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#dnaEdit: Ending triple talaq

Edit DNA India 02 Jun 2016
For decades now, Muslim women haven’t been able to use rights enshrined in the Constitution ... A movement to outlaw triple talaq — the archaic practice of unilateral and oral divorce in the Muslim community — is gathering steam in civil society, and it is incumbent upon the central government and the Supreme Court to take note of these developments....

Hong Kong Football’s New Generation Ready to Shoulder the Load in AYA Bank Cup 2016 (HKFA - Hong Kong Football Association)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jun 2016
Hong Kong born-and-raised promising attacker Hui Ka-lok admitted his disappointment on falling short in the Best Young Player Award for the recently concluded Hong Kong Premier League season. However, young Hui revealed the chance to represent Hong Kong in the international 'A' level this summer had rekindled his burning desire to excel on the football pitch....

Don’t let Muslims here

Edit Indian Express 02 Jun 2016
Residents of Kapurai — a neighbourhood in Vadodara where about 300 displaced families, mostly Muslims, are supposed to be relocated following the demolition of their homes in Suleiman Chawl — have written to the Vadodara Municipal Corporation protesting against the move ... Allotting homes to Muslim families from Suleiman Chawl in this area will hamper the peace-loving nature here.”....

VP Hamid Ansari

Edit Indian Express 02 Jun 2016
Muslims in India have no inclination to resort to “ideologies and practices of violence”, Vice President Hamid Ansari said Wednesday, as he offered Moroccan scholars a glimpse of India’s efforts to seek acceptance of diversity. “The Muslim experience ... Hamid Ansari Affirmative action for Muslims key to sabka saath, sabka vikas....

Conservatives are not bigots

Edit Toronto Sun 02 Jun 2016
Urz Heer did herself no favours when she stood up during the recent Conservative Party convention to chastise fellow Conservatives for their treatment of Muslims during the 2015 federal election campaign ... “It didn’t differentiate who Muslims were, versus the enemy,” she said, fighting back tears ... Heer charges Conservatives intentionally excluded Muslims during the federal election campaign....

Indian court to rule on Gujarat violence today

Edit Arabnews 02 Jun 2016
They are charged with murder, rioting, criminal conspiracy and arson over the deaths of 69 Muslims sheltering in a residential complex in the city of Ahmedabad ... Kodekar said Wednesday he was seeking life in prison for all 62 accused of storming the Gulbarg Society complex, hacking to death and burning the Muslims hiding there ... blamed on Muslims....

Irving mayor motivates Muslims - Letters to the Editor

Edit The Dallas Morning News 02 Jun 2016
“One vote — a Muslim’s — made all the difference in Irving race,” by James Ragland, Tuesday Metro ......

Trump in Britain? 'Oh Bloody Hell'

Edit Voa News 02 Jun 2016
The reaction was as expected in a country where more than a half-million people, offended by Trump’s remarks about Muslims, signed a petition six months ago to ban him from entering Britain ... Trump angered many in Britain when he pledged to ban Muslims temporarily from the United States last year, following a terrorist attack in California....

This bigoted radical doesn’t deserve a ‘feminist artist’ award

Edit New York Post 02 Jun 2016
In her lectures, she doesn’t condemn Jordan or Egypt for their anti-Palestinian actions, nor does she fault the many Arab and Muslim countries that have systematically refused citizenship and even employment to Arab Palestinians. Davis doesn’t talk about the anti-black racism of Arabs or about the practice of real gender and religious apartheid in Muslim countries....

Bernie Sanders links ‘rise of Trumpism’ to racism

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 02 Jun 2016
With polls tightening in California leading up to next week’s presidential primary, Sen ... In the wake of Trump calling for a ban on all Muslims entering the United States, Sanders said, Muslim parents have told him their children are afraid to walk the streets ... [...] although they both oppose the U.S ... > ....

Muslim Student Picks Military College That Will Allow Her to Wear Headscarf

Edit Voa News 02 Jun 2016
A Muslim high school student from Florida who hopes to become a U.S ... of Cadets to welcome and respect diversity and to be inclusive of all people.'' Sana's father, Nezar Hamze, said they are considering legal options against The Citadel, and are working with a lawyer at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, which advocates on behalf of Muslims....

Bahrain charges 18 with contacting Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Hezbollah - BNA

Edit Topix 02 Jun 2016
Bahrain has charged 18 people with contacting Iran's Revolutionary Guard and the Shi'ite Muslim Lebanese Hezbollah group with the aim of stirring up unrest in the kingdom, state news agency BNA reported on Wednesday. Members of Iran's revolutionary guard look at a surface to surface missile which is launched during a war game near the city of Qom, about 120 km south of Tehran June 28, 2011 ... ....

MCB donates Rs. 1 million to Sri Lanka - Pakistan Trade and...

Edit Topix 02 Jun 2016
June 01, Colombo. In order to join hands with the Pakistan Government's relief activities for Sri Lanka flood affected, Pakistan's leading bank, Muslim Commercial Bank presented a check for Rs. 1 million to the President of Sri Lanka -Pakistan Trade and Investment Association, Mr. Iftikhar Aziz in a ceremony held Monday at the High Commission of Pakistan in Colombo ... ....
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