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Muslim Identity in Britain: Sadiq Khan MP on British Museum Hajj Exhibition

[http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/exhibitions/hajj.aspx]adapted from London Evening Standard, January 26, 2012 [http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-24031303-a-new-window-on-to-muslim-londons-journey.do] While the capital is home to an estimated 40 per cent of the UK’s Muslim population, there are still many mysteries surrounding the faith

Economics

Niall Ferguson vs Pankaj Mishra

by Ahmed Qerni I have been meaning to write about this spat between two historians [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man] for a while but the holiday season took priority. First of all, let me make my position clear: scholars like Niall Ferguson are distinctly responsible for

Identity

Second Annual QeRN Muslim Identity Award - 2011

We are pleased to announce our second annual award which goes to an organisation instead of an individual. This organisation is composed of selfless individuals who work as a collective. As with last year, we have chosen an event towards the later half of the year. The award goes to

Ahmadiyya

Masroor's Attempts at Relevance are a Security Concern

The Qadiani Ahmadiyya spent the last decade flirting with Islamophobes, supporting middle eastern wars, and vilifying Pakistan, Indonesia and other Muslim countries. Recently, Mirza Masroor Ahmad, the head of the Qadiani Ahmadiyya offshoot of Islam, appears to be attempting to gain some relevance as history passes him by. We decided

بابا نینوسے نفرت کیوں؟

میں اپنے والد محترام کے ساتھ دودھ کی دوکان پر بیٹھتا تھا۔ھماری دوکان پر کافی عیسایَ یعنی [ کرسیچن ]** بحی دودوھ لینے آتے تھے۔**اور ان لوگوں کے برتن میں دودھ ڈالینے کے وقت بھی بھت احتیاط کرتا تھا۔دودھ ڈیلنے ویلا ڈونگا عیسایَ کے برتن سے نھیں لگے۔ دوسرے

پاکستان

انگریزی اخبارات میں قادیانیوں کی بے جا حمایت

ازمحمد متین خالد (ادارہ قرن کا تمام آراء سے متفق ہونا ضروری نہیں) المیہ یہ ہے کہ پاکستان ایسی اسلامی نظریاتی مملکت میں بیشتر انگریزی اخبارات و رسائل اسلام اور نظریۂ پاکستان کے خلاف زہر اگلتے رہتے ہیں۔ آج تک ان کے خلاف حکومت یا کسی ادارہ نے کسی ردعمل

Economics

Robert Fisk: Bankers are the dictators of the West

Robert Fisk, Saturday, 10 December 2011 http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisk-bankers-are-the-dictators-of-the-west-6275084.html# Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other “story” – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so

Islamophobia

Israeli Desperation in Courting European Far-right

Diplomats don’t make many mistakes. Certainly not mistakes like attending a reception for 20 minutes and posing for pictures and also giving positive comments. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz is keeping them honest [http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-s-un-ambassador-attends-le-pen-meeting-by-mistake-1.393919] . But what is afoot here? Let us take a

اعجاز منصور قادیانی سازشوں کا مہرہ ہے

### (از قاری عبد الوحید قاسمی) ادارہ قرن کا تمام آراء سے متفق ہونا ضروری نہیں۔ اور اس حالیہ ماجرے میں سفیر حسین حقانی کے قصور کو کم نہیں کیا جا سکتا۔ مگر یہ کہانی صرف اعجاز منصور صاحب کی ہے۔ اس سے قبل بھی وہ کئی بار خطوط کے ڈرامے

muslim

Pakistan Turns the Corner without War or Revolution

![www.supportimrankhan.org](http://www.supportimrankhan.org/images/lets-build-better-pakistan-imran-khan.jpg)Pakistanis are a hardy and pragmatic people. Recently, exhibiting some signs of a true democracy, they have probably averted some of the worse outcomes being discussed only a few months ago. We’ll discuss some of the recent events here:

جمہوریت کے فاصلے

از مسعود حیدر، غریب عوام پاکستان پارٹی ھمارے ملک میں جمہوریت ھے ھی نہی ملک میں سرمایہ دارانہ ،جاگیردارانہ فرقہ وارانہ اور قبائلی جمہوریت ھے آج ایسا لگتا ھے کہ ھمارے ملک کے غریب عوام پر سرمایہ دار، جاگیردار، فرقہ باز ملااور قبائلی سرداروں نے اقتصادی اور معاشی حملہ کر

hate

Co-incidence? Ahmadism and Mormonism

This is the United States of America — where Christians are being asked by Rick Perry supporters to not vote for Romney and Huntsman: > “The view that Mormons are not Christians is the widely and strongly held view among Protestant pastors. That does not mean they do not respect Mormons

