A Compendium of reports on the current War on Islam
Prisoner Maysara Abuhamdia dies; son accuses PA of betrayal (The Electronic Intifada) – By Linah Alsaafin Maysara Abuhamdia has died, shackled to his bed in Saroka Hospital. He was 64 years old. This marks the second time in less than two months that a Palestinian prisoner has died in custody. Arafat Jaradat was tortured to death in Megiddo […]
Residents ‘suspicious’ as school fire kills 13 amid Myanmar violence (Al Arabiya) – By Reuters A fire at an Islamic school in Yangon killed 13 children in the early hours of Tuesday in what officials said could have been an accident, but comes in the aftermath of a wave of violence against Muslims in Buddhist-majority […]
Women’s group under the scanner of Mumbai police (The Times of India) – By Mateen Hafeez MUMBAI: Intelligence agencies in the state have sent letters to all police stations in Mumbai asking them to monitor the activities of the Girls Islamic Organization (GIO). The organization is trying to “motivate girls towards Islam”, the letter warned. GIO […]
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- 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 […]
Artist/Activist Christopher Towne (Postubermensch): The case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui is both strange and disturbing. The so-called “War on Terror” demands periodic show trials, to make endless wars appear justified. Countless people have been victimized in this way, and Dr. Siddiqui’s case is such a grave injustice that it has gathered an international movement to demand her […]
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 PressTV Local officials in Afghanistan say a young Afghan man has stabbed an American soldier to death in the eastern province of Nangarhar, Press TV reports. Haji Zalmai Khan, governor of the Ghani Khel District, said the 14-year-old assailant had fled the scene after approaching the solider and stabbing him. He added that […]
- 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 […]
