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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www.virtualmosque.co.uk

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 ...

News around the Muslim World on Friday 21 November 2014

Blind Obedience to Authority

At Yale Stanley Milgram carried out experiments to show that even decent moral people scumb to dictates by authority figures which make them do immoral things. And that is why it is very important to follow the Holy Quran chapter 4 verses 58 and 59. These say that people should be very careful about who they chose to rule them and check what their rulers are asking them to do is not against what Allah and His Prophet (s) have said.

Source : www.virtualmosque.co.uk

NEWS

	Beautifying Islam Gatestone Institute Many people are understandably asking: What is the true nature of Islam? Is it that although there are many peaceful Muslims, Islam itself is not ... Islamic State violence condemned as Saudi Arabia backs inter-faith gathering - ChristianToday Full Coverage
	UAE Role in Global War on 'politicalIslam' Middle East Monitor One repeated mechanism was the demonisation of "political Islam", namely the Muslim Brotherhood who has been on the forefront of the popular ... Flag as irrelevant
	Geert Wilders: Islam's War Against the Free West FrontPage Magazine Wherever I go, armed policemen accompany me to protect me againstIslamic jihadis. Al Qaida, the Taliban, ISIS and many others threatened to kill ...
	“We Have No Dispute With Islam” and That's Why We Will Never Win This War The Jewish Press (blog) To mark IDC Herzliya's 20th anniversary, we spent a day following Prof. Uriel Reichman, IDC's founder and president, and Jonathan Davis, VP for ...
	LiveBlog: Israeli president Rivlin: We are not at war with Islam i24news “We have no dispute with Islam, we did not have, we will not have, and today, too, we don't have,” he added. “We need to make it clear to everyone.”.
	Moroccan king: Islam 'does not object to profit' Al-Arabiya Islam “does not object to profit,” he said in a statement read by Prime Minister Abdelilah Benkirane. “On the contrary, [Islam] encourages the ...
	Ben Affleck Publicly Comments onIslam Spat with Maher Mediaite In the weeks since Bill Maher and Ben Affleck fought over Islam, we've heard a lot from Maher on the subject. But now we're hearing Affleck's likely first ...
	Does Common Core have an Islamconnection? WCYB So Common Core does not dictate that 7th grade students learn about the Islamic world, as many have said. We checked the state standards and ...
	Who Are Britain First? The EDL-BNP Fusion that Hates Islam International Business Times UK Britain First is the organisation flying the flag for Far Right extremism following the demise of the BNP and EDL as meaningful forces. Created by the ...
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	Islamism Stanford University Press As America struggles to understand Islam and Muslims on the world stage, one concept in particular dominates public discourse: Islamism.