Sri lanka Muslims Web Portal Sri Lanka Muslims News Center
The function to honour 501 Tamil-Muslim students who have passed the ‘Grade V’ Scholarship Examination in Tamil Medium from the Ampara, Batticaloa and Polannaruwa districts is held today at the Hisbullah Cultural Centre in Kattankudy. 185 students from the Ampara district, 307 students from the Batticaloa district and 09 students from the Polonnaruwa district will be honoured at this function …
Read More »Sailan Muslim
Israel’s ‘No renting to Arabs’ policy, By Jonathan Cook in Nevatim
Jewish couple lose court battle to help Bedouin friends The Zakai and Tarabin families should be a picture of happy coexistence across the ethnic divide, a model for others to emulate in Israel. But Natalie and Weisman Zakai say the past three years — since the Jewish couple offered to rent their home to Bedouin friends, Ahmed and Khalas Tarabin — …
Read More »Young, Muslim, Female…and Not a Stereotype Posted by Nour Soubani
Skimming through my Advanced Placement world history textbook, I came to a section titled “Gender Relations in Islam.” The words that followed jumped out at me. “According to the Quran, women are to satisfy men’s sexual desires and to bear children …women are considered sexually seductive …” Confusion. Shock. Anger. Although this was just a small section in a whole, more …
Read More »Israeli MP likens British to “dogs” for Israeli expulsion
The expulsion of an Israeli ‘diplomat’ from Britain over the terrorist murder of a Palestinian leader in Dubai has provoked outrage in the Israeli Knesset, comparing the British to “dogs”. “I think [the] British are behaving hypocritically and I don’t want to offend dogs on this issue, since some dogs are utterly loyal,” said Aryeh Eldad, National Religious Party lawmaker …
Read More »Obama’s Bloody War in Juarez, By Mike Whitney
“The war on drugs has always been a pretext for political repression and social control.” Alexander Cockburn, Counterpunch editor Last Saturday, a US consulate employee and his pregnant wife were gunned down in their SUV in Ciudad Juarez while their seven month old baby watched from the backseat. Just minutes later, another consulate employee was killed at point-blank range in …
Read More »Holy graves: Closer to peace or apocalypse?, By Ameen Izzdeen
Tension is building up in the occupied West Bank. Palestinians, especially the youth, are furious, because Israeli troops stopped them from visiting the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem — Islam’s third holiest place of worship. They fear that Israel is carrying out excavation and construction work at the al-Aqsa site with the ill-intention of causing permanent damage to the foundation of …
Read More »