Latest in Tag: violence Highlight
Latest in Tag: violence

Bible burner Abu Islam set for trial
Abu Youssef denies reports that investigations have begun into Bible burning

Grand Mufti speaks out about protests against film mocking Islam
Condmemns violence that followed protests, says such action beneath the example of the prophet

Syrian air force bombs Aleppo as UN Security Council convenes
Civilian death-toll continues to rise in Syria while refugee crisis intensifies

Complaint against Khaled Abdallah referred to state security prosecution
Complaint against Islamist TV presenter, believed to have played a role in US Embassy violence, referred to state security prosecution

Jihadist group claims responsibility for Israel attack
Carried out in response to anti-Muslim video made in the United States

Suicide bomb at Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria
By Joel Gulhane A suicide bomber blew up his vehicle up next to a church in northeast Nigeria on Sunday, killing himself and another, AP reported. The blast occurred just after 9am, as mass was being held at the St. John Catholic church in the city of Bauchi. Forty five were injured in the explosion …
Investigation into Meet Ghamr incident
Families of victims press accusations against police officers

Syrian rebels claim to control “most” of Syria
International community’s attempts to resolve conflict

Syrian president’s sister ‘now in Dubai’
Al-Assad now has only his brother Maher, who commands the notorious Fourth Brigade

400 protest near French embassy in Iran
No violence was reported

French Interior Ministry bans anti-Islam film protests
“The only rules we know, the rules of the Republic and secularism,” says the French president

Twenty one killed in two days of anti-US protest in Pakistan
Pakistani protesters clash with police, 21 killed on government-sanctioned “Love for the Prophet Mohamed Day”

Mali Islamist won’t hold talks until Shari’a is implemented
Mali MUJAO accepts talks with government on condition Islamic Shari’a be implemented first

Syrian clashes near Jordanian border
Fighting in Syria approaches borders again

GUC referendum held despite violence
Ballot boxes attacked by university security
Tens of thousands protest anti-Islam film in Nigeria
(AFP) –KANO, Nigeria — Tens of thousands of people on Saturday protested on the streets of Nigeria’s second city of Kano against an anti-Islam film made in the US that has stirred outrage across the Muslim world. An AFP reporter said the crowd of demonstrators stretched several kilometres through the city, the largest in Nigeria’s …

Sabra and Shatila, 30 years on
Evidence continues to highlight responsibility and failed intervention

Mass graves discovered empty in Kenya
Latest result of vicious inter-tribal warfare

The volcano erupts
The outpouring of rage in Islamic countries isn’t just about a low-budget film insulting the prophet Muhammad. It is the eruption of a volcano that has been simmering for the past eleven years

Germany wrestles with ban on anti-Islam film screening
German authorities will make efforts at banning showing the film

France to close embassies on Friday after cartoons published
French Muslim organisations call for calm

Newsweek releases controversial “Muslim rage” cover
Online groups find humour in sensationalist cover title

Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad
Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons

Attack on Americans jolts Libya to act on militias
Ansar al-Sharia is widely suspected of being behind the assault on the US consulate

Bahraini policemen to be tried for torture
Interior ministry recruits 500 new police officers
13 Bulgaria Muslims stand trial on radical charges
Facing charges of preaching radical Islam

NATO cooperative missions scaled down but still ongoing
Joint operations to continue at the battalion level and higher, while training Afghan troops continues

Bangladesh blocks YouTube over anti-Islam video
Anti-Islam film continues to provoke more reactions from Muslim countries

Human Rights Corner: When reason fails, who pays the price?
The film and the events that followed have opened up several issues worth contemplating and debating

South African mines reopen but unrest continues
Global platinum price rises in response to strikes that have seen 45 miners killed