Quba — the first mosque in the history of Islam
MADINAH: YUSUF MOHAMMAD ARABNEWS Published — Sunday 13 July 2014 Quba Mosque to the south of Madinah is the second largest and prestigious mosque in the city after the Prophet’s […]
Go for Ramadan Umrah once ‘to make it easy for others’
A high-ranking official at the Haj Ministry has advised Saudis and expats to perform Umrah only once during Ramadan to give others a chance to do it with ease. Civil Defense has sent text messages to Saudis and expats urging them not to perform Umrah more than once. Hussein Al-Sharif, […]
World’s deafening silence over Gaza – URI AVNERY
Bombs are raining on Gaza and rockets on Southern Israel, people are dying and homes are being destroyed. Again. Again without any purpose. Again with the certainty that after it’s all over, everything will essentially be the same as it was before. But I can hardly hear the sirens, which […]
UN questions legality of Israel’s Gaza offensive
Netanyahu dismisses intl pressure RT: The legality of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge, which entered its fifth day on Saturday, has been questioned by the UN’s humanitarian chief. But Israel’s prime […]
Why I’m on the brink of burning my Israeli passport
The Independent: She is young. She is pretty. She is a university graduate and a computer engineer. She is also an Israeli Parliamentarian – and the reason why I am on the brink of burning my Israeli passport. Because behind that wide-eyed innocent face lurks the Angel of Death. Ayelet […]
Why I'm on the brink of burning my Israeli passport
The Independent: She is young. She is pretty. She is a university graduate and a computer engineer. She is also an Israeli Parliamentarian – and the reason why I am on the brink of burning my Israeli passport. Because behind that wide-eyed innocent face lurks the Angel of Death. Ayelet […]
Colonialism never ended in Palestine
Summary Without the explanatory lens of colonial behavior, I can think of only two ways to understand how Israel can repeat every few years what it is doing now in Gaza, unleashing the power of its advanced military machines against an essentially helpless civilian population that has neither a means […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people’s rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Sistani: Fighters must respect all people's rights
Reuters DAILY STAR LEBANON BAGHDAD: Iraq’s top Shiite religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani urged fighters Friday to respect the rights of all Iraqis, regardless of sect or politics, after […]
Kurds seize Iraq northern oil fields, ministers pull out of government
Reuters BAGHDAD/KIRKUK, Iraq: Kurdish forces seized two oil fields in northern Iraq and took over operations from a state-run oil firm Friday, while Kurdish politicians suspended their participation in Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s government. The moves escalated a feud between the Shiite-led central government and the autonomous Kurdish region against […]
The myth of the caliphate and the Islamic State
by Afzal Ashraf ALJAZEERA Afzal Ashraf is a Consultant fellow at Royal United Services Institute for Defense and Security Studies (RUSI) and served in the UK Armed Forces. He was […]
92 Muslims are among the most influential scientific minds of 2014
By Abdul Rashid Agwan, MM News, Thomson Reuters, a UK-based multi-media corporation, has recently released its report ‘The Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014’, listing more than 3200 scientists who are […]
Religion is lived by love and enthusiasm in heart
BY HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 11 July 2014 in Arab News In the holy month of Ramadan, the blessings and the spirit of love of Islam is being felt […]
How Politics and Lies Triggered an Unintended War in Gaza
By J.J. Goldberg Published July 10, 2014, issue of July 18, 2014. In the flood of angry words that poured out of Israel and Gaza during a week of spiraling […]
OIC demands action against Israeli atrocities
Epigraph: When you spread out your hands in prayer, I hide my eyes from you; even when you offer many prayers, I am not listening. Your hands are full of […]
Islamic Caliph condemns ISIS’ act of ‘Un-Islamic terror’
Written by By Steve Taggart | thelondoneconomic.com As ISIS gain new territory and funds with which to establish an Islamic state and ‘’Caliphate’’, they are perhaps unaware that the institution of Caliphate is […]
Religious freedom in peril
Written by Nicholas Kristof | sacbee.com This is a sensitive area I’m wading into here, I realize. A Sudanese court in May sentences a Christian woman married to an American to be hanged, after first being lashed 100 times, after she refuses to renounce her Christian faith. Muslim extremists in Iraq demand that Christians […]
Qur'an lesson for today: Judge between them according to the book of Allah
174. Judge between them according to the book of Allah [5:49] And We have revealed unto thee the Book comprising the truth and fulfilling that which was revealed before it in the Book, and as a guardian over it. Judge, therefore, between them by what Allah has revealed, and follow […]
Qur’an lesson for today: Judge between them according to the book of Allah
174. Judge between them according to the book of Allah [5:49] And We have revealed unto thee the Book comprising the truth and fulfilling that which was revealed before it in the Book, and as a guardian over it. Judge, therefore, between them by what Allah has revealed, and follow […]
ISIS to FIFA: Cancel the World Cup or We’ll Bomb It
Before the winner of the Brazil World Cup has even been decided, the 2022 event is facing fresh threats. And this time, it’s not down to construction delays or street protests, it’s ambitious terrorists. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, the terrorist organisation currently wreaking havoc in the Middle […]