662. Commandment – when death comes to any one of you, if he leave much wealth, that he make a will to parents and near relatives to act with fairness; it is an obligation on those who fear God [2:181] It is prescribed for you, when death comes to any one of you, if he […]
Source: Business Insider When it comes to the world’s favorite fruit, history is repeating itself, with the most popular banana at serious risk from the Panama disease – a fungicide-resistant […]
Source: Al Jazeera An explosion at a metro station in Istanbul has caused a number of casualties, Turkish local media reported. The explosion, which struck during peak hour on Tuesday […]
Source: Al Jazeera The leader of Nepal’s ethnic Madhesi community, which is waging mass protests against the country’s new constitution, has accused mainstream political parties of racism. “The mainstream Nepali […]
Source: BBC Where to go to escape the stresses of life, the bustle of the workweek and the noise of traffic? To find out, we turned to question-and-answer site Quora, […]
Source: BBC As you drift to sleep tonight, your mind will be doing some remarkable things : charging its batteries, saving your memories and taking you on a trip deep into your imagination Touch the ‘Zzz’ icons to reveal what is happening inside your mind at each stage of sleep. […]
Source: Slough and South Bucks Observer MEMBERS of a Muslim community spent the day planting 200 trees as a mark of peace. More than 40 members including men, women and […]
Source: Huffington Post A man shot a Muslim taxi driver in Pittsburgh in the early hours of Thanksgiving Day, and local authorities say the incident may have been a hate crime. The driver, who has chosen not to be identified in the media because he fears for his safety, is […]
Source: The New York Times Lawyers for the 14-year-old Muslim boy who was arrested after taking a homemade clock to his Dallas-area school say he was publicly mistreated and deserves […]
Source: The New York Times By Mehdi Hassan is the host of the Al Jazeera English show “UpFront.” WASHINGTON — AS a Briton who, like millions of my compatriots, opposed […]
Source: The Muslim News LAGOS, (AA) – Nigerian Muslims have rejected a ban on a ‘long hijab’ for female college graduates enrolling for national service. One Muslim group has described the […]
theguardiaan: by Jason Wilson — Calls for a reformation are cynical, counterproductive and ignore the bloody facts of history ‘It started with Josh Frydenberg saying over the weekend that the more recent massacre in Paris was down to a “problem within Islam”’ Photograph: Jonny Weeks for the Guardian On the […]
Source: The Guardian By Roy Greenslad, who is is professor of journalism at City University, and was editor of the Daily Mirror from 1990-91 US academic puts the west’s political reaction to […]
Source: The Guardian By Jason Wilson On the topic of Parisian massacres, consider this. On 24 August 1572, Charles IX of France ordered the assassination of prominent Huguenot Protestants […]
Source: The Guardian BY Masuma Rahim I have despaired at much of what I have seen and heard over the past 15 years. There was a time when people asked […]
Source: BBC Scientists will set out this week to drill a hole into the Indian Ocean floor to try to get below the Earth’s crust for the first time. They […]
Source: BBC India’s government has rejected claims by a group of lawyers that the Taj Mahal monument was a Hindu temple. Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said the government had not […]
Source: BBC The lightning rise of Islamic State (IS), the jihadist militant group that has seized large parts of Syria and Iraq since 2014, has sent shockwaves around the Middle […]
Source: BBC The German cabinet has backed plans for military support in the fight against Islamic State (IS) militants in Syria. Tornado reconnaissance aircraft, a naval frigate and a 1,200-strong […]
Source: BBC Turkey has challenged Russia to prove its claim that Ankara shot down a Russian plane in order to protect its oil trade with Islamic State (IS). “If you […]