In every non-Islamic country the rate of crime among Muslims is much higher than the average population. France has a high rate of crime confined mostly to its Muslim population. In Netherlands the rate of the crime has jumped 11% in just one year and it is exclusively because of Muslims. In an article published in Times, Lahor, April 2001, Khaled Ahmed reported that the crime rate among Pakistanis in UK "is higher than in any other community. Fully 2 percent of the prisoners rotting in British jails are Pakistanis, the highest for any one community." In Australia raping the white girls by Muslim youths has become a national problem. What are the excuses of these Muslim rapists? That "in Islamic countries girls don't dress like this!" -- Ali Sina

Today, many ideological struggles continue to divide the world. However, the major ideological conflict is not between religions, but between people who believe in truth, in God's existence and in the need for cooperation, on the one hand, and on the other hand, people who deny truth, who deny holiness: – the unbelievers … This will be done by forming an alliance of all conscientious people, namely, the righteous among Christians and Muslims, along with devout Jews, who will come together and unite in this common cause.  -- Joel Richardson

As the Arab media has moved away from overt conspiracy theories and, in most cases, the most blatant forms of anti-Semitism, a couple of those that publish in English have found a way to continue to include these malignant ideas with a form of plausible deniability: simply attribute them to someone with a Western name. -- Hussein Ibish

Disengaging America from the Israel Lobby -- America’s free press, justice system, and democracy are dependent upon the separation of American from Israeli interests. To survive, America must disentangle itself from the Zionist web of control. The common Zionist argument that Jews should get to keep what they stole just because they’ve been sitting on other people’s property for so many years is not a valid legal argument. -- Karin Friedemann

Of Conspiracies and Plots -- Although the presence of extremist Zionists like Rahm Emanuel or Dennis Ross near the president is disturbing, lower rank staffers like Treasury Department official Stuart Levey or pro-Israel propagandist Matthew Levitt are far more threatening to US democracy. While serving the government, Boston-bred Levitt constructed a vast terrorist conspiracy out of paranoid Zionist fantasies trying to explain the refusal of Muslims to acknowledge that it was just to establish a Jewish state in Palestine. -- Karin Friedemann

Myths and Facts About Al Qaeda  -- Osama bin Laden first used the term “Al Qaeda” in an interview in 1998, probably in reference to a 1988 article written by Palestinian activist Abdullah Azzam entitled “Al Qa‘ida Al Sulba” (the Solid Foundation).  In it, Azzam elaborates upon the ideas of the Egyptian scholar Sayed Qutb to explain modern jihadi principles. -- Karin Friedemann

The United States and the Afghan government need to make much greater efforts to wean Pashtun tribes away from the most radical Taliban factions. It is unclear how many Taliban fighters believe in a global jihadist ideology, but most U.S. commanders with whom I've spoken feel that the number is less than 30 percent. The other 70 percent are driven by money, gangland peer pressure or opposition to Karzai. And when we think through our strategy in Afghanistan, let's please remember that there is virtually no al-Qaeda presence there. Adm. Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently acknowledged what U.S. intelligence and all independent observers have long said: Al-Qaeda is in Pakistan, as is the leadership of the hard-core Afghan Taliban. -- Fareed Zakaria

By Ansar Abbasi

By M Z Fazli

Hindu-Muslim tragic Love story: Call for justice gets shriller

India: Shia board decides to tone down weddings

17 killed in South Waziristan air strikes

Karzai Rival Hints at Flexibility on Afghan Vote

Some See Iran as Ready for Nuclear Deal

US seeks to calm Pak fears over aid, but says no change in bill

Pakistan army headquarters attack: 40 suspects picked up in Lahore

Murder case against Musharraf for Bugti killing

Myths of our Afghanistan debate

Afghanistan was part of successive empires until 1702

11 killed in Iraq mortar attack

85,000 Iraqis killed from 2004-2008: Govt

Try Blair for war crimes: Say families of soldiers killed in Iraq

Fatah-Hamas Unity Circus

Britain ready to send more troops to Afghanistan

Threat Persists in Yemen, Somalia

(59 protesting Shias killed in Yemen by govt. Forces)

Troops in Kashmir to take back seat

8 mosques to host 'Meet Your Muslim Neighbour' open house

House Republicans seeks Muslim 'spy' probe

Indonesia: Christians and Muslims against pro-abortion bill

Muslim Mafia - Congressmen Slam CAIR

Now British Muslims Demand Full Sharia Law

Pakistan jets bomb Taliban bastion

Ho hum, Pakistan

Muslims alone cannot be left to choose between the civil law and an outdated version of their personal law with all its distortions and misinterpretations intact. Turning the principles of Muslim law into a legislative enactment will, of course, be no novelty. Such an exercise has already been undertaken in a score of Muslim countries in West Asia and North Africa. (Non-Muslim countries too: look at the Philippines Code of Muslim Law 1977.) There is no justification for India lagging behind; especially since those countries’ efforts have made the job easier for India. Muslim law can be codified here simply by making an eclectic choice from amongst the statutory provisions of those countries in conformity with Indian social conditions. -- Tahir Mahmood

The US also played an important part in spreading these Deobandi madrasas in order to use the students as soldiers in the Afghanistan jihad

