MUSIC NEWS: “Madonna Dedicates L.A. Concert to Child Activist Shot in Pakistan”
Tweet From The Hollywood Reporter Madonna brought her eye-popping MDNA Tour to L.A.’s Staples Center on Wednesday night, where she dedicated a song to Malala Yousafzai, the Pakistani child activist shot in the head and neck on Tuesday by a masked member of the Taliban. Dressed in a leather skirt and black beret, the music icon took...
HOLLYWOOD: “Actor Richard Gere Open to Film to Counter Islamophobia After YouTube Controversy”
Tweet From The Hollywood Reporter Abu Dhabi – Richard Gere is eyeing the Middle East as the backdrop for his next movie project. Gere, who is in Abu Dhabi promoting Arbitrage – the opening film of the Abu Dhabi Film Festival — said he saw the possibility of shooting some of his next feature in the United Arab Emirates....
NBC NEWS: “Peace-Prize Winning 14-Year-Old Pakistani Girl Shot by Taliban”
Tweet From NBC News By Amna Nawaz and Mushtaq Yusufzai, NBC News Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year old Pakistani activist who won international acclaim for her work promoting peace, and two other young girls were shot and seriously injured Tuesday, police and hospital officials said. Local police and hospital officials told NBC News that Malala was...
NEWSPAPER: “Woman of Pakistani Origin Named Norwegian Culture Minister”
Tweet Norwegian Culture Minister Hadia Tajik In what can be described as a fitting response to Anders Breivik’s brutal assault on Norwegian multiculturalism, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg appointed a 29-year-old Muslim woman of Pakistani origin as the country’s new Culture Minister. Her name is Hadia Tajik and she is the first Muslim and the youngest...
NEWSPAPER: “Louvre Museum in Paris Opens Wing on Islamic Art”
Tweet From New York Daily News REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE/AP The Louvre museum is unveiling its new wing and galleries dedicated to the arts of Islam, and new dragon-fly shaped building marking the museum’s greatest development since the iconic glass pyramid constructed twenty years ago. PARIS – In its boldest development in a generation, the...
REUTERS: “American Groups Helped Fund Dutch Anti-Islam Politician Geert Wilders “
Tweet From Reuters By Anthony Deutsch and Mark Hosenball AMSTERDAM/NEW YORK | Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:03am EDT (Reuters) – Anti-Islam groups in America have provided financial support to Dutch politician Geert Wilders, an anti-immigration campaigner who is seeking re-election to the Dutch parliament this week. While this is not illegal in the Netherlands, it sheds light...
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NEWSPAPER: “Swedish Politician Supports Banning Islam in Sweden”
Tweet From The Local (Sweden) “Ban Islam in Sweden and deport those who persist in believing in the religion”, said Pär Norling, group leader of the Sweden Democrats (SD) inBollnäs, in an interview with national broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT). The neo-nazi Swedish Resistance Movement (Svenska Motståndsrörelsen) marched in the central Swedish town of Bollnäs earlier this...
