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Source: expressandstar.com Mosques in the region have urged worshippers to stay away from the event. Government officials held the talks at the Aisha Mosque in Walsall where a homemade bomb was discovered close to the building last month. The congregation at Ahmadiyya Muslim mosques in Wolverhampton, Walsall, Blackheath and Birmingham have […]
Source: The Asian Review of Books and Caixin Online It is a book review: Islam and China’s Hong Kong: Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road (Routledge Contemporary China Series) […]
Source: boston.com ISLAMABAD (AP) — In a country where sectarian violence is spiking, Zahid Iqbal is playing an innovative role in trying to bring peace to Pakistan’s competing Islamic sects by […]
Source: huffingtonpost.com Scientists have analyzed page edits in 10 editions of Wikipedia to determine the topics most often fought over by editors of the open encyclopedia. The most debated topics included many religious […]
Source: dailytimes.com.pk As the world encourages, endorses and adopts the effort taken on by Malala, it is sad to note that some of her own are abandoning her On July 12, […]
Source: abna.ir Umm ul-Momineen Khadija died of an attack of fever on the tenth or eleventh day of the month of Ramadan, ten years after the start of the Prophetic mission […]
Source: dailytimes.com.pk KARACHI: In the last 18 months, 203 incidents of sectarian violence in Pakistan resulted in 1,800 casualties, including 717 deaths, of which 635 were Shia. Sectarian and religious violence […]
Source: gulfnews.com Emulating the Jewish religious zealots has become the present mode of thinking of many adherents of Islam like the mushrooming Takfiri Jihadists. A debate is raging in some Arab […]
Source: allafrica.com Every activity in the month of Ramadan should be for seeking the blessings of Allah. Succintly put, the Tarawih is considered part of Ramadan. In the early days of Islam in Mecca, the companions of the Prophet and his successors used to make prolonged rak’ah during Ramadan. So long […]
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You were big enough to admit that your comrades tried to kill a young girl, but I would advise against picking a fight with women The Guardian: Dear Adnan Rasheed, […]
“We pray for holiness, but we also need to be careful of others’ desire for holiness,” “The moment you want to translate that into building a Temple, you upset the […]
New Law Restricts Rights to Association, Expression, and Religion Human Rights Watch: A new law in Indonesia places unnecessary and onerous restrictions on the activities of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), Human […]
IDF issues wanted posters for Palestinian kids RT: Asaf Hikmat, a West Bank Palestinian teen, can hardly concentrate on his upcoming exams, as he has been on the lookout for […]
The Jakarta Globe: Indonesia’s Religious Affairs Minister, in an apparent attempt to downplay the nation’s rising tide of religious intolerance, suggested that inter-faith strife is “human nature” before calling the […]
The Washington Post: By David Ignatius, Hisham Melhem, a prominent Lebanese journalist, recalls an emotional visit to the Great Mosque of Cordoba in southern Spain last May. With tears in his […]
Source: theglobeandmail.com It was fitting indeed that Malala Yousafzai addressed the United Nations during the first third of Ramadan. The month’s first 10 days are regarded as the days of God’s […]
Source: rferl.org Mohammad Nourizad, a former hard-line conservative columnist turned dissident, kissed the feet of a 4-year-old Baha’i boy named Artin. Nourizad posted a photo of the scene on his blog along with […]
Source: observer.ug Today, Muslims mark the first week of fasting during the month of Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar – a season of intensive worship, praying, and self-control […]