Source: Washington Post By Matt Zapotosky November 10 at 3:58 PM The way authorities tell it, the Richmond area white supremacists got together at one of their homes in September […]
Kasparov became chairman of the United Civil Front and then headed The Other Russia, a coalition opposing President Vladimir Putin. Despite being the group’s presidential candidate, he felt compelled to resign in 2007. His campaign appearances were being disrupted, he was being attacked by paid thugs and was detained and […]
Source: The Associated Press MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The same financial difficulties that face houses of worship across the country have stalled a 10-year effort by New Hampshire’s small Muslim […]
Source: Central Florida Future ORLANDO Visiting Pastor Bobby Brooks tells the story of David and Goliath to a congregation of University of Central Florida students. Worshipers quickly flip to the 1 […]
Source: The Washington Post KABUL — A new Taliban splinter faction claimed Sunday that it was ready to engage in peace talks with the government and that it would allow […]
Source: BBC For many years, the Taliban banned music and the education of girls in Afghanistan – and although many women still find themselves restricted, one 17-year-old has become the […]
Source: Time Missouri football just earned one of the biggest wins in sports history. On Monday Timothy Wolfe, president of the University of Missouri,resigned after weeks of student protest regarding […]
“When I Picture My Future, I See Nothing” Barriers to Education for Syrian Refugee Children in Turkey Languages Available In العربية English Türkçe SEPTEMBER 2014. Syrian Kurdish refugees look out from the back of a truck as they enter Turkey from the town of Kobane (Ayn al-Arab), Syria, and […]
Bank Scandals Increase Interest in Islamic Banking October 26, 2015 8:33 AM SINGAPORE—A stream of major bank scandals has increased interest in “ethical finance,” which could benefit the Islamic banking sector. Supporters argue the growing area of Islamic finance is more ethical because banks and businesses must undergo scrutiny to […]
Muslim Majority Senegal Condemns ‘Excessive’ Islam, Urges Imams To Promote ‘Tolerant’ Form By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT on November 10 2015 Senegalese followers of the Mouride sect of Islam line up to enter the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Touba, during an annual pilgrimage on March 7, 2007. Reuters/Daniel […]
Source: Hufington Post By Qasim Rashid; Visiting Fellow, Harvard University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal School of Islamic Studies Dear daughter, Next month I’ll become a father for the first time to […]
Commandment – Do not take interest when you borrow money [2:279] O ye who believe! fear Allah and relinquish what remains of interest, if you are believers.
Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Khan, who is the producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi. Follow her on Twitter @Ya5min_BL Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and Ziauddin Sardar, chair of the Muslim Institute, talk science, […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk Ahead of the planned lifting of Western sanctions against Iran, businessmen from around the world are visiting the country, and as one group from Germany discovered, there […]
Muslim-Majority City Council Elected in Michigan Hamtramck is believed to be first U.S. city with the distinction; 4 of 6 seats filled by Muslims The city of Hamtramck, Mich., was once mainly Polish and Catholic. Now, by some estimates, its Muslim population has surpassed 50%, and the city council will […]
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Swiss ambivalence towards immigration approach By swissinfo.ch and agencies NOV 8, 2015 – 13:15 Swiss voters are coming to terms with their 2014 vote to reimpose curbs on immigration for foreigners like this Spanish construction worker at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva. (Keystone) A growing number of […]
SWITCHING ON Nearly half of current jobs could be lost to machines NOV 9, 2015 – 19:12 While self-scan machines at checkouts are becoming more common, some people prefer to […]
Nov 09,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On the first World Food Day in 1945, people around the world celebrated the creation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the launch of the first coordinated global action to combat hunger. This year, on the 70th World Food Day, countries are […]
Guardian: It has been 15 years since the UN security council passed resolution 1325, which aimed to end violence and abuse against women during war, and to bring women’s voices into peace talks. But there is little to show for it. Government forces, rebel groups and even peacekeepers are still […]
The Asian Image: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in Manchester’s Heaton Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. They took part in a 10k run to raise more than £400,000 for UK charities. The event is part of the ‘Mercy for Mankind’ series of […]
