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Fazl for unanimous formula by opposition over national issuesAfter scuffle between Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz and Jamiat Ulma-e-Islam, high level talks between both the parties have been initiated.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 08:26
Ill. Senate rejects Muslim member of rights panel
A longtime member of the Illinois Human Rights Commission was denied another term Thursday, in part because of material on his website about the Nation of Islam that condemned interracial marriage.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 04:21
Islam and Christianity Class At Covenant Presbyterian
A Sunday School class on "Islam and Christianity," moderated and taught by Frank Sindler, who has worked for more than 20 years in Muslim ministry, will be on Sunday, in the Schum Fellowship Hall at Covenant Presbyterian Church, 8451 East Brainerd Road.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 04:21
Senate rejects Nation of Islam follower for human rights post
In a rebuke to Gov. Pat Quinn, the Illinois Senate Thursday rejected a Nation of Islam follower whose website advocates black separatism for a third term on the state Human Rights Commission.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 04:21
Controversial Islamic school ordered out of Toronto public school property
The Toronto District School Board has forbidden a controversial Islamic school from operating out of one of its properties.
Topix.net | 18-May-2012 00:12
Christians fear Islamist victory
Christians in Egypt fear an Islamist victory in the impending presidential elections as the Muslim Brotherhood candidate vows to implement sharia and polls show support for this agenda.
The Brotherhood, which has previously presented itself as a moderate Islamist party, is now taking a more overtly Islamic stance ...Topix.net | 17-May-2012 20:22
'Racist State'?
A leading Islamist candidate in Egypt's presidential election has branded Israel a "racist state" and said a shared 1979 peace treaty was "a national security threat" that should be revised.
Abdel Moneim Abul Fotouh also denounced Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden's assassination by US special forces as an act of "state terrorism" in a late Saturday Egyptian television interview ....Topix.net | 17-May-2012 17:11
'Britain needs open debate' about sex grooming gangs
Color me skeptical but if the minister calling for an "open date" on rampant child sexual exploitation does not include the motive and sanction of such sex slavery under Islam ...
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 12:48
Sunday's Solar Eclipse
On Sunday, an unusual solar eclipse will be visible from eastern Asia to the western part of North America. Called a "ring of fire" eclipse, the sun will appear completely covered by the moon, except for a blazing ring of fire around the rim. If you fall in the viewing zone between China and Texas, learn more:
...about.com | 17-May-2012 08:21
Islamic Hate for a Dead Pope
Inasmuch as the recent death of Coptic Pope Shenouda III exposed the humanity of some Muslims, it also exposed the inhumanity of Islamic teachings ...
Topix.net | 17-May-2012 01:34
Neocons v. Islamophobes
The Muslim Brotherhood, a group that was once though virtually extinct in Syria, has surprised everyone by staging a comeback .
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 22:30
King inaugurates Prophet Mohammad Museum
His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday inaugurated the Prophet Mohammad Museum at the King Hussein Mosque.
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 22:30
Fight the terrorists, not their bombs
Trisha said in the Islam Forum:
'Good news for those of you who enjoy taking your shoes off in airports. Al-Qaeda's chief bombmaker, a cheerful fellow named Ibrahim Hassan al-Asiri, who sent his younger brother off on a suicide bombing mission with a bomb up his rectum, has been working on turning everything into a bomb. Cameras, printer cartridges and even pets ...
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 20:44
Gaga denied concert after religious protests
Lady Gaga 's show in Jakarta next month looks certain to be cancelled. The Indonesian authorities have refused to grant a permit for the concert on 3 June, citing security concerns following protests by conservative Muslim groups ...
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 13:10
Games muslims play
Ravenclaw said in the Islam Forum:
Given Islam's violent history and the unfavorable contrast of its oppressive practices against 21st century values, Muslims are hard-pressed to repackage their faith in the modern age. Some of its leading apologists have come to rely on tricks involving semantics and half-truths that are, in turn, repeated by novices and even those outside the faith ...
