The Muslim parents of an Ohio teenager who fled to Florida fearing an “honor killing” for converting to Christianity today blamed their daughter’s fears on the husband and wife pastors who took their daughter in and didn’t report her presence for more than two weeks. He said he believes the Ohio girl fled to Florida last month after being brainwashed by the pastor of Global Revolution Church of Orlando, who she met on Facebook
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Muslim Parents Deny Threatening Daughter With Honor Killing Over Christianity
In January, Christiane Amanpour was covering the inauguration in Washington D.C. for CNN International when she was struck with an idea for a long-form project. President Barack Obama had said in his inaugural address that he wanted a new way forward for the Islamic world, and that the United States could no longer afford to have another generation of Muslims who view the U.S.
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CNN’s Christiane Amanpour Talks About Generation Islam (The New York Observer)
Fenêtre externe Rifqa Bary, 17 ans L’islam commande la mise à mort de l’apostat, le sang de l’apostat est “autorisé” à être versé, telle est la LOI ISLAMIQUE : voilà pourquoi : ” ils doivent me tuer si ils aiment Allah, ils doivent le faire, ils doivent le faire” crie Riqfa à celle qui lui demande si ces menaces sont réelles … ” Deux hadiths sont habituellement invoqués pour justifier que l’apostat ou l’apostate – certains légistes hanbalites établissent une distinction entre l’un et l’
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USA : Rifqa, musulmane devenue chrétienne, menacée de mor
Today’s Religion News Roundup asks whether Woodstock was a spiritual experience, notes that an Islamic sect has decided gold and silver teeth are unislamic, and looks at a well-known church that has banned six of its members. Also, an answer to the pressing question, What’s behind the Bible verses on the In-N-Out burger wrappers?
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Religion News Roundup: Bible verses + Burgers; Islamic sect pulls gold teeth; Woodstock spirituality
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 11 – The authorities should take firm action against anyone who insults Islam or gives rise to any situation of a seditious nature as there are adequate laws to prosecute such people, Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said today. The existing provisions, either under Section 233 of the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 or under the Penal …
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Enough laws to prosecute people insulting Islam, says Rais (The Malaysian Insider)
PUTRAJAYA, Aug 11 (Bernama) — The authorities should take firm action against anyone who insults Islam or gives rise to any situation of a seditious nature as there are adequate laws to prosecute such people, Information Communication and Culture Minister Datuk Seri Dr Rais Yatim said today.
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ENOUGH LAWS TO PROSECUTE PEOPLE INSULTING ISLAM, SAYS RAIS (Bernama via Yahoo! Malaysia News)
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 10 (Reuters) – Malaysia’s Bank Islam is in talks with several stakeholders in Indonesia’s PT Bank Muamalat and wants to take control of the Indonesian Islamic bank, the Business Times reported on Monday. Without citing named sources, the newspaper said that Bank Islam was close to a deal with at least one of the stakeholders.
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(AFX UK Focus) 2009-08-10 00:46 Bank Islam bids for Bank Muamalat stake-paper (Interactive Investor)
In Kenya, disagreement between majority Christians and the 10% Muslim population has broken out over a proposal to place in Kenya’s new constitution provisions regarding Kadhi courts. According to yesterday’s Christian Post , the proposal would go beyond confirming the existing regional Kadhi courts that adjudicate family law and inheritance matters for Muslims. The provisions would elevate the courts to a national level and extend their jurisdiction to civil and commercial matters between Muslims.
