Campaign to improve the image of Islam
A campaign has begun in order to improve the image of Islam after a recent poll by YouGov revealed that more than half of British people associate Islam with terrorism and violence.
"Inspired by Muhammad" aims to promote Islam as a peaceful faith, and the positive contribution it has on British society. Posters of Muslims with captions read: "I believe in rights for women... so did Muhammad" will be seen at bus stops, Tube stations and even on London Cabs.
A YouGov poll found that 58% of the British population surveyed associated Islam with extremism, 50% associate it with terrorism and 68% feel the religion encourages the repression of women.
TV presenter and Islam convert Kristiane Backer is one of the many faces of the campaign.
Government names most influential 'pro-Islamic' bloggers
Counter-terrorism research reveals network of pro-Islamic bloggers is smaller and less cohesive than anti-jihadist community
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The Home Office's counter-terrorism communications unit has named its top 20 most influential "pro-Islamic" political bloggers.
The list forms part of a mapping exercise carried out on behalf of the Home Office to estimate and track the scale and influence of Islamic bloggers in Britain.
The results of the exercise, which was carried out in 2008 but only published today, show that a network of Islamic bloggers who post on British politics does exist but is still relatively small and draws its information overwhelmingly from mainstream media, mainly the Guardian and the BBC.
The research was carried out by the Home Office research, information and communications unit (RICU) to see if there were new ways of ensuring the government's counter-terrorism messages reached people in the Muslim community who did not read or watch mainstream media.
It pinpointed 140 "pro-leaning Islamic" blogs when it was carried out in 2008 by David Stevens of Nottingham University.
"Compared with other political blogging communities this is not terribly high," the study says. "As suspected, any pro-Islamic blogging community is likely to be still in its early stages of development in quantitive terms. However the existence of Islamic blog-feed sites (that list recent posts across Islamic blogs in one place) indicates that the community is reaching something of a critical mass."
The project is primarily concerned with how "radical Islamic messages" are disseminated in Britain, yet it notes that many blogs are not overtly or mainly political in this sense, but contain such messages or references to them.
It says a large anti-jihadist and anti-Islamic blogging community exists which is far larger and more cohesive than the pro-Islamic blogging community.
The top 20 list compiled as a "snapshot" in 2008 includes several based outside Britain but posting on UK politics in English. The top five sites listed are Ali Eteraz, Islam in Europe, the Angry Arab News Service, Indigo Jo Blogs/Blogistan and Daily Terror. Ali Eteraz is the author of Children of Dust – a memoir of Pakistan that was named on the New Statesman 2009 books of the year list – and has been a regular poster on Comment is Free.
The list only covers blogs published in English. Some, such as Angry Arab, which publish news articles in full from various sources draw heavily on the New York Times, al-Akhbar and Ha'aretz. But once these are excluded much UK-related material is drawn from the Guardian, the BBC and the Times. Very little material is drawn fromal-Jazeera, Islam Online or other Islamic-focused media.
A Home Office spokeswoman said that after the research was undertaken it was decided to focus on sending the government's counter-terrorism messages to Muslim communities through national mainstream media, including publications such as the Muslim Weekly and Daily Jang.
Shia Sisters
Shia muslim girls are most lovely and loving wives that a man can find on Earth.
Shia women love God, and His Prophet Peace and Blessings of Allah be upon him and his family.
They have a pure heart full of light and peace.
The mind of Shia muslim sister is clean.
It is not influenced by Kafir TV and Western cultures of immorality and nakedness.
Shia girls makes the best homes for their husband and children.
Ya Ali Madaad.
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Islam is not the problem. Muslims are.
Their unwanted backward mentality of not wanting to change and wanting to be stuck in the 7th Century.
No civilised society would want to still whip women because they are rape victims (evident in S.A) no other set of people kill their own because they bring shame on the family (Honor Killings), no other set of people kill each other (like Muslims do) in the Name of MY religion (evident in War - Torn countries) notice how many suicide bombing happen every day? And who the main victims are? No other set of people think that the word "Allah" belongs to them simply because it is Arabic (Malaysia).
It is very easy to blame someone else. Yet Muslims have a problem of not wanting to blame their own (yet some would happily kill their own - irony)
I would support the Ban on the veil. It is not welcome in Britain. As i have witnessed, people are saying that this is oppressing the rights of women who WANT to wear it. And it is their choice.
Well...If an english women were to be in Saudi Arabia, would she be able to freely walk around in a Bikini? I don't think so. You are a guest of the state, and you aide by their rules. I feel sorry for the Women that are being forced to wear it, and that is why i support the ban.
My Daily Ibadah(worship) check!
Weigh your deeds before its too late!
Doesn't time seem to be flying faster and faster by the day?
Indeed, the Prophet(SAW) told us that one of the signs of the Last Day would be that “time would move faster - so that a whole year would pass like a month, a month would pass like a week, a week like a day, a day like an hour, and an hour like the amount of time it takes to kindle a fire.” {Ahmad}
This means we need to ACT now - how long will we put off good deeds till tomorrow deluding ourselves into thinking we can be more "religious" when we get older? How do we know we'll still be alive tomorrow let alone when were older!
We need to weigh our good deeds in the Balance of Scales today before they are weighed before us on the Day of Judgement when we will not be able to act.
To help with this daily reflection, you can download and print of this Daily Ibaadah Check which simplifies this process and introduces a clear measure for judging daily performance.
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For more of my very beneficial articles to increase imaan(Faith) and good deeds so that we can become closer to Allah then please click on the links below. Remember time is short so let us change now for there may be no tomorrow!
10 steps to increase our imaan(faith)
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40459
Forty Easy and Rewarding Good Deeds to do Everyday!
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50628
Nafl Salaahs we can Pray Everyday
http://www.sunniforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=49289
Segregation - why?
On Friday, I was asked, why in Islam for certain events, men and women were segregated.
I've grown up used to the idea that segregation existed in Islamic events. So it's kind of become the norm.
But what's the reason for the segregation? Or is the answer the obvious?
Principles are that we shouldn't look at the other sex in that way. So if segregation didn't exist, surely it would be a test of our faith?
Also, daily life involves mixing. Then for a 2 hour Islamic event, you get segregation? Is it pointless?
A History of God
Based on A History of God by Karen Armstrong
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