Police violence against protesters in Hamburg

July 21   On Saturday, approximately 1000 people demonstrated in Hamburg against “racist police profiling” and asked to stop police violence. Also, 300 demonstrators protested in the city of Offenbach for the same cause.   A routine police check escalated in the Northern part of Hamburg, when police was confronted with rioting inhabitants. The police…

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Madonna: Has the Queen of Pop Sensationalism gone too far by wearing a chainmail niqab?

  The Queen of Pop is at it again. Madonna loves touting a gun or wearing fishnets and spandex at an age when most of us prefer to cover up. But her latest outfit is more controversial still. She has been pictured wearing a chainmail mask resembling a niqab – a face veil worn by…

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Madonna and the Chains of Islam

July 7, 2013   Depicted with a facial veil made of steel. A Battle for Women or Marketing? Awaiting her New Project   After the cross, Madonna breaks down to the sound of metal. The latest provocation is likely to unleash a wave of protests more incendiary than those created by the burning of the…

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Ben and Izzy: Middle East and Islam in the Cartoon on Planet Kids

July 7, 2013   The series Ben & Izzy produced by the Jordanian production company Rubicon enlivens the summer schedules dedicated to children. The channel launches on Planet Kids starting July 22. The cartoon in CGI, was produced in 2006 in English language with the purpose of being distributed internationally, in 2008 it was dubbed…

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From Acton to Aleppo: how one British Muslim’s quest to Syria ended in death

Ali Almanasfi, who was killed along with a US woman and third westerner, hoped to atone for a wrong by fighting with rebels. After five months fighting in Syria with the rebels, Ali Almanasfi’s luck finally ran out. On Wednesday the 22-year-old Briton took a wrong turn and drove into a government checkpoint near the…

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