Tag: Islam
Ramadan … ‘you’re trying to be kinder, more compassionate … in...
RNZ News
Ramadan is the most blessed month of the Islamic calendar. It began on the April 1 and will end sometime in the next...
Taliban ‘journalism rules’ open way to censorship, persecution, warns RSF
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says it is very disturbed by the “11 journalism rules” that the Taliban announced at a meeting...
Muslim community to pray in private on anniversary of NZ attacks
RNZ News
Christchurch's Muslim community will today hold private prayers to remember the 51 people killed in the terror attacks on the Masjid Al-Noor and...
Rugby star Sonny Bill: ‘People don’t know what Islam is’
By RNZ News
All Black and devout Muslim Sonny Bill Williams hopes New Zealanders will embrace Islam more in light of last week's terror attack...
How to move beyond simplistic debates that demonise Islam
By Professor Edwina Pio
New Zealand is a religiously and ethnically diverse country with an almost negligible global terrorism index. Muslims have lived in New...
Pat Walsh: Ahok is innocent — Indonesia needs him and renewed...
ANALYSIS: By Pat Walsh
The recent sentencing of Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama, the Christian Chinese-Indonesian Governor of Jakarta, to two years in jail for blasphemy...
Ahok’s defeat marks tough future for democratic, tolerant Indonesia
By Muhamad Al Azhari and Eko Prasetyo in Jakarta
Incumbent Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama's defeat at the hands of rival candidate Anies Baswedan...
Arun Kundnani: The West’s Islamophobia is only helping the ‘Islamic State’
As Easter is celebrated by Christians across the world this weekend, Arun Kundnani reflects on the "global war on terror", the Brussels outrage, the...
New report tells of murder, kidnapping and torture in West Papua
By Mark Bowling
Allegations of recent military and police intimidation, beatings and torture, kidnapping and murder in West Papua, have been documented in a new...