China Shuts Mosques in Xinjiang province
Region: China
China shuts 41 mosques in Xinjiang province concerning the safety during Beijing Olympics. According to Chinese official, these mosques are training centre of “holy war” or “Jihad”. They have also ... more
Views: 1665Hindu family moved to court over relative’s burial
Region: MalaysiaA Hindu family in Malaysia knocked the door of court when hospital in Penang refused to release dead body of their relative for cremation. B Elangesvaran committed suicide by hanging himself on Sunday 22 June. The hospita... more
Views: 1649In Bahrain, Sect Determines Spouse
Region: Bahrain
Coolred38 is an American Muslim living in Bahrain, and she often finds herself frustrated at examples of what she sees as bad and even harmful behaviour being justified by religion. She recently posted about a 'scandal' in... more
Views: 1884A Counter Culture of Courage
Region: India
When Madhavi Kapoor wanted to sell her flat in Pune and found that her efforts were being thwarted because her buyer was a Muslim, she did some thing unusual. Instead of humming and hawing to her buyer and fobbing him off ... more
Views: 1653Arabeyes: Bloggers Indifferent to Magdi Allam's Conversion to Catholicism
Region: Egypt
by Jillian York During Easter weekend, Pope Benedict XVI baptized several adults into Catholicism. Among them was Magdi Allam, an Egyptian-born Muslim who has lived in Italy for more than half his life and is known as a ... more
Views: 1561Pakistani Students Protest Denmark Cartoons
Region: Pakistan
Students protested against Blasphemy cartoon of Denmark paper. CHITRAL: Hundred of Students of different private and government colleges protested against the blasphemy cartoon published in some papers of Denmark.... more
Views: 1530Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan - The Non Violent Giant
Region: Afghanistan
n July 1988, one sunny evening I went over to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in Delhi during visiting hours to visit a friend’s father who was admitted there. It was the visiting hours and normally there... more
Views: 2247Dead Body of Malaysian claimed to be Hindu Buried with Muslim Rites
Region: MalaysiaDead body of ethnic Indian Hindu who converted to Islam was buried according to Muslim rites. Family of the deceased filed an application with Penang court few days back for cremations of the body according to Hindu rites ... more
Views: 1039Observation of Urumqi bloodshed
Region: Chinanews agency Xinhuanet earlier reported that more that 156 people on Sunday had lost their lives in Urumqi, the capital of China’s autonomous province Xinjiang where ethnic violence erupted. Hundreds are reported inju... more
Views: 1202Tasleema is Back
Region: India
08/08/08 New Delhi, India Banladeshi writer Taslima Nasreen’s problems does not seem to be ending as of now. Tasleema was in India 5 months ago, when she got disgraced by Islamists in Hyderabad... more
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