It also found that most incidents are not reported to the police, because the majority of Muslims believe nothing would be done about it.
The agency is calling on European governments to increase awareness among Muslim populations on their rights and how to report crimes.
Saturday, May 23, 2009
From his home in Austin, Shahed Amanullah, 41, runs six popular Web sites that explore topics of interest to Muslims — with two more to go online shortly. A senior project manager at an engineering firm by day, the American-born Amanullah has built a mini-Internet empire. His sites include one that reviews restaurants that meet Islamic dietary restrictions and another that reviews mosques. On a more esoteric note, he has a Web site for the best Muslim writing on the Web and a site that explores gender issues in Islam. But his highest-profile Web site is Continue reading ‘A Place to Explore Muslim American Life’
First Posted: 05-26-09
By Sayed Salahuddin Sayed Salahuddin
KABUL (Reuters) – An Afghan who has spent over six years at the U.S. military‘s Guantanamo Bay prison was only around 12 years old when he was detained, not 16 or 17 as his official record says, an Afghan rights group said on Tuesday.
Continue reading ‘Afghan Taken To Guantanamo At Age 12: Rights Group’
However, they remain at Guantanamo Bay because the state department fears they will face persecution in China.
The US has asked Germany to take the detainees but without success.
Greek riot police fired tear gas after scores of the protesters began pelting officers with sticks and stones outside parliament.
By Muhammed Qasim, IOL Correspondent
WASHINGTON – American Muslims are denouncing a plot to attack Jewish synagogues and a military base in New York and offering help to thwart assaults against their country.
A former US soldier escaped the death penalty for gang-raping an Iraqi girl and slaughtering her family as the jury failed to reach consensus on the sentence, reported The New York Times on Friday, May 22.
Pam Mandel • 05.19.09
High on the list of reasons I lost my heart so completely to Hawaii?
The diversity. You’ve got your Pinoys, your Japanese, your mainland surfers, your Native Hawaiians, your Portuguese and Spaniards, the descendants of European shippers and missionaries, a whole mess of “hapa” types who are half one thing, half something else, be it Scottish, Korean, Hawaiian, Jewish … If you’re looking for a slice of world culture, you’re as likely to find it in Hawaii as anywhere. All those cultures make for a lively and appealing place.
Continue reading ‘Hawaii Passes Islam Day Resolution, Haters Call for Boycott’
The head of the Minneapolis FBI office is asking for the Somali community’s trust as investigators continue to look into the disappearances of a number of young Twin Cities men who are believed to be fighting along with hard-line Islamists in Somalia’s civil war.
Continue reading ‘FBI, Twin Cities Somalis hope to rebuild relationship’
COPENHAGEN — Copenhagen municipality is planning to introduce Arabic classes in all the capital’s schools to boost the integration of Arab immigrants and help promote trade with Arab countries.
Javaid Iqbal was arrested in November 2001 on an immigration violation and jailed for five months in a maximum-security prison in New York.
He says he was held in solitary confinement for 23 hours a day for several months with the light always on, and that he was subjected to repeated strip searches, beatings and verbal abuse.
In their talks in Washington, Obama told Netanyahu to stop expanding Jewish settlements and grasp the “historic opportunity” to make peace with the Palestinians.
Shielding their country against the threat of terrorism and helping their coreligionists be immune against radical ideologies, a group of Singapore Muslim scholars are running an ambitious program to fight extremism.
“We are not scared of [terrorists],” scholar Ustaz Ibrahim Kassim, a member of government-backed anti-extremism Religious Rehabilitation Group (RRG), told the Washington Post on Saturday, May 16.
IslamOnline.net & News Agencies
CAIRO — Despite billions of dollars of international aid pledges, thousands of Palestinian families in Gaza Strip still live in open air, months after Israel’s deadly war in the besieged strip.
| Lara Jakes | AP |
| WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama said yesterday he is restarting US military tribunals for a small number of suspected terrorists at Guantanamo though with several new legal protections for defendants. |
By Steve Doughty
Last updated at 6:57 AM on 12th May 2009
The BBC yesterday appointed a Muslim as its head of religious programming in a radical departure from broadcasting tradition.
Continue reading ‘BBC appoints Muslim to top religious post in controversial first’
Ahmed Rehab
