Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50
Iran mosque explosion kills at least 15, wounds 50 Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 3:48 PM ET Comments5...

Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims
Rights report targets Canada over missing women, land claims Last Updated: Thursday, May 28, 2009 | 8:47 AM ET Comments40...

Gaza reconstruction to cost billions
Gaza reconstruction to cost billions Last Updated: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 | 6:41 AM ET Comments3...

Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations
Scholar: There is no clash of civilisations by Firas Al-Atraqchi in Cairo, Egypt Tuesday 20 December 2005 2:07 PM GMT Armstrong was in Cairo as a guest of the American University One of the foremost authorities on monotheistic religions and traditions, Karen Armstrong's writings on Islam have come into public focus following 9-11. Born in 1944, Armstrong began her journey to faith as a Roman Catholic nun but left her order in 1969 when s...

Iranian president calls Holocaust a 'myth'
Iranian president calls Holocaust a 'myth' Last Updated Wed, 14 Dec 2005 06:15:57 EST CBC News Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stirred up international controversy Wednesday with a speech calling the Holocaust a "myth." * INDEPTH: Iran Ahmadinejad said the myth has been created by Europeans to create a Jewish state in the heart of the Islamic world. "Today, they have created a myth in the name of Holocaust and co...

NBC: Misjudging Aljazeera led to alert
NBC: Misjudging Aljazeera led to alert by Tuesday 28 June 2005 3:37 AM GMT The CIA wrongly believed secret messages were in the crawl A US terror alert in late 2003 that interrupted about 30 overseas flights was triggered by a CIA analysis of what were thought to be hidden messages broadcast on Aljazeera TV, NBC Nightly News has said. CIA analysts mistakenly thought they had found secret al-Qaida messages embedded in the crawl on the new...

Saudis debate ban on women drivers
Saudis debate ban on women drivers by Friday 10 June 2005 5:27 AM GMT Saudi Arabia is the only country that prohibits women drivers A Saudi man's call to lift a decades-old ban against women driving - the only prohibition of its kind in the world - has been met with death threats and opposition. Mohammed al-Zulfa's knew his proposal last month to Saudi Arabia's appointed advisory council, of which he is a member, would stir controversy....

Rumsfeld blames Aljazeera over Iraq
Rumsfeld blames Aljazeera over Iraq by Lawrence Smallman Saturday 04 June 2005 6:48 AM GMT The US defence secretary said television could promote terrorism US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has alleged that Aljazeera is encouraging armed Islamist groups by broadcasting beheadings of foreign hostages in Iraq. Speaking at a security conference in Singapore on Saturday, Rumsfeld said that "if anyone lived in the Middle East and watched ...

Fighting Terrorism is what the Prophet Muhammad did and is the Duty of All Muslims
Terrorism was rampant when the first official Muslims appeared when the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH)began his prophethood and received divine relevation. Even though our Prophet is gone, we still have the most important gift from him, the Holy Qur'an which remains intact and universal to all Muslims since it was revealed. John Esposito sees Muhammad as a reformer who condemned practices of the pagan Arabs such as female infanticide, exploitat...

The root of modern day trouble in the Muslim World created by Wahhabism/Salafism from Saudi Arabia
This article is meant to educate and inform the readers about history and facts about Saudi Arabia's history and current events that affect both non-Muslims and Muslims around the world. Saudi Arabia is home to the world's holiest cites in Mecca and Medinah and should above all be held to the highest standard of Islam and for mankind, but has failed completely on all levels to follow the Qur'an and to be a peaceful and positive force in both the non-Muslim and Muslim world that we are e...

More comments about the recent Uighur and Han violence in Xinjiang
I am very saddened at the violence in Xinjiang, where fellow Chinese (Han and Uighur) have been fighting amongst each other. I hope that the people of Xinjiang will not fall into the trap and violence that was set by separtists. Regardless of your ethnic background, China has the policy that "everyone is Chinese" and that achieving peace and harmony can only be done through equal treatment of all citizens. I also do not think it is fair to villify Uighurs ...

Response To People Who Say Qur'an Was Not Written On Paper
Many people assert the Qur'an could not have been committed to paper during the time of the Prophet (peace and blessings be upon him), as paper was non-existent in Arabia at the time and that research has shown the Qur'an was written in different bits and pieces on wood and animal hyde.Here are two non-Islamic sources that virtually prove the above assertions to be incorrect:http://www.answers.com/topic/muhammadAccording to the source above (which is in turn s...

More Debates about Violence In Islam
Our response:I'd like to reply first of all by saying you cannot take random verses out of the Qu'ran and come to a conclusion. You have also just picked keywords and phrases out of the verses, some of which end by stating violence can only be used against those who fight you, and not those who offer you peace.We could find the same conclusion by analyzing the Bible or the Tor'ah (there are sites out there just like hate...