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Debate: “Does Islam Promote Violence Towards Non-Muslims?”(3 videos totaling 96 mins):
Part 1 (36:38)
Part 2 (48:01)
Part 3 (32:37)
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READ MORE »Daily archives for September 18th, 2011
US Universities Launch Pro Islamic Media Course ?Covering Islam in America?
US Universities Launch Pro Islamic Media Course ?Covering Islam in America?:
In a bid to run correct news reporting about Muslims, two American universities have launched a project to teach journalists how to tackle Islam-related issues.
?In our increasingly polarized media landscape, having the facts about any topic is vital to good journalism,? said Howard Finberg, director of interactive learning at the Poynter Institute, reported Ahlul Bayt News Agency.
?And this is especially important when covering topics such as religion.?
Titled ?Covering Islam in [...]
READ MORE »Nepali Migrant Women Victims of Abuse and Exploitation in Arab Nations
Nepali Migrant Women Victims of Abuse and Exploitation in Arab Nations:
Saudi Arabia and Kuwait are the worst offenders. NGO complains about the high number of migrant women who go to work illegally in the Middle East. About 16 per cent comes home without any money.
According to a study by the Foreign Nepali Workers Rescue Center (FNWRC), about 90 per cent of all Nepali migrant women are victims of sexual violence and exploitation. The worst cases are in Arab countries where [...]
READ MORE »UN Bomber: Attack a Warning to ‘Obama and Other Infidels’
UN Bomber: Attack a Warning to ‘Obama and Other Infidels’:
Videos have emerged purporting to show members of a Nigerian Islamist sect preparing for suicide attacks, including a young man said to be responsible for last month’s bombing of UN headquarters.
The two videos obtained by AFP are said to be from the sect known as Boko Haram and come as concern intensifies over whether it has formed links with outside groups such as al-Qaeda’s north African branch.
The possibility of such links [...]
READ MORE »Maldives Criminalizes Preaching Any Religion But Islam
Maldives Criminalizes Preaching Any Religion But Islam
President?s Office has gazetted the controversial Religious Unity Regulation, declaring it an offence to preach a religion except Islam in the Maldives.
The 12-clause regulation makes it mandatory for preachers of Islam, both locals and foreigners, to have a first degree in a field of Islamic education from a ministry-approved college, university or centre.
A list of 36 worldwide institutes recognized by the ministry has been published in the gazette. The Maldives National University and local [...]
READ MORE »Guardian Newspaper Group Leads UK Charge on Reckless Palestinian UN Bid
Guardian Newspaper Group Leads UK Charge on Reckless Palestinian UN Bid
On Friday this coming week, the Palestinian leadership will ask the United Nations Security Council for recognition of a Palestinian state on the basis of 1967 borders which are entirely indefensible for the State of Israel.
Anyone but a fool can see that this is a blatant attempt to avoid direct negotiations with Israel so as to obviate the need for the kind of concessions that meaningful negotiations always entail.
And anyone [...]
READ MORE »Hamas, Islamic Jihad Unite Against Abbas
Hamas, Islamic Jihad Unite Against Abbas:
Palestinian Authority unity is further away then ever as the Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorist groups unite to denounce?PA Chairman Mahmoud Abbas?for his ?unilateral moves.?
Statements by the two terrorist groups highlight the split in the Palestinian Authority and find Hamas and Islamic Jihad in rare agreement with Israel and the United States, although for contradictory reasons.
After Abbas delivered a speech Friday explaining his bid to the United Nations for recognition, Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum ridiculed [...]
READ MORE »Netanyahu Coming To America To Address UN, Meet With Obama
Netanyahu Coming To America To Address UN, Meet With Obama:
Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the Cabinet Sunday he will meet with President Barack Obama this week and added that the Palestinian Authority will fail to win full recognition from the United Nations.
He said the meeting with the president will take place after he addresses the United Nations General Assembly.
Obama’s promise to veto any United Nations Security Council motion to recommend full membership status of the Palestinian Authority has reearned him [...]