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 12:00
Wright helped Obama accept Christianity without denouncing Islam
Edward Klein, author of the new book "The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House," told Sean Hannity Monday that Jeremiah Wright, the controversial former pastor of the Trinity United Church of Christ, "made it comfortable" for Barack Obama to accept Christianity without having to renounce his "Islamic background" ...
Topix.net | 16-May-2012 02:42
Popular Canadian 'Marxist' Muslim: Obama Has 'White ...
Canadian political activist, author, columnist and practicing MuslimA Tarek Fatah A has been described as a liberal Marxist who stands firmly opposed toA radicalismA Islam.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 20:32
Egyptian MP advocates FGM
Female circumcision is part of the prophetic Sunnah, said MP Nasser al-Shaker of the Salafi-led Nour Party, who previously proposed a bill that would allow the practice ...
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 18:03
Brasch Words'Following Orders' is No Defense for Cold-Blooded Murder
Brasch Words 'FOLLOWING ORDERS' IS NO DEFENSE FOR COLD-BLOODED MURDER by Walter Brasch AR Senior Correspondent Bloomsburg, Pa.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 10:57
Police Ignored Victims of Muslim Child Sex Trafficker who recruited...
Is it any wonder that the Muslim sex trafficker of non-Muslim girls had utter contempt for his victims? Not only is it allowed under Islam, but Western law enforcement is sanctioning sex slavery under Islam.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 06:48
LETTERS:
Post letters to Letters to the Editor, The Daily Times, 41-N, Industrial Area, Gulberg II, Lahore, Pakistan Phone: 92-42-5878614-19; Fax: 92-42-5878620 E-mail: letters@dailytimes.com.pk E-mail: letters.dt6@gmail.com Letters may be edited for length and clarity The sectarian genie Sir: The genie of sectarian violence is again out of the bottle.
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 02:49
Quotes from PLO leaders
george whyte said in the Islam Forum:
When the Palestinian leadership faces Western media, they tend to focus on Israeli "aggression". When they talk to their own Arabic media, a different story arises ...
Topix.net | 15-May-2012 01:15
Daily Press Feedback for 5/14: Obama, war on Islam
Peter D. Hart, a renowned Democratic pollster, recently said he sees the re-election of President Obama as about a 50-50 proposition.
Topix.net | 14-May-2012 23:29
Shahin Najafi, Iranian Rapper, Receives $100K Bounty, 'Fatwa,' For Song Criticizing Iran
Shahin Najafi, an Iranian rapper living in Germany, has a $100,000 bounty on his head after Islamist website Shia-Online.ir issued a 'fatwa' for a controversial song he released that criticizes the Islamist Republic.
Topix.net | 14-May-2012 23:29
Focus on Faith: Combating Islamophobia
On Thursday, May 17th, people representing a cross-culture of Madison County will come together to learn more about Islam.
Topix.net | 14-May-2012 23:29
Saudi king sacks cleric
Saudi King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has sacked one of his advisers, an outspoken critic of the sexes mingling outside the home, something banned in the conservative kingdom ...
Topix.net | 14-May-2012 14:37
Why do you hate your Palestinian brothers?
Son of Zion said in the Islam Forum:
That's a question for you moslems in the Middle East. Why do you hate your own Palestinian "brothers" and herded them like p!gs inside filthy refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria and Jordan after the 1948 war? ...
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 12:43
Pious Turks Push For Labor Justice
PIOUS TURKS PUSH FOR LABOR JUSTICE BY: SUSANNE GUSTEN The International Herald Tribune May 10, 2012 Thursday France Young people protest government's promotion of a pro-capitalist stance Young Muslims have been congregating to critique the reign of the mildly Islamist government of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as "capitalism with ablutions." ... (more)
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 09:55
Military Course Called For 'Muslim Hiroshima'
A course for the US military, which called for Muslim cities to be obliterated "like Hiroshima", has been suspended by the Pentagon.
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 05:40
Any Springtime in the Arab Spring?; Why Lapsed Catholics Are Potential Muslims
ROME, MAY 11, 2012 .- Islamism, an ideology that demands complete adherence to the sacred law of Islam, imbued with a deep antagonism toward non-Muslims, is on the rise and appears to be consolidating.
