Don't let them eat cake, "Birthdays Haraam" Saudi cleric says
A woman looks for a birthday item
at a gift shop in Riyadh
Associated Press
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia – When Hala al-Masaad invited her girlfriends over to celebrate her 18th birthday with cake and juice, the high school student was stepping into an unusual public debate. Is celebrating birthdays un-Islamic?
Humza Yousaf of the Scottish-Islamic Foundation (Letters, 4 September) does not believe in freedom of expression as he wishes to exempt Islam from critical analysis by claiming that to do so may cause offence to sacred beliefs.
Muslim wrongly accused of being a terrorist wins £14,000 compensation
Telegraph
A Muslim police worker who was "maliciously" reported to the anti-terrorist squad by colleagues after the July 7 bombings has been awarded almost £14,000 compensation.
Mohammed Hussain, 30, was investigated by the Met's specialist counter-terrorism command after false accusations from co-workers that he was an Islamic extremist.
Urgent News: It came to United Copts GB knowledge That Peter Athanasious "Formally Maher Ahmed ElGohari" and Bishoi "Formally Mohammed Hegazy" were fired at while walking in Shubra street, Cairo, today. Neither of them were hurt, botha re well.
Ann Cryer said politicians in areas with high Muslim populations, many of which are Labour heartlands, should be at the forefront of the campaign to stop young couples being made to wed against their will by their families.
A Pakistani lawmaker defended a decision by southwestern tribesmen to bury five women alive because they wanted to choose their own husbands, telling stunned members of Parliament this week to spare him their outrage.
Hundreds of church structures and homes destroyed in at least 114 attacks.
NEW DELHI (Compass Direct News) – Three more deaths were reported today in the eastern state of Orissa, where a spate of anti-Christian violence began after suspected Maoists murdered Hindu leader Swami Laxmanananda Saraswati and four of his disciples on Saturday (Aug. 23).
ROME (Reuters) - The head of one of Venice's most prestigious museums apologized on Wednesday to a Muslim woman asked to leave the building by a guard because she was wearing a veil over her face.
Egyptian convert from Islam to Christianity: "My family has threatened me with death"
An Egyptian Muslim's long journey towards Christianity
Egyptian Maher Ahmed who was
born a Muslim and converted
to Christianity
CAIRO (AFP) —
Maher al-Gohari converted to Christianity 30 years ago, but the Muslim-born Egyptian only recently took the decision to make his conversion public.
The 56-year-old former policeman has put applied to the Higher Administrative Court to have his religion changed from "Muslim" to "Christian" on his official ID card.
Human rights activists and the country’s Christian minority have accused the Egyptian Medical Association of discrimination following its new regulation banning organ transplantation between Muslims and Christians. The head of the association argues it’s aimed against illegal organ trade.
NEW YORK -- An unmanned drone being built by an engineer on Long Island sparked a large counter-terrorism investigation across the New York area, officials tell WNBC.com. Police said they had stumbled upon overnight testing of the drone at a little-used airstrip in Calverton, Long Island.
As Muslim Student Association (MSA) chapters have become increasingly influential at universities and colleges around the country, critics have charged that it is a hate group that sympathizes with the international jihad and promulgates an anti-American and anti-Semitic ideology in its campus actions.
Malaysian Court Denies Woman’s Appeal to Leave Islam
Muslim protestors disrupt public forum on dual legal system’s jurisdictional disputes.
By Jasmine Kay
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 15 (Compass Direct News) – A civil court on Aug. 5 denied a woman’s appeal to renounce Islam in favor of Christianity, highlighting the jurisdictional disputes in Malaysia’s dual legal system.
CAIRO–Egypt has banned news coverage of the brutal slaying of a Lebanese pop star while media reports in other regional papers are reporting a wealthy Egyptian entrepreneur ordered three men to carry out the killing.
Quite a feat: CNN has pulled off the MSM equivalent of describing a spiral staircase without using one's hands. It has managed to produce a segment on "honor killings" and related violence in the UK . . . without using the word "Muslim" or "Islam."
Cairo: Tensions between Egypt's Muslims and Coptic Christians are not uncommon. The latest spark is ignited by a book, which Coptic critics accuse of trying to insult the Church and calling into question the tenets of Christianity.
Another Convert in Egypt Tries to Change Religious ID
Only second case of Muslim-born Egyptian endeavoring to officially alter affiliation.By Damaris Kremida
ISTANBUL, August 7 (Compass Direct News) – One year after the first attempt by an Egyptian Muslim convert to Christianity to change his religious identity, another convert this week became the second to make such a controversial legal request.
A Muslim father accused of murdering his daughter in a so-called "honor killing" told cops God would look out for him, as he confessed to the grisly strangulation, authorities said yesterday.
"God will protect me. God is watching," Pakistani immigrant Chaudhry Rashid allegedly confessed to cops. "I strangled my daughter."
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Only second case of Muslim-born Egyptian endeavoring to officially alter affiliation.By Damaris Kremida