Saturday, 6 February 2016

News around the Muslim World and more . . . to Saturday 6 Feb, 2016

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A US President's first visit to a mosque.

Girl's education in Pakistan.


Israel's unwanted African migrants.


Nicky Morgan orders review on home schooling amid fears children having minds 'poisoned' by radicalised parents


Do black lives matter to the US Jews?


NEWS
Reuters
Arab News
Experts to discuss 'mercy in Islam'
RIYADH: An international conference on “Mercy in Islam” will take place in the capital on Sunday. Top scholars from 27 Muslim countries will ...
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Raw Story
New Hampshire Repub's anti-Islamrant: Offering public assistance to Muslims is 'treason'
A New Hampshire Republican lawmaker launched into an anti-Muslim rant on Wednesday while defending a bill he said would allow the state to cut ...
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Voice of America
Survey: Americans Split on Attitudes Toward Islam, Extremism
A new survey revealed a sharp difference between Democrats and Republicans on how the next president of the United States should discuss Islamic ...
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TODAYonline
Differences in Islam play role in refugee crisis, says Miliband
LONDON (Reuters) – Civil wars crippling many Muslim states and fuelling a global refugee crisis are driven in part by major struggles within Islam that ...
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NBC Connecticut
SCSU's Forum on Islam Draws Hundreds
Southern Connecticut State's Forum on Islam this afternoon drew some 200 people, some more familiar with Islamic customs than others, but all aware ...
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The National
Why Jaish Al Islam and Ahrar Al Sham are at the heart of Geneva squabbles
Jaish Al Islam's former leader Zahran Alloush spoke of Alawites and Shiites in derogatory terms and at times advocated that they be cleansed from ...
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Breitbart News
Iraqi Journalist Dispels Myth thatIslamic State Has No Ties to Islam
Iraqi journalist Fadel Boula challenged the claim that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadi organizations have no relationship to Islam, in an article ...
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FrontPage Magazine
Obama: " We Can't Suggest thatIslam is at the Root of the Problem"
"Let's start with this fact: For more than a thousand years, people have been drawn toIslam's message of peace," Obama declared in a mosque ...
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The Siasat Daily
Phantom Thread of Islam in the Fabric of America: Part 2
If Muslims and their religious-political system ofIslam were intrinsically involved in the founding, growth, and spectacular success of the United States, ...

TIME
fox13now.com
President Obama compares anti-Muslim rhetoric to historic persecution of Mormons
During his first visit to a mosque in the United States while in office, President Barack Obama compared the anti-Muslim rhetoric to the historic ...
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New York Daily News
Wisconsin Firm Terminates Muslim Workers in Prayer Dispute
The company — based in Brillion, about 90 miles north of Milwaukee — initially allowed the Muslim employees to leave their work stations a third time ...
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The Guardian
Prevent strategy 'sowing mistrust and fear in Muslim communities'
The Al-Jamia Suffa-Tul-Islam mosque in Bradford. David Anderson said Prevent was being applied in an insensitive or discriminatory manner.
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Yahoo Parenting
Muslim Teen Defies Tradition to Become First Hijab-Wearing Ballerina
With a dream of becoming the first hijab-wearingMuslim ballerina, 14-year-old Stephanie Kurlow recently launched a fundraising page in the hopes of ...
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fox8.com
President Obama rebuts anti-Muslimrhetoric in first U.S. mosque visit
“Muslim Americans keep up safe,” Obama told the audience, crediting the contributions Muslimshave made to communities. “They are our police.
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TPM
Obama blasts 'inexcusable' anti-Muslim political rhetoric
US President Barack Obama on Wednesday slammed what he called “inexcusable” anti-Muslim rhetoric in the political sphere — a veiled jibe at ...
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Christian Broadcasting Network
Dramatic Increase in MuslimAmerians Involved in Terrorism Cases in 2015
The number of Muslim Americans involved in terrorism cases "rose dramatically" in 2015 according to a new terrorism study. In his seventh annual ...
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Reuters UK
'Implosion' in Muslim world fuelling refugee crisis - Miliband
This "implosion" in many Muslim-majority countries has forced people from their homes in "unheard-of" numbers, said Miliband, now head of the New ...



