Saturday, 19 December 2015

News around the Muslim World and more . . . From Thursday 17 Dec to Sunday 20 Dec, 2015


                                                                         


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NEWS
The Tennessean

Panelists want closer look at Islam in schools
Tennessee schools are teaching an inaccurate and incomplete story of Islam, a message that has gained traction statewide in recent months.
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Chicago Tribune

The Battle Within Islam and President Obama
And when President Obama says that we are not at war with Islam, he is implicitly acknowledging to the public thatIslam does have something to with ...
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Chicago Tribune


Despite Anti-Islam Rhetoric, Wisconsin Muslim Congregations Find Local Support
Despite a reported increase in anti-Islamic incidents in the U.S., leaders in Wisconsin's Islamic community say they feel safe and are getting support ...
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Crux: Covering all things Catholic

Anti-Christian persecution isn't all aboutIslam
A woman held her child as she stood outside her house in the Dalit Christian village of Bhaddi Kheda in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh in ...
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The Guardian

CNSNews.com (blog)

Rev. Graham: Islam Is Not Compatible With American Values
Noting how Islamic law, sharia, contrasts with the U.S. Constitution and how women are treated under sharia, Rev. Franklin Graham said he did not ...
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The One Phrase at the GOP Debate That Could Undermine the Fight Against ISIS
Among the most common phrases spoken at the Republican presidential debate on Tuesday, "radical Islam" has ranked at the top. And there's a ...
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Morning briefing: Despite anti-Islam rhetoric, Wisconsin Muslim congregations find local support
Take a look at the stories from around our area and world that are making news today. Despite anti-Islam rhetoric, Wisconsin Muslim congregations ...

CNN

Watching the GOP debate through Muslim eyes
(CNN) The room grew tense before Donald Trump spoke, as the American Muslims who had gathered to watch Tuesday's GOP debate collectively ...
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Washington Post

How should schools respond to anti-Muslim actions against students?
The call by Donald Trump, the presumed frontrunner in the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, to ban Muslim immigrants for an ...
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Breitbart News

TIME

Kimmel Tells Trump His Muslim Ban Is 'Un-American'
Wednesday night, Donald Trump defended his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. after the host suggested the idea was ...
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CNN

The Federalist

Perfect: 'You Ain't No Muslim' Guy Now Afraid Of Being Killed By Muslims
A British man shouted, “You ain't no Muslim, bruv!” at a terrorist. What happened next won't exactly blow your mind. In my recent list of tropes for the ...
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Business Insider

Washington Post

Muslim judge sworn in on Koran in New York
The Daily News reported that Walker-Diallo was elected last month in her district, but is not the first Muslim judge to serve in the state. In 2013, Sheila ...
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National Geographic

Muslim Council Issues Fatwa Against Poaching
In November, the fatwa council in Terengganu, a state in northeastern Malaysia, issued one that prohibits the state's approximate 970,000 Muslim ...

Fox News

'They don't speak for me': New Muslim groups reject CAIR representation
Muslims Facing Tomorrow is one of more than a dozen moderate Islamic groups from the U.S., Canada and European countries that have joined the ...
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Twitchy

TIME

Violence Against Muslim Women Is Racist and Misogynist
Larycia Hawkins, a Christian who is wearing a hijab over Advent in solidarity with Muslims Chicago Tribune—TNS via Getty Images Larycia Hawkins, ...
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New York Times

Crimes Against Muslim Americans and Mosques Rise Sharply
WASHINGTON — Hate crimes against Muslim Americans and Islamic mosques across the United States have tripled in the wake of the terrorist ...
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CBS News

Millennial Muslims address backlash after San Bernardino attacks
Donald Trump's proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S., and the attack in San Bernardino, have many of America's five million ...
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BBC News


New York Post

Be worried about Muslim judge's liberal agenda, not her religion
From the reaction, one would think this woman was advocating for human sacrifice, not sending a loud and proud message about her Muslim faith.
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Reuters

After California shootings, MuslimAmerican families struggle with identity
Someone might want to hurt their mother, she explained to them, because the head scarf easily identifies her asMuslim. "Now I have to have these ...
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Minneapolis Star Tribune

Trump's Muslim Ban: What Americans Really Think
Donald Trump created an uproar when he suggested that United States implement a “total and complete shutdown” of Muslims entering the United ...


Islam is not ISIS
Last February, Sayed Hadi Qazwini, an Arab-AmericanIslamic educator, Imam, and adjunct professor of Islamic studies, posted this cartoon on Twitter.
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Virginia schools shut over Islam homework
After a teacher at a Virginia school handed out a standard homework assignment on Islam, such an angry backlash flooded in that it prompted officials ...

Washington Post

Saying 'radical Islam' has nothing to do with defeating terrorism
“Radical Islamic terrorism.” Apparently, the phrase — if you can actually say it — has mystical powers. At Tuesday's Republican debate, the candidates ...
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Breitbart News

Geller: UK Chief Rabbi Says Teach Islam in Jewish Schools
British Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis recommended Wednesday that Jewish schools in the United Kingdom teach — Islam. “It is more important than ...

TheBlaze.com

'Islam Is a Doctrine Spawned in Hell': Pastor Fights Back in Court After Being Charged for Fiery ...
McConnell continued, “Islam's ideas about God, about humanity, about salvation are vastly different from the teaching of the holy scriptures. Islam is ...
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cleveland.com

Backlash over Islam assignment leads Virginia school district to cancel classes
Backlash over a calligraphy lesson with involved copying the Islamic statement of faith in Arabic has resulted in a Virginia school district canceling ...


