India’s splitting of Kashmir opposed in Muslim border city
Source: Sheikh Saaliq NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s surprise move to carve out sparsely populated Ladakh from the state of Jammu and Kashmir to make it a territory directly controlled […]
‘I am really shy’: introducing Phoenix, the world’s first hijab-wearing champion wrestler
Source: The Guardian By Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Kuala Lumpur Nor Diana can remember vividly the first time she stepped out to make her wrestling debut. Outside the ropes she had always […]
No going back to Taliban repression, Afghan businesswomen say
Source: Reuters BY Orooj Hakimi KABUL (Reuters) – Businesswomen in Afghanistan are adamant that there will be no going back to the days of repression under the Taliban, and the progress […]
What the Criminalization of Instant Divorce Means for India’s Muslims
Source: The Atlantic BY Danish Raza In January 2016, Afreen Rehman, a resident of Jaipur, in northwest India, was recovering from a road accident when her husband sent a letter to her […]
Video: Jemima Marcelle Khan Raising Her Children in Islam
Jemima Marcelle Khan (née Goldsmith, born 30 January 1974) is a British TV, film and documentary producer and founder of Instinct Productions, a television production company. [2] She was formerly a journalist and associate […]
Indian court acquits six of killing Muslim dairy farmer in cow vigilante case
NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted six men of the killing of a 55-year-old Muslim dairy farmer, citing lack of evidence, raising questions over the prosecution’s […]
India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s ‘Humanity First’ assist the flood-affected Kolhapur & Sangli
Source: hindustantimes.com Many hands are coming forward to help the flood-affected people in western Maharashtra with cash and kind. In Pune, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat India undertook an initiative through its auxiliary organisation ‘Humanity First India’, to assist the flood-hit by providing food and essential commodities. A team of volunteers, […]
Muslim women ‘sterilised’ in China detention camps, say former detainees
‘It’s like we were just a piece of meat,’ says Gulbahar Jalilova Peter Stubley The Independent Uighur Muslim women are being sterilised at internment camps for ethnic and religious minorities […]
Where have you prayed? The most unexpected places Muslims pray around the world.
By nidhi singh Aug 13, 2019 Sana Ullah didn’t know that praying in a Macy’s dressing room would one day connect her to Muslims around the world. “We go […]
Mullah Nasruddin Jokes
Vengeance – Nasruddin style One day, Mullah Nasruddin heard a knock on his door. He opened the door and found his daughter standing there crying with a bruise on her […]
The scorched corpses of Nagasaki should be a grim restraint to the chest beating in India, America and Iran In the Middle East and southeast Asia, at least one nation in every potential conflict is a nuclear power or a prospective one
Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent Voices We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100 – at a push we’ll tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the […]
Calling any Muslim non-Muslim against Sharia, says Pakistan Ulema Council
Source: Dawn.com | By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: Clerics and scholars affiliated with the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) have declared that branding any Muslim as a non-Muslim is not only against […]
Recalling the surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim
Source: patheos.com by Dan Peterson Bill Hamblin and I wrote this column for the 19 October 2013 issue of the Deseret News: In late 1997, Brigham Young University Press published a new translation (with the original Arabic text on the facing page) of a volume by the 11th-12th century Islamic […]
Middle East Expert Vali Nasr: ‘The U.S. Has To Get a Sense of Iran’s Security Interests’
In an interview, Middle East expert and former White House adviser Vali Nasr warns of the danger of a new war in the region and calls on Europeans to […]
Hassan al-Kontar: Who is the man trapped in an airport helping now?
12 August 2019 Hassan al-Kontar became known around the world as “the man from the airport” after spending months living in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. He was granted […]
Palestinians in Jerusalem postpone Eid to protect Al-Aqsa
Daoud Kuttab August 10, 2019 Sunday marks what is considered the “saddest day” in the Jewish calendar AMMAN: Muslims in Jerusalem took the unusual step of postponing important religious […]
Muslim pilgrims converge on Jamarat for ritual stoning of the devil
Aug 11, 2019 By Ahmad Elhamy JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Muslims from around the world hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on […]
Explainer: Separatist takeover of Yemen’s Aden leaves Saudi Arabia in a bind
Aug 11, 2019 By Stephen Kalin and Ghaida Ghantous RIYADH/DUBAI (Reuters) – The southern separatists’ takeover of Aden, the interim seat of Yemen’s government, could leave Saudi Arabia struggling […]