14 September 2012 The Imam of the Grand Mosque in Catalunya, the Badr de Terrassa Mosque, Mr. Taoufik Cheddadai in his Jutba (sermon) on Friday considered that the production and dissemination of the anti-Islamic film that denigrates the Prophet and Messenger Muhammad has obviously been an insult to the entire Muslim world, in the figure…
RALEIGH, N.C. — Two men were sentenced Friday to long prison terms for their roles in a North Carolina-based terror ring that aspired to kill U.S. military personnel. A federal judge in New Bern sentenced accused ringleader Daniel Patrick Boyd to 18 years. Boyd is a 42-year-old Muslim convert who lived near Raleigh and pleaded…
The Shiite scholar Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari is regarded as one of the Iran’s most influential Muslim reformist thinkers. In an interview with Jan Kuhlmann, he explains why there is no inconsistency between Islam and democracy. You have stated that Islam is a religion and not a political programme. Many other Islamic scholars, however, say that…
PHILADELPHIA — A teen from Pakistan with a once-bright future in the U.S. pleaded guilty Friday to terrorism charges for helping an American woman dubbed “Jihad Jane” support an Irish terror cell planning to wage a Muslim holy war in Europe. Mohammad Hassan Khalid had won a full scholarship to prestigious Johns Hopkins University before…
2 March 2012 The Fourth Beast, a book by British historian Tom Holland making controversial claims about the origins and development of Islam, has been released in a Dutch translation, though in advance of the English publication. According to an article in Radio Netherlands Worldwide the book’s potentially controversial claims include: that Islam emerged…
