Muslim Issues

John Brennan vs. a Sixteen-Year-Old By Medea Benjamin

  In October 2011, 16-year-old Tariq Aziz attended a gathering in Islamabad where he was taught how to use a video camera so he could document the drones that were constantly circling over his Pakistani village, terrorizing and killing his family and neighbors. Two days later, when Aziz was driving with his 12-year-old cousin to a village near his home …

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Can “jihad” survive Pam Geller? BY ALEX SEITZ-WALD

  It's an uphill fight, but Muslim activists are trying to reclaim a holy word that's become synonymous with terror   MyJihad.org bus ad featuring two volunteers, an American-Muslim and an Israeli-Jew.(Credit: MyJihad.org) So you want to rebrand a word. It’s hard to think of a more difficult rebranding project than “jihad.” Since Sept. 11, the term has become synonymous with …

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Executing Rizana Nafeek is Sheer Saudi barbarism; Absolutely nothing to do with Islam and Shariah By Latheef Farook

  Islam requires mother should” breast feed” the child for two years. In this case mother   failed in her duty to feed her baby as requested by Hoy Quran.   The execution of housemaid Rizana Nafeek who languished in Death Row, in one of the most inhuman environment, in a Saudi prison for almost seven years is nothing but sheer barbarism of …

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Israel Will Cease to Exist Within the Decade, Adviser to Egyptian President Predicts By Times of Israel staff

Essam al-Erian says all those who occupied Palestine ‘will have to return to their homelands,’ including Egypt A senior Egyptian official who also serves as an adviser to President Mohammed Morsi on Tuesday expressed the opinion that Israel would not be around in 10 years. The remark by Essam al-Erian, the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice …

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Firebrand Shiite cleric al-Sadr voices support for Sunni protesters angry at Iraq’s government By Adam Schreck

  Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr speaks during a press conference in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, 100 miles (160 kilometers) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Jan 1, 2013. The anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr voiced support for Iraqi Sunni protesters who have been rallying against the country’s Shiite-dominated central government and said the demonstrators have the right to demonstrate as …

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Israel Severs Ties with with UN Human Rights Group – Islamic Human Rights Commission on Israel.

  JERUSALEM, Israel — Israel announced Monday it has cut ties with the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. The council, prompted by the Palestinian Authority, was set to investigate the impact of Jewish communities in the West Bank (Judea and Samaria) on Palestinian rights. In a 36-1 vote, with 10 abstentions, the council decided it would send a fact-finding commission …

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