political Islam and US Policy in 2015
WASHINGTON, United States - This year, Arab political Islam will be greatly influenced by US regional policy, as it has been since the Obama ...



Primary school website hacked byIslamic extremists
Police told worried parents their children were not at risk today after Islamic extremists hacked their primary school's website. Sowerby Community ...














Monday 5 January 2015

News around the Muslim World on Monday 5 January 2015

Cologne Cathedral, will be plunged into darkness on Monday evening in protest at a march by a growing grass-roots anti-Muslim movement through the western German city, cathedral authorities said.


Source: www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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Every child is born a Muslim, says AIMIM leader Asaduddin Owaisi
“Islam is the real home of all religions. There is no forced conversion in Islam. It is you who need to come home, but we can't give you money for that,” ...

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The Independent on Twitter: "18,000 anti-Islamprotesters marched in Dresden tonight - but 30,000 ...
@Independent ...SOFT HEARTED GERMANS REMIND ME OF CHRISTIAN EGYPTIANS WHO SAID 1499YRS AGO, THESE ARAB MUSLIMS ARE ...
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Islamic State Leads the Scourge of Militant Islam
Islamic State Leads the Scourge of Militant Islam. Los Angeles Times By: Carol J. Williams . Year after year, the acts of Islamic militants grow more ...