Theloadstar: The European Union and United States have imposed ban on the PIA cargo service over improper security arrangements, ARY News reported. The European Union (EU) and United States authorities have written a letter to Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) to stop the airlines’ cargo service in EU and the US […]
Keyla Calix, a 25-year-old Honduran living in downtown Miami, didn’t think her friend’s gift of a Quran would lead her to reject her Catholic upbringing. But two years later, after […]
Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, is drawing to a close. The last 10 days are considered the holiest, and the focal point is the holiest of the cities, Mecca – from where Ramadan evening and dawn prayers are broadcast on a live feed around the Muslim world. READ MORE… […]
Telegraph: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy. A mob killed a seven-year-old and her baby sister along with their grandmother, a member of the Ahmadi sect, after another follower was accused of […]
Telegraph: A seven-year-old and her baby sister were killed alongside their grandmother, police said, after another member of the Ahmadi sect was accused of blasphemy. A mob killed a seven-year-old and her baby sister along with their grandmother, a member of the Ahmadi sect, after another follower was accused of […]
Most of us have been taught that much of the world’s political instability and violence is rooted in economic problems and hardships. The argument often goes something like this: “If the people in country X could just get more jobs and hope for a prosperous future, then the terrorism/crime/unrest would […]
On July 23, there was an effort to murder two of Nigeria’s prominent Muslim leaders, Sheikh Dahiru Bauchi, a cleric with a large personal following, and Muhammadu Buhari, former head of state. The attempts were two separate operations, though they appear to have been timed close together, in the former northern […]
The US failed to secure agreement on a ceasefire to end 18 days of fighting between Israel and Hamas in Gaza on Friday night but insisted that efforts were continuing to arrange a humanitarian truce in time for a Muslim holiday early next week. John Kerry, the US secretary of state, said he was […]
It’s dangerous to target a minority of women for the way they dress, argues Shaista Aziz If someone asked you to list the most sinister developments of our time, I […]
When widespread criticism arose from President Barack Obama’s gratuitous lecturing of Muslims at a White House iftar, about Israel’s right to defend itself as unarmed civilians in Gaza died by the hundreds, it signalled a generational shift in Muslim American leadership. This year’s White House iftar could have proceeded uneventfully like the many others […]
he Long Beach Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man who committed a hate crime against a Muslim woman in the Bixby Knolls area. Authorities said the incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. July 2 in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block […]
An estimated 21 million Chinese Muslims fast during the holy month of Ramadan and are allowed under the country’s constitution to freely practice other Islamic rituals, according to the Chinese ambassador to Saudi Arabia. READ MORE…
The son of a poor wood seller is set to become president of the world’s third-largest democracy. Indonesia’s Election Commission on July 22 declared victory for Jokowi Widodo over rival Prabowo Subianto following a nationwide vote on July 9. “This victory is a victory for all the people of Indonesia,” […]
Along with the “Trojan Horse” controversy about the imposition of a strict Islamic ethos on a number of Birmingham schools, the disclosure that several hundred Britons have been to Syria […]
Young children who are exposed to religion have a hard time differentiating between fact and fiction, according to a new study published in the July issue of Cognitive Science. READ MORE…
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia—As the bodies of those killed on Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 decompose, some stricken families of those on board look set to suffer more frustration if religious burial rites are passed over. Islam typically has strict requirements for burial of the deceased. Rites include bathing corpses, dressing them in white […]
At least five people have been killed and 70 injured by an Israeli strike on a hospital in Gaza, Palestinians say. The Israeli military said it had targeted a cache of anti-tank missiles in the hospital’s “immediate vicinity”. Overnight, more than 30 members of two Palestinian families died in Israeli […]
The Guardian: Investigators say train being loaded with bodies will soon be moved as Ukraine launches offensive near Donetsk station. As Dutch forensic experts arrived at the scene of the Malaysia Airlines crash on Monday and promised that the train being loaded with the victims’ bodies would be moved before […]
The Guardian: EU to consider further oil, gas, defence and financial penalties if Putin does not encourage rebels to allow access to crash site. The UK will urge other European leaders to consider imposing oil, gas, defence and banking sanctions against Russia over its role in the Malaysian plane disaster […]
When they came out of their poor peninsula, the early Muslim Arabs when compared with the more sophisticated and advanced Byzantines of Asia Minor and the Eastern Mediterranean, or the Persians to the East, looked like haggard upstarts. But the tribes of Arabia, who were catapulted to a stagnant region by a […]