Turkey’s religious affairs agency has expressed distaste over a new mosque in Berlin where men and women mingle freely, saying it was incompatible with the principles of Islam. Read more…..https://www.thelocal.de/20170622/turkey-says-liberal-german-mosque-incompatible-with-islam
By Adam Walker, UK بِسْمِ اللّهِ الرَّحْمـَنِ الرَّحِيمِ إِنَّا أَنزَلْنَاهُ فِي لَيْلَةِ الْقَدْرِ وَمَا أَدْرَاكَ مَا لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ لَيْلَةُ الْقَدْرِ خَيْرٌ مِّنْ أَلْفِ شَهْرٍ تَنَزَّلُ الْمَلَائِكَةُ وَالرُّوحُ فِيهَا بِإِذْنِ رَبِّهِم مِّن كُلِّ أَمْرٍ سَلَامٌ هِيَ حَتَّى مَطْلَعِ الْفَجْرِ [97:1] In the name of Allah, the Gracious, the Merciful. [97:2] Surely, […]
Source: Washington Post By Anthony Faiola and Stephanie Kirchner June 17 BERLIN — Inside the red-brick building that now houses the German capital’s newest and perhaps most unusual mosque, Seyran […]
Source: The Guardian BY Kate Connolly in Berlin The Nicht Mit Uns – or Not With Us – march has been planned as opposition to violence in the name of […]
Source:The Local With a mission to spread a liberal form of Islam, a mosque where men and women pray side by side has opened its doors in Berlin, complete with female imams. The Arabic phrase “Allahu Akbar” (‘God is greatest’) resonated through the crowded Ibn-Rushd-Goethe-Mosque Friday as US-Malaysian Ani Zonneveld, […]
Allah says in the Qur’an: The Night of Decree is better than a thousand months. The angels and the Spirit descend therein by permission of their Lord for every matter. Peace it is until the emergence of dawn. [Qur’an: 97:3-5] The blessed Laylatul Qadr can be found in any of the last […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla QIBLAFINDERWITHGOOGLECOMGoogle launched a webapp that helps Muslims find the Qibla — the direction towards Mecca. Qibla is the direction that Muslims face during prayer. […]
Source: Huffington Post BY Akbar Ahmed, Contributor CAMBRIDGE, England ― When Tim Winter became a Muslim in 1979, Islam was still something of a mystery to the West. He was a […]
Source: Associated Press By GENE JOHNSON SEATTLE (AP) — Demonstrators around the country rallied to protest Islamic law, saying it is incompatible with Western democracy. But many of the rallies […]
Source: Religion New Service By Asifa Quraishi-Landes | June 8, 2017 Women attend a “Freedom of Speech Rally Round II” across the street from the Islamic Community Center in Phoenix […]
Source: Associated Press By ANDREW SELSKY EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Inside a mosque in the college town of Eugene, a half-dozen men prostrated themselves on a carpet while another man […]
Source: NPR By TOM GJELTEN ACT for America, known for its aggressive criticism of Islam, hosts anti-Sharia marches on Saturday across the U.S. Many supporters have alt-right links. STEVE INSKEEP, HOST: […]
Source: The Federalist By Dan Jones If you were born and raised in the West, think back to your textbooks on world history. Chances are, you remember learning about historical […]
Source: The Washington Post By Abigail Hauslohner June 5 A Friday prayer service at Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in Falls Church in December 2015. (Michael Reynolds/European Pressphoto Agency) A Virginia mosque has publicly condemned […]
Source: Huffington Post If you want to be a good ally to your Muslim friend this year, there’s no better time to start than during Ramadan. By Carol Kuruvilla, Rowaida Abdelaziz Muslims around the world are now well into Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. During this […]
Source: The Guardian BY Benjamin Haas in Hong Kong Children under 16 told ‘overly religious’ names such as Saddam, Hajj and Jihad must be changed amid pro-Communist rallies across Xinjiang region […]
Source: The Guardian By Oliver Holmes in Marawi and Iligan City Saturday 3 June 2017 11.00 BST Last modified on Saturday 3 June 2017 11.57 BST They were devout Christians, but it was Islamic prayers that would ultimately save their lives. Islamist militants in black masks were stationed on bridges – the only way […]
Source: By Ari Plachta Hana Mansour-Khatib is pictured in her office in a small law firm in the Arab-Israeli town of Tamra. Credit: Ari Plachta Israel is often celebrated for […]
Source: Daily Mail The former chief crown prosecutor and the country’s most prominent Muslim lawyer has said British Islamic groups are undermining fight against terror by peddling ‘myths’ about the Prevent campaign. Nazir Afzal has claimed an ‘industry’, of Muslim groups was spreading misinformation about the Prevent strategy, according to The Times.The scheme […]
Source: The Guardian Jakarta, Indonesia Women offer special ‘Tarawih’ prayers on the first night of the holy month at the Istiqlal mosque Photograph: Solo Imaji/Barcroft Images Dhaka, Bangladesh A man […]