By Taha Ghayyur / Sound Vision While divorce is not something encouraged by Islam, especially when all the means of reconciliation have not been exhausted, it is not something to be kept hidden from the community. The fact that about a third of the respondents decided to keep their divorce hidden, shows how much stigma divorce still carries in our community.

Categories: Divorce  American Muslims  Family  Islam  Lifestyle  Survey  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By Naveed Qazi / Countercurrents.org About nineteen natives have been killed since the past month. It included young children and youth. It also included women and men, who were the lynchpins of their family. For us, life would move on, but for their sorrowing families, the struggle has just started. Kashmiri mornings are full of causerie, but think about their mornings, will they be peaceful? It would start with a suffocating silence which wouldn't end till the night.

Categories: Kashmir  Occupation  Military Force  India  Human Rights  Brutality  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By Imam Dr. Zijad Delic /the Canadian Islamic Congress Friday Magazine Being faithful and compliant to the laws of Canada and fulfilling my duties as a citizen do not make me more loyal to my homeland than to God. Neither God nor Canada demands exclusive loyalty. God requires that I worship none but Him, but does not prohibit loyalty to others outside the sphere of worship.

Categories: Canadian Muslims  Faith  Islam  Citizenship  Loyalty  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By LIZ GOOCH / NY Times Some political commentators say the show's popularity reflects the increasing Islamization of this Muslim-majority nation of 28 million.

Categories: Malaysia  Islam  The Ulema  al-Qur'an  Reality TV  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Nicholas Watt in Delhi and Vikram Dodd / The Gaurdian David Cameron makes strongest criticism of Pakistan yet

Categories: Britain  Pakistan  Terrorism  Taliban  India  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Robert Booth and Ian Ferguson / The Gaurdian The alliance with Israel is the latest twist in the already extraordinary saga of Khalid's bid to return to power

Categories: Arabian Peninsula  Israel  Iran  United Arab Emirates  Gulf Emirate  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By FEISAL G. MOHAMED / NY Times Bigots of all varieties have claimed an entitlement to their views on grounds of tender conscience.

Categories: Burqa  Religious Bigotry  Philosophy  Freedom of Worship  European Muslims  

Added: July 29, 2010

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By Dr. Habib Siddiqui / Countercurrents.org America has been a land of immigrants. It is its religious tolerance that allowed many Jews and others to find a safe refuge here. There is no better symbol of America's tolerance than a Muslim center near the Ground Zero. Denying such rights to Muslims who now are perhaps the second largest religious community will be a slap to that very American model.

Categories: Mosque  American Muslims  Islamophobia  Tolerance  9/11  

Added: July 28, 2010

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By Simon Tisdall / The Gaurdian Leaked Afghanistan war logs reveal villagers' unenthusiastic responses to US army attempts to build bridges

Categories: Afghanistan  Intelligence Agencies  Human Rights  War Atrocities  The US  

Added: July 27, 2010

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By Muriel Mirak-Weissbach / Global Research Is there anyone comparable to Frederik de Klerk, capable of recognizing that a system founded on injustice could not morally survive? Yitzhak Rabin apparently reached that conclusion. Who is prepared to take up his legacy today?

Categories: Israel  Iran  Middle East  War  

Added: July 27, 2010

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