November 3, 2013 A Special Court in Dhaka has sentenced two former leaders of the al-Badr killing squad to death for war crimes committed during Bangladesh’s war of liberation in 1971. Chowdhury Mueen Uddin, a Muslim leader based in London, and Ashrafuzzaman Khan, based in the US, were sentenced in absentia after the court…
October 16, 2013 In an article on Zaman France, the question of the meaning of Eid al-Adha is being discussed. Bahri, the author of the article writes, “While Eid al- Adha is approaching , what values and what lessons can be learned from this celebration? Far from being limited to a religious festival ,…
October 24, 2013 On the occasion of the XII Ecumenical Day of the Christian-Islamic dialogue, celebrated throughout Italy on October 27, the national organizing committee wrote an appeal to all of Italy. The committee consists of a series of pacifist and nonviolent associations, which are representative of the Christian and Muslim world. The appeal…
Judge will rule whether strict limits on surveillance apply to the NYPD’s investigations into hundreds of Muslims. A federal judge on Tuesday revisited at a decades-old court settlement restricting how the New York Police Department conducts surveillanceafter civil rights lawyers accused the department of breaking those rules by monitoring Muslims. The dispute centers on the restrictions…
October 3rd On Thursday October 3rd, which is the day of German reunification, more than five hundred Salafists gathered in the city of Cologne to call for donations for the “people of Syria”. The Office for the Protection of the Constitution watched the benefit event closely, as it suspects the Salafists to collect money,…
