http://sapelosquare.com/: This photo is the first known group photo of visibly-identifiable Muslim women in the United States. It was originally featured in the January 1923 edition of The Moslem Sunrise, the newsletter of the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam (AMI) in the United States, a South-Asia based Islamic missionary movement that was […]
Yogesh Joshi, Hindustan Times, Pune, Updated: Feb 25, 2016 13:47 IST Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt reached Mumbai post his release from Yerawada prison on Thursday morning after serving 42 months for possessing an AK-56 supplied by gangsters behind a series of bomb blasts in Mumbai in 1993. Dutt […]
In an open letter that Iranian Canadian human rights activist Shabnam Assadollahi sent to Ottawa’s Mayor Jim Watson, Assadollahi expressed her concern that the feminist group City for All Women Initiative in Canada decided to host an Ottawa Hijab Day inside the City Hall building on February 17, 2016. In […]
By Saeed Qureshi, Dallas Texas The death and ascension to Heaven of Jesus Christ or Hazrat Isa (in Arabic) two thousand years ago is as enigmatic as are his birth, […]
Source: The Washington Post Georgetown University, a Catholic institution long known for scholarship on the Arab world, is intensifying its study of Jewish civilization with aid from a series of […]
Source: Associated Press By Maggie Michael CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court convicted four Coptic Christian teenagers for contempt of Islam on Thursday, after they appeared in a video mocking […]
Source: Reuters Spanish police arrested a Moroccan man in Spain’s north African enclave of Ceuta on Thursday, accusing him of promoting Islamist militancy via social media, the Interior Ministry said. […]
Source: BBC Researchers have identified what may be the earliest Muslim burials in France. The three skeletons unearthed at Nimes show indications of Islamic burial rites and are thought to […]
Source: Time ‘Think of an entire society that’s impaired’ The crisis in Flint over the contamination of tap water with toxic levels of lead has inspired a national outcry over […]
Source: Time The mosquito-borne disease has already been reported in 46 countries The Zika virus that has thus far affected close to 50 countries will likely continue to spread and […]
Source: Time Ireland is to hold an election on Friday and, if the opinion polls are to be believed, the result will be a damning verdict on the country’s established […]
Source: Time You check it in the bathroom. You check it at the movies. You check it when you’re having dinner with your friends. But you wouldn’t say you’re addicted—and […]
Source: CNN (CNN)If you could have one superpower, what would it be? We were asked that question recently by high school students in Kentucky. Our answers must have sounded pretty lame to fans of superheroes like Supergirl and the Flash — we simply wished for more energy and time to […]
Source: The Daily Nebraskan The University of Nebraska-Lincoln Muslim Student Association will host “Islam 101” this week to educate students and combat Islamophobia in society. MSA began preparing for the […]
Source: BBC Ministers from EU and Balkan nations are meeting in Brussels to try to heal rifts over migrants that have plunged common policy into chaos. Austria, Serbia and Macedonia […]
Source: RNS NASHVILLE, Tenn. (RNS) The nation’s best-known county clerk paused between some cuneiform tablets and a 17th-century triptych of the Virgin and Child to wonder at the biblical antiquities […]
By Maryam Qarehgozlou TEHRAN — Imam Abdul Alim Musa (Clarence Reams), the director of Masjid Al-Islam in Washington D.C., believes that the policy that the new rulers in the Saudi kingdom has adopted is “suicidal”. “Saudi Arabia has built a road to its own destruction,” Alim Musa, an African-American Muslim […]
An architect’s model of the mosque planned for the Leipzig plot where the dead piglet was found. Photo: DPA Published: 25 Feb 2016 14:51 GMT+01:00 An empty lot in Leipzig where a local Muslim community plans to build a mosque was the target of an apparent Islamophobic attack on Wednesday, […]
Economists have been calling on authorities to speed up the integration process by offering training more swiftly. Photo: DPA Published: 20 Feb 2016 THELOCAL.DE The 24-year-old, who spent months on the road after fleeing the Taliban, told AFP: “I’ll do anything to not go mad.” VIDEO: ‘hate mob’ chants […]
CBC: After years in the making, Iqaluit’s new mosque held its inauguration Friday, officially opening as a place of worship. The building will serve as a prayer space and a […]