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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
12 August 2019 Hassan al-Kontar became known around the world as “the man from the airport” after spending months living in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport. He was granted […]
By Andrea Tognina Aug 12, 2019 – 15:46 (Keystone) Seventy years ago, Switzerland achieved a modest diplomatic coup. Notwithstanding the relative isolation in which it found itself after the Second […]
I’ve been lucky enough to visit Hajj three times. The first time was in 2001, then in 2006, and most recently in 2018. Each visit has affected me in […]
Sending my best wishes to Muslims in Canada and around the world who are celebrating Eid al-Adha and the end of the Hajj. Eid Mubarak! pic.twitter.com/OqxF1AkwK9 — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) […]
Daoud Kuttab August 10, 2019 Sunday marks what is considered the “saddest day” in the Jewish calendar AMMAN: Muslims in Jerusalem took the unusual step of postponing important religious […]
Aug 11, 2019 By Ahmad Elhamy JAMARAT, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) – Muslims from around the world hurled pebbles at a giant wall in a symbolic stoning of the devil on […]