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The Quran Burning: Sign of Things to Come?
By Dr. Muqtedar Khan / The Washington Post
Books are repositories of histories, of identities, of values. They are the soul of civilization. A society must abandon basic decencies in order to muster the immoral courage to burn books as a celebratory act. Once it starts burning the souls of civilization, human souls will not be left behind.
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Categories: al-Qur'an Religious Bigotry Anti-Islam Propaganda American Muslims
Let's promote the very essence of who we are in Canada
By Fred A. Reed / iqra.ca
Could they, like many non-Muslim Canadians, have experienced feelings of anger at the sight of white men with guns patrolling the streets of dirt-poor Afghan villages? Of high-salaried NGOs handing out candy by day to the children who may well be bombed into oblivion by a US drone strike by night?
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Categories: Canadian Muslims Propaganda Anti-Muslim Justice Terrorism-related Charges
Petraeus Condemns U.S. Church's Plan to Burn Qurans
By JULIAN E. BARNES And MATTHEW ROSENBERG / Wall Street Journal
The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan said the planned burning of Qurans on Sept. 11 by a small Florida church could put the lives of American troops in danger
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Categories: al-Qur'an Afghanistan 9/11 Taliban The US
Why 'Islamophobia' is less thinly veiled in Europe
By Robert Marquand / The Christian Science Monitor
How anti-Muslim sentiment is different in European countries than inAmeric? The new obsession here with Islam is very strange, because our world doesn't lack problems. We've got global warming, poverty, famine, dictatorships ... we don't have small issues. But we are focused on Islam.
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Categories: Islamophobia Europe Muslims in the West Islam The US
Floods in Pakistan Carry the Seeds of Upheaval
By CARLOTTA GALL / NY Times
Most political commentators say the president and his government are safe for the time being, if only because no one wants to take on the immense responsibilities of the crisis. The real dangers for the government may lurk once the first phase of the emergency passes. Many flood victims will accept immediate hardship, but will be less able to withstand prolonged hunger and homelessness.
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Categories: Pakistan Floods Corruption Politics Natural Disasters
American Muslims Ask, Will We Ever Belong?
By LAURIE GOODSTEIN / NY Times
This year, Sept. 11 coincides with the celebration of Eid, the finale to Ramadan, which usually lasts three days. But Muslim leaders, in this climate, said they wanted to avoid appearing to be celebrating on the anniversary of 9/11.
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Categories: American Muslims 9/11 Eid al-Fitr Islamophobia
Book Sets Off Immigration Debate in Germany
By MICHAEL SLACKMAN
The book, "Germany Does Away With Itself," which laments the growing number of Muslim immigrants, contending that they are "dumbing down" society, was released Monday and is already in its fourth printing, with sales expected to exceed 150,000 copies, according to his publisher.
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Categories: Books Germany Anti-Muslim European Muslims Hate Mongering Nazi
Rene Guenon - Shaykh Abd al-Wahid Yahya 1886-1951
By Ibrahim Kalin / cis-ca.org
As the most prominent defender of traditional metaphysics and philosophy of science in the 20th century, Guenon has played a key role in the development of a highly critical position towards what Wolfgang Smith has called modern ‘scientism'.
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Categories: Muslim Civilization Philosophy Traditional Sceinces Sufism New Muslims Muslim Westerners Islam
Syria's Solidarity With Islamists Ends at Home
By KAREEM FAHIM / NY Times
The government has asked imams for recordings of their Friday sermons and started to strictly monitor religious schools. Members of an influential Muslim women's group have now been told to scale back activities like preaching or teaching Islamic law. And this summer, more than 1,000 teachers who wear the niqab, or the face veil, were transferred to administrative duties.
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Categories: Syria Religion Persecution Secularism Bashar al-Assad
A Mosque Invisible to Many Is a Target
By SHARON OTTERMAN / NY Times
For the mosque's members, who are largely American-born professionals, some of whom converted from Judaism and Christianity, the harassment has been a painful invasion of their faith
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Categories: American Muslims Mosque Terrorism Islamophobia Ramadan
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