America’s Central Intelligence Agency has adopted an innovative strategy to counter the effective guerilla warfare tactics being used by militants in Northwest Pakistan. While these drone attacks have been the source of much criticism and appreciation, few have explored whether this means of combat is actually permitted under international law. A number of questions arise as a result of such an inquiry. Does the drone strikes carried about by the CIA violate Pakistan’s sovereignty? Does the CIA have privilege to carry out such attacks? Is the use of force on non-combatants permitted under international law?Arguably the biggest criticism about drone strikes has been that they serve as a direct violation of the sovereignty...

The Arab Spring, as it is now globally called, from its inception represented a strong desire of the people to reclaim for themselves the political system by improving the Constitution. Whether it was Tunisia, Libya or Egypt or the different factions in the political arena itself, the focus of everyone’s demands was projected onto the process of Constitution-writing. It is this major departure from previous upheavals in the Middle East that makes Arab Spring a very special moment in Middle-Eastern history. And by placing emphasis on the current exercise of Constitution-drafting as an exercise of realizing the society’s expectations, we give the movement the dignity it deserves.It is not surprising that in an age of globalization,...

Muslim Academy would like to congratulate Ehab, an Egyptian architect who happens to be Christian and Muslim Academy podcaster/blogger, who took place in a Norweigan radio show.  The topic of the show was misconceptions between Europe, North America, and the Middle East.  Ehab cleared some very strange misconceptions, including Mexicans living in cacti and Egyptians living in Pyramids.You can download the radio program here.The Podcasts and articles referenced in the radio program can be found here, here, and here.About the authorView the Original arti...

لعل أن المدن المتعددة الثقافات و الأديان عديدة اليوم، و لكن إذا تأملنا جيدا لوجدنا أغلبها متموقعة في غرب الكرة الأرضية على غرار لندن و بريطانيا ككل التي تعتبر و بشهادة المسلمين و غيرهم البلاد التي يحترم فيها المعتقد إلى درجة أصبح يقال أن فيها ملكة لا يظلم فيها أحد، و توجد دول غربية أخرى تحتضن المسلمين مثل كندا و إقليم كيبيك ناهيك عن التواجد التاريخي للمسلمين في فرنسا و هولندا رغم المضايقات التي تعيشها الجالية الإسلامية مقارنة بالنموذج البريطاني و الكندي السالف الذكر، و لكن الشيء الغير المتعود عليه هو دولة عربية  تفتح أبوابها لغير المسلمين و تتيح لهم فرصة العيش على أراضيها في سلام، مع الضمان الكامل لحقوقهم  شريطة مراعاتهم للآداب، وخصوصية المجتمع الإسلامي المحافظ، ارتأيت في مقالي هذا أن ألقي الضوء على النموذج الإماراتي...

The life of Alexander Litvinenko is movie material. In November, 2006 he fell gravely ill in London from what would turn out to be Plutonium poisoning, and died shortly thereafter. British authorities traced a radioactive trail back to Russia, leading to a request for the extradition of two former KGB officers, which was refused.Litvinenko, himself a former Soviet KGB, and later FSB (Russian federal security service) agent was granted political asylum in England after fleeing Russia in fear of arrest. While in Great Britain he was highly critical of Russian President Vladimir Putin.Among the nefarious accusations Litvinenko leveled against the Putin government was provoking the Danish Mohammed Cartoon controversy in a revenge...

George Galloway took to the stage last night to re-launch his Respect party in Newham and try to force a local election after the council rejected plans for a so-called mega mosque.Mr Galloway vowed to put a petition up on the Downing Street...

A 23-year-old man has been charged in connection with an incident where a pig's head was left at a community centre being used as a Muslim place of worship.The man was arrested at around 9:15pm yesterday (Friday December 28) and has tonight been charged with religiously/racially aggravated harrasment, alarm or distress under section 4 of the Crime and Disorder Act. He will appear in court in the New Year.Three people, a woman age 40-years-old and two men aged 37 and 46, arrested earlier in the day on Friday remain on police bail pending further investigations.The incident happened on Boxing Day at around 7.30am in the morning at the Community Centre on Thurncourt Road in Thurnby Lodge.Officers would like to thank members...

