News updates

Washington, DC/New York, New York – What do one billion Muslims really think? Despite widespread media coverage of global terrorism by various self-proclaimed “Islamic” groups from America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, little is known about what the majority of the world’s Muslims really think and feel. What do Muslims have to say about violence and terrorist attacks, democracy, …

The Sun Is Setting on the Two-State Solution Perhaps recent leaders of Israel might made better choices had they spent more time reading Sherlock Holmes. Of particular use to them might have been The Adventure of the Beryl Coronet in which Holmes says, “It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however …

Tanweer Academy organizes a 3-day Islamic Leadership Training and Career Guidance Camp for Sinhala Medium Muslim Students who sat for the O/L Examinations in 2009 December. Insha Allah, this program will be conducted from 04th – 07th February, 2010 at Tanweer Academy, Thihariya (Gampaha District). This is a full-time, residential program specially designed to provide a comprehensive knowledge, guidance and …

CAIRO – A French debate on defining the values constituting national identity is sparking controversy in the western European country, amid warnings that the discussions are particularly targeting the Muslim presence. “When they define the shared values that make France’s national identity, they always focus on secularism, and integrating immigrants,” Myriam Belmehdi, 19, told the Los Angeles Times on Monday, …

Renowned American sociopolitical analyst Noam Chomsky says Israel functions as Washington’s main weapons storage base in the Middle East. “Israel is essentially a US military base, the US positions weapons there, that’s a very close military and intelligence tie,” the Jewish academic told Press TV on Wednesday while explaining the complexity of relations between Washington and Tel Aviv. Commenting on …

Senior officials in Israel confirmed reports on Monday that a British court issued a warrant against opposition leader Mrs. Tzipi Livni for her role in orchestrating Israel’s military offensive against Hamas in the Gaza Strip last December. British sources reported  that though a British court had issued an arrest warrant for Livni over war crimes committed in Gaza, it annulled …