Tag Archives : Muslims

In the spring of 2005, former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri was assassinated. Lebanon was plunged into some very profound questions that challenged everything it knew up until then regarding the connection between politics and religion, a fate that has long befallen the Arab world. Beirut Diaries, a documentary directed by a Palestinian-American, [...]

The massacre at Fort Hood occurred at a time when US President Barack Obama is at the final stage of decision-making about what to do with the US war in Afghanistan. The Afghan war has been proving to be a failure in the US antiterrorism mobilization, as well as its counterinsurgency campaign. US troops in Afghanistan are said to be disillusioned, [...]

The Israeli occupation of the West Bank seems to be supported not by political aims but by a religious and holy promise that was delivered to the Jews by the Bible. This apparently justifies the continuous occupation of the west bank rendering thousands of Palestinians homeless. Major Adrian Agassi, who immigrated to Israel long time ago, is known to [...]

Most of western European countries have populations composed of 10 percent immigrants. In some of Europe’s biggest cities, the figure is as high as 30 percent. Some of these immigrants do not assimilate the mores of their host countries. Islam is said to be the biggest reason for this non-assimilation. This has become a challenge to host societies [...]

BJP, the main oppostion party in India has finally stopped hiding its communal feathers and has openly acted against one of its own senior leaders Jaswant Singh for writing a book praising Pakistan’s founder Mohammed Ali Jinnah who was also one of the principal architects of bloody India-Pakistan Partition. The fact that Jaswant Singh had blamed congress [...]

Associated Press may be quick but not entirely accurate. So, here are a few corrections to the AP news on the Abu Sayyaf: (1) The title reads ‘ Abu Sayyaf’s new generation threatens Philippines.’ No such thing as Abu Sayyaf’s new generation. It’s still the old gang, though some of the earlier leaders have been killed. It’s still the same [...]

A Saudi Arabian girl, 8, married to a 47 year old man by her father to clear off this debt was finally granted divorce. The plea for the divorce was rejected twice by the court in Saudi Arabia. It was reported that the girl was not even aware of her marriage to this man, who was her father’s friend. The marriage was not annulled twice when the mother [...]

Like his famous father, Martin Luther King III is also a community activist. In 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. dreamed of uniting whites and blacks in the United States. The famous Reverend’s son now hails the reaching out to the Islamic world by US President Barack Obama. In a statement from Nairobi where he is currently attending the conference on [...]

To work towards the treatment of the disease, doctors are organizing talks on faith. Psychiatrists have disclosed a kind of obsession which Jews and Muslims are afflicted with. It is a mild form of madness that may also be called the “compulsive prayer syndrome,” a form of obsession that takes students of rabbinical colleges, as well as Muslim [...]