After a barrage of criticism, president appears to backtrack, saying: ‘I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making a decision to put a mosque there’ Barack Obama has come under attack from American conservatives for supporting plans to build a mosque two blocks from the site of one of…
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It would be grossly negligent to ignore theology, but its use as a tool of counterterrorism is limited The question: Can you do counter-terrorism without theology? This question is quite obviously about al-Qaida inspired terrorism. Far-right or left terrorists have their own holy scriptures, like the Turner Diaries, but this could in no way be…
The UN Security Council has issued a statement calling for an impartial inquiry into Israel’s raid on a flotilla of Gaza-bound aid ships. The statement said the investigation should be “prompt, impartial, credible and transparent”. It also condemned the “acts” which led to the deaths of at least 10 civilian activists during the operation. The…
Official vows ‘nothing of this sort will happen in the future’ after row over contest for images of Muhammad. Pakistan lifted a two-week-old ban on Facebook today but said it would continue to block individual pages containing “blasphemous” content. Pakistan banned Facebook on 19 May in response to an online competition that invited people around…
Authorities in Pakistan block access to Facebook after a competition page encouraged users to post drawings of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH) Pakistan today blocked Facebook indefinitely in response to public outrage over a competition on the social networking site that encourages people to post drawings of the prophet Muhammad (PBUH). The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority, which…
The UK election has ended in a hung parliament and whilst there is much debate on who will form the next government, one thing is for certain: Britain has doubled its number of Muslim MPs. Despite government minister Shahid Malik losing his Dewsbury seat, Britain now has eight Muslim MPs including three Muslim women and…