Stupid Questions Asked to Muslim Women
Source: Huffington Post By Asmaa AbuMezied Researcher, Economic Development and Social Change Fellow As a Muslim woman, I had my share of questions regarding my religion, my culture and my so […]
Islam: Waiting for a reformation?
Source: RT By Sam Gerrans For a Christian in the West, his religion is a matter of personal choice; it is a bolt-on to whatever he wishes to do the […]
“Good” Muslim, “Evil” Islam Dichotomy
Huff Post: by Sana Tayyen — Befriending Muslims while attacking Islam is no way to make friends with Muslims. The attitude that “Muslims are good people, but that which makes them Muslim is evil” is averse to creating bonds of community between Muslims and non-Muslims in a multi-religious America. The […]
Simon schuster creates imprint for muslim themed childrens books
Source: The New York Times As a young Pakistani-American Muslim girl growing up in Connecticut, Zareen Jaffery used to devour novels by Beverly Cleary and Judy Blume, hoping those stories […]
Egypt sentences 4 Coptic teenagers for contempt of Islam
Source: Associated Press By Maggie Michael CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam on Thursday, after they appeared in a video mocking […]
Muslim Student Association looks to bring understanding, love to Islam dialogue
Source: The Daily Nebraskan The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Muslim Student Association will host “Islam 101” this week to educate students and combat Islamophobia in society. MSA began preparing for the […]
New Iqaluit mosque opens doors
CBC: After years in the making, Iqaluit’s new mosque held its inauguration Friday, officially opening as a place of worship. The building will serve as a prayer space and a […]
What Drives People to Convert to Islam
The nature of religious faith is quite mysterious. As part of their religious faiths, people believe in a variety of deities. There are people who have religious faith in the […]
Did Muslims arrive in France 1300 years ago – DNA clues?
Source: The Daily Mail Three skeletons found facing east in a French burial ground belonged to medieval Islamic soldiers. It started in the Middle East around 1,400 years ago as […]
5 Muslim Contributions to Modern Society
Source: Huffington Post By Rua Wani; Writer, producer, MAX media lead Coauthored by Danyal Hameed. The inaugural Muslim Awards for Excellence (MAX) Gala, taking place in Toronto, Canada on March […]
Violence Against Women is Contradictory to Islamic Teachings
by Hina Latif – an adjunct professor of sociology. “Muslim men are allowed to rape non-Muslim women to ‘humiliate’ them.” Professor Saud Saleh, from the prestigious Al-Azhar University in Cairo, […]
Why does China have women-only mosques?
Source: BBC The Islamic world is wide and various, its points of view almost as numerous as its people. And Islam in China, with its long tradition of women-only mosques, provides a good illustration, says Michael Wood. In the middle of the plain of the Yellow River in Henan province […]
This Marine vet was banned from his kid’s school after objecting to Islam lessons
Source: The Washington Post John Kevin Wood says his daughter’s school has banned him from campus for more than a year, illegally punishing him for raising objections to classroom lessons […]
Life as a Muslim convert in Alabama
Source: Alabama Allie Larbi of Mobile, Ala., who converted to Islam after Sept. 11, 2001, plays with children before prayers at the Islamic American Center of Mobile on December 18, […]
Pakistan PM promises tougher stance on ‘honour’ killings
theguardian: by Jon Boone — Call for perpetrators to be ‘punished very severely’ puts Nawaz Sharif on collision course with religious conservatives Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, makes a speech condemning ‘honour’ killings at an Islamabad screening of A Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness. Photograph: AFP/Getty Laws […]
Harvard launches free online class to promote religious literacy
Source: Huffington Post By Antonia Blumberg; Associate Religion Editor, The Huffington Post Sales of the Quran skyrocketed in the United States following 9/11. Perhaps it was a search for answers, […]
Here’s why Islam is practiced so differently from country to country
Source: Business Insider No religion is unified. How Catholicism, for example, is practiced in rural Italy differs from the way this is done, say, in New York city. Language, culture, […]
Islamic Awakening
Source: America Magazine There is a culture war in the West over Islam. It has flared up again following last year’s attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, the daily predations […]
‘Islam Can’t Be Modernized’ Says World’s ‘Greatest Arabic Poet.’ But, Is it True?
‘Islam Can’t Be Modernized’ Says World’s ‘Greatest Arabic Poet.’ Source: Breitbart The writer regarded as the greatest Arabic language poet alive today has said Islam cannot be modernized. Adunis Asbar, known […]
Islam versus Islam
Source: Inquirer LAHORE—Turmoil has seized much of the Muslim world. In Syria, a brutal war has already taken 250,000 lives, displaced half of the country’s 21 million people, and sent a million refugees to Europe seeking asylum. In Yemen, the Houthi tribe has risen up against the government, and is […]