Tariq Ramadan defends his views
LA Times: Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan defends his views
Liberal Muslim or closet fundamentalist? Peaceful intellectual or militant in sheep’s clothing?
Tariq Ramadan has been called all these things — and more — by his friends and foes. Whatever the truth, the Swiss-born Oxford University professor ranks among the most influential thinkers in the Muslim world.
The grandson [...]
Muslims take over synagogue to pray
Haaretz: Virginia synagogue doubles as mosque for Ramadan
On Friday afternoons, the people coming to pray at this building take off their shoes, unfurl rugs to kneel on and pray in Arabic. The ones that come Friday evenings put on yarmulkes, light candles and pray in Hebrew.
The building is a synagogue on a tree-lined street in [...]
Civilian deaths in Gaza under-reported
JPost: Civilian deaths in Gaza op were higher
More than half of the 1,382 Palestinians who were killed by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead did not take part in hostilities, the human rights organization B’Tselem said in a special report being published Wednesday morning regarding Palestinian fatality figures during the fighting. Palestinians search through…
Palestinians search through [...]
Al-Qaradhawi opens ‘Center for Middle Path in Islam’
Memri: Sheikh Al-Qaradhawi Inaugurates ‘Center for Middle Path in Islam’
International Union of Muslim Scholars head Sheikh Yousef Al-Qaradhawi today inaugurated the Al-Qaradhawi Center for the Middle Path in Islam and for Innovation.
At the inauguration ceremony, Al-Qaradhawi explained that the center’s aim was to reinforce the idea of the middle path, which expresses religious moderation
Forget the Muslims in China
Riots in China are not uncommon. For decades, corrupt government officials have abused their power in seizing rural land for the ostensible reason of industrialization and economic progress. Farmers and their families, frustrated by the lack of accountability in the land acquisition process, have consistently banded together and rioted. Much of this go unreported.
But the [...]
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