Habib Siddiqui

  Taj Mahal In Danger The Indian courts do not have a good record of protecting Masjids and the historic Muslim sites. Now, the High Court (Allahabad) has begun the type of proceedings regarding the Taj Mahal, which had resulted in the demolition of the historic Babri Masjid. It has asked the government and the Archaeological Survey of India to look into the claim that the Taj Mahal was built over an ancient Hindu temple. In the Babri Masjid case, the Supreme Court had agreed that there was no evidence that there was a temple on that site but since the petitioners believed that, it granted the masjid to a Hindu leader who replaced it with a Hindu temple. The challenge to the Taj Mahal was earlier dismissed by the Agra courts. Strangely, this new case has been filed on behalf of a deity by that deity’s worshippers. Taj Mahal an Icon of Love is Under Attack

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on United Airlines to apologize after a Palestinian-American man was threatened with being kicked off his flight unless he changed his shirt, which bore a message that expressed opposition to killing children. Sam Saadeh, a Palestinian-American who was traveling from Atlanta to Newark on June 4, was wearing a shirt that said, “Bombing kids is not self-defense.” Flight attendants reportedly told Saadeh he had to change his shirt because someone found it offensive and that he would otherwise be removed from the flight. He complied and was allowed to fly but said no one could clearly explain what was offensive about the message. SEE: United Airlines Threatened To Remove Passenger Over “Bombing Kids Is Not Self Defense” Shirt – Live and Let’s Fly In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said: “We strongly condemn United Airline...

  The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on elected officials and other public and community leaders to unequivocally repudiate anti-Muslim rhetoric and to reject those who promote it following the allegedly hate-motivated stabbing of a Muslim man in Utah . According to police , the suspect allegedly admitted that he targeted the victim because of his religion. The victim was reportedly stabbed multiple times and was hospitalized with serious injuries. The suspect was also reportedly planning to commit “mass casualty events” targeting Muslims. Authorities are investigating the attack as a possible hate crime. SEE: Suspect intended to kill Valley Fair Mall employee because he was Muslim, documents show In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said: “This horrific attack is yet another reminder that anti-Muslim rhetoric has real-world consequences. When Muslims are routine...

  A Sudanese court has sentenced Rapid Support Forces (RSF) leader Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, also known as Hemedti, to death after convicting him of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide over atrocities committed in West Darfur . The court, sitting in the army-controlled city of Port Sudan, also sentenced 15 other senior figures of the RSF, a paramilitary group locked in a war with the Sudanese army since 2023, to death over the same crimes. Recommended Stories list of 4 items list 1 of 4 Photos: Wildfires ravage historic forest near Paris list 2 of 4 US bombs Iran again, Tehran strikes Gulf, tankers: What’s the latest? list 3 of 4 World Cup Day 34: Semifinals begin as France face Spain in Dallas list 4 of 4 Emir of Qatar receives condolences on the death of the Father Emir end of list The Sudan Founding Alliance, a political coalition that includes the RSF, reportedly rejected the ruling, while Hemedti was tried in absentia and his whereabouts are not publicly known. The ...

  “Every minute he gets bolder Now he’s leaning on my shoulder ” — “Ma, He’s Making Eyes at Me” “I just kiss them. I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.” — Donald J. Trump Trump does not live in the real world. His is a delusional, alternate universe, built on a matrix of lies, pieced together from AI-generated slop. It is a world in which Trump is a six-foot-three, 238-pound stable genius who has never had a scalp reduction , and where the word “weave” refers only to his elaborate, Joycean, stream-of-consciousness connection of disparate topics, not to his equally ornate but mangy coif. It is a world where he and his enablers float comfortably and unmired in a pristine, “American flag blue” Reflecting Pool devoid of algae, and where the White House doesn’t look like collateral damage in an attritional war on democracy. Here, Trump is a muscular, lightsaber-wielding Jedi knight, a comb-over Yoda without jowls or a vagina neck. It is ...

  Facebook Email Lindsey Graham said he would die with Israel and it has come to pass. One of the weirdest characters in US politics, Graham’s career was consistent in only one respect: war was his solution to any diplomatic problem. He had the mentality of a red-scare Cold Warrior in a time when the Cold War had ended. But Graham couldn’t relinquish his toxic animus for Russia, even as Russia embraced US-style gangster capitalism, imperialist ambitions and religious prudery. As a political figure, Graham was a senator in search of a father figure. First, he latched on to John McCain, almost to the point of slavish mimicry. But McCain at least enjoyed the appearance of independence, occasionally bucking his own party (largely because he craved the media spotlight that came with a performative “maverick”) and had a perverse sense of humor, even if his barbs were usually at the expense of a rival. Graham seemed lonely and lost after McCain’s death, uncomfortable in his own skin. He i...