MUSIC NEWS: “Iranian Rapper Faces Death Threats Over ‘Blasphemous’ Rap Song’
From The Guardian Newspaper (UK) by Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Monday 14 May 2012 13.43 EDT Iranian rapper Shahin Najafi. A death sentence was issued against the rap artist after he released a controversial song called Naqi Photograph: Ay Collection/Sipa/Rex Features An Iranian rapper has become “the Salman Rushdie of music” after clerics in the Islamic republic...
WALL STREET JOURNAL: “Lady Gaga Not Welcome in Indonesia, says Muslim Group”
From Wall Street Journal By Ahmad Pathoni JAKARTA – Indonesia may be home to many Little Monsters, as fans of Lady Gaga are called, but a hard line Muslim group said Monday that the American pop star is not welcome in the country, accusing her of promoting devil worship. As the economies of many countries...
WTF ALERT: “Deep Sea Treasure Hunter Says He’s Found Osama Bin Laden’s Body”
From Gizmodo That smiling guy is Bill Warren, the Californian treasure hunter who claimed he was searching for Osama Bin Laden’s dead body back in June 2011. He didn’t find him then, but now he claims he has located the cadaver. Talking to Spanish newspaper El Mundo, Warren says he has no doubt about where Osama is:...
EXCLUSIVE: “The Day Osama Died: My Daughter Was Born”
By Rizwan Qureshi Exclusive | The Crescent Post One year ago today, most people in this country were celebrating an amazingly heroic achievement by our American military, the assassination of one of the most despised men in history, Osama bin Laden. Like the assassination of President Kennedy almost fifty years ago, our younger generation will...
NEWS: “Book Shows Osama Bin Laden Used Sex Potions & ‘Just For Men’ Hair Dye”
From Washington Examiner by Paul Bedard Aging 9/11 terrorist Osama bin Laden considered himself a stud who deserved multiple wives, but had to use a sex potion and Just for Men hair dye to keep his harem interested, according to a blockbuster book due out May 1, the one-year anniversary of his assassination by U.S....
MAGAZINE: “Is British Politician George Galloway A Muslim?”
From The New Statesman (UK) Jemima Khan, in an interview with the Bradford MP, reveals the background to his Muslim conversion. BY ALICE GRIBBIN | PUBLISHED 26 APRIL 2012 11:54 Combative, hyperbolic, confident: George Galloway has lunch with Jemima Khan In a wide-ranging interview in this week’s issue of the New Statesman,George Galloway MP talks about his spectacular by-election victory,...
REUTERS: “Dutch Burqa Ban May Be Gone With End of Center-Right Government”
From Reuters By Reuters Staff | APRIL 26, 2012 Geert Wilders of the Freedom Party walks away after a debate about the government’s resignation caused by a crisis over budget cuts in The Hague April 24, 2012. REUTERS/Paul Vreeker) With the collapse of the Dutch centre-right government, the Netherlands may now drop some of its most...
NY TIMES: “Muslim Women in India Seek Gender Equality in Marriage”
From The New York Times By NILANJANA S. ROY Published: April 24, 2012 NEW DELHI — Three years ago, Salma Khatun’s husband divorced her in a fit of rage after a quarrel, pronouncing what is known as the triple talaq in the presence of witnesses. The triple talaq is a formula of repudiation. The first...
