Khalid Samad to appeal to Sultan of Selangor (The New Straits Times)

KUALA LUMPUR, Wed: The Member of Parliament for Shah Alam, Khalid Samad, will appeal to the Sultan of Selangor and the state government to intervene on the issue of the revocation of his authorisation to preach on Islam by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais).

Cairo slams Swiss minaret vote (Straits Times)

CAIRO - MUSLIMS in Cairo - once dubbed the City of a Thousand Minarets - have slammed a referendum in Switzerland banning new minarets as intolerant, but few have called for a boycott of Swiss goods. At the prestigious Al-Azhar, Sunni Islam\'s main seat of learning, authorities were dismayed after more than 57 percent of Swiss voters on Sunday approved the right-wing motion to ban minarets on ...

BANK ISLAM EYES 5,000 NEW CARDHOLDERS WITH WORLD MASTERCARD (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)

KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 3 (Bernama) -- Bank Islam Malaysia Bhd aims to sign up 5,000 new cardholders with the launch of its new World MasterCard card for the financial year ending June 30, 2010.

"Muslims have to fight misconceptions about Islam": India's Saudi ...

Muslims have to fight misconceptions about Islam: Saudi envoy (Interview) By Sarwar Kashani New Delhi, Nov 25 (IANS) The “anti-Islam”

Gates of Vienna: A Justifiable Fear of Political Islam

The minaret is merely a symbol of a justifiable fear of political Islam. So it is good that Swiss citizens have intervened in this situation and said a clear “No.” I would also like to see a broader discussion in Germany about female ...

What's Liberating about Islam? – by Rita Karlsen | FrontPage Magazine

“What\'s liberating about Islam is that one is spared from having to think.” This, essentially, is how a woman explained to me the change that had taken place in her life since her conversion to Islam. Since then, I\'ve thought about her ...

Somalia : Al-Shabaab Denies Attack Against Kenya - AllAfrica.com

We are keeping the security of the districts we captured from Hizbul Islam and we will be establishing authorities different from our enemy.....there is no danger facing us from Kenya," said Sheikh Abdifitah. Ali said his group will only keep peace ...

Apologetic attitudes towards radical Islam aggravate it (Moldova.org)

By Tawfik Hamid Ignoring a problem or trying to find justification for the problem instead of confronting it can only make things worse. For example, if someone disregarded the start of a fire in his house, or a doctor ignored the beginning signs of cancer in the body, the outcome would be disastrous. Overwhelming evidence supports the view that a radical and lethal form of Islam has been ...

Khalid Samad to appeal to Sultan of Selangor (The New Straits Times)

KUALA LUMPUR, Wed: The Member of Parliament for Shah Alam, Khalid Samad, will appeal to the Sultan of Selangor and the state government to intervene on the issue of the revocation of his authorisation to preach on Islam by the Selangor Islamic Religious Department (Jais).