Topix.net | 13-May-2012 01:36
Outrage Erupts After Army Revealed to Use 'Anti-Muslim' Training Materials
When one is at war with a country, or nation, it's generally considered advisable to learn as much as possible about that nation's history, previous military victories, culture, and any other relevant information that might make defeating them more easy.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 21:31
PM denies Pakistan's complicity in hiding UBL
Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani has insisted that Pakistan had not been "complicit" in sheltering Osama bin Laden and said the fact the late al-Qaida leader was able to live undetected for so long in Pakistan, was down to a universal "intelligence failure" ...
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 13:12
"Islamophobia" in wake of Muslim gang rape?
Far-right groups are exploiting the conviction of nine men who were part of a gang that groomed girls for sex to create a "climate of hate" against Muslims, community leaders have warned.
Muslim groups say they have seen an upsurge in hate mail and abusive phone calls since the trial ended this week and community leaders are bracing themselves for more Islamophobic attacks ...Topix.net | 12-May-2012 13:06
Radicalization of Islam; Western Response
Mark Riedemann for Where God Weeps in cooperation with Aid to the Church in Need interviews Father Samir about the increasing radicalization of Islam and the implications for western policy.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 09:58
Persecuted in Pakistan
There's something universal about this story. Muslim man marries non-Muslim woman; much protest by the woman's family and community follows; that, in turn, fetches a belligerent response; the story ends with the woman meekly 'admitting' she has acted on her own, that there has been no coercion, that it is love for her man which has made her forsake ... (more)
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 08:58
The Temple Mount premiers on VisionTV
It is Jerusalem's temple mount a holy mosque for Islam, a lost temple for Judaism, and the eye of the apocalypse for Christianity.
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 04:48
Startling Thesis on Islam's Origins
Until recently, it was generally considered that Islam, the youngest of the great world religions, was born "not amidst the mystery which cradles the origin of other religions, but rather in the full light of history" ...
Topix.net | 12-May-2012 00:29
Tunisia licenses first Islamist Salafi party
Tunisia's Islamist-led government has granted a license to a political party based on puritanical Salafi Islam for the first time in one of the most secular Arab nations ...
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 18:19
Top two contenders participate in Egypt's first presidential debate
In this Monday, Jan. 30, 2012 file photo, Amr Moussa, Egyptian presidential hopeful and former secretary general of the Arab League, talks to reporters after he casted his vote for the upper house of parliament at a polling station in Cairo, Egypt.
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 09:55
Push To Co-Name Street After Slain NYPD Officer Meets With Apprehension
NEW YORK - Forty years have passed, but the controversy has not completely faded over the 1972 shooting of a New York City police officer.
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 05:51
Filipino nurse embraces Islam
When 55-year-old Duris Newels, head nurse at Abdulkarim Bakr Medical Center, Jeddah, embraced Islam last week, it was a proud moment for the clinic and its staff.
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 01:41
Church can reopen if mosque built
The Muslim mayor who illegally sealed off GKI Yasmin Church in Indonesia has agreed it can reopen - if a mosque is built next door ...
Topix.net | 11-May-2012 00:33
Former Marine pleads guilty to DUI manslaughter
Eight months after the military allowed gays to serve openly - and on the same day that President Barack Obama declared his support for same-sex marriage - the House Armed Services Committee backed measures limiting the... Defense Secretary Leon Panetta slammed a House panel on Thursday for adding billions of dollars to President Barack Obama's ... (more)
Topix.net | 10-May-2012 23:32
Military class suspended for its view on Islam
The attorney for a former Marine who pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a man while driving drunk in Tampa blamed his client's post-traumatic stress disorder and a brain injury received while fighting in Afghanistan... The attorney for a former Marine who pleaded guilty on Thursday to killing a man while driving drunk in Tampa blamed his ... (more)
Topix.net | 10-May-2012 23:32
Background Notes : Comoros
PROFILE Geography Area: 2,171 sq. km. ; slightly less than half the size of Delaware.
Topix.net | 10-May-2012 23:32
German police suspend officer over Salafist links
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Topix.net | 10-May-2012 21:27