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Christians- Muslims Disagree Over Kadhi Proposal For Kenyan Constitution
PENANG, Aug 9 — Heeding the advice of Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng, Jelutong member of parliament Jeff Ooi has retracted his earlier statement likening the Jemaah Islah Malaysia (JIM) group as an “extremist religious organisation” while stating that he did not insult the Islamic religion. He stopped short of issuing an apology for the statement, answering curtly “I withdraw my statement” …
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Ooi blasts anti-Islam allegations (The Malaysian Insider)
KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 9 — The Umno-owned mass media continued its weekend attacks on the opposition, suggesting DAP is anti-Islam and Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim is willing to betray the Malays to be prime minister — both incendiary subjects in mainly Malay Muslim Malaysia. Utusan Malaysia led the charge with articles and editorials on Saturday and Sunday that painted DAP being against the country’s …
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Umno media paints DAP anti-Islam, Anwar a traitor (The Malaysian Insider)
“What the printing press is to Christianity in the 16th century, that’s what the Internet is doing to Islam now,” Reza Aslan, author of two books on Islam, says. “It has opened up the monopoly over the interpretation of Islam that used to solely belong to the religious class.” Aslan, who is also the executive editor of the social-networking Web site Mecca.com, said that research has consistently shown that the Internet is not an effective recruiting tool for extremists.
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Young Muslims turn to technology to connect, challenge traditions
MARANG, Aug 7 — The Umno Youth movement today invited its PAS counterpart to be together with the movement in a ceramah to be held in Shah Alam on Aug 14 to lash out at certain parties that had been insulting Islam. Umno Youth head Khairy Jamaluddin said the movement wanted to see to what extent PAS Youth would go to criticise its coalition partner, the DAP, which was becoming more bold in …
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Khairy to PAS youth: Come join us to defend Islam (The Malaysian Insider)
POPULATION TRENDS THAT WILL ROCK YOUR FUTURE It is crucial for the worldwide mission of the global church that we think long-term and that we begin to strategically engage our world. The church must break-free of cultural-bound faddish short-term thinking and quick-fix activities. Using population statistics (rounded off) provided by the Population Division of the Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations, I have researched the future population trends of our world by continent and region. These are population details that will rock your future! Read through the population below, and begin to shift your thinking toward where are world is going, and how more effectively global Christians can engage and transform our world.
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Andrew Sullivan has passed along an English translation of the oath sworn by the presidents, elected and otherwise, of the Iranian republic: As the President, I swear to Almighty God before the Holy Quran and the Iranian nation that I will protect the official religion and the Islamic Republic regime and the country’s constitution, and use all my talents and qualifications towards responsibilities I have undertaken, and dedicate myself to serving the people and promoting the country, promoting religion and morality, supporting truth and spreading justice, and will avoid any kind of obstinacy and defend the freedom and dignity of individuals and rights of the nation that the Constitution has recognized.
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Official Oaths, Here and There
One of the bigger religion stories yesterday was the killing last weekend of seven Christians by Muslim Pakistanis. Many more were wounded in attacks on the Christian community of Gojra. Here’s how the New York Times began its story on the attack, headlined “ Hate Engulfs Christians in Pakistan ”: The blistered black walls of the Hameed family’s bedroom tell of an unspeakable crime
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Getting Muslim perspectives on dead Christians?
Interfax reported yesterday that the Appeal Board of the Russian Supreme Court has banned all activities in Russia of the Islamic group, Tablighi Jamaat. Upholding a finding by the Prosecutor General’s Office that Tablighi Jamaat is an extremist group, the Court found that the group’s advocacy of a Global Caliphate “threaten[s] interethnic and inter-religious stability in Russian society and territorial integrity of the Russian Federation.”
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Russian Supreme Court Bans Radical Islamic Group
When you are dealing with a really talented report, one who really knows how to listen and tell the stories of real people, religion can show up in the most unusual and touching places. Veteran Washington Post foreign correspondent Pamela Constable is one of the best and, clearly, she gets religion — in a wide variety of cultures. She has even written a book on that, “ Fragments of Grace : My Search for Meaning in the Strife of South Asia.” I should be honest and admit that Constable has spoken to my students before on Capital Hill, when stateside, and I sure hope that she can do that again.
