Tag: Islam

British retailer Marks & Spencer faced criticism on Monday after it emerged that it allows Muslim staff to refuse to sell customers pork and alcohol. More than 8,000 people have signed up to a Facebook page calling for a boycott

(AP) Jury: 2 men guilty of UK soldier murderBy JILL LAWLESSAssociated PressLONDONA jury on Thursday convicted two British men who considered themselves “soldiers of Allah” of murdering a serviceman who was run down with a car and stabbed to death

ALEPPO, Syria, Dec. 16 (UPI) — Both sides accused each other of slaughter as an opposition group said Syrian troops bombed Aleppo and the government said Islamic rebels executed civilians. Syrian military officials said more than 80 civilians in Adra were

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com U.N. makes biggest funding request ever, for Syria Arab states split over issue of Iran’s rapprochement with the West U.N. makes biggest funding request ever, for Syria A Syrian man cries carrying the body

(AP) Execution in Bangladesh sparks violent protestsBy JULHAS ALAMAssociated PressDHAKA, BangladeshThe execution of an opposition leader in Bangladesh sparked violent protests Friday as activists torched homes and businesses belonging to government supporters, leaving at least three people dead, in a

British Prime Minister David Cameron said that he is willing to classify “Islamist extremism” as an ideology distinct from Islam in his country. He wants to use the same techniques Britain has used to target online pornography by easing the

Tensions between Iran and Israel over nuclear power have put Iran back in the news. America is confronted with the question: how should we deal with Iran? John McCain has his own advice, which he shared with America during his

A controversy has erupted over reports that the Southwest African nation of Angola has banned Islam and destroyed mosques. According to a report in the Moroccan newspaper la Nouvelle Tribune, Angolan officials confirmed the actions. Angola’s minister of culture, Rosa

The original tale may be apocryphal, but the story of the silver spoon has saved the lives of hundreds of British Muslim girls being forced into marriage by their parents. “Put a spoon in your knickers,” a counselor at the

(AP) Battle for Syrian army base kills 24 rebelsBy BARBARA SURKAssociated PressBEIRUTA fierce battle for control of a Syrian military base near a northern, opposition-held city has killed 24 rebels so far but the government troops have managed to hold

Cornered by a straightforward question he did not want to answer, the head of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Los Angeles office chose instead to misrepresent his organization’s actions and feign outrage that the question itself was bigoted. “Will

In July, Christian teenager Hajja was picking corn in Gwoza, which is in the northeastern region of Nigeria, when the radical Muslim terrorist group Boko Haram, who control that region, kidnapped her. One of the men held a knife to

Arguments that terror prosecutions are criminalizing protected speech took another hit Wednesday, when the First Circuit Court of Appeals upheld terror-support convictions against Tarek Mehanna. Mehanna is serving 17½ years in prison after a Boston jury convicted him in 2011 of conspiracy

When I lived in Cape Town, South Africa, I occasionally listened to the local Islamic radio station, partly out of curiosity and partly because it was often left on in the background in the living room of the Muslim family

The man who calls himself Abu Muslim sits with his fellow fighters, members of the group Katiba al Muhajireen, and raises his rifle for the camera. He has come to Aleppo to fight, he tells the man who has come to