On Wednesday 11 March 15

" . . . mutual respect between Muslims and Christians is crucial for defense against religious extremism . . ."

King Abdullah II and the EU

Source : The Jerusalem Post
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 you assuming you know where I'll end up in the next world is hilarious. 

The Haraam Police

Source : The Huffington Post
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a young Indian woman . . . planning to study in the United States . . . thought she might be handicapped by her first name: Swastika.

What's in a name?

Source : The Huffington Post
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NEWS

	New Statesman Mehdi Hasan: How Islamic is Islamic State? New Statesman Isis fighters from the west, in particular, “tend to have rediscovered Islam as teenagers, or as converts”; they are angry, or even bored, young men in ... Why Politicians Pretend Islam Has No Role in Violence - Town Hall Should We Have an American Islam? - The American Conservative Countering Islamic extremism - The Japan Times Full Coverage
	Newsweek Muslim Groups Accuse UK Government of 'Criminalising'Islam Newsweek Muslim demonstrators pray during a protest against the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad in French satirical weekly Charlie ... British Muslims condemn terror laws for creating 'witch-hunt' against Islam -The Guardian Muslim groups accuse government of criminalising Islam - BBC News British Muslims accuse govt of criminalising Islam, say 'terror threats' being used for politics -Hindustan Times Full Coverage
	Bellingham Herald Austria: 8 charged with neo-Nazi crimes at anti-Islamdemo U.S. News & World Report VIENNA (AP) — Austrian police have charged eight participants in the country's first protest against perceived "Islamization" with yelling "Heil Hitler!
	Breitbart News DAVI: Egyptian President Offers Help on Radical Islam Breitbart News Like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, el-Sisi understands the existential threat radical Islam poses. It's a threat our president and most on ... Egypt Pres: We Need US Support 'More Than Ever' Against Radical Islam -Breitbart News Full Coverage
	Breitbart News Exclusive — Rand Paul: Arm The Kurds To Battle ISIS And Radical Islam, Give Them Kurdistan Breitbart News Rand Paul (R-KY) staked out a bold position on a foreign policy matter—pushing to arm Kurdish fighters against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria ...
	FrontPage Magazine No Boris Nemtsov Wasn't Killed Over Islam FrontPage Magazine Note that I'm not saying that Nemtsov wasn't killed by Islamic terrorists, but the term is elastic when dealing with Jihadists who are on the Russian ...
	53 convert to Islam during Dubai Shopping Festival The National DUBAI // A total of 53 people converted to Islam during this year's Dubai Shopping Festival, theIslamic Affairs and Charitable Activities Department ...
	Arutz Sheva Islam Wants to Convert Rome Arutz Sheva There is a long Islamic tradition aiming at Rome, “Romiyyah”, aiming to make it the fourth holiest city of Islam (after Mecca, Medina and Jerusalem) and ...
	Los Angeles Times Jury sees Boston bomber's writings on Islam and 'killing innocent people' Los Angeles Times Minutes after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was captured hiding in a boat in Watertown, Mass., two Boston police bomb technicians climbed into the craft ... Boston Marathon bombing trial: Tsarnaev offered 'Islamic insight' from second Twitter account - SportingNews.com Full Coverage
	Town Hall NewsBusted: Apple Watch, ISIS, Obama and Islam Town Hall NewsBusted: Apple Watch, ISIS, Obama and Islam. Tue, March 10, 2015. NewsBusted's Jodi Miller brings you the headlines with a little extra punch.