READ MORE »Egypt?s Military Imposes Restrictions on Media
Egypt?s Military Imposes Restrictions on Media
The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the new measures taken by Egypt’s ruling military council. In recent days, the military announced that it would actively enforce the Hosni Mubarak-era Emergency Law, which allows civilians, including journalists, to be tried in state security courts. Other recent anti-press measures include an Al-Jazeera bureau being raided and shut down, the military announcing a “temporary freeze” on issuing licenses to satellite television stations, and a foreign blogger [...]
READ MORE »Islamists Behead Apostate, Block Food Aid to Starving Christians
Islamists Behead Apostate, Block Food Aid to Starving Christians
Hungry minority Christians in Somalia faced another struggle Sunday, September 18, after suspected Islamic militants beheaded a Christian convert and foreign aid workers were banned from reaching a dying population.
Somali Christians and human rights activists confirmed that the body of Juma Nuradin Kamil, a kidnapped Christian who converted from Islam, was found decapitated near the southern town of Hudur?on September 2.
He was apparently killed after three suspected members of the Islamic group [...]
READ MORE »?Tough? Immigration Policy Will Face Some Hurdles in The Netherlands
‘Tough? Immigration Policy Will Face Some Hurdles in The Netherlands
The Netherlands? tough immigration policy is set to get even tougher now that the government has approved a raft of measures proposed by Immigration and Asylum Minister Gerd Leers. But are the plans really that drastic or are they mainly designed to placate Geert Wilders? anti-Islam Freedom Party?
The move hardly comes as surprise. A tougher immigration policy was one of the key issues the minority cabinet of the conservative VVD and [...]
READ MORE »Washington Imam To Iranian Media: US, and Israelis Trying to Block ?Arab Spring?
Washington Imam To Iranian Media: US, and Israelis Trying to Block ?Arab Spring?
In an exclusive Press TV interview, Washington D.C.’s Imam Abdul Alim Musa of Masjid al-Islam, elaborates on obstacle to the ongoing Islamic Awakening by dictatorships that have been propped-up and persistently supported by Western countries, led by the United States.
Press TV: Are we seeing a change this time around? We know that in the past there has been infiltration and control in these Muslim countries. We have seen [...]
READ MORE »Kidnap, Forced Conversion of Minorities on the Rise
Kidnap, Forced Conversion of Minorities on the Rise:
Minorities in Balochistan, particularly Hindus, are increasingly being kidnapped for ransom and forced to convert to Islam, according to a report of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan?s (HRCP) Balochistan chapter.
As many as 50 people belonging to the Hindu community were kidnapped over the past three years and were freed after paying large sums of money in ransom, the HRCP?s Tahir Hussain and Zahoor Shahwani told the media.
The HRCP?s report expressed serious concerns [...]
READ MORE »Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Still Under a Fatwa, Marries Historian
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Still Under a Fatwa, Marries Historian
Never usually one to do anything without great fanfare, Niall Ferguson, the bombastic television historian, has quietly married Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch MP, who lives under a fatwa after writing the screenplay for Submission, a film critical of Islam.
Henry Kissinger, the former American secretary of state, who was the subject of a biography by Ferguson, 47, was among the guests at the wedding in Boston, Massachusetts. He provided Ferguson with [...]
READ MORE »Six Women, One Girl Attacked With Acid in Two Incidents
Six Women, One Girl Attacked With Acid in Two Incidents
A total of seven women suffered acid attacks in the past two days in Faisalabad in separate incidents.
According to police officials, a first-year student suffered serious burns after being attacked in the limits of?Police?Station?City?Jaranwala. First year student Tayyiba was on her way back home from a local tuition academy when students Ali Raza and Hamza allegedly chased her and threatened her life.
?Both boys go to the same college as me and [...]
READ MORE »Syrian Sheikh: Tear Christians into Pieces and Feed Them to the Dogs
Syrian Sheikh: Tear Christians into Pieces and Feed Them to the Dogs
A Syrian sheikh who has been exiled to Saudi Arabia and has become one of the voices of the uprising against Assad, urges his followers, in television sermons that have been broadcast in Syria as well, to ”tear apart, chop up and feed” the meat of all supporters of the current regime ”to the dogs,” including all Christians. The fundamentalist turn part of the Syrian opposition is taking is [...]
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