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 […]
The nature of religious faith is quite mysterious. As part of their religious faiths, people believe in a variety of deities. There are people who have religious faith in the […]
Source: The Daily Mail Three skeletons found facing east in a French burial ground belonged to medieval Islamic soldiers. It started in the Middle East around 1,400 years ago as […]
The Express Tribune: by Abdul Manan A file photo of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. PHOTO: AFP ISLAMABAD: The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is considering establishing a ‘Jinnah Chair’ at the institute in recognition of the achievements of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah. This was informed by LSE Director […]
Feb 24,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB In the battle of wills between Israel and the international community there comes a time and a place where this will is tested. The Israeli occupation and colonisation of Palestine is a creeping endeavour largely built on the attempt to wear out […]
By AFP – Feb 25,2016 – JORDAN TIMES A Palestinian teacher leads a class of Palestinian bedouin children from the Abu Anwar community near the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim (background), in the West Bank city of Al Azariya, east of Jerusalem, on Wednesday (AFP photo) OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel’s […]
‘England is helping Isis and an English reporter is here asking for information’ Robert Fisk @indyvoices Tuesday 23 February 2016 28 comments We knew who they were the moment they approached us on the front line outside Aleppo. The Iranian Revolutionary Guards – no longer merely advisers but fighting troops […]
Source: The Washington Post Donald Trump seems to be the unlikeliest Republican candidate for evangelical voters, with his three marriages, his ownership of casinos and beauty pageants, and his belated […]
Source: The Wall Street Journal Italy failed to protect an Egyptian cleric from torture and unlawful detention when he was abducted by U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operatives and taken to […]
Source: Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — Amnesty International has joined a growing chorus accusing India of supporting a climate of intolerance by cracking down on dissent through arbitrary arrests, […]
Source: The New York Times When Senator Bernie Sanders thanked supporters for his landslide victory in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, he wistfully reminisced about his upbringing as “the son […]
Source: Huffington Post By Susie Meister PhD in Religious Studies, Host of The Brain Candy Podcast It was January 20, 2001, and I was at George W. Bush’s inaugural ball. I […]
Reuters International FEB 24, 2016 – 13:18 PARIS (Reuters) – French special forces and intelligence commandos are engaged in covert operations against Islamic State militants in Libya in conjunction with the United States and Britain, the French newspaper Le Monde reported on Wednesday. It said President Francois Hollande had authorised […]
In this April 11, 2007 file photo, Egyptian cleric Osama Hassan Mustafa Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, who was allegedly kidnapped by CIA agents off the streets of an Italiancity and taken to Egypt where he said he was tortured, talks on his mobile phone as he walks in […]