Toronto Star – August 13, 2011 Maria Toorpakai Wazir picked up a squash racquet at age 12 in rural Pakistan and discovered her talent for the game, she was in another kind of fight entirely. That’s when the death threats started. Not long after she went pro, her father found a letter on the…
News Agencies – August 17, 2011 Members of a Scarborough, Ontario mosque have expressed shock and disbelief that their “nice” and “humble” religious leader has been charged with a string of sexual assaults. Mohammad Masroor, the imam at the Baitul Mukarram Islamic Society on Danforth Ave., faces 13 charges involving sexual offences and death…
News Agencies – August 19, 2011 In a civil protest against Muslim face veil ban in France and Belgium, French businessman Rachid Nekkaz has set up a fund to pay fines for Muslim women who choose to don niqab in public. “I’m in favor of a law to convict a husband who forces a women…
News Sources – August 15, 2011 A 17 year-old young man was discovered tied up in an apartment in Miramas (Bouches-du-Rhône) and had been beaten up by a family member for not fasting during Ramadan. Firefighters and police responded around 10pm, after neighbors heard moans and noticed a water leak from the apartment upstairs. Emergency…
20.08.2011 As the Oxford Times reports, Oxford’s Muslim community has launched a bid to raise money for victims of the famine in East Africa. Their aim is to raise £10,000.
