A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- 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 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 […]
Women Targeted In Anti-Muslim Attacks, More Than Half By Far Right Groups, Tell MAMA Report Says (The Huffington Post) - Jessica Elgot Far-right extremists are responsible for more than half of all attacks on Muslims, with women increasingly targeted in more than half of all Islamophobic hatred, a survey has found. More than 600 attacks on […]
First British fighter killed in Syria named as Ibrahim al-Mazwagi (The Independent) – By Oliver Duggan The first British-born casualty of the Syrian civil war has been revealed as Ibrahim al-Mazwagi, a 21-year-old jihadist who graduated from Hertfordshire University last year. To his friends, he was a sociable member of the university’s American football team, […]
Second Danish jihadist killed in Syria (The Copenhagen Post) 30-year-old Abdel Maliki has reportedly been killed near the Syrian city of Homs and leaves behind a wife and four young children – By The Copenhagen Post Another Dane has been killed in battle in Syria according to media reports and Islamic Facebook pages. Politiken newspaper […]
Montenegro’s Muslims Stage Mass Prayer to Mark ‘Genocide’ (Balkan Insight) More than 2,000 Bosniaks and ethnic Albanians prayed together to mark the 100th anniversary of what they allege was genocide against their ancestors. – By Milena Milosevic The collective religious ritual took place on Tuesday, in the municipality of Plav in eastern Montenegro, to mark […]
Far-right Dutch Politician Finds Islam (OnIslam) – By OnIslam & News Agencies AMSTERDAM – A leading member in far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders’ party has reverted to Islam after an extensive study about the Islamic religion and Muslims. “I can understand people are skeptic, especially that it is unexpected for many of them,” Arnoud Van Doorn […]
- By Victoria Brittain, TomDispatch Once, as a reporter, I covered wars, conflicts, civil wars, and even a genocide in places like Vietnam, Angola, Eritrea, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, keeping away from official briefings and listening to the people who were living the war. In the years since the Bush administration launched its […]
Iraqis’ death certificates recorded signs of severe mutilation, inquiry hears (The Guardian) Al-Sweady inquiry into accusations against British troops opens with evidence of alleged signs of torture on prisoners – By Ian Cobain and Richard Norton-Taylor A public inquiry into allegations that British troops murdered up to 20 unarmed prisoners and tortured five others following […]
British terror suspects quietly stripped of citizenship… then killed by drones (The Independent) Exclusive: Secret war on enemy within – By Chris Woods, Alice K Ross and Oliver Wright The Government has secretly ramped up a controversial programme that strips people of their British citizenship on national security grounds – with two of the men […]
