AP | Updated: Mar 8, 2017, 10.25 AM IST 134COMMENTS HIGHLIGHTS The Nike Pro Hijab has been in development for a year. Figure skater Zahra Lari was among those who tested it. FIBA has come under fire for banning headscarves during international competition. Figure skater Zahra Lari wears Nike’s new hijab for […]
Source: The Local By Catherine Edwards The northern region of Liguria on Tuesday announced plans to ban the Islamic face veil from hospitals and other public institutions, in a bid […]
Source: New Age Islam By T.O. Shanavas 17 November 2016 Sharia is central to Islamic faith. It is the Divine Law of Guidance for personal and public behaviour of Muslims, and justice to humanity. Justice is one word in Islam that wraps balance, harmony, fairness, mercy and equity together for […]
Source: Huffington Post By Kacem El Ghazzali Writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council Following the most recent terrorist attacks in Allah’s name in Brussels and elsewhere, the […]
Source: Washington Post By Petula Dvorak Columnist March 6 The mosque in a squat, brick industrial park in Northern Virginia was bustling Saturday morning.Women in springtime-colored hijab walked through the […]
Source : NJ.com By Corey McDonald | The Jersey Journal Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that the proposal failed to pass despite the Zoning Board voting 4-3 in […]
Source: The New York Times By MATT APUZZO and ADAM GOLDMAN Photo A restaurant on Steinway Street in Astoria, Queens, in an area known as Little Morocco was under surveillance […]
Source: Miami Herald BY KRISTEN M. CLARK Herald/Times Tallahassee Bureau TALLAHASSEE Students and teachers in Florida’s public schools would more explicitly have the right to say the Lord’s Prayer, pray […]
Sunni? Shia? Hanbali? Ismali? Deobandi? A visual guide to the major & notable sects, schools & movements within Islam. This is an ongoing, evolving diagram which we hope to add to. So please send us your ideas & corrections. Thanks to Imran Ali, Andrzej Mendel, Farshad Tami, Sajjad for corrections. […]
Source: CNN By Tom LoBianco, CNN Washington (CNN)The two Muslim members of Congress swiftly blasted President Donald Trump’s new version of the travel ban as still targeting Muslim-majority countries — […]
Source: BBC By Vivien Cumming, Dan John and Adam Proctor 6 March 2017 In the frozen world of Iceland, climate change is having a dramatic effect. It is melting the […]
Source: Times of Israel hey recruit them to the army, where they enter as Jews, but they’re not Jews by the time they leave,” he said. “Not in the genetic sense, but all of their values and priorities have been upset and we must not allow it.” “What happens if […]
Source. T of Israel SHINGTON — In a remarkable display of bipartisanship, every single member of the United States Senate signed an open letter to the Trump administration Tuesday demanding that action be taken to address the ongoing surge in anti-Semitic incidents throughout the country. More:
Source: BBC More than 30 people have been killed after attackers dressed as doctors stormed the largest military hospital in Kabul, Afghan officials say. Militants armed with guns and grenades gained entry after one detonated explosives at a hospital gate and then opened fire on staff and patients. Commandos who […]
Source: CNN The United States and North Korea are set for a “head-on collision” with neither side willing to give way, China’s top diplomat has warned. In a week of heightened tensions in the region, Foreign Minister Wang Yi cautioned the US in unusually frank language against the deployment of […]
Source: ET A Harvard University professor has claimed that US President Donald Trump could face impeachment if he lied when he claimed former president Barack Obama had ordered surveillance of his phones during the 2016 presidential campaign. Law professor Lawrence Tribe expressed these remarks in response to George Washington University […]
Source: The Local A ranking of 80 countries in the world to find out which is the very best handed Germany the crown in 2016. Alas, this year it could not hold onto the title. According to the analysis by U.S. News & World Report on Tuesday, Germany will have […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Kacem El Ghazzali, writer, activist, IHEU representative at the UN Human Rights Council, wrote in an article […]
Source: Huffinton Post In the first episode, Aslan eats cooked human tissue with members of a fringe Hindu sect. By Antonia Blumberg, Reporter, The Huffington Post A number of Hindu leaders and […]
November 2016 Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad – Khalifatul Masih V(aba) In this ground breaking address, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmadaba, expounds how, more than a millennium before the secular world, Islam first definitively established and safeguarded the rights of women 1400 years ago, whilst acknowledging and celebrating the different […]