Muslim Issues

A mistake once committed is rarely repeated by a rational entity.  However such is not the case with the government of Sri Lanka.  It is becoming increasingly obvious that following the 30-year war with the Tamil minority, the Sri Lankan rulers have not learned their lesson. Today, they are busily spreading the seeds of discord against another minority; the island’s …

Latest step in the build up to commemorate anniversary of 1915 Sinhala Muslim Riots with July 83 type attacks on Muslims? By Latheef Farook The timely settlement of the dispute over the mosque at the Swarna Chaithiya Mawatha   averted a potentially disastrous conflict which had all the ingredients to turn the area into a killing field. This could have even …

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. Credit: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas UNITED NATIONS, Aug 14 2013 (IPS) – Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who has refused to describe the Egyptian army’s ouster of a democratically-elected government last month as a “military coup”, lambasted the country’s security forces for Wednesday’s massacre of civilians in the streets of Cairo. He condemned in the “strongest terms” the violence …

At least 94 people reportedly killed as security forces move to end anti-military protests by supporters of Morsi. Security forces have moved in on two Cairo protest camps set up by supporters of Egypt's ousted president Mohamed Morsi, launching a crackdown that quickly turned into a bloodbath with dozens dead.   Conflicting reports have emerged over the number of people …

Muslims worldwide observe last Friday of the Holy Month of Ramadhan as Al Quds ( Jerusalem)  day which falls on 2 August 2013. Al-Quds is the Arabic name for the holy city of Jerusalem. While  the Arabs sleep Muslims worldwide ,from Djakarta and Kula Lumpur in the Far East to cities in India, Pakistan the entire Middle East, London and …

"AlterNet" – People uninterested in change and progress tend to cling to the jingoistic fantasy that America is an exceptional country. Often this implies that the U.S. is somehow superior to other nations. Some, like the neocons, have taken the idea of exceptionalism to mean that America should be above the law and that other countries should be remade in our …