Jun 1 2006
Chinese Muslim activist Rebiya Kadeer, freed from prison and sent to the United States last year, said her three children have been arrested in China. Kadeer`s two sons and her daughter, all adults, were taken into custody on Monday. The activist said...
May 31 2006
Bangladesh has shown a way to Asian countries in dealing with the scourge of terrorism. Feared to be emerging as the haven for terrorists in Asia, the deterrent punishment to two terrorists is likely to hurt terrorists. A court sentenced seven Islamist...
May 31 2006
About 150 masked youths brandishing sticks and baseball bats clashed with the police late Monday night and early Tuesday in two suburbs east of Paris, the worst such violence since the unrest that reverberated through France in November, reports The New...
May 31 2006
The brutal war in Darfur has set off what the United Nations has called the “world’s worst humanitarian crisis,” a crucible of death that seems to grow grimmer despite a new peace agreement. But it is not bullets that kill most people...
May 31 2006
Pakistan and India on May 30 exchanged a list of wanted criminals but did not hold any discussion on the matter during the two-day talks between the Pakistan’s interior secretary and India’s home secretary, reports Daily Times. The exchange of lists...
May 30 2006
President Bush, delivering a Memorial Day message surrounded by the graves of thousands of military dead, said Monday that the United States must continue the war on terrorism in the name of those who have given their lives in the cause, reports the...
May 30 2006
Muslims started coming to Europe in great numbers to fill labour shortages after World War II. Europe thought they would all go home when their labour was no longer needed, but recent European history shows that ``guest workers” don’t go...
May 30 2006
Twenty �major conspiracies� by Islamist terrorists in Britain have been uncovered by the security services, John Reid, the home secretary, has disclosed, reports The Sunday Times. Reid said that the existence of so many plots means that the police...
May 30 2006
In an interview with New Idea magazine, Australian Model Michelle Leslie revealed she wore the traditional Muslim headdress to protect herself from men inside the Bali prison in Indonesia she feared would rape her. She was released in November last. She...
May 29 2006
Demand for classes in Islamic Studies, Islam and Middle East has skyrocketed in the United States in the wake of 9/11 attack, the invasion of Afghanistan and the Iraq war. These areas are increasingly considered relevant to global security. Reacting to...