Source: ET KARAK: A handful of clerics on Friday directed the people of Karak to not allow their women from going to the markets without being accompanied by a male family member, claiming it was ‘un-Islamic’ for females to venture out alone. Imam of Madina Masjid Karak city Maulana Mir Zakeem, […]
Source: Hindustan Times. Reportedly unhappy with the posting he had been given, a serving major general of the Indian Army committed suicide at his house in southwest Delhi’s Dwarka on Friday. The victim, identified as Rajpal Singh, was posted as additional director general (ADG), National Cadet Corps (NCC) in Patna, […]
Source: abna.ir Umm ul-Momineen Khadija died of an attack of fever on the tenth or eleventh day of the month of Ramadan, ten years after the start of the Prophetic mission […]
Source: dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI: In the last 18 months, 203 incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan resulted in 1,800 casualties, including 717 deaths, of which 635 were Shia. Sectarian and religious violence […]
Source: gulfnews.com Emulating the Jewish religious zealots has become the present mode of thinking of many adherents of Islam like the mushrooming Takfiri Jihadists. A debate is raging in some Arab […]
Source: allafrica.com Every activity in the month of Ramadan should be for seeking the blessings of Allah. Succintly put, the Tarawih is considered part of Ramadan. In the early days of Islam in Mecca, the companions of the Prophet and his successors used to make prolonged rak’ah during Ramadan. So long […]
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You were big enough to admit that your comrades tried to kill a young girl, but I would advise against picking a fight with women The Guardian: Dear Adnan Rasheed, […]
islamfoundingfathers.wordpress.com: This is certainly an intriguing question and one which Alexandra Meav Jerome considers in a piece for Oxford Islamic Studies Online. Jerome writes: The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution contain similar clauses on some topics. The Constitution of Medina states: “The Jews shall maintain their own religion and the […]
By Damon Lavrinc (CNN) — Elon Musk wants to revolutionize transportation. Again. The serial entrepreneur envisions a future where mag-lev trains in enormous pneumatic tubes whisk us from Los Angeles to New York in 45 minutes. Need to be in Beijing tomorrow? No problem. It’s a two-hour ride away. As crazy as […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Verily, the […]
Source: The Daily Beast – by Alaa MurabitLibyan women wear tape over their mouths during a December 2012 protest in Martyrs’ Square in Tripoli calling for more freedom of expression, greater transparency, and a more important role for the judiciary and the security forces. (Mahmud Turkia/AFP/Getty) Enlightenment Using Islam to Combat […]
Source: The New Haven Register (nhregister.com), Serving New Haven, CT By Sohail Z Husain MD I’m really looking forward to the midst of summer. But I won’t be sipping tea during […]
BBC World: Audio File Ahmadiyya Muslims, British Public and Non Ahmadiyya Muslims are interviewed by BBC Newsday on what it means to be a Muslim today in Modern Britain. Commentary […]
“We pray for holiness, but we also need to be careful of others’ desire for holiness,” “The moment you want to translate that into building a Temple, you upset the […]
The Huffington Post | By Eline Gordts An average of 6,000 Syrians a day have fled their war-torn country since the beginning of 2013, in what the United Nations considers one of […]
New Law Restricts Rights to Association, Expression, and Religion Human Rights Watch: A new law in Indonesia places unnecessary and onerous restrictions on the activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human […]
The Guardian: by Liz Williams. The majority of pagans these days do not dwell in the country, but a yearning towards nature is marked According to the recent census, there are around 80,000 people who call themselves pagans in England and Wales today. Although they are insignificant numerically, they haunt […]