January 29, 2011
MIAMI (CBS4) — Egypt, historically known as the “land of bondage” is under siege by citizens who say they are trying to break a modern form of bondage – the 30-year regime of Hosni Mubarak.
Continue reading ‘Locals Gather in Support Of Egyptian Quest For Change’
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The Huffington Post | Curtis M. Wong First Posted: 01-27-11
On a global level, the Muslim population is expected to grow by 35 percent over the next two decades — twice the pace of the world’s non-Muslim population, according to a controversial new report.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/28/world/middleeast/28alexandria.html
By SOUAD MEKHENNET and NICHOLAS KULISH
Published: January 27, 2011
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt — Demonstrators in Egypt have protested against rising prices and stagnant incomes, for greater freedom and against police brutality. But religion, so often a powerful mobilizing force here, has so far played little role.
Continue reading ‘With Muslim Brotherhood Set to Join Egypt Protests, Religion’s Role May Grow’
(WASHINGTON, D.C., 1/28/11) — The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) today called on all people of conscience to contact their elected representatives to ask that they support freedom, democracy and the rule of law in Egypt and throughout the Muslim world. CAIR’s call comes as protesters seeking governmental reforms are clashing with security personnel throughout Egypt. Other protests are taking place in Tunisia, Yemen and other nations in the Middle East.
Continue reading ‘CAIR Asks Americans to Support Freedom in Egypt, Muslim World’
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By Tingba Muhammad -Guest Columnist- | Last updated: Jan 20, 2011 – 11:58:02 AM
Continue reading ‘Abraham Foxman’s ‘Jews and Money’ is not very funny’
Posted by IMO admin Foreign, Latest News, Women 1/26/2011
Argentina has introduced new legislation giving more freedom to its Muslim population to practice their faith without the fear of persecution.
Tuesday, Jan 25, 2011
After opposing Park51, the Anti-Defamation League now goes to bat for mosques around the country
By Justin Elliott
The Anti-Defamation League took some heat last year (including from Salon) for abandoning its stated commitment to civil rights and publicly opposing Park51, the planned Islamic community center near ground zero.
The Huffington Post Nick Wing
First Posted: 01/24/11
Freshman Tea Party-backed Rep. Allen West (R-Fla.) recently got personal in an attack on one of the House’s two Muslim representatives, declaring that Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) represents “the antithesis of the principles upon which this country was established.”
By GIL SHEFLER
01/24/2011
Dr. Haim Saadon of the Hebrew University says there was no violence towards Jews by Muslims during World War 2.
When Nazi Germany’s Afrika Korps invaded Tunisia in 1942, panic quickly spread among members of the local Jewish community, many of whom packed their belongings and fled to the countryside, fearing persecution.
Continue reading ‘‘Jewish-Muslim ties in Maghreb were good despite Nazis’’
By ARAB NEWS
Published: Jan 25, 2011 00:39 Updated: Jan 25, 2011 00:39
Continue reading ‘Muslims are main victims of terrorism: Forum’
Anderson Cooper, the master of the TV match-up, had on both terrorism “expert” and sharia alarmist Frank Gaffney and Suhail Khan, a board member of the Amercian Conservative Union whom Gaffney has accused of being an operative of Muslim jihadists.
Continue reading ‘Frank Gaffney And CPAC’s Alleged Muslim ‘Infiltrator’ Face Off (VIDEO)’
By William Wan
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, January 24, 2011; 12:02 AM
WESTBURY, N.Y. – They called it a summit to teach Muslims how to fight prejudice and fear. But all day long, fear was inescapable in the fluorescent-lit meeting hall of the Long Island mosque.
Continue reading ‘Long Island Muslims fear their congressman’s hearings could flame Islamophobia’
Imams drop Ben Ali from mosque sermons as they pray for ‘memory of the martyrs of the revolution’.
2011-01-21
Middle East Online
TUNIS – Imams routinely praised Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in Friday prayers but a week after his dramatic downfall, his name was pointedly absent from their sermons, worshippers said.
Continue reading ‘Tunisian mosques freed from former regime restrictions’
The dinner party bigot’s attack on Islam as a creed can all too easily become an excuse for an attack upon an ethnic group
Giles Fraser The Guardian, Saturday 22 January 2011
No one actually comes out and directly says “I hate Muslims” – at least, not on the liberal dinner party circuit that was the target of Lady Warsi’s speech. Conversations generally begin with the sort of anxieties that many of us might reasonably share: it cannot be right for women to be denied access to education in some Islamic regimes; the use of the death penalty for apostasy is totally unacceptable; what about the treatment of homosexuals? The conversation then moves on to sharia law or jihad or the burqa, not all of it entirely well informed. Someone places their hands across their face and peers out between their fingers. Another guest giggles slightly. Someone inevitably mentions 9/11. Later, guests travel home on the tube and look nervously at the man in the beard sitting opposite.
Continue reading ‘Islamophobia is the moral blind spot of modern Britain’
Sunday, 23 January 2011 21:57
Top British religious figures are warning against removing religion as a GCSEs subject in the new English baccalaureate amid campaigns by extremist anti-Muslim groups.
By Hadi Yahmid, OnIslam Correspondent
Wednesday, 19 January 2011 11:16
PARIS – With their mosques bursting at the seams with worshippers, France’s Muslims are aspiring for stately mosques to meet the religious needs of the growing minority.
