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[Editors' note: Submission to the Lessons Learnt and Reconciliation Commission, 4th of November, 2010.] Northern Muslims in Post Conflict Sri Lanka The entire Muslim community of Sri Lanka’s Northern Province – numbering approximately 75,000 persons, were expelled by the LTTE in a systematic and organized manner during a two week period in October 1990. Northern Muslims were 5% of the Population …
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Resettle Displaced Muslims in Jaffna, By Sumaiya Rizvi
Iran to help An Iranian delegation was scheduled to arrive in the island today to visit Muslim Internally Displaced Persons in Sri Lanka, who marked 20 years since their eviction from the Jaffna Peninsula recently, Sri Lankan Ambassador to Iran M.M Zuhair said yesterday “The delegates would be visiting IDP’s to assess their situation and find ways to help them,” …
Read More »British troops may face Iraq war crimes trial, By Ian Cobain
Interrogators at secret jail dubbed 'UK's Abu Ghraib' referred to chief military prosecutor A number of British military interrogators may face war crimes charges after members of their unit filmed themselves while threatening and abusing Iraqi detainees at a secret prison near Basra, the high court heard today. The men have been referred to the Director of Service Prosecutions …
Read More »Islamic Identity and the Two Faces of the West, By Dr. M.A. Muqtedar Khan
The contemporary resurgence of Islam and the growth of Islam in the West together have profound implications for what being a Muslim means today. The resurgence of Islam is essentially a search for authenticity, an attempt to reconstruct the Islamic identity within the contemporary context. And that contemporary context remains within the purview of Western influence. Muslim intellectuals and thinkers …
Read More »Dealing with Islamophobia
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Read More »Yemen orders arrest of al-Awlaki
US-born preacher's arrest sought after he and a relative fail to appear for a second time before a terrorism court. A Yemeni judge has issued an order that the US-born Muslim preacher Anwar al-Awlaki has to be caught dead or alive, for alleged links to al-Qaeda and involvement in the killing of foreigners. Mohsen Alwan, in a ruling on Saturday, …
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