A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
- By Farid Malik, CagePrisoners On 19 March 2013, as commuters swiped their Oyster Cards and waited habitually for transport that was habitually late, the free London Evening Standard dedicated an entire page to their ‘investigatory reporter’ Tom Harper’s article entitled, ‘Hamza’s son prays for holy war in mosque videos…and backs al Qaeda terror suspect’. The article […]
- By Peter Hart How long can media keep printing lies about the Iraq War? Today’s Washington Post (3/22/13) provides one answer, since they printed an 0p-ed by former Bush national security adviser Stephen Hadleywhere he argued this: After Hussein was deposed, we did not find the stockpiles of WMDs that all the world’s major intelligence services, the Clinton […]
China becomes world’s fifth largest arms exporter, bypassing Britain in that ranking (Washington Post) – By Associated Press STOCKHOLM — China has bypassed Britain as the world’s fifth largest arms exporter, a Swedish think tank said Monday. The volume of Chinese weapons exports rose by 162 percent in the five years 2008-2012, compared to the previous five-year […]
- By Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed, The Huffington Post Abridged from The Cutting Edge As a participant in the BBC Newsnight special, ‘Iraq – 10 Years On‘, I found myself feeling slightly miffed at the lack of real debate on the crucial issues. Newsnight presented some deeply questionable narratives of the war and its aftermath as ‘fact’; and systematically […]
- By DNA Correspondent The National Commission for Minorities (NCM) has decided to take up the issue of news channels practice of isolating Muslims after every bomb blasts with the Press Council of India and the News Broadcasting Standard Authority (NBSA). NCM Chairperson Wajahat Wajahat Habibullah has assured the Hyderabad based Civil Liberties Monitoring Committee […]
From Al Jazeera: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones, have crept into modern warfare as quietly as the airborne killing machines themselves and, on the whole, media reporting on them has been just as subdued. Last week, the veil of silence was finally lifted when two of the most important and influential newspapers […]
From Somalimidnimo.com: We will automatically produce and release audio and visual news in English, we will also produce documentaries in English such as; breaking new, analysis, commentaries and etc. In these news programs people will be able to comment and give feed backs in real time. On the other hand, there will be some streaming […]
- By Shaik Zakeer Hussain, Mashaal The mass Media in India and elsewhere is corporate owned, and like any corporate owned entity, its sole purpose is to generate profit and to push forward its interests into the ‘mainstream’. And beyond doubt, it has been successful in both. The media, like any ingenious manipulator crafts its words and […]
- By Shaik Zakeer Hussain, Mashaal In India, even though a suspect is acquitted, of his alleged crime by a court, the media continues to portray them as social maniacs and traitors, who need to be ‘exposed’ in the interest of ‘national security’. The morning Afzal Guru was hanged, television channels called people with disparate […]
The imprisonment of scholars is not a rare phenomenon. Across the globe and throughout history, religious leaders have been imprisoned because their beliefs have not been a neat fit with state policies and ideologies. – By Shereen Fernandez, CagePrisoners A Twitter storm in December brought to people’s attention the imprisonment of Sheikh Nasr al Fahd, […]
