In a world first, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses Hitler’s Germany as a positive role model for his constitutional reforms By Richard Spencer, Middle East Editor Turkey’s controversial President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sparked mockery and condemnation by defending new powers he wants to give himself as being similar to Adolf Hitler’s. In a statement that surprised even his critics, […]
by Vikram Sood It is unfortunate that Naseeruddin Shah feels the way he does about our behaviour towards each other; or that Aamir Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan are deliberately asked questions that amount to them having to re-assert their Indianness. These are national icons who have excelled in their profession, done India proud and have access and […]
by Majid Nawaz ‘World Hijab Day’ is worse than passé. It’s time to make the veil a matter of choice in Iran and Saudi Arabia, for starters. Many of my fellow Muslims have been encouraging non-Muslim women to wear a headscarf in solidarity with Muslims. They call it “World Hijab Day.” Constrained by the limited horizons of their Western context, […]
By Khaled Ahmad India and Pakistan are finally moving to treating each other normally after a period of baring their ugly narratives. Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, rightwing-religious all his life, sought “tactical contrast” with Prime Minister Narendra Modi when he went to Karachi on Diwali on November 11, to be among the Hindus he hadn’t given much thought to before. […]
Anthropologists say religious ties did not bind early societies together as had earlier been thought Caroline Mortimer Religious conflict has been dividing human society for more than 2,000 years, scientists say. A new anthropological study of several Mexican archaeological sites dating back to 700BC has appeared to contradict a long-held belief that religion united early state societies. In fact, researchers from […]
In recent days, there have been shows of religious solidarity with Muslims made all around the country — even in a Chicago high school, where female students recently participated in a “Walk a Mile in Her Hijab” initiative. But two prominent Muslim women, in an Op-Ed for The Washington Post, are asking American women to refrain from such displays of […]
By Michael Kugelman Taliban gunmen stormed a military-run school in Peshawar a year ago and, during a rampage that involved taking 500 children hostage, killed more than 140 people. Since that massacre, the Pakistani military has intensified its campaign against the Taliban. The good news is that terrorist violence in Pakistan has decreased, and civilian deaths from terrorism are down about 50%. […]
By Alexandra Sims The Qatar-based news network, Al-Jazeera, has prevented an article slamming human rights in Saudi Arabia from being viewed outside the US. The article, titled “Saudi Arabia Uses Terrorism as an Excuse for Human Rights Abuses” and published on Al-Jazeera America’s website on 3 December, cites reports 50 people are intended to be executed for alleged terrorist crimes, […]
By Dana Kennedy The border that terrorists are most likely to cross into the United States is not the one with Mexico, but Canada. Ignore growing Muslim fundamentalism and extremism in Canada at your peril. That’s the message an increasingly vocal number of moderate and secular Canadian Muslims and counterterrorism experts want to send to the United States and the […]
Mohammad Hanif KARACHI, Pakistan — I worry about Muslims. Islam teaches me to care about all human beings, and animals too, but life is short and I can’t even find enough time to worry about all the Muslims. I don’t worry too much about the Muslims who face racial slurs in Europe and America, the ones who are suspected of […]
Mohammad Taqi The Heart of Asia Conference (HOAC) in Islamabad last week was bookended by two devastating attacks in Kandahar and Kabul. As Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was being honoured with a 21-gun salute in Islamabad, the Taliban were in the midst of a 20-hour-long assault on Kandahar airport that killed at least 54. And before the ink dried on […]
By Guy Adams for the Daily Mail Inside Britain’s Sharia courts: There are now EIGHTY-FIVE Islamic courts dispensing ‘justice’ across the UK. This investigation into what really goes on behind their doors will shock you to the core Sitting in one room, a young Muslim woman tells an elderly cleric about the parlous state of her marriage to a 50-year-old […]
by Junaid A. Malik Being a student of Islamic theology for last two decades, I can categorically tell you that ideology (Islam) cannot be amended or reformed. The only way of securing the world and our societies from radical or extremist version of Islam is to dis-empower the clergy, promote and strengthen secular values. I have heard several statements from […]
Maryam Namazie calls for re-evaluation of policies after being threatened while giving a talk on freedom of expression by Rachael Pells Rules protecting university students from abuse on campus are being used to stifle freedom of expression, a human rights activist has warned. Maryam Namazie has called for a re-evaluation of “safe-space” policies after she was threatened by student protesters while giving […]
By Kashif N. Chaudhry I am a Pakistani immigrant to the United States. With the recent rise of Islamophobia here in America, we Pakistanis have suddenly become experts on minority rights. My social media timelines are filled with my friends urging the West to accommodate Syrian refugees escaping persecution, and be more accepting of pluralism. I also see them condemning […]
By Anila Athar An English colleague at work asked me one morning what I thought about pigs. I was a bit surprised as it wasn’t one of the usual questions we generally ask each other in the office. Hmm, err… It’s an animal like other animals…Why? I asked her. Her response had us both in stitches. Thank goodness we […]
By Farzana Hassan Al-Huda Canada, the Mississauga branch of a worldwide net of Al-Huda Institutes across the globe, has no known links to extremist organizations. Perhaps that explains the shock expressed over San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik’s links to Al-Huda’s chapter in Multan, Pakistan. However, I am not surprised for the simple reason that conservative Islam is a package […]
by Khaled Ahmed An Islamic School not in Islamabad, Kabul or Cairo, but right here in Toronto. These are the future mothers of Canada/West-hating fanatics, being nurtured right under out nose.The picture is that of a classroom in the Al-Huda Islamic School for women set up by one Farhat Hashmi who entered Canada under a controversial visa and has now […]
by Jamie Palmer By supporting fundamentalists, the Left simply chooses one camp in a political struggle without acknowledging it. ♦ Maryam Namazie, a trenchant campaigner against religious fundamentalism, made this observation last week during a fraught lecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. It would turn out to be pertinent. Namazie’s appearance at Goldsmiths was causing trouble before the event had […]
ISIS announced on radio that the couple were followers of the terror group President Obama insisted today that the U.S. ‘will not be terrorized’ The first photograph of the woman behind the San Bernardino massacre, Tashfeen Malik, 27, finally surfaced on Friday It was revealed as family claimed she wore a burka and didn’t speak to male relatives The FBI […]
