US bank denies Muslim woman service for wearing headscarf

The land of liberty and justice, ie. America, is passing through a strange phase of dilema.On one side it guarantees freedom from all the prejudices and on the other hand it treats the fellow human being from the...

Is God Unmentionable in Public?

This is a matter that needs to come down in the middle. Use his name at appropriatetimes, but not at all events."It is not that we lack believers among our leadership. I am certain that many of them do believe in...

Fox & Friends' Race Baiting "Want This Guy in Your Backyard?"

Rep. Jack Murtha (D-PA) said last week that the U.S. could hold the detainees in federal prisons, just like the U.S. holds thousands of other dangerous inmates and convicted terrorists. Fox and Friends responded by...

Obama tells Muslims, 'Americans are not your enemy'

One problem is that the worstgroups, Hamas al Qaeda, Hezbollahhave decided the USA is their worst enemy." In one of his first interviews since he took office, President Barack Obama struck a conciliatory tone...

Obama reaches out to Muslim world in Arab Television interview

The newly appointed US President Barack Obama has started to spell out his priorities. After being  in the office for a week he gave first formal TV interview to an Arab channel in order to allay fears and...

Indonesia’s Muslims banned from practicing Hindu yoga

Indonesia’s Muslims will be banned from practicing yoga with elements of Hindu mantra chanting. Engaging in such activities is believed by some clerics to have the potential to “corrupt Islamic values."...

Blogs, YouTube: the new battleground of Gaza conflict?

In the following article by Yigal Schleifer at the Christian Science Monitor, summits his perspective on the  use of web 2.0 to analyse the recent Israeli attack on Gaza. According to...

Muslim insight: Poor Persecuted Women

Human history is full of bitter experiences in which women suffered physical torture, mental torment, social constraints, economic exploitation and political marginalization in all avenues of life. Women have always been considered inferior on the basis of gender in several...

Orthodox Jews speak out for Palestine.

It's true that a picture is worth a thousand words and it seems this photograph is no different.  These orthodox Jewish men were photographed attending an anti Israeli / anti war on Gaza rally in London last...

Obama: Competent Turk or Incompetent Christian?

Today is a day set aside to remember the work of Martin Luther King Jr.  It also marks the eve of Barack Obama’s inauguration as president of the United States.  Rather than look at the work of the late...

Videos Expose Palestinian ‘Pallywood’ Propaganda

Two videos published on YouTube yesterday will see little, if any, airtime on major news networks or cable news operations in the West.  Why?  Because they expose the “Pallywoood” propaganda efforts...

The Monster In The Mirror

We've forfeited the rights to our own tragedies. As the carnage in Mumbai raged on, day after horrible day, our 24-hour news channels informed us that we were watching "India's 9/11." And like actors in a Bollywood rip-off of an old Hollywood film, we're expected to play our...

Sanctifying Terrorists

Lord Malloch-Brown a minister of the British government has delivered his verdict. The Bajrang Dal and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) of India are not terrorist organizations and are therefore ‘kosher’ for travel and interaction in Britain. Their inhuman anti...

Non-state actors and third-party intervention

The vicious attack on sundry sites in India’s financial capital Mumbai by a small band of young terrorists has of most recent time been the focus of media attention worldwide -- more so in that it was reported to have primarily targeted visitors of Western extraction. The...

The Case for an Advisory Board

Pakistan is in the doghouse---a place it is familiar with but not because it likes being there. For the sixty one years of its existence Pakistan has been trying to be a democratic, moderate and tolerant Muslim state ---a model for the Islamic world and a bridge between Islam...

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