America’s Nigerian community is haunted by the fear of stereotyping following a botched terror attack by a Nigerian Muslim similar to what happened to Muslims and Arabs after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Archive for December, 2009
By EILEEN NG
Associated Press Writer
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia — A Malaysian court ruled Thursday that Christians have the constitutional right to use the word Allah to refer to God, striking down a government ban as illegal.
The landmark ruling appeared to be a victory for freedom of religion in the Muslim-majority country, where the ban had become a symbol of what minorities say is institutionalized religious discrimination.
Continue reading ‘Malaysian court rules Christians can use ‘Allah’’
Approaching the end of his first year in office, people in the Muslim-majority disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir are frustrated at US President Barack Obama for neglecting their cause for the interest of warm relations with India.
Egyptian security forces have attempted to prevent dozens of US activists from reaching their embassy in Cairo.
Hoping to ask the American ambassador for help in reaching the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, some 41 American citizens instead found themselves surrounded by riot police.
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are marking one year since the start of Israel’s 22-day offensive on the territory, which left hundreds dead and damaged millions of dollars worth of infrastructure.
Hamas officials held a ceremony on Sunday outside the destroyed Palestinian Legislative Council building in Gaza City – one of the first targets of the assault.
By Ana Rodriguez-Soto
Catholic News Service
MIAMI (CNS) — Be it a hurricane or a terrorist act, disaster does not discriminate.
Muslims died in the World Trade Center. People of every race and religion lost their houses during Hurricane Andrew.
That is why Bruce Netter and Sofian Abdelaziz are working together. Netter, a Jew, is manager of disaster relief services for Catholic Charities of the Miami Archdiocese. Sofian, a Palestinian, is director and counselor of the Miami-based American Muslim Association of North America.
Continue reading ‘Catholics, Jews, Muslims team up for citizen emergency response corps’
We can wait no longer to restart the peace process. The human suffering demands urgent relief
Yes the world will become one big Katrina unless you turn over the right to burn anything carbon-based to rationing authorities serving the Rothschild interests.” Do you still believe that?
Monday, 21 December 2009 01:19 James Delingpole Continue reading ‘Climategate goes SERIAL’
By Ms. Lopez Casanova
“I didn’t choose Islam; Islam chose me”. This is a phrase I constantly tell my friends when asked, how or why I converted to Islam. Continue reading ‘I Didn’t Choose Islam, Islam Chose Me’
By Hani Salah, IOL Correspondent
CAIRO — Muslims activists from 26 European countries have come together to launch the first rights council to enlighten European Muslims about their rights, monitor rising Islamophobia and defend Muslim rights in European courts of law.
By Muhammad Saifullah, 19-12-2009
Today, the children of Rohingya refugees are struggling with their future to be saved as they are not recognized as refugees by the both Malaysian government to have access to education and UNHCR as mandated refugees to get resettlement like other refugees. They are marginalized and in languishing in horror situation. Their children are deprived of basic right to education, victims of exploitation and going to be a generation of beggars in Malaysia.
Continue reading ‘UK: Islamophobic attacks largely ignored in UK’
As the moon of Muharram marking the start of a new Hijri year appeared in the sky, a new life was blooming for Badri Mo’min and his family.
“It’s a new journey for us (as Muslims),” Mo’min told The Brunei Times Saturday, December 19.
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A settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron. The approach of some settlers towards neighboring Palestinians, especially around Nablus in the north and Hebron in the south, has often been one of contempt and violence.
Continue reading ‘A Jewish settler tosses wine at a Palestinian woman on Shuhada Street in Hebron.’
Israeli MPs on Thursday threatened to call a boycott of British products unless London withdraws an advisory allowing retailers to state whether West Bank products were made by Palestinians or Jewish settlers.
So far, 40 of Israel’s 120 MPs have signed the petition which is to be sent to the British parliament, according to an aide to MP Ronit Tirosh of the centrist Kadima party.
Continue reading ‘Israeli MPs threaten boycott of British products’
