Muslim Issues

DADAAB, Kenya — Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa's famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with hungry Somalis. Jill Biden is the highest-profile U.S. visitor to East …

Those condemning the events in north London and elsewhere would do well to take a step back and consider the bigger picture Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the …

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 10, 2011 (IPS) – The beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has so far defied the Security Council, ignored appeals by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, rejected pleas from neighbouring Turkey and the Arab world, and summarily dismissed the threats and sanctions by Western powers. But how is it going to react to a plea from IBSA, …

UNITED NATIONS, Aug 1, 2011 (IPS) – The U.N. Security Council has continued to remain politically paralysed on the indiscriminate killings of civilians in Syria, and that paralysis, according to U.N. diplomats, has been triggered ironically by the ongoing turmoil in another Arab nation – Libya. The devastation caused by Western military forces in Libya – justified under the guise …

Australian born Jew and Israeli citizen Rupert Murdoch who controls the global media suffers from intense hatred towards Muslims. He used his media empire to demonize Islam and Muslims, cover up all Israeli crimes and atrocities and help create the environment justifying United States and European invasions and destruction of Muslim countries. Never in the more than fourteen century inspiring …

By: MOHAMED SHEIKH NOR and JASON STRAZIUSO , Associated Press  MOGADISHU, Somalia – Kaltum Mohamed sits beside a small mound of earth, alone with her thoughts. It is her child's grave — and there are three others like it. Just three weeks ago, Mohamed was the mother of five young children. But the famine that has rocked Somalia has claimed …