County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam ... to close schools after parental objections to a world geography lesson that included Islam.
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Augusta County, VA - Virginia County Closes Schools After Controversial Islam Homework
Augusta County, VA - Schools in Augusta County, Virginia, were shut down as a safety precaution on Friday after a homework assignment on Islam ...
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County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam ... Video: The Struggle for Islam ... UN adopts resolution to disrupt Islamic State funds.
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County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
VERONA, Va. (AP) — Security concerns have prompted officials in a Virginia county to close schools after parental objections to a world geography ...
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Muslims, Islam, and the Koran Are Not the Problem
One of the most fascinating aspects to the post-9/11 “war on terrorism” is the fixation of American statists on Muslims, Islam, and the Koran.
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Growing Number of Russian Converts to Islam Joining Insurgents at Home and Abroad
Khasiev (a. k. a. Yevgeny Yudin), an ethnic-Russian convert to Islam, came from the Ural region in Russia, while Zemlyanka came from the Siberian ...
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Islam 2.0
Islam 2.0. Secure Freedom Radio Podcasts | December 17, 2015 ... Dr. ZUHDI JASSER, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for ...
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Parents upset over high school lesson involving Islam
(AP) -- Parents expressed concern during a community forum over a high school world geography lesson that involved Islam. Some parents were ...

WEB

Indonesia confronts extremists with own brand of Islam
Indonesia's largest Muslim organization is launching a media offensive against terrorism, with a documentary on the country's "harmonious" Islamic ...
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My islam
Add-ons for Mobile · Dictionaries & Language Packs · Search Tools · Developer Hub · Add-ons for Firefox · Themes; My islam. My islam. by nurtika ...
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Christian college professor on leave after Islam comments
The college said in a statement Tuesday that it placed her on leave because of statements she made on social media about similarities between Islam ...
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Democrats say Radical Jihadists / GOP says Radical Islam
The GOP should stop trying to paint the Democrats as soft just because they won't say "Radical Islam". Everyone is fighting the radicals, without ...
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Islam
On 12 and 13 December, Nigerian government troops clashed with members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN). Their battle in the city of Zaria ...

Trump Claims To Have Muslim Friends*, Some Of Whom Support* His Racist Immigration Plan
As Jimmy Kimmel puts it, any of these quote unquote friends of Trump might have actually been prank callers.
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Malala Responds to Trump's Muslim Comments
(NEWSER) – Donald Trump's call for a "total and complete shutdown ofMuslims" coming into the US has prompted heated reaction from the Muslim 

Brave Michael Moore Holds Sign: 'We Are All Muslim'
On Wednesday, liberal documentary activist Michael Moore announced that he had gone down to Trump Tower in New York and held up a sign ...
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Muslim Brotherhood review: main findings
In April 2014, the Prime Minister commissioned an internal review of the MuslimBrotherhood, including its origins, ideology, record in and out of ...
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Trump's Image Didn't Take a Hit After Muslim Ban Proposal
Donald Trump's image among Americans has trended slightly up, not down, after his Dec. 7 statement that the U.S. should prevent Muslims from ...
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American Muslims speak out
When United States Republican party presidential candidate Donald Trump proposed a ban on Muslims entering the US, American Muslims felt ...
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Malala Blasts Trump's Muslim Immigration Comments as 'Full of Htred'
Apparently Ms. Yousafzai doesn't see it that way, calling Trump's proposal to temporarily halt Muslim-immigration to the U.S. while our terror-threats ...
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JACL Stands with Asian American Leaders to Rally Against Anti-Muslim Hate
PRESS RELEASE Contact: Priscilla Ouchida, Executive Director,pouchida@jacl.org. Washington, D.C. – Over sixty leaders from the Asian American ...

County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam ... to close schools after parental objections to a world geography lesson that included Islam.
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Augusta County, VA - Virginia County Closes Schools After Controversial Islam Homework
Augusta County, VA - Schools in Augusta County, Virginia, were shut down as a safety precaution on Friday after a homework assignment on Islam ...
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County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam ... Video: The Struggle for Islam ... UN adopts resolution to disrupt Islamic State funds.
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County closes schools over response to lesson on Islam
VERONA, Va. (AP) — Security concerns have prompted officials in a Virginia county to close schools after parental objections to a world geography ...
Google PlusFacebookTwitterFlag as irrelevant

Muslims, Islam, and the Koran Are Not the Problem
One of the most fascinating aspects to the post-9/11 “war on terrorism” is the fixation of American statists on Muslims, Islam, and the Koran.
Google PlusFacebookTwitterFlag as irrelevant

Growing Number of Russian Converts to Islam Joining Insurgents at Home and Abroad
Khasiev (a. k. a. Yevgeny Yudin), an ethnic-Russian convert to Islam, came from the Ural region in Russia, while Zemlyanka came from the Siberian ...
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Islam 2.0
Islam 2.0. Secure Freedom Radio Podcasts | December 17, 2015 ... Dr. ZUHDI JASSER, Founder and President of the American Islamic Forum for ...
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Parents upset over high school lesson involving Islam
(AP) -- Parents expressed concern during a community forum over a high school world geography lesson that involved Islam. Some parents were ...

BLOGS

Christian convert from Islam: terrorists
Tahar, a truck driver, born in France in 1963, is the son of an imam, married to a practicing Muslim and father of four small children. In 1982 he ...