The huge survey involving more than 50,000 Muslims in 35 nations initiated after the September 11, 2001 attacks in US suggests that overwhelming majority of Muslims condemned them and subsequent attacks, citing religious reasons.
The poll, which claims to represent the views of 90% the world’s 1.3 billion Muslims, is to be published next month as part of a book entitled Who Speaks For Islam? What A Billion Muslims Really Think.
“Muslims want self-determination, but not an American-imposed and defined democracy. They don’t want secularism or theocracy,” said the professor of Islamic …

Maulana Shaukat told reporters at a 150-year-old Darul-Uloom Deoband in Saharanpur, 435km from the Uttar Pradesh capital, about 20,000 scholars and clerics took part in the declaration. 
The declaration said: “Islam is a religion of mercy for all humanity. Islam sternly condemns all kinds of oppression, violence and terrorism.
“It has regarded oppression, mischief, rioting and murder among severest sins and crimes. Islam prohibits killing of innocent people.”
It is a welcoming sign and Muslim Sholars should also not hesitate to condem any act of terrorism whenever and wherever it take place.

A suicide bomber killed the Pakistan Army’s Surgeon General Lt-Gen Mushtaq Baig on February 25, 2008 in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Seven others including one woman also died as a result of the blast.
Pakistan interior ministry spokesman Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema said that it was yet to be established which group was involved in the bomb attack but the involvement of an “external hand” could not be ruled out.
He said the attack seemed to be a part of the current spate of suicide bombings. “It is the same chain which has …

American Muslims have to make a very important decision during the US presidential elections 2008 which will play a critical role in shaping their future as loyal US citizens. American Muslims have to stop supporting one party during the election and only vote for the candidate who ever is best for their interest regardless of his/her party affiliation.
American Muslims have to play a more active role in politics than ever before.  Supporting and getting involved in the election compaigns of their prefered candidate is necessary to make sure that their …

More than 750 people have died as a result of severe cold and heavy snowfalls this winter across Afghanistan, a government official said on Saturday.
The cold spell, the worst in decades in the impoverished and mountainous central Asian country, has also killed nearly 230,000 cattle, said Noor Padshah Kohistani of the National Disaster Management Commission.
“Across the country, 763 people have died since the start of the winter due to cold weather and severe snowfalls,” he said. The snowfalls have destroyed more than 500 houses and damaged more than 40,000, a …