By SARA BOKKER
I AM an American woman who was born in the midst of America's "Heartland." I grew up, just like any other girl, being fixated with the glamour of life in "the big city." Eventually, I moved to Florida and on to South Beach of Miami, a hotspot for those seeking the "glamorous life." [...]
MUSLIM states said on Wednesday that what they call "islamophobia" is sweeping the West and its media and demanded that the United Nations take tougher action against it.
Delegates from Islamic countries, including Pakistan and Egypt, told the United Nations Human Rights Council that treatment of Muslims in Western countries amounted to racism and discrimination and [...]
By DR. AHMED SHOKER
CIC Friday Magazine
QUEBEC Premier Jean Charest's government recently announced its commitment to secularism and gender equality and proposed legislation (Bill 94) that essentially bans the niqab -- a face veil worn by a very few Muslim women -- from all government bodies.
Under common Islamic interpretations, however, this bill is unnecessary and the [...]
PARIS -France's highest administrative body warned Tuesday that a total prohibition on full-body Islamic veils in public risks being found unconstitutional in a setback to President Nicolas Sarkozy's goal of an all-out ban.
Even a limited ban on the full-body veil would be difficult to enforce, the Council of State said in a study of the [...]
ABU YAHYA
A MUSLIM sister was recently expelled from a French language course for the second time in Quebec for wearing the niqab. Western countries preach the right of personal freedom yet when faced with accommodating Muslims, they renege on the very principals upon which their society was built. Using only Islam as the basis, we [...]
By ABDUSSALAM PUTHIGE
THE daily, Kannada Prabha (Kannada language, Karnataka, India) carried an article titled ‘Purda hai Purda’ in its magazine section on 28th February 2010. It was an article originally authored by Tasleema Nasreen and translated to Kannada by Sindhu. The article was full of provocative element and derogatory remarks against many Muslim beliefs, practices [...]
Following article is written by a Jewish Scholar from Los Angeles, first published in Jewish Journal. We are reproducing the article here to compare his stand (opposing the ban on burqa) with Sheikh Mohammad Sayed Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University and Maulana Waheeduddin Khan, self-acclaimed Islamic Scholar of India who supported the burqa ban [...]
SATAN inspired hate monger Dutch MP, Geert Wilders is due to screen his controversial anti-Quran movie in the British House of Lords next month. Wilders has accepted an invitation from Lord Pearson of Rannoch to screen his film 'Fitna' on March 5.
'Fitna' is a 17-minute anti-Quran movie which features quotations from the Quran interspersed with [...]
LA County Nonpartisan Examiner Carl Herman
The US Senate Church Committee disclosed in 1975 that more than over 400 government propagandists had infiltrated American corporate media to manipulate public opinion on key policies, including war. CIA Director William Colby testified that Operation Mockingbird had been operational since the late 1940s to control what was reported through [...]
CALGARY: When you want to relax or take a much-needed vacation, do you search for the solace of a pristine lake or secluded cabin — or do you head for the city? Does your city, like nature, have a soul?
These were the questions posed by Bill Phipps, a retired reverend from Calgary who was in [...]
