February 05, 2012 02:01 PM
AMMAN: Jordanian Islamists on Sunday called on Muslims and Arabs to boycott Russian and Chinese products after the two countries vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Syria’s regime over bloodshed.
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By Mohammed Ayoob, Special to CNN
Fri February 3, 2012
Editor’s note: Mohammed Ayoob is University Distinguished Professor of International Relations at Michigan State University and adjunct scholar at the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
Continue reading ‘Is Europe setting up clash between Muslims and the West?’
By Chris Hawley
The Associated Press / February 4, 2012
NEW YORK—Thirty-three civil rights groups from around the country complained to the New York attorney general Friday about police documents that showed the New York Police Department recommending increased surveillance of Shiite mosques based on their religion.
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Saturday, 04 February 2012 08:27 Christopher Bollyn
An Israeli TV ad promoting the cable network HOT makes fun of a Mossad terror attack in which Israeli agents inadvertently blow up an Iranian nuclear plant by pushing a button on a computer tablet.
When the Mossad agent shows the various features of the computer tablet to the other Israeli agents, one accidently pushes a button which causes the nuclear plant in the background to explode. To this, the character then says, “What? Another mysterious explosion in Iran?”
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CAIRO | Thu Feb 2, 2012 9:12am EST
CAIRO (Reuters) – The Arab world’s most famous comic actor, Adel Imam, has received a three-month jail sentence for insulting Islam in films and plays, a court document showed on Thursday.
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By Juan Ortega, Sun Sentinel
February 2, 2012
Continue reading ‘Muslim woman in Boca Raton accuses Chevron of religious discrimination’
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: January 24, 2012
RYE, N.Y. (AP) — Fifteen Muslims won conditional dismissals on Tuesday of charges stemming from an amusement park disturbance that started when women were told they could not wear religious headscarves on some rides.
A Rye Town Court judge told the defendants that their cases would be dropped if they stayed out of trouble for two months. Most had been charged only with disorderly conduct, but the charges ranged up to second-degree assault.
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Iraqis express outrage at US use of small fleet of surveillance drones to protect embassy, consulates, American personnel in Iraq.
Middle East Online – January 30, 2012
WASHINGTON – Iraqi officials have expressed outrage at the United States’ use of a small fleet of surveillance drones to help protect the US embassy, consulates and American personnel in Iraq, The New York Times reported late Sunday.
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Hajj exhibition explores history, journeys, experiences of pilgrims who travel from around world to reach holy city of Mecca.
Middle East Online – January 25, 2012
LONDON- The British Museum in London opens its doors on Thursday to the first major exhibition in the world on Hajj, the Islamic pilgrimage to the heart of Islam.
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Haniya is expected to hold meetings with Crown Prince Tamim Bin Hamad al-Thani, key Sunni religious figure Yussef al-Qaradawi.
Middle East Online
GAZA CITY – The head of the Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, left on Monday for a regional tour expected to include stops in Iran, Qatar and Bahrain, his spokesman said.
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By Ted Regencia and Lindsay Minerva|January 23, 2012
Near the corner of Westchester Avenue and Pugsley Street in Parkchester, just off the elevated tracks of the No. 6 train, Yaakov Wayne Baumann stood outside a graffiti-covered storefront on a chilly Saturday morning. Suited up in a black overcoat with a matching wide-brimmed black fedora, the thickly bearded 42-year-old chatted with elderly congregants as they entered the building for Shabbat service.
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGvLjdxnDbY&noredirect=1
By AGENCIES
Published: Jan 27, 2012 16:02 Updated: Jan 27, 2012
GENEVA: At least 384 children have been killed during Syria’s 10-month uprising and virtually the same number have been jailed, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Friday.
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January 26, 2012
Associated Press
NEW YORK — Muslim groups are calling for New York’s police commissioner to step down because of his appearance in a film they say puts their religion and its adherents in a bad light.
About 20 activists held a news conference on the steps of City Hall on Thursday and criticized Ray Kelly for giving an interview to the producers of the movie “The Third Jihad.”
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25 January 2012
Irish actor Liam Neeson is considering converting to Islam after becoming fascinated by the religion while filming in Turkey.
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By MICHAEL POWELL, New York Times
Published: January 23, 2012
Ominous music plays as images appear on the screen: Muslim terrorists shoot Christians in the head, car bombs explode, executed children lie covered by sheets and a doctored photograph shows an Islamic flag flying over the White House.
Continue reading ‘In Police Training, a Dark Film on U.S. Muslims’
January 23, 2012
Wilfredo Amr Ruiz,
Muslim Chaplain, Attorney and Political Analyst
While America honors the legacy of civil rights color-bearer Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., it is ironic that President Obama betrays his memory. In the midst of the 2011 New Year’s Eve celebration, President Obama endorsed the ominous National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) belying epic national fights, struggles and discourses for equality, civil rights and liberties carried out by patriots including King and Malcom X, and centuries of untold heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice to pave the way for the nation to execute the historic event of electing the first black president: Barack Obama. These circumstances render it absurd that this same President has signed a contradictory and tyrannical law endorsing a worldwide indefinite detention provision. Such a provision does not exempt American citizens from indefinite military detention people without charge or trial. In other words, under this law, not only can any citizen deemed a threat to national security interests be held forever without trial, but the military, not civilian law enforcement, will be arresting those citizens.
OnIslam & Newspapers
Saturday, 21 January 2012
CAIRO – Muslims in the Canadian city of Calgary will be moving to a new location at the center of the town, offering worshippers a larger space for prayers and more convenient location close to their work locations.
