Muslim Issues

Israel’s Hypocrisy on a Nuclear Middle East By Thalif Deen

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses the general debate of the sixty-seventh session of the General Assembly. Credit: UN Photo/J Carrier UNITED NATIONS, Oct 1 2012 (IPS) – When world leaders packed their bags and headed home last week, there was one lingering memory of the General Assembly’s high-level debate: Benjamin Netanyahu’s dramatic presentation of a cartoonish nuclear red line, which …

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Impact of Islamophobia on Muslim children By Abdul Malik Mujahid

In late March this year, a Muslim third-grader was found hanging unconscious in his school in Louisville, KY. It was not the first time Muhammad had been bullied and abused. The same week a Muslim girl from Dreyfus School in New York was beaten up; thrown on the ground,  had her headscarf pulled off, as she was repeatedly called a “terrorist,” “Muslim,” …

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Freedom of Expression to Insult Islam By Latheef Farook

Jail sentence for Holocaust deniers Is there a hidden force which is putting the Christian West against Muslims worldwide? This is the question now being asked in many knowledgeable circles in the West, the Middle East and the East as well. Worldwide angry demonstrations against the American film ”The Innocence of Islam” , produced by an Israeli Jew, which insulted …

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New Generation of Arab Leaders to Address World Body By Thalif Deen

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (left) and Aung San Suu Kyi, Chairperson and General Secretary of the National League for Democracy of Myanmar, speak to journalists following their bilateral meeting on Sep. 21. Credit: UN Photo/Mark Garten UNITED NATIONS, Sep 21 2012 (IPS) – When world leaders heading politically shaky authoritarian regimes lead their country’s delegations on overseas visits or attend international …

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Amid Tension in Islamic World, U.N. Chief Pleads for Harmony By Thalif Deen

  Flutist Eileen Ain performs a musical interlude at the opening session of the General Assembly’s High-level Forum on the Culture of Peace. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider   UNITED NATIONS, Sep 17 2012 (IPS) – Amidst growing political tensions in the Islamic world over a video caricature of the Prophet Muhammad originating in the United States, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is …

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