A Retired Asst Professor of Pediatrics currently working in Canada.
Source: Phys.Org Early Muslim communities in Africa ate a cosmopolitan diet as the region became a trading center for luxury goods, the discovery of thousands of ancient animal bones has shown. Halal butchery practices became common when Islam spread through Ethiopia as vibrant communities developed because of the import and […]
Source: DW German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier praised Muslims on Friday for adhering to the country’s lockdown measures during Ramadam, while also calling for an end to the hatred directed towards the religious minority. In a message on the eve of the end of the month of fasting and reflection, Steinmeier wrote […]
Source: BBC A mosque leader in Bradford has taken legal action against the government over lockdown restrictions on Friday prayers due to coronavirus. Under the rules, places of worship must remain shut, with a few exceptions. Tabassum Hussain, from the Jamiyat Tabligh-ul-Islam Mosque, argued the ban was “unlawful” and has […]
Source: Al Hakam The only good thing about a pandemic is that their potential harm is eventually acknowledged, assessed and then combated with all possible means. Such united and focused effort at a global scale is what has seen tides turn in the past and we hope to see the […]
Source: Daily Sabah In the last week of Ramadan, a different experience for Muslims this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, you can pay a virtual visit to many sacred […]
Source: Egypt Independent Al-Azhar’s Senior Scholar Authority on Sunday has decreed that, owing to the coronavirus pandemic, all Muslims must perform the Eid al-Fitr prayers at home either alone or […]
Source: The Chronicle Herald A Halifax vaccine research centre will conduct Canada’s first human clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine. The Canadian Center for Vaccinology will work with the […]
Source: CP24 By Laura Osman The Al Rashid Mosque has stood in Edmonton since 1938, but no one there today can remember ever hearing the daily call to prayer ring […]
Source: TRT World By Nabila Ramdani French laws against Muslim women with face-coverings stand in marked contrast to its pandemic policy. Is this a double standard? Division and hate are the usual results when allegedly civilised societies get involved in debates about face coverings. Whether it is Boris Johnson describing […]
Source: The Conversation By Neema Trivedi-Bateman Senior lecturer in Criminology, Anglia Ruskin University There is a significant link between moral emotions and offending behaviour in young people. Moral emotions are learnt – and more attention needs to be given to the teaching of morals in childhood to address this link […]
Source: Independent By Chelsea Ritschel The Duke of Cambridge has spoken with members of the New Zealand Muslim community a year after first connecting following the Al-Noor and Linwood mosque […]
Source: TRT World Lukman Harees The meme ‘Dying While Muslim’ may not be as familiar as ‘Flying While Muslim’ – which came into prominence in the post-9/11 years when Muslims began to experience Islamophobia after being singled out at airports and airlines. But this meme has now gained popularity in […]
Report by AMWA Peace Village Gratefulness is a basic human quality. Allah is Shakoor, meaning the Grateful! The Holy Prophet Muhammad has said that if one is not thankful to […]
Feel like you’re going mad after weeks without being touched by another person? Helen Coffey finds out why we crave human contact Source: Independent By Helen Coffey “It’s hard to remember when I last had physical contact with another human. That’s how normal it used to be – I wouldn’t […]
Reflections by Wee Kek Koon The religion is believed to have arrived in the 600s, brought in by traders from the Middle East and Central Asia Although Muslims settled in […]
Source: Arab News This might not be her first Ramadan, but for Spanish Muslim Amanda Figueras it still feels new. She became a Muslim a few years ago and for […]
Source: The Washington Post By James Mcauley France, the originator of the burqa ban, has done more than any other Western nation over the past decade to resist face coverings […]
Source: TRT World By Salahuddin Mazhary Lack of or belated official recognition marked Muslim contribution to the Soviet war effort, even though it was an ethnic Kazakh soldier, Rakhimzhan Qoshkarbaev who was the first to raise former USSR’s flag at the German parliament building. The 9th of May is a […]
Source: Arab News This might not be her first Ramadan, but for Spanish Muslim Amanda Figueras it still feels new. She became a Muslim a few years ago and for […]
Source: The National By Kathleen Nutt CORONAVIRUS patients severely deficient in vitamin D are up to twice as likely to die as those with healthy levels, an international study has […]
