The Daily Reviewer | Islam News

U.S. Muslim convert among 7 arrested in Ireland

Mar 14, 2010 12:23am

A Colorado woman who converted to Islam last year and was lured to Europe by online extremists was among seven people arrested in Ireland in connection with a suspected plot to murder a Swedish cartoonist, her parents said on Saturday....

Chinese man embraces Islam

Mar 13, 2010 8:05pm

A Chinese man yesterday embraced Islam at a conversion ceremony at Kg Batang Mitus, during which he recited the 'dua kalimah syahadah' in the presence of Tutong Dakwah Department personnel....

Iran criticized for religious persecution

Mar 13, 2010 3:34pm

The State Department condemned Iran's persecution of religious minorities on Friday following the Iranian authorities' detention of Baha'is and Christians in recent months....

3,000 Muslims Attack Christians over Church Rumor

Mar 13, 2010 10:57am

george whyte said in the Islam Forum: The toll from an attack on the Coptic Christian community that took place yesterday in the north-western province of Mersa Matrouh, Egypt is 25 wounded, including women and children. A crowd of around 3 thousand Muslims attacked the faithful gathered in...

Half of UN Food Aid Diverted from Starving Somalis

Mar 13, 2010 6:48am

george whyte said in the Islam Forum: Up to half the food aid intended for the millions of hungry people in Somalia is being diverted to corrupt contractors, radical Islamic militants and local U.N. workers, according to a U.N. Security Council report ... ...

East is not always best

Mar 13, 2010 5:40am

The death last month of the Swiss-born British Muslim Charles le Gai Eaton provided a reminder of the surprise that sometimes greets Europeans who have made the decision to convert to Islam ....

Rai shop found selling 'naughty' toys

Mar 13, 2010 1:00am

KUWAIT CITY, March 10: Acting on information and armed with a search and arrest warrant issued by the Public Prosecution, personnel from the Consumers Protection Department of the Kuwait Municipality raided a shop selling women's garments in Al-Rai area and seized a large number of (naughty) male genital toys, reports...

Twin blasts in Lahore kill 43 people

Mar 12, 2010 5:35pm

Two suicide bombers have killed 43 people in near-simultaneous blasts, the fourth major attack in Pakistan this week....

Fears over Muslim prison 'gangs'

Mar 12, 2010 1:13pm

The Muslim prison population in England and Wales has sharply increased in recent years. The BBC's Ushma Mistry hears from former inmates and prison officers who claim gangs of Muslim prisoners are an increasingly powerful force ......

Sheikh's lessons in Islamic tolerance

Mar 12, 2010 8:43am

A REAL Muslim would not hurt others, honour killing is a tribal practice, not an Islamic one, and Muslim women are ''asked to cover their beauty'' with the veil: these were three of the lessons learnt by people visiting the Lakemba Mosque during its open day yesterday....

Immigration: 'Child bride' loophole can't be closed | Canada

Mar 12, 2010 4:13am

Federal immigration officials say there's little they can do to stop "child brides" from being sponsored into Canada by much older husbands who wed them in arranged marriages abroad....

Stone-throwing is un-Islamic, says Kashmir grand mufti

Mar 12, 2010 3:17am

A senior Muslim scholar has said stone-throwing as a form of protest was un-Islamic. The Grand Mufti of Jammu and Kashmir , Maulana Bashir-ud-Din, yesterday said such violent practices were against the basic tenets of the religion whose essence was "peace and brotherhood." Islam strongly prohibits any means of violence....

Morocco takes tough line after missionaries expelled

Mar 11, 2010 10:48pm

RABAT: The Moroccan government said Thursday it would take a tough line against proselytisers, in a warning issued two days after 20 foreign Christian missionaries were expelled....

Nigerian Military Accomplices in Massacre Against Christians?

Mar 11, 2010 5:25am

International Christian Concern has learned that the Nigerian military refused to intervene when clearly warned that Muslims were planning to slaughter Christians in the village Dogo Nahawa ......

'Jihad Jane'

Mar 11, 2010 5:18am

george whyte said in the Islam Forum: An American housewife who called herself 'Jihad Jane' has been named as part of a plot to kill a Swedish cartoonist who made fun of the Prophet Mohammed. Colleen LaRose agreed to murder the artist, marry a terrorism suspect so he could...

Gaza women denied inheritance rights

Mar 10, 2010 8:00pm

The majority of women in Gaza are being denied their inheritance rights, a survey by a Gaza-based women's rights advocacy group has found....

Nigerian mother tells of her children's slaughter

Mar 10, 2010 7:55pm

In a hospital in Nigeria's central city of Jos, Chindum Yakubu recalls the moment her 18-month-old daughter was snatched from her back and hacked to death with a machete. **This story goes hand in hand with the 500 butchered in Nigeria's Killing fields**...

'Jihad Jane' online

Mar 10, 2010 3:23pm

PHILADELPHIA - Colleen LaRose spent long days caring for her boyfriend's father in a second-floor apartment in Pennsburg, a small town north of Philadelphia. But online, federal authorities say, the devoted caretaker developed a daring alter ego, refashioning herself as "Jihad Jane" while helping recruit and finance Muslim terrorists -...

Palestinian ceasefire violations since the end of Operation Cast Lead

Mar 10, 2010 9:38am

george whyte said in the Islam Forum: Since the end of Operation Cast Lead, 145 rockets and 71 mortar shells have been fired into Israel ... ...

Iran calls political opponents enemies of Islam

Mar 9, 2010 8:00pm

A traditional Islamic concept about protecting the faith and its followers has become a judicial weapon for Iran's rulers: charging opponents as so-called enemies of God with the threat of possible death sentences....