Ramadan 2010, USA-style, includes streaming footage of Friday prayer sermons as Muslims seek to counter rising anti-Islamic sentiment. Saudi Arabia unveils a new clock, while Morocco makes do with makeshift tents after 1,256 mosques were closed. By Christa Case Bryant, Staff writer Christian Science Monitor – August 11, 2010 Jerusalem Ramadan 2010 USA started Wednesday as Muslims [...]
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Ramadan goes hi-tech with phone apps to help Muslims fast and pray
Ramadan apps lets believers browse the Qur’an and ensures they are facing Mecca at prayer time Haroon Siddique guardian.co.uk – 11 August 2010 As millions of Muslims around the world began observing the holy month of Ramadan today, modern technology has stepped in to help them through the 30 days of fasting. Perhaps inevitably, applications [...]
Rachid Bouchareb: my film about the 7/7 London bombings
How do you turn the July 7 London bombings into a film? Director Rachid Bouchareb tells Stuart Jeffries how it all started with two unlikely leads Stuart Jeffries guardian.co.uk – 6 July 2010 The shoot should have been a disaster. The male lead was dying and wore an oxygen mask between takes. The female lead [...]
“I Consider Myself … a Muslim Soldier.”Cause and Effect in the War on Terror
By Glenn Greenwald Salon.com – June 22, 2010 American discussions about what causes Terrorists to do what they do are typically conducted by ignoring the Terrorist’s explanation for why he does what he does. Yesterday, Faisal Shahzad pleaded guilty in a New York federal court to attempting to detonate a car bomb in Times Square, and this [...]
UKIP makes ‘ban the burka’ call
See video: Lord Pearson on 5 live Breakfast phone-in http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/election_2010/8659445.stm The leader of UKIP has said the Islamic veil, the burka, should be banned as it represents fear and is a security risk. Speaking in a phone-in on BBC 5 live, Lord Pearson said there was a “problem” within Islam because some people used the [...]
French Muslims feel victimised amid veil ban row
Bullets fired at mosque, halal butcher amid ‘rise of racism and Islamophobia’ in France. Middle East Online – 30 April 2010 PARIS – Muslims in France say the government’s plan to fine women for wearing the veil is one in a string of political ploys that stigmatise them and pander to anti-Islamic prejudice.
World of Islam children’s books spark protest from US Muslims
Council on American-Islamic Relations complains Muslims are portrayed as violent in series by foreign policy thinktank Associated Press guardian.co.uk – 17 March 2010 Protesters feel that the books indicate that Muslims are something American society should be wary of. A series of US children’s textbooks on Islam contains misleading and inflammatory rhetoric about the religion, [...]
Muslims Are Their Own Worst Enemy
Divisions among Muslims, especially between Sunni and Shiites, have consigned the Muslim Middle East to almost a century of Western control. Muslim disunity has made it possible for Israel to dispossess the Palestinians, and for the US to invade Iraq, threaten Iran and rule much of the region, notes Paul Craig Roberts. Middle East Online [...]
Islamist ‘march’ group to be banned
By Jack Doyle, Press Association Independent - 12 January 2010 The Islamist group which provoked outrage with its plan to march through Wootton Bassett will be banned, Home Secretary Alan Johnson announced today. The order will come into effect on Thursday and make it a criminal offence to be a member, punishable by up to 10 [...]
China ramps up anti-terror fight in Muslim region
Police in China’s far west ratchet up anti-terrorism drive, hunt alleged riot suspects AP News – 03 November 2009 Police in China’s far west have launched a crackdown on terrorism and stepped up a hunt for suspects who took part in deadly ethnic riots there four months ago, the regional public security ministry said Tuesday.
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