The rape of Christian women in Punjab has become a “common practice” an “outrageous” phenomenon compounded by the fact that “the police protect the guilty” and not the victims. This is the bitter synopsis of Fr Jill John, of the Diocese of Lahore on the last recorded case of sexual violence against a Christian mother. The family calls for justice, but is struggling against a society in which the defenders of the law support the rapists. Even human rights groups [...]
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A young woman whisked away by Syrian security forces to coax the surrender of her activist brother turned up beheaded and dismembered, activists and human rights groups say, yet another high-profile display of cruelty in the conflict-wracked nation.
Nineteen-year-old Zainab Alhusni stepped away from her Homs residence last month to buy groceries.
Her family never saw her again until security forces returned her mutilated corpse, two opposition activist groups operating inside Syria and Amnesty International told CNN.
As reports of the torture sparked [...]
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The Islamic concept of Jihadis often misunderstood in the current times of war and terrorism. And Ahmadiyyas have organized an exhibition to tell the world about what they claimed to be the real message of Quran – peace and brotherhood .Through their ‘Holy Quran Exhibition’ at Constitution Club, they said they wanted to change common perceptions .
This is perhaps one of the rare occasions when members of this sect, who face persecution in Pakistan, have come out to proclaim the [...]
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Hundreds of people were expected at the event which will see performances by artists and guests from Britain and across the world.
Eid-ul-Fitr is the Islamic holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.
Mayor Boris Johnson has used the event to ask the Muslim community to get involved with his volunteering project for the capital called Team London.
He said: “At this joyous time, I am reminded again about the teachings of Ramadan which encourage empathy for those who are less fortunate; charity, [...]
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New satellite images appear to show thousands of Sudanese government troops marching toward a rebel stronghold in a contested region near South Sudan.
The Satellite Sentinel Project and the Enough Project released the images Friday, saying at least 3,000 troops appear to be marching on Kurmuk in Blue Nile State.? The U.S.-based monitoring group says the forces include heavy armor, artillery, tanks and helicopter gunships.
The Satellite Sentinel Project also said it identified what it claims are craters consistent with artillery or [...]
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says Tehran is holding talks with Russia about building another nuclear power plant in Iran. He made the statement at a news conference in New York City, where he also shared his utopian vision for all humanity.
Ahmadinejad said Iran needs 20 times the amount of power the Russian-built Bushehr nuclear-power plant supplies. Speaking through an interpreter, the Iranian leader said another 19,000 megawatts are needed.
?There are currently conversations ongoing for the Russians to provide that, but [...]
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Plans to extend a Muslim community centre have been thrown out because of neighbours? concerns about the way it is run.
Residents of Darwin Drive, Arbury, say they are kept awake by comings and goings from the Shah Jalal Bangladeshi Community House, including at 5am, and complain about parking problems.
The ability of leaders to limit the number of people present at any one time to 20 and to stick to prescribed opening hours has been questioned, the city council?s north area [...]
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Self-described “former terrorist” Kamal Saleem will be speaking in Midland on Sunday and Monday as part of an effort to “wake America” to the threat of radical Islam in the United States, an organizer of the event says.
“This man has a unique perspective on things,” said Midland resident Rebecca Smith, a member of Citizens Concerned for Our Nation, the group sponsoring Saleem’s talks at 2 p.m. Sunday and 7 p.m. Monday at the Midland Center for the Arts.
According to a [...]
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The Middle East Quartet has called for the Palestinians and Israel to resume talks within one month and reach an agreement by next year after the Palestinians asked the United Nations to recognize their state.
The Quartet, made up of the United States, the European Union, Russia and the U.N., urged the two sides to come up with comprehensive proposals on territory and security within three months in an effort to achieve a two-state solution.
The Quartet’s push came Friday as Palestinian [...]
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Ghulam is a taxi driver who lives in Blackburn, a once-booming textile town in Lancashire. He has a terrace house near his local mosque (one of 53 in the area), a silver Nissan car and a very complex private life.
For he has so many children that he struggles to remember their names, and five wives from various countries, including Yemen, Egypt, Turkey and his own birthplace, Pakistan.
Ghulam?s latest bride is a shy 20-year-old called Hafeza. He brought her to Britain [...]
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From the group that brought you We Con the World, Latma proudly presents an ode to the Jewish state by the UN Choir singing ?Somebody to Hate.?
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Berhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated the other day at his home in Kabul. After surviving the war with the Soviets and then as a leader of the Northern Alliance against the Taliban it was at the end a peace envoy who detonated a bomb in his turban that killed Rabbani.
