Bader Sayeed is one of the top lawyer-activists in Chennai, the first woman chairperson of the Tamil Nadu Waqf Board. – See more at: http://newageislam.com/interview/shobha-warrier/talaq-must-go-through-the-court-of-law/d/107673#sthash.R6qOzxYY.dpuf A schoolmate of Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa, she was the All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam candidate in the 2004 parliamentary elections from the […]
Source: Huffington Post By Todd Green, Ph.D. Author, “The Fear of Islam: An Introduction to Islamophobia in the West” Donald Trump wasted little time after the news broke of the […]
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred. Whoever saves one it will be as if he or she has saved the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source: Oneindia […]
Source: BuzzFeed News By Talal Ansari BuzzFeed News Reporter A man who was arrested in Seattle on Tuesday after making violent threats on social media against an area mosque is being […]
Source: RNS By Adelle M. Banks (RNS) Southern Baptists are usually the first to defend religious freedom. But when it comes to Muslims, some want to draw a line. At their annual […]
Source: BBC The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) in Pakistan has declared that killing in the name of family honour is un-Islamic and against the law. The group, which advises […]
Source: The Guardian Malcolm Turnbull has warned against the community being divided by acts of terrorism such as the Orlando massacre and “extremist, nihilistic interpretations of religion”. Speaking at an […]
Source: Reuters BY DAVID BRUNNSTROM U.S. President Barack Obama met the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, at the White House on Wednesday despite a warning by China that […]
Source: Reuters Islamophobia has risen markedly in Germany, a study published on Wednesday showed, underscoring the tensions simmering in German society after more than one million migrants, mostly Muslims, arrived last year. Every second respondent in the study of 2,420 people said they sometimes felt like a foreigner in their […]
Source: BBC Germany will not recognise polygamy or marriages involving minors, Justice Minister Heiko Maas has said “No-one who comes here has the right to put his cultural values or […]
Source: Associated Press By DARLENE SUPERVILLE WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama thanked the Dalai Lama on Wednesday for offering condolences after 49 people were killed in the worst mass […]
Source: Washington Post By Joel Achenbach and Lateshia Beachum The Council on American-Islamic Relations had planned to hold a news conference Tuesday unveiling a report on Islamophobia, including the rise […]
Source: Associated Press By KATHLEEN HENNESSEY WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama angrily denounced Donald Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric on Tuesday, blasting the views of the presumptive Republican presidential nominee as […]
faithit.com: by Kyle Suhan — Sex is always intentional, and they are going to understand that even consensual sex needs to be cared for with the utmost delicacy. ‘That is a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action out of his 20 plus years of life. The […]
BY KRISTINA COOKE AND JOSEPH AX FBI Director James Comey delivers a speech at the Master of Science in Foreign Service CyberProject’s sixth annual conference at Georgetown University in Washington D.C., U.S. April 26, 2016. REUTERS/CARLOS BARRIA Muslim-Americans have repeatedly informed authorities of fellow Muslims they fear might be turning […]
GENEVA | BY STEPHANIE NEBEHAY Bones, suspected to belong to members of Iraq’s Yazidi community, are seen in a mass grave on the outskirts of the town of Sinjar, November 30, 2015. REUTERS/ARI JALAL/FILES Islamic State is committing genocide against the Yazidis in Syria and Iraq to destroy the religious […]
ERBIL, IRAQ | BY MAHER CHMAYTELLI AND ISABEL COLES Iraqi soldiers gather to go battle against Islamic State militants south of Mosul , Iraq, June 15, 2016. REUTERS/STRINGER Once Islamic […]
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times After the top constitutional body on Islamic laws in Pakistan recommended ‘a light beating for women’ sparking […]
By Paul Wright , Video by Sho Murakoshi June 15, 2016 14:06 BST ibtimes.co.uk British Muslim children as young as 11 are being given classes to prevent them being radicalised by violent Islamic State (Daesh) jihadists. This comes after community leaders feared they were being targeted by extremist online propaganda.Imam Muhammad Ehsan, headteacher […]
Tens of thousands of Palestinians left without access to safe drinking water in sweltering heat Peter Yeung @ptr_yeung Israel has cut off the water supply to large areas of the West Bank, […]