During a February trip to Iran, Hamas leader Khaled Mashal praised Iranian leaders for their support during the conflict in the Gaza Strip, a further indication of the strengthening ties between the Sunni Islamist group, which the United States has designated as a terrorist organization, and the Shiite regime in Tehran. Mashal's statements come on the heels of the U.S.
Britain has just witnessed the spectacle of a duly elected parliamentarian from another EU country, Geert Wilders of the Netherlands, being denied entry to the country because he constituted "a threat to public policy."
Protests against Indian newspaper over article reprinted from Independent. The editor and publisher of a major Indian newspaper have been arrested for "hurting the religious feelings" of Muslims after they reprinted an article from The Independent. Ravindra Kumar and Anand Sinha, the editor and publisher of the Kolkata-based English daily The Statesman, appeared in court yesterday charged under section 295A of the Indian Penal Code which forbids "deliberate and malicious acts intended to outrage religious feelings"
The Norwegian government's decision to rethink its earlier approval to amend the police uniform law to accommodate hijab is upsetting the Muslim minority in the Scandinavian country
Al-Azhar University Hospital,held the body of a Christian-born Muslim convert for three days, refusing to hand it over to his Coptic family because they are not allowed to bury a Muslim.
Geert Wilders is a Dutch MP and he is the one who made the 17 minutes Video "Fitna". He landed in Hithrow Airport in London, England two days ago. But the British authorities refused to let him into England. [Lord Ahmad threatened that if the talk takes place he will gather 10,000 Muslims to riot in front of the House of Lords]!!!!!!!!!!! He was going to give a speech in the British House of Lord about the Video "Fitna", but of course he had to return back to Holland without doing so. Here is the speech which Geert Wilders would have given in the British House of Lords.
"Al Gharam mamn’uh, al Gharam kufr," screamed the self-declared cleric in al-Ansar’s chat room this Friday. “Love is forbidden, love is infidel†-- said the online fatwa about the “legitimacy of loving and being in love.â€
We lost more than a million jobs in the past few months, the headlines remind us. So last month's story about a Dutch court's ruling that Geert Wilders was "inciting hatred and discrimination" - and that "it is in the public interest to prosecute" him - understandably didn't make the American news.
Maher al-Gohary has converted from Islam to Christianity. In spite of facing death threats, he's engaged in a legal battle to have his changed religion recognised on his official Egyptian documents.
Unless you are an Arab, or someone who speaks Arabic very well and have lived in Saudi Arabia for a while, you might not be aware of the following facts and practices from Saudi Arabia and Wahhabi communities across the globe.