New Delhi- The Indian police have charged six men for gang-raping a girl on a bus. The girl was thrown out of the moving bus and later died at a hospital in Singapore. A bus driver and six other people have been taken into custody at a police station in New Dehli.This incident happened around two weeks ago, and it created quite an uproar amongst the people in India. Many protesters have hit the streets and they are demanding for protection for women not only in India, but all over the world. There is a high security alert in New Dehli and the police have barricaded some areas where rallies have already been held. The police banned protesting in Raisina Hills and closed off many roads. The authorities also ordered to close...

In the midst of fast-moving events in Syria and in the shadows of tyranny, oppression, lethality and massacres practiced by the Syrian regime, the Nation of Islam has been stabbed once again. Another waterfall of Muslim blood has been shed without any humanity. These stabs have been hurting the Muslim nation often and raise many questions about our disbanding and enemy’s plots and plans from all sides.In the past weeks, Muslim advocates have been exposed to a gruesome massacre after being attacked by a Buddhist group that killed many Muslims. The media have posted terrible images of the victims of this massacre. The Myanmar government  turned a blind eye, and it seems that they agree with the criminal killers. Things...

Facebook is a top social networking site that is used all over the world. This website allows people to get in touch with friends and family members near or far, and people are addicted to using it. It not only allows a person to contact people, but it helps an individual stay informed about the world around them. However, parents in Pakistan believe that this website has a negative impact on the youth.The negative impact of Facebook is that it is distracting students from their school work. It is something that kids can spend hours and hours on. Facebook allows kids to play games, chat with their friends, and like their favorite pages. This addiction is the problem that is the concern of many Pakistani people. Pakistan...

A 31-year old woman, Erica Menendez of the Bronx in the United States, will be charged with second-degree murder a in connection with the death of a Muslim man who was pushed onto the tracks of a Queens subway station and crushed by an oncoming train.  According to the New York Times article, Ms. Menendez pushed the man onto the tracks because of the September 11th terrorist.  A question that has shown up recently on the Muslim Academy website and the comments is: what exactly is a hate crime?  I would like to take the question one step further and ask: Are hate crimes meaningless?The United States has had a long and checkered past when it comes to civil rights.  From the beginnings of the native...

 هل مصر مصابه بسرطان يصعب علاجه؟ أم ربما يكون تكون مصر مصابه بنزلة شعبية حادة تحتاج الى اهتمام خاص؟ أم تكون مصابة بفيروس الانفلونزا الذى يحتاج الى راحة؟من وجهت نظرى الشخصية مصر ليست مريضة بالمرض الأول ولا المرض الثانى فقط مصر تحتاج الى علاج رشيد من خبراء الاقتصاد متمكن بجانب الى قيادات سياسية متمكتة ولا غريب فى ذلك فقد تخرجت العديد من دول العالم من عصر التخلف الى عصر التنمية خلال الفترة من 1965 الى عام 2005 الأمر الذى لابد و أن نتوقف عنده هو أن هذة الدول تبنت استراتجيات متشابهة الى حد كبير ولقد ذكرت هذا من قبل فى أحد المقالات السابقه.ثم جاء بعد ذلك عدد كبير من الدول الاخرى التى تعلمت منها و أضافت الى استراتجيات جديدة و ابداعات أخرى يجب دراستها و فهمها جيدا و على رأسها الصين و البرازيل و الهند و بتسوانا مثلا كانت من...

A 31 year old woman was charged on Saturday 29th December of second-degree murder as a hate crime following the death of a man who was pushed onto the tracks of a subway station in Queens.The New York Times reports:"In a statement released...

Since June 16, 2002, the Israeli Government has been constructing a West Bank Barrier in Jerusalem. The concrete wall is 750 kilometers in length and eight meters high. Thick concrete walls are equipped with trenches, barbed wire, electrified wire, watch towers, electronic sensors, video cameras, unmanned aircraft, sniper towers, and roads for patrol vehicles. The point is: there is no possibility to penetrate the wall.The barrier wall was built in a zig zag shape through ten of 11 districts; across all cities in the West Bank. Construction of the first phase started from the west to north of Jerusalem along 145 kilometers and was completed in July, 2003. The second phase is underway, ranging from eastern West Bank to southern...

The U.S. Capitol building in Washington D.C. is a prominent place for Friday Prayer (Salat al-Juma’). At first, it may be surprising that a country like the United States, which is sometimes said to be at war with Islam, has arranged for Friday...

