Sunday January 6, 2008
Islam: Islam: Alongside these developments, there has been a worldwide resurgence of the ideology of Islamic extremism. One of the results of this has been to further alienate the young from the nation in which they were growing up and also to turn already separate communities into “no-go” areas where adherence to this ideology has become a mark of acceptability.
Friday January 4, 2008
Islam: Tunisia, which became independent from France in 1956, has long presented itself as a European-oriented secular bastion in the Middle East. Its first president, Habib Bourguiba, used the “odious rag” term for the hijab, as the veil is called, because he viewed it as a hindrance to progress.
Thursday January 3, 2008
Female Genital Mutilation • Human Rights Violations • Islam: Most people will be unfamiliar with this practice, which involves removing part or all of the clitoris, the surrounding labia (the outer part of the vagina) and sometimes the sewing up of the vagina, leaving only a small opening for urine and menstrual blood.
Islam: When teaching Holocaust studies to Dutch Muslim teenagers in Amsterdam, Mustafa Daher says he first has to defuse his pupils’ own hostility toward Jews and Israel. “If I don’t capture their interest, then I have done nothing. So I use the rising Islamophobia to help them connect to the persecution of the Jews,” the seasoned educator says.
Tuesday January 1, 2008
Homosexuality / Lesbianism / Bisexuality / Transgenderism • Islam: European Muslims, so often portrayed one-dimensionally as rioters, honor killers or terrorists, live diverse lives, most of them trying to get by and to have a good time. That is more difficult if one is both Muslim and gay.
Friday December 28, 2007
Islam: A Malaysian Hindu woman has failed in an attempt to stop her husband – a new convert to Islam – divorcing her in an Islamic court.
Islam: Terrorism experts say radical groups are targeting teenagers as young as 14.
Thursday December 27, 2007
Islam • Religious Insanity: More religious insanity from the, er, ‘religion of peace’: Umm Doha cuts hair and waxes eyebrows in secret from her living room because making women look pretty can get a person killed in her Sunni-dominated Baghdad neighborhood.
Islam: From the give-us-a-break department: Dutch government firework safety ads featuring a spoof Islamist terrorist group have been criticised as insensitive and depicting a negative stereotype of the Muslim community.
Islam: Muslim leaders have sparked outrage with plans to broadcast the Islamic call to prayer over the roof-tops of one of Britain’s most historic cities.
Tuesday December 25, 2007
Islam: The sparing of these women was very welcome news, of course, and it was not coincidental that each case had triggered an international furor. But for every “Qatif girl” or Nazanin who is saved, there are far too many other Muslim girls and women for whom deliverance never comes.
Islam: The mosque took its decision after advice from imams and scholars at the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), who carried out a full review of Islamic teaching on dogs.
Friday December 21, 2007
Islam: The Muslim scholar says he believed he was giving to a group that helped education and orphanages. The U.S. government says the organization aided terrorism, so those contributions were grounds to keep scholar Tariq Ramadan out of the country.
Islam: A Catholic weekly newspaper in Malaysia has been told to drop the use of the word “Allah” in its Malay language section if it wants to renew its publishing permit, a senior government official said Friday.
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