	Daily Beast Another Muslim Is Killed in America. Anyone Care? Daily Beast These are just some of the despicable comments directed at AmericanMuslims in the Dallas-Forth Worth area in the last two months. The first two ...
	ThinkProgress "America Just Got Its First Accredited Muslim College" ThinkProgress A Muslim college received formal academic accreditation this past weekend, making it the first officially recognized Islamic institution of higher learning ...
	Hamilton Spectator Leading politician says Canada could end up treatingMuslims as it did Jews in the '30s and '40s Washington Post (blog) In a dramatic speech Tuesday evening, the leader of Canada's Liberal Party, Justin Trudeau, criticized the Canadian government for its rhetoric over ... Trudeau accuses Harper of stoking prejudice against Muslims - Macleans.ca Trudeau says Harper government fostering fear and prejudice against Muslims - Globalnews.ca Harper calls Muslim face-covering veil 'anti-women' - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News Full Coverage
	BBC News Why the surge in Muslim prisoners? BBC News But the percentage rise in Muslim prisoner numbers has been far greater than the Muslim population increase: Muslim inmates now account for 14.4% ...
	Philippine Star 23 Muslim Rebels Killed in Clashes With Philippine Military ABC News Officials say Philippine troops have killed at least 23 Muslim rebels in renewed clashes in the restive south, raising the insurgents' death toll in a ... 23 Muslim rebels killed in clashes with Philippine military -TheNewsTribune.com Full Coverage
	The Straits Times China says Muslim Uighurs fought with Islamic State group, took part in plots on home soil Fox News BEIJING – Chinese officials said Tuesday that members of the country'sMuslim Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic ... Chinese authorities say Muslim Uighurs have joined ISIS - Fox News China says Muslim Uighurs have joined ISIS - Haaretz Chinese Muslims are travelling to Syria to fight alongside ISIS, says Beijing - Daily Mail Full Coverage
	Washington State County Prosecutor Under Fire For Wife's Anti-MuslimComments Intelligence Report (blog) A newly elected prosecutor in Washington State is under fire for a string of anti-Muslim, racist and other insensitive comments his wife made on social ...
	The Guardian British Muslims condemn terror laws for creating 'witch-hunt' against Islam The Guardian Anti-Muslim rhetoric and “endless 'anti-terror' laws” are in danger of creating a McCarthyite witch-hunt against Muslims, according to the signatories of ... Muslim Groups Accuse UK Government of 'Criminalising' Islam - Newsweek Muslim groups accuse government of criminalising Islam - BBC News Full Coverage
	Irish Mirror Liverpool FC fans hit back at supporter who brandedMuslims a 'disgrace' for praying at half-time mirror.co.uk Dodd wrote alongside the image, apparently taken in the area behind the turnstiles of the Main Stand at Anfield: “Muslims praying at half time at the ...
	Deseret News Rutgers Muslim students fearful for future in wake of NYPD surveillance Deseret News There are Rutgers students and graduates whose futures are in jeopardy because they were placed under surveillance by the NYPD — operating ...

BLOGS

	BLOGS
	“Conservatism” a Threat to Women's Rights; Downplays Islam Prison Planet.com Report shies away from naming Islamic religion as most oppressive towards women. Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com. March 10, 2015.

WEB

	Islam Minneapolis Institute of Arts In the past few weeks, the media has been flooded with reports of the Islamic State, or ISIS/ISIL, destroying Iraq's ancient heritage. They've smashed ...
	The Shia-Sunni Divide in Islam National Endowment for the Humanities Former Iranian Ambassador to the UN Mansour Farhang examines the origin and contemporary revival of this 1300-year-long divide and explores ...
	Germany: Anti-Islam Protest Largest In Months Stratfor The 18th demonstration by the anti-Islam protest group Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West, better known as Pegida, held on ...

on Tuesday 10 March 15

Virginia statute (1682) "negroes, moores, molatoes, and others, born of and in heathenish, idolatrous, pagan, and Mahometan parentage and country . . .  may be . . .  obtained, as slaves."

What happened to america's first muslims? 

                    Source : Huffington Post

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It is my thesis that most of the problems of the Muslim world boil down to lack of criticism, self-criticism, which also means lack of imagination and creativity.

Belief and dogma

Source : The News on Sunday
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NEWS

