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Protest against inclusion of Ahmediyyas in Muslim census

Edit The Times of India 11 Aug 2016
The Majlis Tahaffuze Khatme Nabuwat (MTKN), a body of prominent religious scholars, on Tuesday slammed the Centre for treating the Ahmadiyyas, also known as Qadiyanis, as a part of the Muslim community in the Census 2011 ... According to Mohammed Sohail, president of Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat, the religious body "has no right to comment on the Muslim nature of the community"....

Muslim women most disadvantaged, say MPs

Edit BBC News 11 Aug 2016
Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in British society, according to a report by MPs ... "We are making progress - for example, there are now 45% more Muslim women in work than in 2011 - but we know there is much more to do," the government spokesman added ... Evidence suggested the biggest cause of the "acute" disadvantage felt by Muslim women is their religion, it said ... However, among Muslim women the figure was 58%....

UK confusion between integration and counter-terrorism hinders Muslims

Edit The Guardian 11 Aug 2016
Muslim women in particular are discriminated against inside and outside their communities and this needs to be addressed, says Commons report. The government’s conflation of integration with counter-terrorism has exacerbated inequalities experienced by British Muslims, MPs have said ... But it bemoaned the lack of data on Muslims, which it said must be addressed to help devise the government’s response to the inequalities....

Muslims need support to tackle employment inequality, MPs say

Edit Belfast Telegraph 11 Aug 2016
Targeted support must be introduced to help tackle employment inequalities faced by Muslims in the UK, MPs have said. A new report by the Women and Equalities Committee highlights the fact that Muslim people face the highest level of unemployment of all religious and ethnic groups at 12.8% compared to 5.4% for the general population....

'Hey ISIS, You Suck': Muslims erect billboard with a tough message for the Islamic State

Edit Deseret News 11 Aug 2016
A group of Muslims in Chicago have erected a new billboard that delivers a pointed message to the Islamic State ... The latter clearly takes aim at the Islamic State's interpretation of both the Quran and the Muslim faith ... According to the organization's website, the campaign was dreamed up by "a group of young American Muslim fathers on a WhatsApp group in Chicago."...

France and Germany search for solutions to Islamist challenge

Edit Deseret News 11 Aug 2016
radicalized Muslim youth. The murder of a French Catholic priest last month, coming after three massacres that claimed a total of 232 lives in the past year and a half, has provoked calls for tough measures such as the internment of thousands of suspected radical Muslims — measures critics warn would be unconstitutional ... “France should become a center of excellence for teaching Muslim theology in Europe,” he said....

Hijabs at Olympics aren’t about freedom

Edit Toronto Sun 11 Aug 2016
Hijabs are worn by a minority of Muslim women in western countries, and a majority in much of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. Defenders of the hijab say it represents religious freedom, modesty and a commitment to the Muslim faith ... To quote liberal Muslim feminists Asra Q ... Of course, the overwhelming majority of Muslim women who wear the hijab, including these two Olympians, are peaceful people, not radical jihadists....

Theresa May’s counter-extremism strategy ‘negatively affecting unemployed Muslims’

Edit The Independent 11 Aug 2016
When the MPs were conducting their inquiry into the job prospects of British Muslims, they encountered witnesses who were afraid to talk to them, because of ......

How do Muslim parents explain this election to their children?

Edit Sacramento Bee 11 Aug 2016
Election Day is coming soon, and Rashida Tlaib is making sure her two sons understand what a watershed event this could be for American Muslims like them ... Abdullah Hammoud, a Muslim Democrat running for the Michigan legislature ... Hammoud’s ascent provides one answer to a question that Muslim parents are asking themselves every day....

More must be done to tackle Muslim employment inequality, MPs argue

Edit ITV 11 Aug 2016
Muslims face the highest unemployment levels of all religious and ethnic groups in the UK and more must be done to tackle this inequality, MPs have said ... among Muslims, a new report by the Women and Equalities Committee has found....

U.S. religious freedom report criticizes blasphemy laws, discrimination of minority faiths

Edit The Salt Lake Tribune 11 Aug 2016
Washington • The Obama administration is highlighting concerns over laws against blasphemy and apostasy that limit religious freedom in Muslim and other nations where they are on the books. The State Department said in its annual report on global religious freedom released Wednesday that these laws, notably in Muslim countries, can abet societal and religious passions that often encourage death sentences for the accused ... ....

Twin Falls Refugee Rape Special Report: Why Are The Refugees Moving In?

Edit Breitbart 11 Aug 2016
Two recent sexual assaults by Muslims in this community of about 50,000 people have made national headlines and raised a wider question ... The simplest part of the answer is that Muslim refugees are being used as cheap replacements for the middle-class ......

Religious organizations need to collaborate in fight against ISIS

Edit The Times of India 11 Aug 2016
While the ulama in general have been consistently denouncing the outfit by terming it "un-Islamic" for having spilled blood of Muslims and people of other faiths", the more important development is the willingness of this madrassa group to use the Friday sermon to spread awareness against the dangerous repercussions of sympathizing with the terror outfit....
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