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'Inspire' Magazine Issue 11

Virtually Islamic - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 9:14am

Steven Stalinsky and R. Sosnow, MEMRI, 'Inspire' Magazine Issue XI – First Issue Released Via Twitter – Review And Analysis: AQAP Praises Use Of Twitter, Reiterates Strategies Of Lone Wolf Jihad, ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

CFP: 'Religion in Cyberspace 2013'

Virtually Islamic - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 8:55am

CFP: 'Religion in Cyberspace 2013', 11th international conference Cyberspace 2013 held in Brno, Czech Republic, 22-23 November 2013. [PDF]

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Islamic Discourse in an Online World

Virtually Islamic - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 8:45am

VOA, Islamic Discourse in an Online World [podcast], 4 June 2013 "A new book “Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace” examines contemporary Islamic discourse online and ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Concerns over online Qur'an teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils

Virtually Islamic - Tue, 18/06/2013 - 8:41am

Guardian, Concerns over online Qur'an teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils, 17 June 2013 "Religious websites and instructors enjoy mini-boom reading Qur'an online as British Muslims ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Pamela Geller Connects the NSA-Sekrit Muslim Dots: “Do They Attend the 911 Mosque?”

LoonWatch - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 11:21pm

(h/t:Critical Dragon) Pamela Geller Connects the NSA-Sekrit Muslim Dots: “Do They Attend the 911 Mosque?” So insanely paranoid you might think it’s a parody by Charles Johnson, ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

EMET To Give “Speaker of Truth Award” to Reza Khalili

Barth's Notes - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 10:12pm

From Sarah Stern’s Endowment for Middle East Truth: Rays of Light In the Darkness Dinner Wednesday June 19, 2013 Washington, DC EMET is proud to bestow the Speaker of Truth Award to honor a ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Concerns over online Qur'an teaching as ex-Pakistan militants instruct pupils

CommentIsFree - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 6:14pm

Religious websites and instructors enjoy mini-boom reading Qur'an online as British Muslims tap into distance teachingWith his track record as a member of the political arm of a banned terrorist ...

Categories: General Blogs

Jihawg Ammo – Classic Islamophobic Fail

LoonWatch - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 6:04pm

Jihawg Ammo – Classic Islamophobic Fail by Sheila Musaji Recently, American Muslims were asked to accept “How to wink at a Muslim” as a joke. Now we are asked to believe that Jihawg ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Cute Font launches

Bloggerheads - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:55pm

It’s funny what life throws at you sometimes. For years I’ve been putting little notes to one side that describe ideas and projects I doubt I’ll have the time for. I showed one ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Hate crime in Scotland, 2012-13

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:05pm

BBC News and Herald Scotland both report on the release of statistics on hate crimes in Scotland over the period 2012-2013, and in earlier years for comparison. The report covers race hate crime ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Colchester MP asks about membership of EDL by British soldiers

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:02pm

Local paper, Maldon and Burnham Standard, reports on the question tabled by MP for Colchester, Sir Bob Russell, on membership of the English Defence League by members of the Armed Forces. The ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Men given suspended sentences for beating Muslim at tube station

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:00pm

Local paper, News Shopper, reports on the guilty verdict reached in the case of two men charged with a racially aggravated public order offence for beating up a Muslim at a tube ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Librarians in Exile group launches appeal to save Timbuktu manuscripts

CommentIsFree - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:48pm

Monies raised via crowdfunding will pay for storage of 16th-century documents nearly destroyed by jihadist militantsA public appeal has been launched to save the hundreds of thousands of ancient ...

Categories: General Blogs

Catholics and Lutherans will jointly mark Reformation’s 500th anniversary in 2017

FaithWorld - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:42pm

(Martin Luther. Wood engraving from 1548 by Lukas Cranach) Senior Roman Catholic and Lutheran officials announced on Monday they would mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017 as a ...

Categories: General Blogs

Religions seen slow to go green; Pope Francis has chance to inspire

FaithWorld - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:10pm

(Solar panels cover the roof of the Paul VI hall near the cupola of Saint Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican November 26, 2008. REUTERS/Tony Gentile ) Few religious communities have gone as far ...

Categories: General Blogs

Woman given suspended sentence for 'burning down mosques' comment on Facebook

ENGAGE - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:10pm

The Guardian and the local paper, News Shopper, reported on the suspended sentence passed on Michaela Turner for comments posted on Facebook after the murder of drummer Lee Rigby which violated ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Bible-burning Egyptian cleric jailed for 11 years

FaithWorld - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 3:00pm

(An Egyptian Salafist holds an anti-Coptic Christian banner outside a courthouse in Cairo October 14, 2012 before the trial of Ahmed Mohamed Abdullah, known as Abu Islam. REUTERS Mohamed Abd El ...

Categories: General Blogs

Hani Zurob: an abstract painter rooted in Palestine's reality

Electronic Intifada - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 2:11pm

Biography highlights how prolific 37-year-old artist has been.

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

Christmas comes early as hasbara banished from the net...again

Jews sans frontieres - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 1:55pm

I don't know how or why this is happening but I first noticed last Christmas Day that attempts at visiting The Jewish Chronicle site were greeted with a google Malware warning. Here's my ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

GOOOOOOOAAAAAALLLLLL for Morsi?

Tabsir - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 12:21pm

Egypt’s Morsi turns to Syria and soccer to polish his tarnished image By James M. Dorsey, Mideast Soccer Blogspot, June 17, 2013 Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi and his flailing Muslim ...

Categories: General Blogs