Salafis vs Sufis
What lies behind the increasingly bitter dispute between Egypt's mufti and the Salafi Sheikh Abu Ishaq El-Huweini?
Halal meat converting Aussies: MP
“He reportedly said, ‘The non-believers will become Muslims when, amongst other things, they eat the meat that we have slaughtered’. This is one of the key aspects to converting non-believers to Islam,” Mr Simpkins said.
AIUMB urges Sunni Muslims to reject hardline Wahabism
The All India Ulama and Mashaikh Board (AIUMB), a leading body of Sunni Sufi Muslims, urged Sunni Muslims to reject and rebuff hardline Wahabism so that Islam could return to its tolerant Sufi roots
UN urges end to flogging of Maldives women
UN Human Rights chief Navi Pillay has urged the tiny Islamic republic of the Maldives to stop publicly flogging women for having extra-marital sex, a news report said Friday
Muslim that bashed his wife fears he will now be bashed
Waleed Almazyad, who is sponsored by the Saudi Arabian Government to study accountancy in Melbourne, is supposed to adhere to strict sharia law, which bans alcohol
Review for the sake of the child
SCHOLAR Dr Mohamad Sujimon is perturbed when he hears of the National Registration Department's (NRD) move to put tiada maklumat (“no information”) in the father's name in the baby's birth certificate if the baby is born less than six months of the parents' marriage
When women and girls are the enemy
And because of their focus on religious study, most Haredi men do not work, relying instead on social welfare provided by the government, or the income earned by their wives, who also give birth to large numbers of children
Too-white TV must tune in to the real Team Australia
All Saints, a medical drama that ran until late 2009, was spectacularly fictitious. ''How can a show that is based entirely around a hospital have no brown or Asian doctors?''
A modern day clash of civilizations
The proverbial bogeymen of our world - Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Mahmud Ahmadinejad (how curious, all Muslims!) - are clearly meant to act like so many mini-black holes absorbing all our fears. But they won't save the West from its decline, or the former sole superpower from its comeuppance
A Great Nationalist Hero-'Muammar Gaddafi'
There is no electricity bill in Libya; electricity became free for all its citizens in the leadership of Gadaffi. There is no interest on loans, banks in Libya are state-owned and loans given to all its citizens at 0% interest by law. Home considered a human right in Libya –Gaddafi vowed that his parents would not get a house until everyone in Libya had a home. Gaddafi’s father has died while him, his wife and his mother are still living in a tent
Revulsion, Resistance And Angry Words From Tripoli University
“Now the real resistance will begin! The Libyan people are now even surer than they were during this summer that the NTC sold our country to the NATO colonial countries.
Hatred Divides Libya After Gaddafi
On Aug. 15, in what human rights groups are calling reprisal attacks, rebel forces going by the name of 'The Brigade for Purging Slaves, Black Skin' have reportedly detained and displaced hundreds, while other Tawerghans have disappeared without a trace
Gold Coast mosque protest turns ugly with pig's head posted on fence
THE battle to stop a mosque being built in a Gold Coast hinterland estate is turning nasty, with a pig's head posted on a fence and signs publicising the Islamic project vandalised.
Keeping the faith
As the popularly elected school leader of Canberra's St Mary MacKillop College, Adam has found his Muslim faith has opened opportunities for interfaith dialogue
Without honour in his own land
Since the 1960s Chomsky has revealed the connection between US aid and violations of human rights through sponsorship of death squads, military coups, destruction of popular organisations and nationalist movements, torture of resisters, assassination of church leaders and general repression
A Nepali Woman's Ordeal in Saudi Arabia
"I didn't know that man very well," says Bishwokarma, who requested her name be changed. "He used to rape me as many times as he wanted, any given time of the day."
Girl, 16, gets court to halt marriage
A COURT has placed a 16-year-old girl on the airport watch list to prevent an arranged marriage taking place in Lebanon.
Islamic group calls Australia the 'real terrorists'
"The reality is, of course, that the worst terrorist attacks in our times have ... been the likes of the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, wherein the US and her allies have killed hundreds of thousands of innocent people," it said
Crescent Wealth offers Muslims ethical wealth
Australia's first Muslim-managed wealth fund has been launched in Sydney with hopes it will help Australia tap into the trillion-dollar potential of the Islamic world
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On April 9, 1948, Jewish soldiers carried out the slaughter of Deir Yassin in a cold and premeditated fashion, lining men, women and children up against the walls and shooting them - Israeli author, Simha Flapan, in "The Birth of Israel." Images sources: Cornell University, Palestine Think Tank and Carlos Latuff.
"Journalists oftentimes seem unable to tell the difference between the collapse of civilization and a bicycle accident,” - George Bernard Shaw.
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