By Rafiu Ajakaye OnIslam Correspondent Thursday, 12 March 2015 LAGOS – While maintaining their respect for the Islamic Shari`ah permit of polygamy, a growing number of Nigerian Muslim women have been complaining that the second marriage license is being abused by many men who forget about being fair to their […]
(CNN) Forget the pyramids, Tahrir Square and the Nile. Egypt is ready to ditch Cairo and build a shiny new capital if the government has its way. Fed up with pollution, […]
$4bn Saudi aid to help Cairo secure, develop economy Crown Prince Muqrin, along with several Arab leaders, attends the 3-day Egypt Economic Development Conference in Sharm El-Sheikh SHARM EL-SHEIKH: ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 13 March 2015 The Saudi government would give Egypt $4 billion (over SR15 billion) in […]
Huff Post: Emilie Faye is no stranger to flooding. The walls in her home are discolored from rainwater and past floods in her community, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, have driven water levels up to the seat of her couch, she told Reuters. But the Senegalese woman is now using […]
Religious implication of the discovery discussed in the articles linked at the bottom of this article. By Pallab Ghosh; Science correspondent, BBC News Related Stories Ethiopia’s pride in ‘Lucy’ find Human […]
Religious implication of the discovery discussed in the articles linked at the bottom of this article. By Pallab Ghosh; Science correspondent, BBC News Related Stories Ethiopia’s pride in ‘Lucy’ find Human […]
Source: JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Al Azhar, Sunni Islam’s most prestigious centre of learning, called on Wednesday for fighting militants from the Daesh terrorist group, citing their threat to the stability of Islamic nations. In a statement, published by Egypt’s Youm 7 news outlets, the Cairo-based authority described Daesh insurgents as […]
AFP | Mar 02, 2015 | 22:42 Mourshidates, female religious guides appointed by the Algerian religious affairs ministry to spread the good word of Islam and a message of tolerance, read the Koran, Islam’s holy book, at the Ennidal Mosque in the Algerian capital, Algiers, on February 22 (AFP photo) […]
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Summary Libya’s internationally recognized Prime Minister Abdullah al-Thani said his government would stop dealing with Turkey because it was sending weapons to a rival group in Tripoli so “the Libyan […]
Summary President Barack Obama should provide Egypt with economic, political and, yes, military support. If Obama has indeed decided that a strong Egypt is essential, he shouldn’t try to play both sides of the street. Criticism of human-rights abuses should continue, but Washington should make clear that they come from […]
Summary Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi’s suggestion that our region needs a joint Arab military force to deal with escalating threats from armed factions in lands such as Libya is one of the most ridiculous ideas to emerge in the Arab world for years. The most important is that the resort […]
Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University, appears to blame Israel and by implication the US for chaos in Arab world Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb Photo: Getty Images By Richard Spencer, Middle East Editor The leading “moderate” authority in Sunni Islam has blamed Zionism and the “new colonialism” for the […]
STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Spy Cables are one of the most wide-ranging leaks of intelligence papers ever, taking us into the world of espionage Al Jazeera’s Investigative Unit, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper, is publishing a selection of “top-secret” documents, and exploring the stories within them The documents come from […]
The Daily Star, Lebanon The horrific mass murder of Egyptian Copts Sunday by ISIS in Libya and the weekend attacks in Denmark – presumably inspired by a similar mentality – show us once again that this evil menace is not confined to any one area, and as such, the response […]
Feb 17 (Reuters) – Morocco is to create a sharia board of Islamic scholars to oversee the country’s fledgling Islamic finance industry, according to a royal decree. It is the […]
AP – JORDAN TIMES CAIRO — Egypt is making an ambitious bid to place itself at the centre of the fight against extremism across the Middle East. Beyond fighting militants in its own Sinai Peninsula, it is trying to organise an international coalition against the Daesh terror group in Libya […]
BANGUI, Central African Republic – Tens of thousands of Muslims are fleeing to neighboring countries by plane and truck as Christian militias stage brutal attacks, shattering the social fabric of this war-ravaged nation. In towns and villages as well as here in the capital, Christian vigilantes wielding machetes have killed […]
Source: allafrica.com | Baba F. Trawally, Amir The Gambia, by the grace of Allah Almighty, will be celebrating her golden jubilee independence anniversary on Wednesday 18th February 2015. This will be fifty years since […]
Source: Daily Beast By Dean Obeidallah The anti-Muslim militias in the Central African Republic may not get the same attention as ISIS, but let’s not forget that people are still doing […]