Point Comfort: where slavery in America began 400 years ago
In 1619, a ship with 20 captives landed at Virginia, ushering in the era of slavery in what would become the United States David Smith in Washington @smithinamerica Wed […]
The US has sent its warmonger-in-chief to talk trade with Britain – now what could it possibly want in return?
The United States will do what it always does, and act solely in its own interests. It will ask for everything, including absolute subservience, while offering next to nothing in […]
Ghana: Ahmadi Muslims urged to live by tenets of Holy Quran
Source: ghanaweb.com Maulvi Naeem Ahmad Cheema, the Special Aide to the Ameer in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana has advised Ahmadis to live by the tenets of Holy Quran. He urged them to refrain from actions that undermine the peace and interest of the country. The Special Aide to […]
Meeting, not meat-eating: Some local Muslims forgo Eid al-Adha sacrifice
Source: houstonchronicle.com | Lindsay Peyton Making Eid al-Adha meatless can be more complicated than avoiding certain dishes during holiday get-togethers. That’s because this holiest day on the Muslim calendar generally revolves around eating meat. In fact, Eid al-Adha is also known as the “Festival of Sacrifice.” For the occasion, which will […]
Ghana: Develop Spirit of Self-Sacrifice – Ahmadiyya Maulvi Cheema Urges Muslims
Source: allafrica.com | By Cliff Ekuful Muslims in the country were yesterday admonished to develop the spirit of self-sacrifice and submit to the will of Allah (God) if they are to attain nearness to him and be beneficiary of his favour. According to a Central missionary of the Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
India: Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat’s ‘Humanity First’ assist the flood-affected Kolhapur & Sangli
Source: hindustantimes.com Many hands are coming forward to help the flood-affected people in western Maharashtra with cash and kind. In Pune, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat India undertook an initiative through its auxiliary organisation ‘Humanity First India’, to assist the flood-hit by providing food and essential commodities. A team of volunteers, […]
Islam & Britain: ‘Muslim Mission in the Age of Empire’ by Ron Geaves
Islam and Britain: Muslim Mission in an Age of Empire. By Ron Geaves The history of British Islam before the Second World War has been an abiding concern of the religious studies scholar Ron Geaves. In this follow-up to his biography of the British Muslim convert Abdullah Quilliam, Geaves offers […]
Ahmadis urged to live by tenets of Holy Quran
Maulvi Naeem Ahmad Cheema, the Special Aide to the Ameer in-charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission, Ghana has advised Ahmadis to live by the tenets of Holy Quran. He […]
Muslim women ‘sterilised’ in China detention camps, say former detainees
‘It’s like we were just a piece of meat,’ says Gulbahar Jalilova Peter Stubley The Independent Uighur Muslim women are being sterilised at internment camps for ethnic and religious minorities […]
Muslim man discovers Pret sandwich he has been eating for 12 years is not halal
Khalid Qadeer has issued a complaint to Pret A Manger after noticing his favourite tuna baguette sandwich contained white wine vinegar ByLatifa Yedroudj 13 AUG 2019 A customer has […]
Where have you prayed? The most unexpected places Muslims pray around the world.
By nidhi singh Aug 13, 2019 Sana Ullah didn’t know that praying in a Macy’s dressing room would one day connect her to Muslims around the world. “We go […]
The Muslim wealth tax Zakat is the best blueprint for making Western societies fairer ǀ View
By Adeem Younis This week sees 1.8 billion Muslims celebrate the “Festival of Sacrifice,” or Eid Al-Adha. But the idea of sacrificing one’s hard earned money is a year-round activity […]
Mullah Nasruddin Jokes
Vengeance – Nasruddin style One day, Mullah Nasruddin heard a knock on his door. He opened the door and found his daughter standing there crying with a bruise on her […]
Our Islamophobia definition is no backdoor blasphemy law – the government must stop dawdling and take it on board
After years of contesting the need for any definition of Islamophobia, the government has been brow-beaten into commissioning its own review Wes Streeting @wesstreeting The Independent Voices When the Labour […]
The scorched corpses of Nagasaki should be a grim restraint to the chest beating in India, America and Iran In the Middle East and southeast Asia, at least one nation in every potential conflict is a nuclear power or a prospective one
Robert Fisk @indyvoices The Independent Voices We like our anniversaries in blocks of 50 or 100 – at a push we’ll tolerate a 25. The 100th anniversary of the […]
Hajj Today: Can the Muslim World Make Sociological Sense of the Global Assembly?
Source: thetruth.ng It is the dawn of the Islamic sacred month of Hajj and, as usual, hundreds of thousands of Muslims are already converging on Islam’s holiest city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia for this year’s Hajj (pilgrimage) operations. Again, in the next few days, the pilgrims will join processions of […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Denmark’s Nusrat Jahan Mosque – One of Europe’s Impressive Mosques
Source: egyptianstreets.com Denmark: The Nusrat Jahan Mosque Built in 1967, the Nusrat Jahan Mosque is the first mosque to have been built in Denmark. It is located on the outskirts of Copenhagen and is used by members of the Ahmadiyya faith, a particular branch of Islam. While having a more […]
Calling any Muslim non-Muslim against Sharia, says Pakistan Ulema Council
Source: Dawn.com | By Kalbe Ali ISLAMABAD: Clerics and scholars affiliated with the Pakistan Ulema Council (PUC) have declared that branding any Muslim as a non-Muslim is not only against […]
Recalling the surprisingly modern story of a medieval Muslim
Source: patheos.com by Dan Peterson Bill Hamblin and I wrote this column for the 19 October 2013 issue of the Deseret News: In late 1997, Brigham Young University Press published a new translation (with the original Arabic text on the facing page) of a volume by the 11th-12th century Islamic […]
Middle East Expert Vali Nasr: ‘The U.S. Has To Get a Sense of Iran’s Security Interests’
In an interview, Middle East expert and former White House adviser Vali Nasr warns of the danger of a new war in the region and calls on Europeans to […]