A Wonderful Hadith About Gratitude
Abu Hurairah relates that he heard the Holy Prophet narrate the following: Allah having determined to try a leper, a bald one and a blind one from among the Bani […]
USCIRF Welcomes Establishment of Pakistan’s National Commission for Minorities as a First Step
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 8, 2020 USCIRF Welcomes Establishment of Pakistan’s National Commission for Minorities as a First Step Washington, DC – The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom […]
After Five Bloody Years in Syria, Russia Is Turning Against Iran—and Assad
Source: The Beast GAZIANTEP, Turkey—After five years fighting to preserve Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, Russia now appears inclined to dispose of its infamous client. Assad’s persistent brutality and corruption, and his inability to establish even the semblance of a functioning state, has grown to be a burden Moscow would […]
Iranians Return to Friday Prayer Despite Surge in Coronavirus Cases
Source: WSJ By Aresu Eqbali in Tehran and Sune Engel Rasmussen in London Worshipers were asked to perform ablution at home, bring their own prayer mats and wear masks Iranians […]
Trump’s America Now Leads the World—in Suicidal Stupidity
Source: The Beast “American exceptionalism” is the general idea that the United States is different from other countries, endowed with special traits, better, superior. It goes back—well, actually, people debate how far it goes back. But there’s no debating when it ends. It ends this month, in May 2020, under […]
Allies despair as Trump abandons America’s leadership role at a time of global crisis
Source: CNN The United States has scaled back its role on the world stage, taken actions that are undermining efforts to battle the coronavirus pandemic and left the international community without a traditional global leader, according to experts, diplomats and analysts. The US — usually at the head of the […]
Intermittent fasting: The health trend Muslims have been practicing for centuries
Source: Arab News By Deema A-Khudair Its benefits are great to us as Muslims, including feeling for those in need, and it promotes self-control and avoiding the health problems caused […]
Pfizer to outsource some drug production, focus on coronavirus vaccine
Source: CNBC Pfizer said on Friday it is in talks to shift more of its medicine production to outside contractors as it prepares for large-scale production of an experimental vaccine […]
‘His head wasn’t in the world of reality’: how the plot to invade Venezuela fell apart
Deeply flawed from the start, the audacious plan to overthrow Nicolás Maduro unraveled spectacularly Julian Borger in Washington, Joe Parkin Daniels in Bogotá and Chris McGreal Fri 8 May […]
Black coronavirus deaths have exposed Britain for what it really is
In some parts of the media, the tragedy that is the Covid-19 Bame death rate disparity has not been treated the way it should Nels Abbey @nelsabbey 1 day ago […]
The Battle of Jamel: The Best Argument Against Theocracy in Early Islam
According to the Encyclopedia Britannica: “When Muhammad died in 632, ʿĀʾishah was left a childless widow of about 18, although some sources suggest she was older. She remained politically inactive […]
Glenmark in India gets approval to trial favipiravir for Covid-19
Source: Clinical Trials Arena The trial will assess the drug in Covid-19 patients with mild to moderate infection. Credit: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay. Glenmark Pharmaceuticals has received approval from the […]
The call to prayer is a prayer for the future, a call to those in times of despair
Source: The Star By Mustafa Farooq “Allahu akbar, Allahu akbar.” The delivery room at the Grey Nuns Hospital in Edmonton is dark, but on May 5, 2015, at 6 a.m., […]
Cambridge council allows mosque to broadcast call to prayer during Ramadan
Source: The Record By Anam Latif The Muslim call to prayer will be heard echoing from the Islamic Centre of Cambridge after council passed a temporary noise exemption bylaw at […]
A Ramadan TV show, hosted by a rabbi, is cementing Jewish-Muslim ties
Source: Arab News Rabbi Marc Schneier is educating Jewish Americans about Islam and Ramadan with a special TV series Founded 31 years ago, Schneier’s Foundation for Ethnic Understanding has offices […]
Ahmaud Arbery: White Dad and son charged with murder of US black jogger
Source: BBC A father and son have been arrested and charged in the US state of Georgia for the fatal shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an unarmed black man. Gregory McMichael, […]
India’s Hindus on fasting during Ramadan
Source: Arab News By Sanjay Kumar Gesture by a Hindu doctor expresses solidarity amid rising Islamophobia NEW DELH: He wakes up before sunrise for sahoor and abstains from food and […]
Arab alliance headed for further gains in Israel vote
By AFP – Mar 03,2020 – Jordan Times HAIFA — Israel’s largely Arab Joint List alliance was on track for its best-ever electoral performance, near-complete results showed Tuesday, consolidating […]
When you’re a Muslim American mom coordinating Ramadan in Texas during coronavirus, nothing is simple
I’m in the league of mothers who are trying to balance an incredibly difficult load of work that we’d never planned on — while trying to infuse my first-generation American […]
This is what the sudden fall of Syrian businessman Rami Makhlouf, the cousin of Bashar al-Assad, means
After each internal conflict in Syria, there has been a shift of power – and this is a serious change in the dynamics of the ruling class in Damascus, writes […]