Rabbani was nothing if not situationally aware. Surviving for 30 years in the most chaotic and dangerous theater of war in the world means that someone really is trying to kill you [...]
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The Hamas terror group dismissed on Friday Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas? UN speech, saying that it failed to address PA Arabs? aspirations.
Hamas spokesman Fawzi Barhoum told the Bethlehem-based Ma?an news agency that by recognizing Israel and seeking UN membership for a Palestinian state on 22 percent of ?historic Palestine,? Abbas ?decreased Palestinians? rights.?
Barhoum called Abbas to ?go back to comprehensive national dialogue and to achieve reconciliation and unite the Palestinians.?
Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, signed a reconciliation agreement [...]
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Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly on Friday, just a short time after Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas officially submitted his bid for membership of a Palestinian state in the world body.
Netanyahu began by saying that he extends his hand to peace to all the surrounding nations, including Egypt, Jordan and Turkey with whom relations have been rough lately, and also to Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, and Iran.
?But most especially I extend my hand to the [...]
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The IDF announced that forces on the Israel-Egypt border had been placed on high alert after threats were received that Hamas was planning terror activity in the area, the IDF spokesman’s office stated.
According to army officials, Hamas operatives sought to undermine the Palestinian Authority’s UN statehood bid by carrying out an attack, Israeli media reported.
The IDF beefed up its security forces along the Egyptian border after a terror cell managed to infiltrate into Israel last month and carry out multiple [...]
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Turkey has seized a Syrian-flagged ship and will intercept any arms shipments headed to Syria, Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan said late on Friday, a response to Damascus’ bloody crackdown on anti-government protesters.
Speaking to reporters in New York late on Friday where he attended the UN General Assembly, Erdogan said Turkey had stopped a Syrian-flagged ship in Marmara, according to state-run Anatolia News Agency. It did not indicate whether the ship was stopped in the Sea of Marmara or the port [...]
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A ban on women taking part in Saudi municipal elections on 29 September has brought a call for a boycott. The latter comes from about 60 Saudi intellectuals and has been picked up by Saudi and foreign blogs who opposed the decision by the Shura Council to allow women to vote but only in the next elections, four years from now, on the grounds that it would be impossible ensure separate polling stations for men and women in accordance with [...]
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There are no battlefield guarantees in Asia’s bloodiest Islamic insurgency, a jihad in Thailand’s tropical south that has ended nearly 5,000 lives.
But there are a few rules of thumb. In their self-proclaimed “holy war” to carve out the world’s newest Muslim state on the Thai-Malaysia border, Jihadis consider soldiers, cops, Buddhist monks, government teachers and their Muslim collaborators as fair game. Backpackers partying just a short distance up the coast are left alone.
But less mercy is offered to a different [...]
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Malaysian authorities have cleared the hit comedy-horror Hantu Bonceng. They were called on to re-evaluate the film after complaints from the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS).
The PAS had claimed that the film, which was released in 80 theatres on 31 Aug, contained elements that insulted Islam. Directed by Ahmad Idham Ahmad Nadzri, the film is about a man haunted by the ghost of a woman killed when riding on his motor bike.
The film was approved by the Malaysian Censorship Board without [...]
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A father-of-one says he feels very blessed after finding the word Allah inside a tomato.
Naveed Hanis, 37, was slicing tomatoes and cucumbers for a salad and was stunned when he cut into the piece of fruit to find the word Allah in Arabic inside it.
The Arabic word for Allah features a symbol similar to the letter ?w? with an accent above it.
The incident couldn?t have come at a better time for Naveed, of Monk Street, Accrington, as he has been [...]
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Wrapping up a trial that drew national attention over free-speech rights, 10 students were convicted of misdemeanor charges for disrupting a speech by the Israeli ambassador to the United States at UC Irvine.
The students, many of whom belong to the Muslim Student Union on campus, were each convicted of one misdemeanor count of conspiracy to disturb a meeting and one misdemeanor count of disturbing a meeting. Each student could be sentenced to up to six months in jail, probation with [...]
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Ladies and gentlemen, Israel has extended its hand in peace from the moment it was established 63 years ago. On behalf of Israel and the Jewish people, I extend that hand again today. I extend it to the people of Egypt and Jordan, with renewed friendship for neighbors with whom we have made peace. I extend it to the people of Turkey, with respect and good will. I extend it to the people of Libya and Tunisia, with admiration for [...]
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The Truth on the Encroachment of Global Islamism
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