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Church must help the poorest, not discuss theology over tea, Pope Francis says

FaithWorld - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:16pm

(Pope Francis speaks as he leads a Pentecost vigil mass in Saint Peter’s Square at the Vatican May 18, 2013. REUTERS/Stefano Rellandini) Pope Francis shared personal moments with 200,000 ...

Categories: General Blogs

Afghan parliament fails to pass divisive law banning violence against women

FaithWorld - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:08pm

(An Afghan woman in a burqa walks along a road on a windy day on the outskirts of Kabul April 16, 2013. REUTERS/Mohammad Ismail ) Afghanistan’s parliament failed to pass a law on Saturday ...

Categories: General Blogs

Three arrested at SDL protest in Dumfries

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 12:00pm

BBC News reports on the arrest of three people on public order offences following a Scottish Defence League protest in Dumfries at the weekend. The SDL, who exploited concerns raised by a local ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Police investigate mosque attack in Wakefield

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 11:55am

Local paper, Wakefield Express, reports on another alleged incident of anti-Muslim hate crime in the Leeds area with two men arrested at the weekend on “suspicion of criminal damage after a window ...

Categories: Political Blogs

EDL protest in Radstock over St George's flag 'offending Muslims' story

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 11:52am

ITV News reports on the attendance by members of the English Defence League of a protest outside Radstock Town hall at the weekend after newspaper reports last week claimed that the local council ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Planetary Extinction, Endless War... and Fatherhood

The Cutting Edge - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 11:20am

Amidst extended paternity leave, sleepless nights, changing nappies, and school runs, I've only just about managed to sustain my minimal objective of a regular writing output of about an article ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Jacobson accuses FUCU Judge of pro-Muslim and anti-Jewish prejudice

Jews sans frontieres - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 10:25am

I'm just revisiting this Howard Jacobson piece in The Independent slagging Stephen Hawking and the judge in the FUCU tribunal. Jacobson took his time responding to that FUCU judgment which ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

Israel and Apartheid | Taking Action with BDS

Muslim Matters - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 4:05am

Categories: General Blogs

The YouTube Culture and Your Productivity (Part 2)

Productive Muslim - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 3:44am

In Part 1 of this series, I focused on information overload in the YouTube Culture, and steps you can take to manage this. In this part, you will read more about how to be selective in ...

Categories: Lifestyle Blogs

Robert Fisk: Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility?

Robert Fisk - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 11:00pm

The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Where else but Northern Ireland would a killer on a school board even be mooted as a possibility?

Robert Fisk - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 11:00pm

The Brits have always been sending their experts to Northern Ireland to show the locals how to do their job. The G8 summit is going to have 3,600 of the boys and girls in blue arriving from the ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Criticism of Saudi Arabia regime either for destruction of Islamic heritage or on human rights, other issues remains a taboo in Media!

An Indian Muslim - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 10:17pm

Just a few days back a group of leading Shia clerics held a press conference in Lucknow. Amongst other issues, they spoke on the continuous destruction of Islamic heritage in Saudi Arab. The news ...

Categories: International Blogs

Mix 'n' Match: Daily Beast on Obama's Child Kidnapping Problem

Jews sans frontieres - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 9:01pm

Well Daily Beast couldn't be expected to accuse Obama of child or any other kidnapping but look at these headlines from today's email:The first:Japan’s Child Kidnapping ProblemThe second:Obama to ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

Mohsin Hamid: 'Islam is not a monolith'

CommentIsFree - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 7:00pm

There are more than a billion Muslims in the world, each with an individual view of life. So why are they viewed as a unified group, asks Mohsin Hamid, author of The Reluctant ...

Categories: General Blogs

Being a dreamer

The Revival - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 4:34pm

in your everyday life, are you more of a dreamer, your feet touching down on reality every once in a while whenever needed but you're mostly up there in the clouds thinking about places to be and ...

Categories: General Blogs

MuslimKidsMatter | I am a Muslim

Muslim Matters - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 4:00pm

What does it mean to be a Muslim? The video below shows what being a Muslim means for three girls who live in Indiana. From sharing to making others feel better, Sabriya, Laila, and ...

Categories: General Blogs

Art not for art’s sake

Tabsir - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 2:16pm

Gérôme’s “The Slave Market,” left; response by Iraqi woman artist, right Before Edward Said revitalized the term “Orientalism” in his seminal 1978 book of the same ...

Categories: General Blogs

Al Jazeera and the Disappearing Massad article on Zionist Antisemitism

Jews sans frontieres - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 11:41am

This is a copy and paste of the cached version of Joseph Massad's article The Last of the Semites, which seems to have been taken down from al Jazeera:OPINIONThe last of the SemitesIt is Israel's ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs

Taj Hargey is wrong on grooming

Radical Views - Sun, 19/05/2013 - 10:24am

Last week seven men from Oxford were found guilty of various sexual offences, including rape, for ‘grooming’ young girls and ultimately raping and allowing other men to rape them. Many of them ...

Categories: Political Blogs

FUCU Celebrity Witness Howard Jacobson Breaks His Silence

Jews sans frontieres - Sat, 18/05/2013 - 9:50pm

How many's that now? I can't remember for sure. It might be five, maybe six with Howard Jacobson. Jacobson has taken his time getting round to denouncing the result of the FUCU case in ...

Categories: Palestinian Blogs