Dalam artikel sebelumnya diceritakan bahwa di Belanda, khususnya kota Groningen terdapat dua masjid, yaitu masjid komunitas Turki dan masjid komunitas Maroko. Pada artikel ini, akan diceritakan tentang masjid komunitas Turki dan pada artikel selanjutnya akan diceritakan juga mengenai masjid komunitas Maroko.Masjid komunitas Turki sebenarnya memiliki nama resmi, yaitu “Eyup Sultan Camii: Turkse Islamitische Culturele Vereniging”, yang mana tertulis di pintu gerbang masjid tersebut. Nama Eyup Sultan Camii merujuk pada masjid terindah dan termegah yang ada di Turki. Orang Indonesia biasa menyebut masjid ini dengan sebutan masjid komunitas Turki karena jamaah di sana didominasi oleh warga Turki.Bangunan masjid ini dulunya adalah...

Lebih dari 1.300 penduduk Palestina di Jalur Gaza tewas selama 22 hari serangan Israel dari laut, udara dan darat. Penduduk Palestina di Gaza tidak punya tempat lagi untuk melarikan diri karena Israel telah menutup perbatasan sejak dua tahun sebelumnya. Serangan Israel merupakan bencana bagi 1,5 juta penduduk Gaza yang mayoritas merupakan pengungsi perempuan dan anak-anak.Tepat empat tahun lalu, dimulai pada 27 Desember 2008 hingga 18 Januari 2009, militer Israel melakukan serangan di Jalur Gaza, yang disebut Operasi Cast Lead – Operasi Timah Panas. Kerugian yang diderita masyarakat setempat belum pernah terjadi sebesar ini sebelumnya dalam satu kali operasi serangan: 1.390 jiwa penduduk Palestina tewas, padahal 759 orang...

A Muslim woman claims she's being booted off city buses because of the way she dresses.Maria Louis, of Hollis, Queens, says she has twice been kicked off buses by MTA and NYPD personnel – the agencies she's suing in Brookyn federal court – after people berated her for her religious garb. Her clothing, which she calls a "bolka," is a "long, flowing black garment that covers her completely – including a mesh section over her eyes that allows her to see," the suit says.The first incident happened April 3 in Jamaica, when a passenger yelled at her and the driver refused to move until she got off, the suit says. The next month, she claims, a passenger hit her in the face after another lectured her, and police forced her...

After facing months of harassment the Muslims of Thurnby Lodge faced a new horror in the campaign of hatred against the proposed prayer centre at the abandoned scout hut in Thurnby Lodge when a pig's head was left for them on Wednesday morning.Muslims...

Golden Dawn anti-mosque posterMark Lowen has an interesting piece at BBC News on the struggle by the Muslim population of Athens to build the first mosque in the city.As things stand, Muslim are forced to pray in cramped underground prayer...

A tragic massacre occurred in Norway recently, the reason was the fear of Islam prevailing in the minds of the people. Islam is being considered a ruthless and violent religion and is thought to be dangerous for other communities who don’t care for the fundamentals of Islam. The massacre happened in Oslo and nearby Utøya, and took the lives of at least 92 innocent people.Anders Behring Breivik (32) made his confession statement for the deadly massacre which he had deliberately planned in Oslo and Utøya. Anders Behring Breivik published a manuscript over the internet where he shed light upon the significant points regarding the killing of the innocent people.Anders Behring Breivik confessed that it took him nine long years...

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Giving out their colleague Filipinos the character of sharing, Muslim physicians from different regions have helped to take over employment swings throughout Christmas celebration voluntarily, presenting their Christian fellow citizens a chance to commemorate the special event.“They supposed Muslims never commemorate Christmas in any case, thus Muslims preferred those days so that physicians and health workers in these districts will be able to have a rest and expend Christmas with their relatives”, hospital worker Mary Divene Hilario told to the media on December 17. Distressed through the tropical storm that knock Mindanao prior to this week, health examinations have been place on soaring awareness, that makes it complicated...

