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Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against mosque

LoonWatch - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 4:54pm

Greek neo-Nazis threaten to mobilize against mosque AFP, Athens - Greek neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn has threatened to mobilize 100,000 people against plans to build a mosque in Athens, state ...

Categories: Current Affairs Blogs

Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices - in pictures

CommentIsFree - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 4:52pm

Images from Muslima, an online exhibition that gives voice to the varied experiences of Muslin women across the globe

Categories: General Blogs

Muslima exhibition: interviews and art by Muslim women

CommentIsFree - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 4:52pm

Muslima is an online exhibition showcasing the voices, stories and work of diverse Muslim women across the world. Veronique Mistiaen reports"The only woman it seems permissible to judge and even ...

Categories: General Blogs

Hezbollah and Bashar: Another Unholy Alliance

Tabsir - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:41pm

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah; Photograph by Wael Hamzeh/European Pressphoto Agency My friend Omar Safi has created a provocative blog entitled What Would Muhammad do? Today I would like to ...

Categories: General Blogs

Letter from Muslim scholars and leaders on same sex marriage bill

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:40pm

The Sunday Telegraph published a letter yesterday signed by over 450 British Muslim scholars and leaders expressing ‘serious misgivings’ over the Coalition’s Marriage Bill legalizing same sex ...

Categories: Political Blogs

Letter from Muslim scholars and leaders on same sex marriage bill

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:40pm

The Sunday Telegraph published a letter yesterday signed by over 450 British Muslim scholars and leaders expressing ‘serious misgivings’ over the Coalition’s Marriage Bill legalizing same sex ...

Categories: Political Blogs

More UKIP anti-Muslim views surface

ENGAGE - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 1:34pm

BBC News reports mon the election of a UKIP councillor to Rotherham Metropolitan Council. Cavan Vines won in the by-election prompted by the departure of Shaun Wright, who was elected as the PCC ...

Categories: Political Blogs

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

Are the Street Groomers Pakistani or British?

Radical Views - Mon, 20/05/2013 - 8:45am

The seven convicted men in the Oxford grooming case were identified by their ethnicity. In contrast, similar cases involving white men are rarely scrutinised along the same line, provided the ...

Categories: Political 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