Islam Today

Written by Ali Sina  —  May 16, 2011 Raz Somech, director of immunology at Israel’s largest pediatric hospital, is trained to save children’s lives. But in the Middle East, even a heroic struggle to keep a baby alive can become entangled in the region’s politics. The documentary Precious Life has turned the unassuming Dr. Somech into a celebrity with its portrayal of his effort...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  June 28, 2011 Cairo (AsiaNews) — Attacks against Copts and the abduction of young women continue in Upper Egypt. Last Saturday, in the village of Awlad Khalaf (Suhaj, Upper Egypt), hundreds of extremists set fire to Christian houses. Three people were injured. In Minya, two young Coptic women were abducted and forced to convert to Islam. Anti-Christian violence has become a...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  July 7, 2011 More and more Norwegians are dissatisfied with the integration policy, and 53.7 percent of respondents in a survey will close the borders to immigrants. More and more people are skeptical about immigration to Norway, the Integration Barometer 2010 , which TNS Gallup conducted for Integration and Diversity (IMDi), writes Aftenposten. Of the respondents 53.7 per cent said that the...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  July 9, 2011 Joseph Adams, who worked in the electorate office of the Smithfield Party Liberal of Australia NSW as an adviser, was sacked on Friday  for posting violent passages of the Quran on his Facebook page including a description of Prophet Muhammad as “the first terrorist of Islam”. Mr. Adams’ comments angered some of his 1000 Facebook “friends”,...
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Written by Rafi Aziz  —  June 18, 2011 Hello World! This is a blog I have set up in order to describe my experiences and feelings as I have journeyed from being a Sunni Muslim to a freethinker. Therefore, the best way to begin is to introduce myself and tell my story. My name is Rafi Aziz. I was a Muslim for 22 years...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  July 19, 2011 A new Muslim got his first taste of Islam when four Muslims broke into his house and beat him for drinking alcohol. The NSW resident Christian Martinez, 31, recently converted to Islam. He went out drinking with his friends on Saturday night, but was woken up on the early hours of Sunday morning, by four Muslims...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  July 25, 2011 A 45-Year-Old grandmother did the unthinkable when she strangled her day-old granddaughter for allegedly being a ‘bastard’.Adwoa Mai, the suspect, was said to have gone into an uncontrollable range when her 14-year-old imbecile daughter, who got pregnant without knowing the man responsible for it, was delivered of the baby at Yamata, a village in the Debiso-Bia...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  April 23, 2010 Mr. Sina  I am an Iranian just like you. I just had some questions regarding your website. First of all you should know that i am not a muslim and i don’t care about what you write but: 1. Why are you attacking only islam? How about the versers in bible where it says that Jesus...
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Written by Bill Warner  –  July 22, 2009 When I read MA Khan’s new book, Islamic Jihad, I was struck by two things, the high quality of his scholarship and an emerging historical trend. Khan is firmly in the Foundationalist School of scholarship. He does not indulge opinion, but bases his work on the Islamic doctrine of jihad and its historical effects on civilization, with...
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Written by Ali Sina  –  August 4, 2011 David Menzies What constitutes a physical assault in Toronto these days? This would appear to be straightforward. If, for example, one individual punches another, surely that’s assault. Especially if the punch in question was witnessed. And photographed. But as I learned firsthand on Sunday, a fist in the face doesn’t necessarily constitute assault in our increasingly...
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