Somalia: Al-Shabaab Commander Shot Dead
Somali National and inelegance security services has shot and killed a senior commander of Al Shabaab militant in Mogadishu’s Hiliwaa district, according to Gov’t officials. Read more »
Somali woman killed for not wearing veil, relatives say
Al-Shabab is fighting for an Islamic state in Somalia Continue reading the main story in BBC Somalia: Failed State ‘Mosquito militants’ Al-Shabab profile Who are al-Shabab?Watch What drives al-Shabab? Militant […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community on the World Wide Web
Source: ahmadiyya-islam.org | alislam.org ONLINE NETWORK Al Islam (International) Countries in Africa Mauritius (English) Tanzania (Swahili) Countries in Asia Bangladesh China India India (Gurmukhi, Punjabi) India (Malayalam) India (Tamil) Indonesia Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Iran Pakistan Russia Saudi Arabia Turkey Uzbekistan Countries in Europe Albania Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria France Germany Greece Iceland Italy […]
I renounced Islam, so my family think I should die
Apostasy is not just something that scandalises people in far off lands. Harriet Alexander hears the story of a British woman whose life was turned upside down when she left Islam – echoing the plight of Meriam Ibrahim, who awaits a death sentence in Sudan for the same “crime” If […]
Swiss UN expert: ‘For the first time there is hope for Somalia’
by Mohamed Cherif, swissinfo.ch January 26, 2014 – 11:00 The recently appointed United Nations Deputy Special Representative for Somalia, Philippe Lazzarini of Switzerland, reckons the war-torn country may be turning the corner, thanks to the support of the international community. A “new deal” for Somalia: that’s what the international community […]
The worst fate: Somalia’s ship wrecked hostages
AFP | Jul 22, 2013 | 22:26 Updated: Jul 22, 2013 | 22:26 NAIROBI — On Somalia’s pirate coast, more than 50 sailors are being held for ransom in grim conditions, many abandoned by their ship’s owner whose willingness to pay to free them sank with their boat. Almost all […]
Sufism-Mystical Branch Of Islam in Somalia
Huff Post: by Abdi Guled. MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of sweating Sufis chant and sway as the lead sheik moves into the middle of a circle of worshippers and bursts into a chant louder than anyone else’s Sufism, a mystical branch of Islam, is having a major comeback since al-Shabab, […]
UN to relocate 80,000 displaced Somalis
The United Nations has announced plans to relocate some 80,000 displaced Somalis living in the war-torn capital Mogadishu, Press TV reports. According to the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), an estimated 200,000 to 360,000 people who fled the country’s famine, are currently living in more than 500 overcrowded camps. In […]
An American jihadist in Somalia with few friends left
By AFP NAIROBI Once his reputation was of a feared fighter, an American-born extremist who left small town of Alabama to wage war alongside Al-Qaeda-linked Somali Islamists and who called […]
Interview with Ahmed Rashid: The West Should ‘Change Its Approach to Failing States’
Ahmed Rashid, one of the world’s foremost experts on Afghanistan, once welcomed US intervention in the failed state. But in a SPIEGEL interview, the Pakistani journalist says the West’s model for development is fundamentally flawed and must be changed. SPIEGEL: Mr. Rashid, in 2014 the West will withdraw from Afghanistan. […]
Somali troops rescue hostages held for 3 years
Authorities in Somalia’s semi-autonomous Puntland region say their forces raided a hijacked ship and safely rescued 22 hostages who had been held for nearly 3 years. The Panama registered Iceberg 1, was docked near the coastal village of Gara’ad in the Mudung region. The ship was hijacked on March 29th […]
Somalia’s taboo-breaking first woman foreign minister
No matter what one thinks, or in what color one tries to see the appointment of Fawzia Yusuf Haji Adam as the first woman Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister […]
Muslim speaker takes a swing at Salafis, Theocracies and dicttatorship
Source: Campus Watch Speaking to an overflow crowd at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, noted Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan criticized extreme Islamists known as Salafis, saying that the Arab world needs to develop political systems that reject both theocracies and dictatorships. But he added that Arab countries should […]
A new dawn for Somalia
Source:DEVEX Flag of Somalia. Academic and civic activist Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has been elected as Somalia’s new president. Photo by: Stuart Price / U.N. Photo / CC BY-NC-ND Somalia made history Monday (Sept. 10) with its “first and fair elections” in 40 years. The election of a new president also […]
Sultan Endorses Islamic Scholarship
Sultan endorses N0.5m Islamic studies’ scholarship | Print | E-mail Written by Biola Azeez, IlorinTuesday, 28 August 2012 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has announced an annual donation of half a million naira to the best graduating student from the Department of Islamic Studies, University of Ilorin. Speaking at the opening of […]
Somalia: The Consequences of a Crooked Constitution
Credit: Allafrica.com In 1961, the constitution of Somalia was overwhelmingly approved by the citizens of the newly-formed Somali nation-state. So, one might ask, what prompted the need for the new ‘provisional’ constitution passed on August 1, 2012? Somalia is currently gearing up for the official end of its period of […]
Future of Religious Minorities in the Muslim World
Source: Huffington Post By Imam Mohamed Magid President, Islamic Society of North America As an imam and as the president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), I know all too well the many challenges that American Muslims experience on a daily basis. We struggle for inclusion, for acceptance, […]
FIJISUN – Violence erupts at anti-Islam rally-Sweden and Islam updates
Violence erupts at anti-Islam protest in Sweden The Associated Press Published: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 6:25 am Last Modified: Saturday, Aug. 4, 2012 – 8:56 am STOCKHOLM — Swedish activists clashed with police amid a hail of bottles and fireworks in downtown Stockholm on Saturday as they tried to break […]
Illiteracy, violence and corruption, Muslim economic malaise – Universal Muslim Economic Failure
Note by the editor: Not a pretty picture, readers are encouraged to comment If Romney accomplished nothing else during his Israeli visit, he did manage to offend every single Palestinian Arab terrorist group, all of whom, the Palestinian Authority, Hamas, Islamic Jihad, the PFLP and the DFLP, issued press releases […]
FIJISUN – Zardari to attend meet in Saudi Arabia and Islam updates
Ramadan Reflection Day 10: Supporting Converts To Islam Huffington Post Imam Khalid Latif is blogging his reflections during the month of Ramadan, featured daily on HuffPost Religion. For a complete record of his previous posts, click over to the Islamic Center at New York University or visit his author page, and to follow […]