Video: Being Muslim in the U.S.
Source: Pew Research Center This video offers a look inside the beliefs and attitudes of Muslims in America; it features data from Pew Research Center’s 2017 survey, as well as […]
Bill Gates Offers Every College Grad a Free Copy of His Favorite Book
Source: Time By Max Zahn Bill Gates is giving one of his favorite books to every 2018 college graduate in the United States. The volume is Hans Rosling’s Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World—and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has called […]
Islam’s New ‘Native Informants’
nybooks.com: Returning from Lebanon and Egypt in 2003, Edward Said wrote an angry dispatch in the London Review of Books on how the Iraq War as reported on Arabic TV channels portrayed a different conflict from the one reported by the American media, in which journalists were “as lost as the English-speaking soldiers they […]
Convicting the US of war crimes
Jun 08,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – Jonathan Power There is a clock ticking towards July 20th. That is when the International Criminal Court (ICC) goes into its summer recess. The […]
The forgotten Muslim heroes of WWI
How Muslim soldiers helped save the allies from defeat in the First World War David Crossland June 7, 2018 A grave of a Muslim soldier who died during the First World War […]
How to get rid of stress (?)
One young man to the other: I felt very stressed ! And: what did you do? I went to Mosque. Did prayers help? Not really. I mixed up all the […]
Israelis Play Tourists in a Bedouin Town in the Negev
Source: The New York Times By Isabel Kershner RAHAT, Israel — The Bedouin town of Rahat, in the Negev desert, has a reputation among many Israelis as a wild, lawless and […]
Bermuda Just Made Same-Sex Marriage Legal — Again
Source: BuzzFeed News By Hayes Brown Bermuda’s Supreme Court had to repeat itself Wednesday, overturning a law that blocked its previous ruling making same-sex marriage legal on the island. Last year, the court declared that the North Atlantic Ocean island’s same-sex couples have the right to get married and receive all […]
Iraq arms cache explosions destroy Baghdad mosque
Source: BBC News At least 17 people have been killed and 80 wounded by explosions that destroyed a mosque in the Iraqi capital Baghdad, medical sources say. The government said […]
UK top court says it can’t demand abortion law change in Northern Ireland
Source: Reuters BY Estelle Shirbon, Amanda Ferguson LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – Britain’s Supreme Court expressed the view on Thursday that Northern Ireland’s strict abortion law was incompatible with the European Convention on […]
These Women Survived Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries. They’re Ready to Talk
Source: The New York Times By Ed O’Loughlin DUBLIN — They are a haunting sight in the aftermath of wars and natural disasters: the notice boards that spring up outside […]
Afghanistan calls temporary Eid ceasefire with Taliban
Source: BBC News The Afghan government has announced a temporary ceasefire with the Taliban but says fighting with other militants will continue. President Ashraf Ghani said the week-long ceasefire would coincide with the end of the Ramadan fasting month, Eid. The Taliban have yet to respond. Last week they denied […]
Climate change activists find ally in Orthodox Church leader
Source: Associated Press By DEREK GATOPOULOS SPETSES, Greece (AP) — Leading climate change experts and campaigners said Wednesday they would work with the leaders of the Orthodox Church and other […]
‘Ramadan Mubarak’: Trump hosts first iftar dinner
Source: Associated Press By JILL COLVIN And ANNE FLAHERTY WASHINGTON (AP) — Wishing Muslims around the world a “Ramadan Mubarak” — a blessed holiday — President Donald Trump on Wednesday […]
Preaching against plastic: Indonesia’s religious leaders join fight to cut waste
Source: The Guardain BY Kate Lamb in Jakarta Nation’s two largest Islamic organisations will call on network of 100 million followers to reduce plastic waste and reuse bags Tourists and local residents […]
Religiously unaffiliated ‘nones’ are pursuing spirituality, but not community
Source: Los Angeles Times By Stephen Asma In the 1980s, only 10% of Americans said that they had no religious affiliation. Three decades later, more than 23% of Americans describe […]
Friday Sermon: A comprehensive discourse on various prayers at the last day of Ramadhan
Sermon Delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad(at) Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Video Audio Summary Text Formats NOTE: Alislam Team takes full responsibility for any errors or miscommunication in […]
‘State-sponsored’ bigotry spurs persecution against Ahmadis
Marguerite Afra SapiieThe Jakarta Post Jakarta | Thu, June 7 2018 Recent attacks against the Ahmadiyah community in East Lombok, West Nusa Tenggara (NTB), which forced more than two dozen […]
Dutch anti-cowbell campaigner finally handed Swiss citizenship
The Local news@thelocal.ch @thelocalswitzer 28 March 2018 Nancy Holten with her daughter’s Swiss passport. Private photo. A Dutch woman who twice had her Swiss citizenship application refused by her local […]
OPINION: France shows its ‘irrational collective hysteria’ towards Muslim veil once again
The Local news.france@thelocal.com @thelocalfrance 18 May 2018 France has once again been reduced to near hysteria over the Muslim veil, this time after the president of a local student’s union […]