TheBlaze.com
Telegraph.co.uk
What happens if you express a negative view of Islam? Ask Tommy Robinson
"It's notable just how much of Tommy's views about Islam are a result of his upbringing in Luton, and the troubles between Muslim and white youth".
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VICE News
Leaving Islam (Trailer)
Around the world, people who leave the faith of Islam face state persecution, imprisonment, torture, and even execution, as well as violence, death ...
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Daily Mail
Melbourne anti-Islam protester defends fellow activists eating halal kebabs
An anti-halal campaigner has admitted to eating kebabs and says they taste 'f***en awesome at 3am' after pictures emerged of a fellow anti-Islam ...
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Pravda
Toronto Sun
The Diplomat
The New Threat to Islam in India
A growing number of mosques, madrasas and educational institutions are funded by Saudi Arabia, and the rising number of followers ofIslamic sects ...
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KTAR.com
Arizona lawmakers want to prevent spread of radical Islam
FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida linked IslamicState of Iraq and ...
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Washington Times
Schaefer denounces MoDOT's Islam 101 class
JEFFERSON CITY • Senate Budget leader Kurt Schaefer denounced the state transportation department Thursday for an Islam 101 class scheduled ...

The Guardian (blog)
Bloodthirsty terrorists and duplicitous spies: does TV have a Muslim problem?
President Obama has called for Muslim characters who aren't related to national security, so where are they and why can't US television seem to get it ...
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WFAA.com
FrontPage Magazine
Iowa City Press Citizen
UI creating prayer rooms primarily forMuslim students
The decision, made late last year, comes in response to a long-standing request from the university's Muslim Student Association to offer a centrally ...
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Chicago Tribune
Chicago area's Muslim youth fight stereotypes, suspicion
A number of Muslim youth have grown up beneath a cloud of suspicion about their faith. ... "Are you trying to go Muslim style, terrorist style?" his buddy ...
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The Independent
Why are those rushing to condemnMuslim men so silent on Roosh V and the global oppression of ...
In recent months, disparate groups of men have styled themselves as defenders of European women against the threat of Muslim men: from the ...
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Washington Post
Anti-Muslim group picks a fight in British Muslim neighborhood, and gets one
Muslim storekeepers and passerby hurling verbal abuse. A push. More abuse from both sides. And finally, police intervening to keep the warring clans ...
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The Indian Express
Kerala temple stops pujas for two days to mourn Muslim beaten to death
A temple in Kerala stopped offering pujas for two days this week to mourn a 23-year-old Muslim man who was beaten to death in an incident that was ...
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Muslim civic groups outside Islamic world come together
WASHINGTON (RNS) Finding similarities in the problems they face,Muslim leaders from countries outside the Islamic world created an American-led ...
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Obama Challenges Anti-Muslim Rhetoric In First Visit To U.S. Mosque
"Muslim Americans keep us safe," President Obama said on Wednesday as he visited a mosque in the U.S. for the first time as president. His speech ...


WEB
Islam and the Media
The main problem, the panelists agreed, is that people tend to view Muslims as a monolith and equate Islam with radicalism and terrorism more than ...
Obama's mosque visit demonstrates tacit acceptance of a form
To Muslim women's rights activists fighting for equal access to mosques as part of a broader campaign for reform, President Obama's visit to the ...
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Obama: They Said Thomas Jefferson Was A Muslim Too!
President Barack Obama noted Wednesday while speaking at the Islamic Society of Baltimore that the rumors about him being a secretMuslim were ...
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Wisconsin firm terminates Muslim workers in prayer dispute
MILWAUKEE (AP) — A civil liberties group says it plans to file federal discrimination and harassment complaints after a Wisconsin manufacturer fired ...
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Wisconsin company fires seven Muslim workers in prayer break dispute
Seven Muslim workers at an eastern Wisconsin manufacturer have been fired after disregarding a break policy that did not allow them to pray at the ...
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Obama anti-Muslim bias hurts US, must be tackled 'head on'
Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo President Barack Obama meets with members of Muslim-American community at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, ...
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Obama Praises Muslim-Americans, Asks for TV Characters That Aren't Terrorists
While at the Baltimore mosque, one accused of having "controversial ties," Obama gave unrelenting support for Muslim-Americans. Not only did he ...
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Defence leaders meet Muslim communities to discuss Syria
The Defence Secretary Michael Fallon today briefed around 30 influential members of British Muslim communities about UK military action against ...