Bukod sa mga makukulay na kontribusyon ng ibat-ibang rehiyon nito, ang Mindanao ay tahanan ng mga pinakamalaking pang-kultural na minorya sa Pilipinas, ang mga Muslim. Dala ito ng mga Javanese at mga negosyante ng Gitnang Silangang Asya, ang Islam ay ang rehiyon na may tinatayang 20 porsyento ng populasyon ng Pilipinas. Sila ay kilala dahil sa kanilang mistisismo, pang hari o reyna, at ganda na nakikita sa kanilang mga musika at mga sayaw. Sinamahan ng agong at kulintang, ang mga sayaw ng Muslim sa Pilipinas ay minarkahan sa pamamagitan ng buhol-buhol na mga kamay at paggalaw ng mga braso na may mga kumikunang na mga kasuotan.Isa ang Pangalay sa mga katutubong sayaw ng mga Badjao, minsan kilala sa pangalang “ Sea Gypsies”....

Ang isang reklamong kriminal ay binuksan ng mga awtoridad na nagbigay ng akusasyon sa apat na lalaking naninirahan sa California na nakipagsabwatan sa mga bahagi ng mga gawaing terorista na may layuning maghanda para sa pag-atake nito sa mga Amerikano sa ibang bansa, kabilang na ang mga tauhan ng militar ng Estados Unidos.Ang pinaghihinalaang pasimuno ay kinikilalang si Sohiel Omar Kabir, 34 taong gulang, ang siya ring inakusahan na nag-recruite kay Ralph De Leon, isang Pilipino na may edad na 23, at si Miguel Alejandro Santana Vidriales, 21 taong gulang. Ang dalawang ito ay nagbalik Islam sa ilalim ng impluwensya ni Kabir at sila rin ang nag-arkila sa ikaapat nilang kasapi na si Arifeen David Gojali, 21 taong gulang.Sa...

Standing in Denver's main mosque on Christmas Eve, Christian, Muslim and Jewish community leaders launched an ad campaign promoting understanding and tolerance between the religious groups. "Love Thy Neighbor" ads on Denver buses are intended...

America is largely a Christian nation with 77 percent of adults identifying themselves as Christian, according to a Gallup survey, while only 0.6 percent identified as Muslim."The United States remains a largely Christian nation; more than 9 in 10 Americans who have a religious identity are affiliated with a Christian religion," reported Gallup on Dec. 24. "There has been little change in this portrait of religious identity in the U.S. from last year."Gallup interviewed more than 326,000 Americans between January and November 2012 and found that 77.3 percent identified with a Christian faith: 51.9 percent Protestant/Other Christian; 23.3 percent Catholic; and 2.1 percent Mormon.Another 1.7 percent identified as Jewish;...

PVV leader Geert Wilders is to step up his campaign against Islam in 2013, the parliamentarian told Nos television in an interview.The fight against Islam is a mission for life, Wilders told the broadcaster. Wilders said he would step up his fight against "the biggest sickness" the Netherlands has had at home and internationally, "from Australia to America, from Switzerland to wherever".Wilders also again renewed his statement that the Netherlands has a "Moroccan problem". It is Moroccan racism that they rarely rob each other, Wilders said.Dutch News, 27 December 2012See also Xinhua, 27 December 2012 View the Original arti...

“… The term ‘discrimination’ includes any distinction, exclusion, limitation or preference which, being based on race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, economic condition or birth, has the purpose or effect of nullifying or impairing equality of treatment in education..” Article 1 of the Convention against Discrimination in Education, UNESCO, Paris, 14 December 1960.” O mankind, indeed We have created you from male and female and made you peoples and tribes that you may know one another.” Surah Al-Hujurat (49:13)Discrimination as a theory has been widely known. Every human being deserves a chance to life just like everybody else regardless of innate traits he had. Lessons...

Nawaz Sharif the magnificent founder of Pakistan Muslim League has been ruling the hearts and minds of the people of Pakistan despite several vague efforts to shake his confidence, determination and passion to bring prosperity to Pakistan.Born on 25 December 1949, Nawaz Sharif has mattered the most in Pakistan for his endless efficacious efforts and galore dedication to help the people; surely he’s a lion who never falls reluctant in roaring at the grave problems of Pakistan.Mian Mohammad Nawaz Sharif a true democratic political leader, steel mill industrialist and great human being who served as the 12th Prime Minister of Pakistan in two non-consecutive terms from November 1990 to July 1993, and again from February 1997...