Islam, Islamic, Islamic News, Fatwa's and Islamic Business/Finance with Islam Online

Islamic News


Freedom of insult or freedom of speech? A reply to critics about the case of the Turkish pianist Fazil Say

Last Modified:  28 May 2013 02:47  GMT


I know that I am walking a very fine line here but I will and I have to. Recently Fazil Say, the Turkish pianist, faced a sentence of up to one and a half years in prison for the crime of 'openly insulting the sacred values of a certain fraction of the general public'. By Sinem Tezyapar





Articles

Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:16  GMT

07 April 2012 Some of the world's most recognized and renowned authorites in Islamic Law and Islamic Legal Theory are meeting i ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:16  GMT

28 February 2012 Deputy Ruler of Dubai and UAE Minister of Finance Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashed Al Maktoum has launched the world's ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:16  GMT

08 February 2012 A joint declaration on Syria has been issued by 107 leading muslim scholars and intellectuals from nearly ever ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:15  GMT

17 March 2012 A unique academic conference was held yesterday at the University of Rome with the purpose of comparing Roman Law ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:15  GMT

06 June 2012 One of the leading figures of the Flemish populist Vlaams Belang party, Filip Dewinter (pictured), announced that ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:15  GMT

08 April 2012 The world's first air travel prayer time calculator has been launched to help Muslims know their prayer times alo ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 10:14  GMT

29 May 2012 A judge in Tennessee has ruled that the public wasn't properly notified about a meeting on a proposed mosque, meani ...



Last Modified:  07 Jun 2012 12:18  GMT

SANAA - Believing that some people have extraordinary powers, Yemenis are turning to witchcraft to solve medical and personal problems, amid chaos in the impoverished Arabian Peninsula nation.“I read the Qur'an to them and ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 08:18  GMT

BRUSSELS - Belgian right-wingers have offered a bounty of 250 euros for anyone who reports a niqab-clad Muslim woman to police, a move that drew mixed reactions in the European country. It's a textile prison for the women ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 04:18  GMT

OSLO - Norwegian far-right leaders have justified the mass killings by far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik as a defense against the country's “planned annihilation” by Muslims. Norway is at war. It is in the process ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 04:18  GMT

NAYPYIDAW - The grisly killing of several Muslim passengers by Buddhist vigilantes is reflecting a growing anti-Muslim hostility in Myanmar and a pervasive discrimination of the sizable minority. The daily relationship wit ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 12:18  GMT

CAIRO - A group of US Muslims plans to file lawsuit Wednesday, June 6, against New York police over spying on the sizable Muslim minority and their worship places and businesses. What makes America great is that everyone i ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 11:14  GMT

A judge in Tennessee has ruled that the public wasn't properly notified about a meeting on a proposed mosque, meani ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 10:14  GMT

05 June 2012 The Second International Summit on the Future of Health Privacy, scheduled for 6-7 June 2012 at the Georgetown Uni ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 10:14  GMT

29 May 2012 The Muslim Women Organisation (MWO) in Malawi has asked President Joyce Banda to ensure her government allows Musli ...



Last Modified:  06 Jun 2012 10:14  GMT

22 May 2012 Workers in Algiers started laying foundations Sunday for what should become the world's tallest mosque, as well as ...



Last Modified:  05 Jun 2012 08:18  GMT

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM - Despite being at odds on so many issues, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas almost see eye to eye on favoring former premier Ahmed Shafiq to become Egypt's n ...



Last Modified:  05 Jun 2012 08:18  GMT

CAIRO - The slaughter of scores of Syrian civilians, including children, has sparked a storm of outrage from Muslims worldwide, amid calls for an urgent action to stop ongoing bloodshed in the pivotal Arab country.“Those c ...



Last Modified:  05 Jun 2012 04:18  GMT

CAIRO - A popular book on Christian sexual ethics that gives a theological rationale for homosexuality and gay marriage has put the Vatican and American nuns on the course of collision.The book was “not consistent with aut ...



Last Modified:  05 Jun 2012 04:18  GMT

CAIRO - A bylaw that forces Muslim women in the Indonesian city of Tasikmalaya to take on hijab is inviting a storm of criticism, with opponents denouncing the drive as a violation of human rights.“Opinions on clothing are ...




Total: 5609   view 3600 - 3620 [First Page] [Prev] 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 [Next] [Last Page]