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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

making it difficult to sin - mufti menk

The Revival - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 12:13pm

i'll just list here some of the points he made, do have a listen though, he qualifies and explains his points concisely but clearly and its just worth it.Tags: videotalkssins ...

Categories: General Blogs

Schmockpuppets Wage Wiki War

Jews sans frontieres - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 9:40am

Yet another tale of Zionist sockpuppetry at Wikipedia: Ha'aretz is reporting the exposure of an employee of the Israel advocacy group, NGO Monitor, for using sock puppets and "meat" puppets ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

Work for the UN

Craig Murray - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 9:25am

GCHQ and the NSA between them employ tens of thousands of people. I am bemused by the shock at the “revelation” they have been spying. What on Earth did journalists think that spies ...

Categories: Political Blogs

[Productive Teens - Part 2] Let’s Beat Bullying!

Productive Muslim - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:56am

This is the second part of a series of three articles about how young Muslims can develop strength, courage and resilience in the face of peer pressure and bullying. Part 1 dealt with the impact ...

Categories: Lifestyle Blogs

7 Reasons Why You Should Support Erdogan and Not the Protesters

Muslim Matters - Mon, 17/06/2013 - 4:50am

To all those who were sympathetic to the protests in Turkey, it can sometimes feel like you're living in a different world from your opponents. After all, the media portrays you as artistic ...

Categories: General Blogs

MuslimKidsMatter | Exciting Announcement – Ramadan Competition

Muslim Matters - Sun, 16/06/2013 - 4:00pm

Summer vacation is here for many of you around the world. I hope you're enjoying these long, summer days! With the tension of final exams and the excitement of the school year's end, you may ...

Categories: General Blogs

Now I really don't want to appear on the Newseum's shameful list

Robert Fisk - Sun, 16/06/2013 - 3:40pm

Many years ago, the “Newseum”, described as “America’s most prominent media museum”, asked me if I would donate a piece of shrapnel that had fallen outside my Beirut home during an outbreak of ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Birmingham mosque stabbings: police question 32-year-old man

CommentIsFree - Sun, 16/06/2013 - 2:11pm

Four people, including one police officer, hurt in attack reportedly carried out by worshipper attending mosque for first timeA police officer has been praised for his courage after he was stabbed ...

Categories: General Blogs

Tabsir Redux: Mocha Musings #4: Morocco to Afghanistan

Tabsir - Sun, 16/06/2013 - 11:58am

Area: 219,000 sq. mi Population: 2,750,000 Government: Absolute Monarchy Scenes: Morocco Leather; City of Morocco; Street Scene in Morocco In a previous post I began a series on coffee ...

Categories: General Blogs