Britain Grapples With Enduring Questions of Religion and Race
Source: The New York Times By STEVEN ERLANGER and STEPHEN CASTLE APRIL 25, 2016 LONDON — As Britain engages in fierce debates centered on national identity, it is also confronting […]
Did Jesus Predict Muhammad? A Biblical Portal Between Christianity and Islam
Source: The Huffington Post By Ian Mevorach; Theologian, minister, ethicist, and activist; co-founder of Common Street Spiritual Center The time has come for Christians and Muslims to make peace between our […]
Sir Zafrullah Khan Introducing the Holy Quran to the World
Epigraph: “As often as we approach the Quran, it always proves repulsive anew; gradually, however, it attracts, it astonishes, and, in the end forces admiration.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe […]
God Is Living, So Why Does Religion Treat God As Dead?
Source: Huffington Post By Omar Naseef; Muslim, Writer, Traveller, Author, Foodie, Adventurer There’s a vigorous debate in the United States about the nature of our constitution. Liberals tend to argue that the […]
Lindsay Lohan, Winston Churchill, and the long history of flirting with Islam
Source: The Washington Post By Ishaan Tharoor Lindsay Lohan, the American actress, is said to be “exploring” Islam. Speculation was first stirred by a photograph of the celebrity carrying a copy […]
Islam the Cure For Alarming U.S. Suicide Rate, Says Muslim Scholar
Epigraph: Almost a million people commit suicide every year in the world. Source: Breitbart By ALI WAKED JAFFA, Israel – The reason suicides in the United States reached a nearly three […]
India: Noor Mosque of Qadian completes its 106th year
On 23rd April 1910, Hadhrat Hakeem Maulana Noor ud din (r.a.) inaugurated the Noor Mosque in Qadian, and led the Asr prayer. On 14th March 1914, in the very same mosque, Hadhrat Mirza Bashir ud din Mahmood (r.a.) was chosen as the second caliph of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. […]
The sacred month of Rajab
MUFTI TAQI USMANI Published — Friday 22 April 2016 Rajab is the seventh month in the Islamic lunar calendar. This month was regarded as one of the sacred months (Al-Ashhur Al-Hurum) in which battles were prohibited in the days of the Holy Prophet. It is also a prelude to […]
Why You Should Not Ask a Muslim Woman to Remove Her Hijab
Source: Huffington Post By Hawa Fuseini Writer, spoken word artist, and poet I am a Muslim woman and an American citizen. I wear the hijab as an expression of my free […]
Delivering on the Promises of Paris: Why the World’s Muslims Are Demanding Climate Action Now
Source: Huffington Post By Naser Haghamed CEO of Islamic Relief Worldwide, an independent humanitarian and development organisation with a presence in over 40 countries worldwide. The global Muslim community – made up of around 1.6 billion followers from world leaders to academics, from teachers and healthcare workers to business people and […]
First non-Muslim lashed for breaking Sharia law in Indonesian province
Source: USA Today By Patrick Winn, GlobalPost For her crime, violating the tenets of a faith she does not observe, the courts offered two punishments. Option one: time in a grim jailhouse. Option two: nearly 30 lashes with a cane wielded by a anonymous man, hooded and clad in black robes, […]
When Day of Judgment will bring ‘death’ to this universe
COURTESY: SCIENCEANDQURAN.COM Published — Friday 15 April 2016 Allah Almighty says: “And the Moon is eclipsed, and the Sun and the Moon are fused together, on that Day man will ask: “Where can I run?” No indeed! There will be no safe place. That Day, the only resting place will […]
Muslims Want to Review Deal Preventing Illegal Surveillance
Source: ABC News By LARRY NEUMEISTER, ASSOCIATED PRESS Members of the Muslim community asked Tuesday for more time to digest an agreement aimed at preventing illegal surveillance by the New York Police Department, saying they want to use the Ramadan season starting in early June to spread word among people […]
Muslims converting to Christianity on the rise in Vienna
So far this year, roughly half of converts to Christianity in Vienna have been Muslim, according to reports About half of the 83 adults to have been approved for baptism […]
Muslim man loses high court bid to have sons circumcised
Source: The Guardian A devout Muslim has failed to persuade a high court judge to rule that his sons should be circumcised. The man, who was born in Algeria but […]
Islam not compatible with German constitution, says AfD party
Source: Reuters (Writing by Paul Carrel, editing by Louise Heavens) The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) said on Sunday Islam is not compatible with the German constitution and vowed to […]
Japan: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community starts relief activities after the Kumamoto Earthquake
News courtesy: Anees Ahmad Nadeem, President Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Japan Humanity first Japan is among those volunteer organizations which started relief activities soon after sever earthquakes rattled the Kyushu area on 14th and 15th April. We served meal to approximately 3000 to 4000 people so far Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Japan has started […]
Switzerland: Citizenship put on hold for ‘no-handshake’ Muslim boys
APPLICATION SUSPENDED APR 18, 2016 Shaking hands at school has become a topic of international interest (Keystone) The family of the two teenagers, who refused to shake their female teachers’ hands for religious reasons, have had their application for citizenship suspended. Shaking hands with the teacher before and after class […]
Erdogan urges Muslims to overcome splits, fight terror
Source: Yahoo News By Stuart Williams Istanbul (AFP) – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday urged dozens of Muslim leaders gathered for a summit in Istanbul to end sectarian divisions […]
How Germany Has Resisted the Influence of ISIS
Source: Time By Simon Shuster / Düsseldorf, Germany Programs to integrate Muslim communities may have helped Germany so far avoid the Islamist violence in neighboring France and Belgium During his lunch […]