Muslim Issues

  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 …

  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 …

No Prophet had been reviled so much as Prophet Muhammad, and no book had been  scathingly attacked as the Holy Quran. Why! Why! " Nobody kicks a dead horse" – "The tree that bears the most number of fruits gets the largest number of stones."         Do not panic Brothers and Sisters for Allah says " THIS IS MY BOOK AND I WILL …

An Israeli filmmaker based in California went into hiding Tuesday after his movie attacking Islam's Prophet Muhammad sparked angry assaults by ultra-conservative Muslims on U.S. missions in Egypt and Libya, where a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans were killed. Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location, writer and director Sam Bacile remained defiant, saying Islam is a cancer and …

Front row, from left: Major Gen. Hamid Gul, director general of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI),Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Willian Webster; Deputy Director for Operations Clair George; an ISI colonel; and senior CIA official, Milt Bearden at a Mujahideen training camp in North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan in 1987. (source RAWA)   Ronald Reagan meets Afghan Mujahideen Commanders at …

IN POLITICS AND SELF INTEREST THERE ARE NO PERMANENT FRIENDS OR ENEMIES. READ HOW YESTERDAY'S TERRORISTS BECOME TODAY'S FRIENDS.  Yemeni Jihadist personally trained by Bin Laden   A militant who fought alongside Osama Bin Laden in Afghanistan and is now the leader of a group affiliated with Al-Qaeda in South Yemen has struck a deal with the United States and Saudi …