August 13, 2014 Young Muslims today defended the flying of a black flag above the gates of an east London council estate. Youths at the gates to the Will Crooks estate, in Poplar, branded objectors to the flag – which has been adopted by some jihadist groups – as “racist”. The flag was removed yesterday…
August 15, 2014 Over the last 2 months we have witnessed the atrocities committed by ISIS to the people of Iraq. ISIS have targeted and forced Christians to convert to Islam, pay a high tax or face execution, therefore thousands of people left their homes and belongings and fled their city. Some Churches have been…
August 7, 2014 Eleven members of the same family arrived in Paris on Thursday, August 7 after fleeing religious persecution in Iraq, where troops of the Islamic state continue to advance. In mid-July, Christians in Mossoul, the second-largest city in Iraq, were forced to flee after troops issued an ultimatum: convert, flee or be killed….
August 6, 2014 August 6, “Mossoul’s persecutions. The killings in Gaza. ‘No cause is more important than the other.’ Injustice must be fought wherever it comes from,’” said Izzet Cosgun and Father Jean Baffier in a joint statement discussing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Cosgun is a Muslim teacher currently working in a Catholic school. Father Baffier…
On July 28, 2014, journalist Natacha Polony wrote a letter in the Figaro addressed to a “young Muslim compatriot.” The letter was “vague and abstract, and feeds without doubt a traditional fantasy, that of a homogenous and reified Muslim community, stuck between ‘the balance of rights and responsibilities for the old country.”” The article’s writers-Nadia…
