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Tajikistan: Government party claims crushing win as Islamic opposition cries foul

Tajikistan’s governing party maintains its monolithic control over the legislature, bolstering the president’s grip on power and provoking cries of foul play from the Islamic opposition. Authorities in ex-Soviet Central Asia’s poorest (...)

9 Mar. 2010 | | CA Reporter

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Iranian Protests for Democracy is a Cry for Freedom Across the Muslim World

Tehran, Iran- Demonstrations in Iran continue a little over a week after the mass protests the occurred throughout Iran on the Shiite festival of Ashura as protestors defy the government’s crackdown on dissent. It appears that for the first time (...)

11 Jan. 2010 | | Manzer Munir

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Minaret Moment

I know, how difficult it is, to reply to self-conscious US opinionmakers when Europe is at stake. Yesterday, the liberal New York Times published an opinion, called Europe’s Minaret Moment, by somebody called Ross Douthat. He has read Christopher (...)

8 Dec. 2009 | 1 comment | Huib Riethof

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Minarets no more?

The world of political correctness has set its sights on a new target: Switzerland. Following the Swiss referendum on banning minarets, which was supported by a vast majority of Swiss voters, people outside the country, most prominently in North America, (...)

8 Dec. 2009 | 2 comments | Werner Patels

Europe

Neutrality be Damned- Switzerland’s Ban on Minarets Seen as a Violation of Freedom of Religion

Geneva, Switzerland- In a referendum sen across Europe and much of the world as a strong rebuke of the perceived Islamization of the continent, Swiss voters on Sunday passed a bill that bans the construction of new minarets for mosques inside Switzerland. (...)

1 Dec. 2009 | | Manzer Munir

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Pat Robertson’s anti-Islam remarks put new Virginia Governor-elect McDonnell in a tough spot

Virginia Beach, Virginia USA- Rev Pat Robertson is coming under fire by Virginia Muslims and others nationally including several Christian and Jewish organizations regarding his recent comments about Islam when discussing the Fort Hood tragedy on his Tv (...)

20 Nov. 2009 | | Manzer Munir

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KSM, New York City and My Growing Isolationism

680 miles. That’s how far I drove on Friday between our house outside of Philadelphia and our future hometown of Charleston, South Carolina. That’s also the distance between Karachi, Pakistan and Kabul, Afghanistan. And, interestingly enough, (...)

16 nov. 2009 | | Jeff Schreiber

Society

31 Jul. 2009 | | Esther

Politics

House Dems Carry Islamists’ Water

By Steven Emerson. Seven House Democrats have written Attorney General Eric Holder invoking a list of grievances from radical Islamist groups and asking that Holder meet with representatives from those groups to hear their concerns, the Investigative (...)

29 Jul. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

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Sarkozy, Hyperactivity and the Burqah

It is hard to like Nikolas Sarkozy. Very hard. Even if he was not the French president and just an ordinary man - for any man, to meet him walking down any street would be intimidating : his arrogance, his demeanor and that swagger, combined, would be (...)

29 jui. 2009 | | Moments In Words From Hadhramout

Local News

Jihad in Jersey City ?

The shooting of five police officers in Jersey City, leading to the death of one, appeared in a new light to me after I read a gently worded NY Times article yesterday that, typical of the Times, buried the lead. The article focused on Amanda Anderson, (...)

28 jui. 2009 | | Kesher Talk

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Hizb ut-Tahrir In America: Preaching Hate, Building A Caliphate

Hizb ut-Tahrir, (HT) the pro-jihadist organization meeting this weekend in suburban Chicago, has been waging a below-the-radar campaign to recruit Americans for decades. While HT (the "Party of Liberation") says it is committed to advancing (...)

20 Jul. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

People

Michael Jackson, Islam and the Middle East

Michael Jackson’s sad death at age 50 has provoked an outpouring of emotion around the whole world. Because of globalization, it is an event that affects fans in Asia and the Middle East, as well. In early 2007, his brother Jermaine, a Muslim, (...)

26 jui. 2009 | | Juan Cole

International

Copenhague: Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders reveals himself as an ethnic cleanser...

Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders was interviewed in Danish television last Sunday. What he says, boils down to a call for an ethnic cleansing of Europe. Listen to his statements here. In short: There are too many people from Muslim descent in Europe (...)

16 Jun. 2009 | 7 comments | Huib Riethof

Society

Oslo, Norway: Queen visits mosque

Never before had a member of the Norwegian royal family visited a Norwegian mosque. but yesterday Queen Sonja visited the mosque of the Islamic Cultural Centre Norway (ICCN) in Grønland in Oslo. The Queen toured the mosque and looked at old, handwritten (...)

27 May. 2009 | | Esther

International

Gouda: Moroccan parents, mosques unable to deal with problem youth

Mosques and Moroccan parents aren’t able to solve the problems with Moroccan youth in Gouda (Netherlands), and it is wrong to look to them, says Mohammed Mohandis, Labor Party councillor. He says that the gap between the parents and group of (...)

19 May. 2009 | | Esther

International

EU: More Turkish school dropouts in Netherlands/Belgium

The large number of school dropouts among second generation Turkish youth is not a general European problem, but rather typical for the Netherlands and Germany. Countries such as Belgium, Switzerland, Sweden and France are better at keeping vulnerable (...)

12 May. 2009 | | Esther

Politics

MAS’ Esam Omeish Seeks Virginia Office

Campaign Mum on MAS Ties, Radical Omeish Speeches. The last time the public got a good look at Esam Omeish, he was resigning from a Virginia immigration panel, claiming that the posting of videos showing him praising Palestinians who chose "the jihad (...)

5 May. 2009 | | The Investigative Project on Terrorism

International

Obama’s First Hundred Days in the Greater Middle East

The hundred day benchmark for journalists sizing up a new administration is probably inappropriate on foreign affairs, which are complicated and move slowly. Still, we can assess the changes in approach and tone between the Obama administration and its (...)

28 avr. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Society

Netherlands: Dutch feel better about immigration, think freedom of religion should be limited

Less and less Dutch have problems with immigrants. Currently 35% think the Netherlands would be a nicer country if there would be less immigrants. At the end of last year 41% shared this opinion. This according to a survey by the Social and Cultural (...)

28 Apr. 2009 | | Esther

Comment

Democracy and the Muslim world : the “post-Islamist” turn

An old argument over the compatibility of Islam and democracy is being transformed under the influence of new social and intellectual currents. The external advocates of democracy in the Muslim world should take note. By Asef Bayat. The debate about the (...)

13 mar. 2009 | | openDemocracy

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The Manifestation of Mercy and Dialogue between Christianity and Islam in Real Life

This is a speech delivered at San Paolo Oratorio in Rome in an encounter between Christians and Muslims organized by the Focolare International Movement for a United World, 07 February 2009. The Manifestation of Mercy and Dialogue between Christianity and (...)

10 Feb. 2009 | | Mohammed Hashas

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Islam and Christianity in an Ongoing Dialogue: The City as a Space for Brotherhood

Islam and Christianity in an Ongoing Dialogue The City as a Space for Brotherhood Mohammed Hashas Rome, 20 October 2008 The conference on ‘Islam-Christianity: Love and Mercy in Coran and the Bible,’ called for mainly by the (...)

14 Nov. 2008 | | Mohammed Hashas

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Free-speechers and their less-than-concealed bigotry

Traumatic events can trigger a lot of different responses in people. This is also what happened after the horrific terror attacks on 9/11 and 7/7, which gave rise to widespread anti-Muslim and anti-Islam sentiment. Such bigotry and racism is easily (...)

10 nov. 2008 | 10 comments | Werner Patels

Society

Dogma of Halal and Haram

If you walk at random in any Muslim district in Europe, you will certainly find somewhere, at least in one corner, an Islamic butchery with the word ”halal” written on its shop-window. For the products of meat, the word “halal” is (...)

16 Oct. 2008 | | Jahanshah Rashidian

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Steyn Alone

The Ontario Human Rights Commission has dropped the complaint against author Mark Steyn and Maclean’s magazine. The complaint was baloney from the start anyway. For those who have been under a rock for the last few months, a human-rights complaint (...)

14 Apr. 2008 | 1 comment | Werner Patels

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