Addressing the subject of women in Islam
The Creator addresses women as being on an equal footing with men, their status as beings and believers is the same as men’s and the requirements of worship are absolutely […]
“Enduring Lessons from Imam al-Ghazali” by Monir Birouk
“All opinions are that of the author and not necessarily those of the website that it is published under.” Even today as we wade our way through the second decade of the twenty first century, there is still much we can learn from the staggering account of Abū Hamid al-Ghazali’s […]
The London Review of Books has a problem with Palestinians too
Submitted by Ali Abunimah on Thu, 01/02/2014 – 13:09 Last month, Rania Khalek wrote a piece for The Electronic Intifada asking, “Does The Nation have a problem with Palestinians?” Khalek demonstrated that the venerable American leftist magazine “habitually reinforces Israeli apartheid by privileging Jewish voices over Palestinian ones” in its […]
Chinese helicopter saves 52 in Antarctica
Source: China Daily All 52 passengers stranded on the Russian research ship Akademik Shokalskiy in Antarctica for nine days were rescued by a Chinese helicopter on Thursday. The helicopter from […]
Qatar, Morocco sign aid deal worth $1.25bn
RABAT: Qatar and Morocco have signed an aid deal worth $1.25bn, part of a five-year package of financial assistance extended by Gulf states to the North African kingdom to help it weather ‘Arab Spring’ protests. The aid is very welcome to King Mohamed — who signed the accord late on […]
Pakistan: Gunmen kill senior Sunni activists
ISLAMABAD: Gunmen killed two senior members of a hardline Sunni Muslim group in a rare attack in the Pakistani capital yesterday, officials said, after weeks of sectarian tensions in the country. The secretary-general of the Islamabad chapter of the Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) organisation, , and his colleague Qari Asad […]
First female Muslim police officer in Queen’s honours
Detective Constable Nikki Hubbard appointed MBE in New Year Honours list A Guildford woman has become the first female Muslim police officer to be included in the Queen’s honours. Nikki Hubbard, a detective constable with the Metropolitan Police in Westminster, was appointed MBE for her services to charity in the […]
UK: Muslim informants and agents lauded for anti terrorist efforts
By: Trevor Grundy Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/ CANTERBURY, England — Britain’s domestic secret service — M15 — works hand in hand with informants who sometimes monitor sermons in mosques and tell the police about suspicious members. The former head of M15, Eliza Manningham-Buller, told the BBC there were many such Muslim agents […]
Ms Marvel: send for the Muslim supergirl!
G Willow Wilson explains why she has created a Muslim superhero, and why Kamala Khan is not a poster girl for religion Emine Saner The Guardian A classic superhero story with added tension … the cast of Ms Marvel. Photograph: Adrian Alphona In many ways, says the writer G Willow […]
83 percent German consider Islam does discrimination against women?
Source. Danielpipes.org Germany, as reported by the Institut für Demoskopie Allensbach in November 2012: 56 percent: striving for political influence 60 percent: revenge and retaliation 64 percent: violence 68 percent: intolerance toward other faiths 70 percent: fanaticism and radicalism 83 percent: discrimination against women. More: Additional Reading Book Review: Islam Without Extremes […]
President Gus Dur’s Islamic indigenization vs radicalism
The Jakarta Post: One of the central ideas proposed by Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid in the context of the cultural Islamic movement in Indonesia is what is referred to as […]
eDigest: Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: There should be no compulsion in religion. Surely, right has become distinct from wrong; so whosoever refuses to be led by those who transgress, and believes in Allah, has surely grasped a strong handle which knows no breaking. And Allah is All-Hearing, All-Knowing. (Al Quran 2:257) The Blue Mosque […]
Intermittent fasting: The good things it did to my body
BBC: Many of the changes in my body when I took part in the clinical trial of an intermittent fasting diet, were no surprise. Eating very little for five days […]
The religious hate campaign prevented the burial of a one-and-a-half year-old child
Source: Nasim Malik of Sweden. A one-and-a-half-year-old infant was buried four days after she died from pneumonia in Toba Tek Singh, Punjab province. The girl, who was from an Ahmadi family, died on December 19, and was taken for burial the following day. At the cemetery the local clerics gathered with […]
Teachers favor attractive kids
Source: CNN. (CNN) — It’s not news that looks matter. Depending on how attractive people think we are, we may have at times found ourselves dateless or overwhelmed with unwanted attention. Studies have indeed shown that people attribute more intelligence and competence to taller, well-turned-out or otherwise good-looking people. However, a new […]
Man tries to sell stolen brains on eBay.
Source: CNN (CNN) — This was not was your typical undercover sting. For starters, it was happening at an Indiana Dairy Queen. And the target was brains. Yeah, a brain bandit. The arrest last month of a 21-year-old suspect uncovered, police say, a macabre scheme to steal the brains of dead […]
Book Review: Islam Without Extremes by Mustafa Akyol
Epigraph: Thus, have We made of you an Ummat justly balanced, that ye might be witnesses over the nations, and the Messenger a witness over yourselves. (Al Quran 2:143) Piety […]