Wahhabis make up only 2% of the worlds population, they have used their oil revenues to suppress/eradicate the moderate and tolerant Sufi philosophy. The Saudis now dominate as much as 95 per cent of Arabic language media and 80 per cent of the mosques in the US are controlled by Wahhabi Imams (clergy). Saudi oil wealth has both promoted the theological environment that has allowed the ideas of groups such as al Qaeda to flourish, while also funding them directly.¹⁴ As a direct result of this Saudi influence, a growing number of Muslims internationally have been taught a story of Islamic tradition which completely excludes Sufism, justifies violence and breeds a strong dislike towards non- Muslims. -- Rohan Bedi

Born Pranesh kumar Pillai at Thamarakulam village in Kerala’s Alappuzha district, Sheikh met and fell in love with Sajida Sheikh in 1986. He converted to Islam in an unsuccessful effort to overcome her family’s resistance to their relationship. In September 1995, the two married and moved to Mumbai’s Mumbra area, but shifted soon to Pune after a business dispute turned violent. Sheikh’s life continued to be turbulent: the police filed four rioting cases against him in 1997 alone. In 2003, Sheikh left for Dubai, securing a job on a forged Indian Technical Institute certificate. He returned, according to Sajida Sheikh’s testimony, embittered by videotapes he had seen of anti-Muslim violence during the previous year’s pogrom in Gujarat. -- Praveen Swami

Ok to shun burqa in class, but not in public: Deoband

Saudi Arabia: 181 love messages = 70 flogs

Women, bloggers & gays lead change in the Arab World

Britain May Offer 500 Troops, With Strings Attached

Turkey and Syria Signal Improved Relations

Women MPs refuse to wear headscarf in Kuwait House

Push India, Pak to fix Kashmir: Saudi prince to Obama

Indian bishops warn of "love jihad"

Security of Pakistani nukes questioned

KARACHI: 228 waiting for capital punishment in Sindh jails

Dutch anti-Islam MP overturns British ban

JEDDAH: Court to hear woman journalist’s defence

Rahul Gandhi: ‘No need to give even 5 minutes to Pakistan’

U.S. Push to Expand in Pakistan Meets Resistance

Soldiers turning rogue Pak's new terror headache

Two al-Qaida suspects shot dead in Saudi Arabia

SRINAGAR: Farooq's tirade on Kashmir leaves Omar red-faced

ISI to revive terror in Punjab: DGP

Srinagar: Woman burnt to death

Al Qaeda funding disrupted, but Taliban much stronger: US

US to deploy 13,000 more troops in Afghanistan

Pak website spoofs Musharraf, Zardari and Taliban

Pak disappointed over India’s reaction to Saeed verdict

Aleppo's lessons for Arab states

Hillary’s Iranian Agenda

Asylum-seekers threaten to blow up boat in Indonesia

United Nations in Pakistan mourns slain staff members

New Delhi confident of finding Kashmir ‘solution’

Iraqi shoe thrower arrives in Switzerland

UNITED NATIONS: Ban calls for protecting women’s rights

Pakistan and China vow to fight terror together

Afghan refugee camps in Balochistan breedTaliban

Lebanon Army Arrests Three Fath Al-Islam Activists

Threat Persists in Yemen, Somalia

Kashmiri youth find themselves new models

Syria praises Turks for dropping drill with Israel

Hundreds detained by Israel without charge

Dhaka to continue with advanced time indefinitely

Effect of Israel's war on women in besieged Gaza

Compiled by Aman Quadri

Imagine Islam’s appeal to one who is constantly told he is too "impure" to be allowed entry inside a temple. Imagine the doors of a mosque being flung open to him with an invite — Come, stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the rest of us. No hierarchy here, no caste, no class, no race: Sab ka maalik ek! Who says you are too impure to enter a holy space or hold a holy text? Here’s the Quran, it’s yours as much as anyone else’s: Touch it, hold it, read it, kiss it, hug it, store it in your heart and mind. -- Javed Anand

By Maulana Asrarul Haq Qasmi

Maulana Kalbe Sadiq also kicks up a row proposing 30 per cent quota for women in India’s Muslim Personal Law Board

Al-Qaeda 'faces funding crisis'

Don't pressure Iran, says Russia

Iran on defensive over secret site

Karzai questions vote fraud panel:

Reasons to back Afghanistan's Karzai

America should shift focus: Egypt to Indonesia, fall-out of Pew study of Muslims

How Osama trained his family for ‘war’

Osama likes giving surprises, took us camping: Wife in book

India fumes at Pak HC relief for Saeed

Saeed lawyer wants to visit India home

Deoband: Jamait-ul-Ulema Hind split, factional fight to intensify

Global agenda for change in Muslim-Christian relations

US facing disappointments in battling Taliban in Pakistan

Albanian Imam Charged with Inciting Jihad

Centre ready to build the road to Kashmir’s heart

13-yr-old kills 41 in Pak market

Pak jets pound Taliban hideouts

‘ISI officer’ electrocuted in Delhi, body taken to Pakistan

Pakistani diplomat in Capital dies under mysterious circumstances

Pak diplomat electrocuted by faulty hair dryer

India: Congress rewards Muslim fan of Narendra Modi, a Marxist ex-MP

Between Afghanistan and Yemen: Battlegrounds of the fight against terrorism are intensifying and growing in size

Arab extremists behind recent Jerusalem clash, alleges Netanyahu

Pakistan's cricket captain offers to quit

Compiled by Aman Quadri