Source: Independent A Chinese province with a large Muslim population has banned religion in nursery schools after a video of a little girl reciting the Quran was posted online. The […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Source: The Huffington Post By Kabir Helminski ………………… A small minority of the world’s one and a half billion Muslims has misconstrued the teachings of Islam to justify their misguided […]
Source: International Business Times By Vasudevan Sridharan The Pakistani government is poised to make learning Quran compulsory in all public schools. Lawmakers in the country are talking to all parties involved in […]
Source: Patheos.com By Tahir Nasser The dust from the bombs had barely settled in Brussels when the first anti-Islamic articles started appearing in major news outlets. In particular, Christian pundit […]
Source: Huffington Post By Joseph E. B. Lumbard; Assistant Professor of Arabic and Translation Studies, American University of Sharjah o effectively counter the ideologies of strident puritanical groups who lay claim […]
Source: RNS The Qur’an opens not with the story of creation, but with the opening. The beginning of the Qur’an is not: “In the beginning Allah created the heavens and […]
Source: Time An understanding of true Islam can help stop terrorist acts ISIS extremists and anti-Islam activists fundamentally ignore and misrepresent the Qur’an. It should come as no surprise that after suffering beatings for nearly a year as a ISIS hostage, freed French journalist Didier Francois reported: There was never […]
An Indian Muslim devotee offers prayers during Eid al-Adha at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, in this October 6, 2014 file photo. (AFP) ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 25 March 2016 Akifah Baxter, a former Christian based in the United States, once strolled through a bookstore in search for guidance […]
Source: Review of Religions By Umar Nasser, who is a final year medical student at Imperial College, London. He is currently serving as Chair of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Students Association UK, and is the co-founder of Endofatheism.com, an initiative seeking to provide coherent answers to the questions posed by atheism in the […]
ABD AL-AZIZ BIN ABDALLAH Published — Friday 11 March 2016 Allah says: “Whatever of good befalls you, it is from Allah; and whatever of ill befalls you, it is from yourself.” (Qur’an, 4:79) This and other similar verses outline for us an attitude that we should adopt, and that will […]
Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla Associate Religion Editor Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced fear being directed at Muslims […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times “I think Islam hates us,” Trump told CNN’s Anderson Cooper, deploring the “tremendous hatred” that he said […]
UAE GDN Online Desk The Parax Paper stall featuring samples of the first copies of the Holy Quran printed on stone paper, was the centre of attraction on the second day of Paperworld Middle East at the Dubai International Convention and Exhibition Centre. The revolutionary and environmentally-friendly stone […]
Can you tell the difference? Source: Huffington Post By Carol Kuruvilla; Associate Religion Editor Islamophobia has become frighteningly commonplace in the U.S. There’s a lot of hatred, misinformation and misplaced […]
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 Source: […]
By Noha Medhat A startling new study of the Christian and Islamic texts has revealed that violence and anger are more common in the Old and New Testaments than in […]
SAEED AL-KHOTANI Published — Wednesday 17 February 2016 ARABNEWS.COM RIYADH: The annual Prince Sultan bin Abdul Aziz Competition for the Memorization of the Holy Qur’an and the […]