– AlJazeera Nicaraguan Congressman Brooklyn Rivera, president of the National Assembly’s Commission on Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Affairs, warns that tensions between indigenous tribes and mestizo “colonists” has reached the boiling point following the recent assassination of Mayangna leader Charley Taylor. …
Deck: Rios Montt sentenced to 80 years – AlJazeera A Guatemalan court has convicted former ruler Efrain Rios Montt on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity, sentencing him to 80 years in prison. A three-judge tribunal recently issued the…
Nick Simeone/American Forces Press Service NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen warned Monday that further cuts in defense spending by European nations risk reducing the continent’s defense and security to “hot air,” turning the alliance into what he called a…
Teaser: Cairo-Nine new ministers were sworn in to Prime Minister Hashim Qandil’s cabinet recently. This following President Morsi’s reshuffling of the cabinet members by replacing some of the ministers with new ones. Two of the new ministers are members…
The Nation PESHAWAR – US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt are illegal, Peshawar High Court (PHC) declared and directed the Foreign Ministry to move a resolution in the UN against such attacks. The PHC issued the verdict against the…
Deck: Five French-speaking Belgian provinces have changed religious holiday names to secular ones, also recognizing Muslim holidays. Excerpts taken from Soeren Kern /Right Side News.com (IP) A group of Belgian lawmakers have proposed a bill that would deem…
Material for this report obtained from The Daily Trust/ Y. Ibrahim, I. Wakili, and M. Bashar MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Extremist group Boko Haram was cited as perpetrators of an attack on Nigerian soldiers that resulted in the killing of an…
PressTV Spain has authorized the temporary deployment of US Marine forces to an airbase in the southwestern city of Moron de la Frontera, Seville Province. The Spanish government granted the air base to the US forces on Friday for a…
Teaser: CAIRO – Outrage over political manipulation in the government by President Morsi’s administration and the Muslim Brotherhood continues to plague Egypt. Adding to the list of angered countrymen is the Supreme Judiciary Council—who calls for judicial independence from political…
–Excerpted from “From Africa, in Ajami,” by Tom Verde which appeared in Saudi Aramco World. Teaser: When the 19th-century Senegalese religious leader and patriot Amadou Bamba wrote poems urging his countrymen to shrug off French colonial rule, he penned his…
Deck: The Patsies Dr. Ruslan Kurbanov, senior research fellow of Institute for Oriental Studies of Russian Academy of Sciences Teaser: The story of several little Muslim girls from Stavropol region of Russia fighting for hijab flew round the country. All…
Teaser: Cairo – When most people think of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first thoughts that come to mind after Hajj and Mecca are fancy cars, oil sheikhs and palaces. The government flaunts and advertises its wealth and lavish…
Teaser: Serbia’s nationalist President Tomislav Nikolic recently gave his personal apology for the first time for the 1995 Srebrenica massacre of 8,000 Muslims, but stopped short of calling it genocide. “I kneel and ask for forgiveness for Serbia for the…
Teaser: Last March, the town of Meiktila, located at the city center of Myanmar and home to its Airforce Central Command, suffered a massacre of Muslims at the hands of Buddhist monks. According to government reports, 43 Muslims were killed;…
MAIDUGURI, Nigeria – Extremist group Boko Haram was cited as perpetrators of an attack on Nigerian soldiers that resulted in the killing of an Army officer and a number of civilians as well. The incident prompted a military operation in…
Teaser: Mohammed Tahir (alias Tahir-ul-Qadri) continues to lay a destructive path in the Muslim world with his exploitation of the under-educated and misinformed masses, by his latest fiasco, “The Long March.” Tahir claims the goal of his “Long March”…
Teaser: Pakistan – Three joint meetings were recently held in Pakistan attended by descendants of the Holy Last Messenger (peace and blessings upon him, his family and descendents), Mashayikh of the Qadiri Order, and members of the esteemed…
Cairo -When most people think of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the first thoughts that come to mind after Hajj and Mecca are fancy cars, oil sheikhs and palaces. The government flaunts and advertises its wealth and lavish lifestyle…
Deck: United Forces Beat Back Wahhabi-Salafi Terrorists Teaser: The desert strongholds of the entrenched extremist Wahhabi rebels who have terrorized and controlled the Northern Mali city of Konna and surrounding the ancient city of Timbuktu continue to be pounded…
Deck: Open exploitation of Canada’s hospitality committed by “Tahir-ul-Qadri” Teaser: The respectable Canadian authorities must be made aware that a very dangerous hooligan is exploiting the international hospitality and rights granted by Canada. The person in mention is named…
It is our duty as Muslims to command what is right and forbid what is wrong. Unfortunately, sometimes it is from the very ranks of the Muslim communities that some of the most absurd wrongs are committed as is the case of Baba Jani Sarkar who claims that on his forehead, Almighty God is displaying His most sacred name, Allah, on the wrinkles in the corners of his eyes. Some have even reported seeing the name of the Holy Last Messenger, Muhammad (peace be upon him) and the venerable names of Imam Ali and Hazrat Imam Hussein (ra) on Baba Jani’s face.
IP Teaser: Let’s be clear. There is one reason, and one reason only, that John Kiriakou pleaded guilty: for the certainty that he will be out of jail in 2 1/2 years to see his five children grow up….
Teaser: The 27th of October is being celebrated every year as the “Black Day” by every Pakistani and Kashmiri all over the world as a protest against the illegal Indian occupation of Kashmir, a day when India had forcibly…
The Mail revealed shocking new evidence of the full horrific impact of drone attacks in Pakistan. A damning dossier assembled from exhaustive research into the strikes’ targets sets out in heartbreaking detail the deaths of teachers, students and Pakistani…
Teaser: A federal US judge has rejected a new legal attempt to force YouTube to withdraw an anti-Islamic film which made a failed attempt to falsify the character and noble history of the Holy Last Messenger Muhammad (peace be…
ESSAM MOHAMMED, Associated Press Teaser: Attackers bulldozed a Sufi Muslim shrine and mosque in the Libyan capital on Saturday, one day after hardliners razed a similar shrine and library elsewhere in the country. It was not immediately clear who…
Michel Chossudovsky – Globalresearch.ca Teaser: Israel's Channel 10 suggests, in no uncertain terms, that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "determined to attack Iran before the US elections" and that the "time for action is getting closer." Israel's Channel 10 …
Deck: Prominent thought leaders, authors, farmers and activists join to resist corporate control of food systems. Teaser: On February 27, an unprecedented alliance of more than 60 Occupy groups and 30 environmental, food and corporate accountability organizations joined together for…
IP TEHRAN — The son of U.S. filmmaker Oliver Stone, Sean, who recently converted to Shiism, was the guest of honor, in mid-February, at the 30th Fajr International Film Festival. Stone converted at the office of Shia cleric Ayatollah…
Teaser: Once banned under Ben Ali, many Middle Eastern Muslim scholars are now flocking to Tunisia to partake in the nation’s new found political freedoms. This unprecedented wave of visits sparked several interpretations online and has become a hot…