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Raheem Kassam, the Managing Editor of the website “Breitbart London,” has been named “Islamophobe of the Year” after a public vote organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). Kassam made his name with the “Student Rights” organisation which has lobbied British universities to keep “extremist preachers” off campus. He …

Facebook has blocked several pages and profiles from posting on the popular social networking site for 12 hours over posting pictures of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. Prominent Facebook pages ‘AhlulBayt Islamic Mission (AIM)’ with over 170,000 users and Iran’s news broadcaster ‘Press TV’ which celebrates over 1 million users, have been …

An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced …

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called for more solidarity among Muslim countries, expressing concern over woes in the Islamic world. In an address to the executive committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Member States in Tehran on Friday, Larijani said the meeting …

A delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic has arrived in Geneva to take part in the second round of talks in the context of the international conference dubbed ‘Geneva II.’ The delegation, headed by Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Faisal Mikdad and Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, is to resume …

Presidential Political and Media Advisor Buthaina Shaaban said that the essential, big problem in the search for a political solution through Geneva track lies in the fact that “we don’t know whom representing those who came by the name of opposition, how many, and what is their relation to Syria.” …

A prominent Pakistani cleric says Saudi Arabia is behind increasing terrorist attacks in the South Asian country.   Sayyed Shafaqat Hussein Shirazi, the deputy secretary general of Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen, which is the largest Shia political organization in Pakistan, made the remarks during an interview with Press TV on Thursday.   …

Two prominent American university professors say in the year 2014 Iran will challenge the US hegemony in the Middle East and the world. “The Islamic Republic aims to replace American hegemony with a more multi-polar distribution of power and influence,” Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett wrote in an article. …

Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Wednesday that his country’s nuclear technology is non-negotiable and US officials statements about Iranian nuclear facilities are invalid. “Iran’s nuclear talks are a reality and US officials should review this reality once more,” said the minister while speaking in a joint press conference …

The Australian government has confiscated passports in an effort to prevent attacks by returning fighters. With estimates of up to 11,000 foreign fighters in Syria, Western powers are increasingly worried about the potential national security threat posed by returning fighters. But in a country more than 14,000 kilometres from the …