An Egyptian lawmaker is urging the Egyptian parliament to ban niqabsand burqas, claiming them to be part of Jewish tradition. Published: September 23, 2016 tribune.com.pk Egyptian MP backs burqa ban, terms garment ‘un-Islamic’ – The Express Tribune http://tribune.com.pk/wp-content/themes/express/js/DD_belatedPNG.js DD_belatedPNG.fix(‘img, #developer-link a’); Lawmaker Amina Nasir said the Holy Quran only called for Muslim women […]
Paris: A young French Muslim woman who lost three family members in the July 14 terror attack on Nice made an impassioned plea Monday not to confuse the Islamic faith with terrorism. Yasmine Bouzegan Marzouk, 21, told a national ceremony in tribute to the French victims of terror attacks that […]
SEPT. 23, 2016 Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the 70th session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 30, 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in New York. (AFP/Don Emmert, File) By: Chloe Benoist BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly became the scene […]
FRENCH PRESS AGENCY – AFP SCHIPHOL/ Netherlands Dutch far-right Party for Freedom (PVV) leader Geert Wilders sits in a courtroom of the courthouse in Schiphol, the Netherlands March 18, 2016. (REUTERS Photo) Lawyers for Dutch far-right MP Geert Wilders on Friday urged judges to drop an upcoming hate speech case […]
26 March 2015 From the sectionMiddle East Image copyrightAFP Yemen conflict No end in sight to war in Yemen Practising medicine under fire in Yemen A young girl and a city struggling for life Yemen’s humanitarian catastrophe Yemen is in the grip of its most severe crisis in years, as […]
BYNICOLE BITETTE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS Updated: Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Happy wife (or wives), happy life.The family featured on the TLC series “Sister Wives” is asking the U.S. Supreme […]
A Pakistani Kashmiri takes part in a protest in Islamabad on Sept. 22. It was being led by the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, which is expressing solidarity with Kashmiris who are resisting Indian rule. (B.K. Bangash/AP) By Pamela Constable and Shaiq Hussain September 22 ISLAMABAD — Military officials are calling […]
Source: The Telegraph By Sarah Knapton, science editor 11 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 1:08PM Two dolphins have been recorded having a conversation for the first time after scientists developed an underwater microphone […]
Source: Time By Tom Foreman and Jonathan Drew / AP (CHARLOTTE, N.C.) — A third night of protests over a fatal police shooting in Charlotte gave way to quiet streets early Friday after the city’s mayor enacted a curfew and rifle-toting members of the National Guard arrived to guard the city’s […]
Source: Time By Justin Juozapavicius and Sean Murphy / AP (TULSA, Okla.) — Less than a week after an unarmed black man was shot dead by a white police officer on a Tulsa street, prosecutors charged the officer with first-degree manslaughter, a decision that may prevent unrest in a city with […]
Source: Time By Aryn Baker According to the International Organization for Migration, Eritreans and Somalis make up some of the largest numbers of African refugees who have attempted to reach Europe by rubber boat and overloaded dinghy over the past two years. But most of them are not coming straight from […]
Source: Motto By Kastalia Medrano A new survey of 2,000 office employees by UK law firm Slater and Gordon brings us the very interesting news that workplace sexism is still […]
Source: Time UNITED NATIONS – President Hassan Rouhani took to the most prominent international stage on Thursday to warn the U.S. that any violation of the internationally recognized nuclear deal […]
Source: NPR By MARISA PEÑALOZA Researchers seeking to predict how Americans will vote have for years identified an important clue: The more religious you are, the more likely you are […]
Source: Yahoo News By Caitlin Dickson ELIZABETH, N.J. — Nawaz Sheikh, president of the Muslim Community Center of Union County, says he never knew bombing suspect Ahmad Khan Rahami, though his […]
Source: The Washington Post By Loveday Morris and Mustafa Salim BAGHDAD — The graffiti that appeared on a wall near the mosque in Mosul where the Islamic State leader declared […]
Source: NPR BY NATALIE JACEWICZ Aminu Gamawa wants to change the way Islamic scholars think about health care. He’s a Harvard-trained lawyer who lives in Nigeria, where maternal and child […]
Source: The New York Times By NICHOLAS WADE Nearly half a century ago, archaeologists found a charred ancient scroll in the ark of a synagogue on the western shore of the […]
Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Tooting organised a World Peace Day prayer at Tooting Broadway station. On 21st Sep 2016 Ahmadiyya Muslim Tooting Chapter did peace prayer to promote Peace, Loyalty, Freedom and Respect in celebration of International Peace Day. Event was well attended & appreciated by Tooting residents. Local president of […]
ASYLUM STUDY SEP 23, 2016 – 09:14 Europe is in the grip of a migration crisis. Here, Italian officers rescue a woman from a crowded wooden boat carrying more than 700 migrants (Keystone) Europeans are more likely to accept asylum seekers who have a higher employability, have been persecuted […]