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Canine door into the real Islamabad
In all my years on the Godbeat, I have never covered a vague “religious festival.” All of the one’s that I have covered — especially when linked to ancient traditions in Christianity, Judaism, Islam and other major faiths — have very precise titles, rituals and purposes. So, if you are willing to ask a question or two, you usually hit a specific passage in scripture, a reference to the life of a holy person, a tie between the secular and religious calendars, or some other hook to the faith in question
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“Religious tradition”? Key facts, please
July 28, 20094:29 pmadmin2Egptian News, Coptic News, Generalby Aaron Klein World Net DailyMosque blamed for igniting Islamic crowds to torch propertyJERUSALEM – Hundreds of Muslims over the weekend tried to set a local Egyptian Christian’s home on fire after he announced he would turn the structure into a church, an Egyptian security source and local Christians told WND. At least four Christian Copts and two Muslim policemen were wounded in the clashes that ensued this past Friday after abou
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Muslim mob targets Christians for building church
If you thought the story of Bryant Neal Vinas , the Long Island Muslim convert who joined Al Qaeda and quickly rose through the ranks before being arrested last fall, was bad for Muslim public relations, the news emerging today of a North Carolina Muslim gang is a PR nightmare. Not helping the situation is the way in which the indictment of these seven individuals, who allegedly planned to wage “violent jihad,” is being reported. This, for example, comes from a relatively short story from The Washington Post : At the center of the ring is Daniel P.
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Another Muslim PR nightmare
Minister Louis Farrakhan said Sunday he was asked by a lawyer to counsel Michael Jackson seven days before the entertainer’s death. But Farrakhan took a scheduled trip to Africa and wasn’t able to speak to him. Addressing 2,000 followers at Mosque Maryam, the Nation of Islam headquarters on the South Side, Farrakhan described Jackson as a “messianic voice” and an “archangel of sound, song and …
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Farrakhan sees ‘conspiracy’ in Jacko’s death (Chicago Sun-Times)
In the so-called “flying Imams” case (see prior posting ), a Minnesota federal district court on Friday refused to dismiss false arrest, unreasonable search and seizure and equal protection claims against Metropolitan Airport Commission officers. The six plaintiffs, all imams, were removed from U.S. Airways Flight 300 in 2006 as they were returning from the North American Imams Federation conference held in Minneapolis.
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"Flying Imams" Can Proceed Against Airport Security Officers For Search and Arrest
When covering foreign affairs (or even religion news), journalists often end up needing to mention the names of documents, institutions or groups — in the original language. Readers get used to seeing this. For example, the Los Angeles Times recently ran an essay that referred to Pope Benedict XVI’s “just-released encyclical, ‘Caritas in Veritate’ (Love in Truth).” The logic is that some readers might know the meaning of that Latin phrase, but not many.
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What does Lashkar-e-Taiba mean?
This is a guest post from Terry Glavin It’s all for the sake of our edification, and for the sake of some elucidation of fascinating revivals and reform movements down through Islamic history, says the Al-Fauz Institute for Islamic Thought, about which I report today in the National Post . So, for the sake of fairness, and for the sake of argument, let’s begin by giving the Al-Fauz institute the benefit of the doubt.
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Azzam “Long Live The Taliban” Tamimi Is Coming To Canada. Why?
Union of Catholic Asian News INDONESIA Religious leaders pray for bomb victims Union of Catholic Asian News JAKARTA (UCAN) — About 100 representatives of Buddhism, Catholicism, Hinduism , Islam, and Protestantism gathered here to pray for the victims of last …
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INDONESIA Religious leaders pray for bomb victims – Union of Catholic Asian News
BAGHDAD — Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Maliki will meet President Barack Obama in Washington on Wednesday wearing several robes: the popular leader of an American ally, the prime minister of an increasingly independent-minded country, a follower of the same branch of Islam that’s practiced in Iran and a political candidate.
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Maliki, boosted by U.S. pullback, to call on Obama (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
The Los Angeles Times reported Sunday that Pakistan had admitted to India that the terrorists who laid siege to Mumbai last November, killing 166, had been members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a radical Muslim groups formed two decades ago to fight Indian rule in the Kashmir region. The Mumbai terror attacks were rife with religious depth, much of which went unexplored , and Pakistan’s mea culpa for letting a group of extremists from within its borders terrorize a neighbor was met with optimism.
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India and Pakistan’s cold war