بہائیت اور قادیانیت میں مماثلت

عبداللطیف خا لد چیمہ، احرار ختم ِنبوت میڈیا سنٹراسلام مخالف تحریکوںکے پس منظر کو سمجھنے کے لئے “فری میسن “کو پڑھنا از حد ضروری ہے اور صہیو نی طریق ٔ کار پر نظر رکھے بغیر ہم درست تجربے کی پٹری پر نہیں چڑھ سکتے ۔انیسوی صدی کو یہ خصوصیت حاصل ہے

10th Anniversary of the Afghanistan War: the limits of power

Guardian Editorial [http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/oct/06/afghanistan-limits-of-power-editorial] – The short war has become a long war which even now, on the 10th anniversary, we do not know how to end. America and Britain invaded Afghanistan 10 years ago, for reasons which were understandable, to wage a

Ahmadiyya UK go from 'Muslim' to 'International' Extremism

Thanks to the good work by our team, the All-Parliamentary Ahmadiyya Group in the United Kingdom has lost the support of most members of the House of Commons who participated in the first meeting, the mainstream media, all the Muslim intellectuals that attended the previous meeting, and have been forced

Obama on the Wrong Side of History on Palestine

The application to the United Nations for admitting the state of Palestine has been submitted. In a speech eerily reminiscent of Colin Powell’s shameless assertion of Iraqi WMDs at the UN, President Obama produced another US presentation at the UN that reeked of hypocrisy and falsehood. Any credibility that

ورلڈ ٹریڈ سینٹر ر حملہ کے دس سال بعد

اسلام آباد( ستمبر 16) پاکستان اکانومی واچ کے صدر ڈاکٹر مرتضیٰ مغل نے کہا ہے کہ ورلڈ ٹریڈ سینٹر ر حملہ بعد سے جاری امریکی پالیسیوں نے دنیا کے سب سے با اثر ملک اورسب سے طاقتور معیشت کو بھکاری بنا دیاہے۔طالبان اورالقائدہ کو صفحہ ہستی سے مٹانے کے

Journalism

Free Speech Update: Cartoons can be Censored

So, the Chicago Tribune censors the political cartoon strip Doonesbury. Here is what the editor had to say [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/tribnation/chi-doonesbury-pulled-from-chicago-tribune-this-week-20110912,0,5161792.story] : > To be sure, “Doonesbury” is a satirical cartoon, but the remarks are serious enough that we cannot publish the strip without

Cui Bono? Demonizing Muslims to what end?

Gerald Caplan of The Globe and Mail, Canada, has written a questioning piece on why mainstream media spends so much valuable time and resources in promoting Islamophobia. He begins: > Why do certain media choose to offer platforms to those who spread malicious lies and instill fear about Muslims? Do

documentary

How Islamophobia Works - a Fascinating Report

Following a six-month long investigative research project, the Center for American Progress released a 130-page report today which reveals that more than $42 million from seven foundations over the past decade have helped fan the flames of anti-Muslim hate in America. The authors — Wajahat Ali, Eli Clifton, Matt Duss, Lee

US Presidential Hopeful led by Prophets and Apostles

The United States Republican party will stop at nothing to foster Christian fundamentalism. The great and noble religion of Christianity is being hijacked by American Christian fundamentalists. The governor stood by a lady ‘prophet’ who had previously seen Biblical evil sprits under Jezebel’s skirt in the Democratic party. Seriously,

Economics

Lying Culture Disgraces US Empire

For a number of years, the United States has had a reckless fiscal policy driven by wars and defence spending. The country has been sailing on not much more than its inexorable momentum — a centuries-old legacy of good governance, a democracy that could elect an African-American with the middle name

Ahmadiyya

Refusing to Vote in Pakistan

Many readers have asked: In the Aljazeera Debate on Ahmadiyya [http://www.qern.org/en/blog/ghaznvi/stream-aljazeera-english], why would the Qadiani Ahmadiyya representative say that Ahmadis are* ‘not allowed to vote in Pakistan’*? A Harvard-educated lawyer, Amjad Mahmood Khan, should know how to read statute and regulation. In the

The Stream on Aljazeera English

QeRN Muslim Identity will be representing the Muslim viewpoint on the Aljazeera programme ‘The Stream’ today at 3:30 PM EST. For your local time, please see http://english.aljazeera.net/Services/Schedule/ProgramSchedule.aspx It will also be available athttp://stream.aljazeera.com/ [http://stream.aljazeera.com]and follow

Islamophobia Morphs into Christian Terrorism

History has a curious habit of coming full-circle. The forces that fanned Islamophobia after 9/11 have seen that manufactured Islamophobia convert itself to full-blown Christian Terrorism [http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/politics/4910/is_norway%E2%80%99s_suspected_murderer_anders_breivik_a_christian_terrorist] . Our hearts go out