A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
Sri Lanka has been rocked in recent weeks by a growing wave of anti-Muslim sentiment led by ultra-nationalist Buddhist monks. According to one expert, the small island nation is suffering a profound and worrying identity crisis. – By Charlotte Boitiaux, France 24 On the evening of March 28, a Muslim clothes trader watched as his warehouse […]
Israel has launched fresh air strikes on the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the first such attack since the November ceasefire between the Hamas and Israel. Israel has been continuously violating the ceasefire since November with the first violation coming on the very second day after the agreement. The Jerusalem Fund has published an extensive list of […]
- By RIA Novosti Flickr.com/ Diane M. Byrne MOSCOW, April 2 (RIA Novosti) – A court in south Russia has banned as “extremist” a book entitled “How to Accept Islam,” officials said on Tuesday. The Krasnoyarsk district court ordered all copies of the book to be confiscated and destroyed. Investigators, citing linguistic experts, said the book, […]
- By Ma’an, WAFA Israeli forces fired tear gas and rubber coated bullets at Palestinians marking the annual Land Day in towns across the West Bank and Gaza on Saturday, local media reported. Eyewitnesses told Ma’an News Agency that hundreds of Palestinians gathered in agricultural lands near the West Bank village of Jayyus to plant trees […]
Sri Lanka crowd attacks Muslim warehouse in Colombo (BBC) – By BBC News Several people have been injured in Sri Lanka’s capital, Colombo, when Buddhist monks led hundreds in an assault on a Muslim-owned clothing warehouse. Buddhist monks were filmed throwing stones at the storage centre of popular garment chain Fashion Bug in a […]
- By Vessela Sergueva, The Daily Star KORNITSA, Bulgaria: “Here, feel the bullet, it was never taken out,” says Ibrahim Byalk, presenting his arm where a bullet is still lodged 40 years after he was shot at for refusing to change his name to a non-Muslim one. Sixty-five years old with a weather-beaten face and a […]
- By Ben Fox, Associated Press More prisoners have joined a hunger strike at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, officials said Monday, as defense lawyers expressed alarm about one of the most sustained protests at the base in several years. There are 28 prisoners on hunger strike, up from 21 a week earlier, including […]
A new Gallup poll finds a majority of Americans oppose the drone-executions of US citizens on foreign soil. Then why do they support the Awlaki killing? – By Glenn Greenwald, The Guardian A new Gallup poll released Monday morning has a surprising finding: amajority of Americans – while supporting air strikes in foreign countries against foreign nationals suspected of […]
BBS insists Lanka not multiracial (Colombo Gazette) – By Easwaran Rutnam The Bodu Bala Sena (BBS) says Sri Lanka is not a multiracial or multi-religious country but a Sinhala Budhist country. Speaking at the Bodu Bala Sena convention in Panadura this evening, the venerable Medagoda Abayathissa thero urged the Sinhalese to protect the nation and not […]
- By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada Having regularly documented the horrifying racism and violent fantasies frequently expressed by Israelis on Facebook or Instagram, I thought I had seen everything. But this may be the worst yet. On Wednesday, the picture above of three Palestinian boys in a tent was posted on a popular Facebook page titled in Hebrew “We are all […]
