Source: Swiss Info A one-year pilot project offering religious and spiritual guidance to asylum-seekers of the Muslim faith has been launched in Zurich. Christian and Jewish religious services of the […]
Hindustan Times Until late 2014, Nibras Islam appeared to acquaintances to be a typical student: fun-loving, in and out of love, and keen on sport, especially soccer. Women found him handsome. On a “confessions” Facebook page for Monash University students, one anonymous admirer gushed in a post on October 11, […]
Source: Huffington Post By Rose Hamid; Co-founder and President of the Muslim Women of the Carolinas Reverend Franklin Graham, Can we talk? You seem to have confused the horrific actions of some […]
Scroll.In: Of the thousands of videos featuring superstar Muslim televangelist, Zakir Naik, a particularly interesting one is where he talks about another superstar, Shah Rukh Khan. On a set which looks like a cross between that off a late-night talk show and a 1980s discotheque, Naik speaks rather admiringly of […]
A London-born writer never felt he truly belonged in the places he and his family were from: India, Pakistan, Britain. In America, finally, he feels free—and at home By AATISH TASEER July 1, 2016 “Welcome home, sir,” the immigration officer said when I presented him with my green card at […]
Inside Aleppo, the Syrian city with a past and present shaped by war Robert Fisk tours Aleppo and finds a broken civilisation with painful reminders of ancient tragedies Robert Fisk @indyvoices Maybe dust is the vital physical element of war. It lay across the old cobbled streets of the burned […]
Agencies (Photo via Twitter) PrevNext The bomber detonated his suicide vest Monday evening when most residents of the neighborhood were at home ending the Ramadan fast. A blast occurred on Monday in Saudi Arabia outside one of Islam’s holiest sites, the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, a Saudi-owned television channel reported. […]
A photo from social media reportedly shows a flaming car from a bombing in the parking lot of the Al-Haram Al-Nabawi, the Prophet Mohammad’s mosque, in the city of Madinah […]
thestar.com 2016/07/04 While many respondents had favourable views of immigrants, three-quarters of respondents said we need to focus on caring for people “here” instead of spending resources on refugees. While Canada rides a wave of global praise for welcoming Syrian refugees, a new poll suggests we’re also facing a wave […]
Bestselling author, political adviser and social and ethical prophet Jeremy Rifkin investigates the evolution of empathy and the profound ways that it has shaped our development and our society. Taken […]
Source: The Express Tribune By Dr. Asad Zaman; who is vice-chancellor of the Pakistan Institute of Development Economics. He holds a PhD in Economics from Stanford University For thousands of years, the […]
Source of Review: Amazon Book by Claude Addas This is a concise introduction to the life and thought of Ibn ‘Arabi, who is considered as the ‘Greatest of Sufi Masters’. […]
Source: Yonkers Tribune. QUEENS, NY — July 3, 2016 — Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA mourns the passing of the President of its Queens, New Yorkcommunity, Nazir Ahmad Ayaz, who passed away in Manhattan, NY, on July 3, 2016, at the age of 69. From God we are and to God […]
Source. BBC The Ahmadiyya community tend to emphasize a certain openness and acceptance to their adopted countries traditions and customs as opposed to the mainstream Islamic sects. In fact, in the United States, an Ahmadiyya mosque is hosting an open July 4th barbecue close to the nation’s capital. In addition, they […]
The Huffington Post June 29, 2016 The country has become ‘more racist in terms of its public culture’. 02/07/2016 21:11 | Updated 18 hours ago 1.4 K Louise RidleyAssistant news editor at The Huffington Post UK The UK is seeing a surge of “celebratory racism” after the vote to leave […]
Epigraph: “Indeed, Islam rests on the foundation of Tauheed, the oneness of God, oneness of universe and oneness of mankind with liberty and justice. If Quran, the holy book of […]
Is this the dark age of the Muslim world? ATHAR OSAMA | NIDHAL GUESSOUM UPDATED about 2 hours ago DAWN.com Muslims’ institutes of higher learning are lagging behind in providing quality science and technology education. ATHAR OSAMA | NIDHAL GUESSOUM UPDATED about 2 hours ago It is a well-known fact that 1.6 billion Muslims contribute a disproportionately smaller […]
REUTERS James B.T. Dickey 06.23.16 A 30-year-old prince disillusioned with the U.S. is running the show in Saudi Arabia—fighting Iran directly and through proxies all over the map. Is there a strategy? Saudi Arabia’s Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 30-year-old son of the king and ever more obviously the heir […]
Economist: The Islamic calendar is lunar, so Ramadan rotates through the seasons. In Egypt, for example, the holy month now falls during the long days of summer. But in 15 years, it will occur in winter, when the days—and, therefore, the fasts—are shorter. The opposite is true for Muslims in southern […]
Economist: WHEN a newly arrived migrant seeks asylum on grounds that going home would mean facing religous persecution, how can the host country test the sincerity of that claim? That is a hard question, especially if the migrant has only recently converted to a different faith. It’s also a very […]