Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص's Blog – September 2012 Archive (42)

CAIRO – Wearing a cream-colored hijab, a veiled anchorwoman has appeared on Egypt’s state television for the first

A veiled anchor appeared on Egypt’s state television on Sunday for the first time in its five-decade history…

Assalamu 'Alaikum,

      Zakat…

Triggered by gas-price increases, tens of thousands of Palestinian taxi, truck and bus drivers in the West Bank

Mr. Fayyad, the PA must stop playing this futile game.

By Neve Gordon

observed a one-day strike, effectively shutting down cities. This, as Al Jazeera reported, was the culmination of several days of protests where thousands of Palestinians, frustrated by the economic crisis in the West Bank, took to the streets.…

Muslim rage has reached epidemic levels in many parts of the world. It seems almost uncontrollable that Muslims

By:  Imam Luqman Ahmad

rampage through the streets at the drop of a hat, or fight and kill each other over religious differences seemingly without forethought; it manifests itself publicly as violent demonstrations, terrorism, suicide bombings, Muslim on Muslim killing in the name of Allah, and almost…

مايا ناصر رحمة الله عليه  

Syria has been experiencing unrest since March 2011. Damascus says outlaws, saboteurs, and armed terrorists are behind the unrest, but the opposition accuses the security forces of being behind the…

s quoting POTUS! "One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a

As-Salaamu Alaikum

Here at the Community Masjid West End, it is our overall mission, with Allah’s help(سبحانه و تعالى), to promote heightened

Slide Show: Building Bridges The Islamic…

                        Al-humdu lillahi Rabbil aalameen wa salaatu wa salaam alaa Rasoolillah, salla Allahu alaihi wa sallam wa alaa aali’hi wa sah’bihi wa salaam. amma ba’ad

Assalaamu alaikum wa rahmatullahi wa barakaatuh, dear beloved Muslims throughout…

Islamic scholar and chairman of the International Union of Ulema, Dr Sheikh Yousuf al-Qaradawi, strongly criticised the

film in his Friday sermon at the Omar bin Khattab mosque.

"The movie seeks to destroy the image of the Prophet of Islam in a very mean way," he said. "It reflects racialism and ignorance. It cannot be described as a work of art permissible under the pretext freedom of expression," he added. "We have been used to such acts of maligning from…

Quick background

Egyptian protesters climbing the wall of the US embassy

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During the Olympics I picked up a copy of The Sun newspaper to read on the train. As I flicked through the paper I

noticed that there were no bare breasts on Page 3, or on Page 5.



But then I got to page 13 and there she was, a beautiful young woman in just her pants. Her photo was the largest of any woman in the issue, larger even than those of Jessica Ennis who had just won a gold medal.



Newsreaders on TV don’t say, ‘And now let’s look at…