	The Guardian Radicalisation in Australia: Muslimleaders work to dissipate 'fixation' with Isis among youths The Guardian Sheikh Wesam Charkawi: '[These youngsters] feel Muslims have been abandoned and believe it is their sense of duty to help.' Photograph: Julian ...
	CNN Murder of Iraqi migrant in Dallas has Muslims on edge BBC News The murder of an Iraqi migrant has Muslims in Texas looking for answers just weeks after three Muslim students were killed in North Carolina. Killing of Iraqi refugee has Texas Muslims on edge - Washington Post Texas Muslims fear for safety after Iraqi man shot dead in Dallas attack- The Guardian Full Coverage
	MetroNews Canada Marjory LeBreton In Hot Seat Over How Tories Depict Muslim Canadians Huffington Post Canada Many Muslims have the sense they don't belong, patent agent Sheema Khan told LeBreton during a luncheon in Ottawa celebrating the political ...
	TODAYonline China Says Muslim Uighurs Have Joined Islamic State Group ABC News Chinese officials said Tuesday that members of the country's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority have gone overseas to fight with the Islamic State group, ... China says Muslim Uighurs have joined Islamic State group - TWC Central Full Coverage
	TODAYonline Philippine military says 73 Muslim rebels dead in offensive Stars and Stripes MANILA, Philippines — Philippine forces have killed 73 hard-line Muslim rebels and a suspected foreign militant in a three-week offensive in the ...
	Professor blogs NYPD's watch over Muslim-American youth RU Daily Targum According to the Muslim Advocates website, American Muslims were targeted throughout the northeast, including New York City and New Jersey.
	Mondoweiss The US sells out a brave, democratic Muslim leader — again Mondoweiss But the Obama administration said little, even though Mohamed Nasheed is exactly the sort of popular, nonviolent, principled Muslim leader that ...
	Newsweek Charlie Hebdo Given Islamophobia 'Award' by Muslim Group Newsweek A boy looks on as a supporter of a religious group holds a sign during a protest against against satirical French weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo, ... Insult To Injury: Muslim Group Gives Offensive Award To Charlie Hebdo Staff - Western Journalism Full Coverage
	WOODTV.com Judge tosses Dave Agema's suit after self-professed ex-Muslimterrorist's speech shut down MLive.com ALLEGAN, MI - A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against Allegan Public Schools after police shut down a self-professed ex-Muslim terrorist's ...
	Toronto Sun Muslim ad campaign targets radicals Toronto Sun An outspoken voice in Toronto's Muslim community has launched an anti-terrorism ad campaign, vowing to protect Canadians and “do whatever it ... Canadian Muslims launch ad campaign against radicalism - Jerusalem Post Israel News Full Coverage

	The National For Arab liberals like Nawal El Saadawi, political Islam has shifted the terms of the debate The National At the Emirates Airline Festival of Literature in Dubai last week, the author Nawal El Saadawi spoke twice to packed halls, once in Arabic, once in ...
	Countering Islamic Extremism Practical Ethics (blog) Riham Osman, speaking on behalf of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, which participated in the summit, said that using terms like “radical Islam” ... Countering Islamic extremism - Journal of Turkish Weekly Full Coverage
	euronews Egyptian Pres. el-Sisi: Egyptians Tried Political Islam, Now Fear It Newsmax The Egyptian people have given political Islam a chance and now see it as something to fear, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi told Fox News in ...
	Austria: 8 Charged With Neo-Nazi Crimes at Anti-Islam Demo ABC News Austrian police have charged eight participants in the country's first protest against perceived "Islamization" with yelling "Heil Hitler!" and other actions ...
	Women in Islam - Debunking the Myths The Star A prevailing narrative perpetrated mainly by the media portrays the Islamic faith as among the ideologies which oppress women, curtail their freedom ...
	ABC News Nemtsov Unlikely Killed by Islamic Extremists, Friends Say ABC News Nemtsov criticized the Charlie Hebdo attackers in an online post, saying that Islam was a "young religion that is current in its Middle Ages, and there is ... Russian Commentators Dismiss Islamic Link to Nemtsov Murder -Newsweek Full Coverage
	New Statesman HaLOL: can the UK have a laugh about Islam? New Statesman The Comedy Store in London held a rare showcase of Muslim comedians this week, who gave sharp insights into navigating Islam in the UK.
	Sydney Morning Herald Western media and propaganda to blame for westerners fighting for Islamic State, says Muslim ... Sydney Morning Herald Abu Zaid of the Hume Islamic Youth Centre said the imams there were "all qualified, all graduated from Islamic university; we don't allow just anyone ...

WEB

In Muslim Men's Protests, Support for Women's Choice About Veiling Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars ... was stabbed to death. Such bold gestures by Muslim men in support of women struggling against patriarchal tradition are almost unprecedented.