Mulcair lost by bowing to Islamism

Edit Toronto Sun 13 Apr 2016
Despite Mulcair’s lurch to the right, he could still have been prime minister had it not been for his outlandish support for the right of a Muslim woman to wear the Islamic niqab at her Canadian citizenship swearing in ceremony ... There is also a bizarre movement among left wing feminists to label oppressive anti-women laws written by Muslim men ......

Vandalism at west Wichita mosque is gang-related

Edit The Wichita Eagle 13 Apr 2016
Graffiti doesn’t appear to be aimed at Muslims, official says. Vandalism is under investigation; mosque was site of 2011 arson ... ....

Amnesty urges probe over allegation Nigerian army secretly buried Shi'ites

Edit Reuters 13 Apr 2016
KADUNA, Nigeria (Reuters) - Claims by a Kaduna state official that Nigeria's military secretly buried 347 people after clashes with members of a minority Shi'ite Muslim sect should be investigated and anyone suspected of wrongdoing put on trial, Amnesty International said on Tuesday. ....

Grim memories of riots & arson cloud Malda poll talk

Edit The Times of India 13 Apr 2016
KALIACHAK/BAISNABNA. There's little physical evidence of the riot and arson that earned Kaliachak sudden disrepute this January. The police station, established in 1875, has been smartened up with a coat of blue paint ... But it will hardly matter ... Among other things, it talks of Hindus under attack, "anti-national" JNU students and Mamata Banerjee's Muslim appeasement ... Hindus appear to outnumber Muslims in this constituency ... ....

Kerala nominees catch flight to the Gulf in hunt for votes

Edit The Times of India 13 Apr 2016
KOZHIKODE. Democracy might still be a mirage in the Gulf ... Last month, the Kerala Muslim Cultural Centre (KMCC), IUML's expat wing, registered over 1,200 NRKs as new voters and has chartered a plane to fly them from Dubai to Kozhikode on May 12. This election has seen candidates flying to the Gulf to campaign personally and woo expats. Some more are planning to conduct whirlwind campaign tours ... "Expats have emerged as a crucial segment ... ....

US election 2016: Speaker Paul Ryan insists he won't run

Edit Sydney Morning Herald 13 Apr 2016
Washington ... On Tuesday, the House Speaker told Americans ... Count me out." ... Advertisement ... In campaigning for what he calls 'Confident America,' Ryan supports the trade deals opposed by Trump and by Cruz; he wants to cut into the 'entitlement' programs that Trump defends; he calls for immigration reform – not building border walls [Trump] or securing and patrolling Muslim communities [Cruz] ... ....

How to be free of caste

Edit The Hindu 13 Apr 2016
This year, India has sponsored the observation of the birth anniversary of Babasaheb Ambedkar at the United Nations for the first time ... Nor are the Dalit rights activists in India and abroad ... Indians belonging to virtually every religious and caste group, including Muslims, Christians, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, admit to practising untouchability, shows the India Human Development Survey (IHDS-II) of 2011-12 ... Keywords....

'We are the forgotten people': the anguish of Australia's 'invisible' asylum seekers

Edit The Guardian 13 Apr 2016
Nearly 29,000 asylum seekers are in Australia on temporary ‘bridging visas’ ... A Guardian Australia investigation. by Ben Doherty and Abdul Karim Hekmat. Life and death on a bridging visa. July nights were freezing ... He knew he could not afford to run a heater ... The 37-year-old Sri Lankan Muslim arrived in Australia by boat in 2012, fleeing the sectarian violence that continues to benight the country ... “I am a Muslim, I never do the wrong thing....

52% of British Muslims in poll think homosexuality should be illegal

Edit CNN 12 Apr 2016
London (CNN)More than half of British Muslims (52%) think homosexuality should not be legal, and nearly half (47%) think it is not appropriate for gay people to teach in schools, according to a new survey of British Muslims ... The findings come from face-to-face interviews with 1,081 British Muslims by the polling agency ICM for a television program, "What British Muslims Really Think." ... Muslim man fears backlash after Brussels attacks....

Trevor Phillips' research on British Muslims is dangerous and wrong. No wonder Islamophobia is on ...

Edit The Independent 12 Apr 2016
What do British Muslims really think? That was the question asked in a Channel 4 survey, the conclusions of which have sparked yet another round of Muslim-bashing ... Five months ago The Sun claimed that 20 per cent of British Muslims had “sympathy for jihadis” – which, it turned out, was wildly exaggerated ... Framing Muslims as the ‘other’ is an international problem....

The Barbaric Murder of Asad Shah Will Set a Dangerous Precedent, Muslims Need to Condemn ...

Edit Huffington Post 12 Apr 2016
Ahmadiyya Muslim Mosque, Glasgow. As the Glasgow community came together in the aftermath of Asad Shah's murder, some elements of the Muslim community seemed to be ecstatic at the murder of a devout and loved Ahmadi Muslim. It's the very first case of an Ahmadi Muslim being killed in the UK due to his faith ... Today many Imams and Muslim leaders refuse to acknowledge Ahmadis as Muslims ... Acknowledging them as Muslims would be a good start....

Homosexuality Should Be Illegal

Edit Opposing Views 12 Apr 2016
More than half of British Muslims say homosexuality should be illegal in the country, according to a poll that reveals stark differences between the attitudes of U.K. Muslims and the general public ... The poll suggests that Muslims constitute a "nation within a nation," and underscores the significant challenges in integrating the religious group into mainstream British culture, the Guardian reported....

British Muslims Nearly THREE TIMES More Anti-Semitic Than General Population

Edit Breitbart 12 Apr 2016
British Muslims are far more likely to hold anti-Semitic views than the general British population, and are far less likely to see anti-Semitism as a problem, analysis of a poll on Muslims attitudes has found ... More than 1,000 British Muslims were ......
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