islam issues

The actual headline is "Melbourne men accused of setting fire to Shia Mosque celebrated and showed off to their wives, court told", but if I'd used that most people would have assumed they were Whites rather than the Sunni Muslims...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-lundgren/an-open-letter-to-congres_6_b_11325884.html Fred Lundgren founder of KCAA radio received a letter from Congressman Ellison about some of Trumps antics. Fred replied back in part; That part made me think of American Christians who put their...

Bina Shah had a piece in yesterday's New York times about the fate of feminism in Pakistan. Her main argument is that, to be successful, Pakistani feminism needs to merge the two main strands of feminism that exist in the world: Islamic feminism, and secular feminism (some of Margot Badran's...

The latest issue of The Nation has an article about the recent upswing in "Islamic feminism", Muslim women and organizations who are working towards gender equality from within Islamic tradition, rather than from outside. It talks about two organizations I've often mentioned in my posts here...

Dutch anti-Islam (anti-EU, anti-Polish) politician Geert Wilders is visiting Australia. What have the Australian members of the forum heard of this, and how much do they care?

http://www.news.com.au/national/police-use-pepper-spray-on-anti-islamic-film-protesters-in-sydney-at-the-us-consulate/story-fndo4bst-1226474744811 I know we have had a few threads on the round of protests against the US, but this one is different. Australia is not some stone age Muslim den of...

My personal position on religion is I am am an aethiast however I respect the right of those who are religious to express their beleif on the provisio they do not force it on to me or others. This runs for Christians, jews, Muslims, Hindus, Bhuddists, pagans et al. Now it strikes me that...

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/06/06/right-wingers-offer-325-burka-bounty-to-anyone-who-reports-women-wearing-face-veils-to-police/ I don't see this ending well.

we have roughly 0.2% of the population that is Jewish. we have several Kosher butchers and shops offering kosher stuff. in public hospitals you get offered Kosher food if you wish so. There is no restriction of what parts of their synagogues they are allowed to build. We have several...

From here: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2243805,00.html "Violence fear over Islam film" Without getting into everything right off, can someone please tell me the following from other sources: (1) Is this quote accurate? (2) If so, does this quote actually represent...