How an MIT atheist found God through math
Douglas Ell: how an MIT atheist found God through math There are several Twitter feeds labeled “God,” and they all more or less offer the same material. @TheGoodGodAbove, for instance, […]
Children’s exhibit of Muslim cultures opens in New York
(RNS) A first-of-its-kind exhibit is introducing young museum-goers to Muslim cultures around the world. The Children’s Museum of Manhattan opened “America to Zanzibar” earlier this month, a 3,000-square-foot, interactive exhibit that invites kids to explore Muslim cultures across the world. Visitors can design buildings inspired by Islamic architecture, walk through a pretend Muslim-American home furnished with art […]
Profile: Black American Women in the Ahmadiyya Movement of Islam
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 […]
Sanjay Dutt released from jail, visits mother Nargis’ grave
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 […]
National Hijab Day celebration in Ottawa
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 […]
An Assessment of Mirza Ghulam Ahmad by a non-Ahmadi Muslim
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, […]
Georgetown gets $10 million for Holocaust research as Jewish studies grow at Catholic school
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 […]
Egypt sentences 4 Coptic teenagers for contempt of Islam
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 […]
Spain arrests man in North African enclave for promoting Islamist militancy
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. […]
France’s earliest ‘Muslim burials’ found
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 […]
How Lead Poisoning Is Devastating Countries Around the World
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 […]
Zika Crisis May Get Worse Before It Gets Better, WHO Chief Says
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 […]
Ireland’s Voters Set to Punish the Establishment
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 […]
You Asked: Am I Addicted to My Phone?
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 […]
Bill and Melinda Gates: What superpower do you wish you had?
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 […]
Muslim Student Association looks to bring understanding, love to Islam dialogue
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 […]
Migrant crisis: EU meeting seeks to heal growing rifts
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 […]
Religious broadcasters take a peek at Museum of the Bible collection
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 […]
‘Saudi Arabia has built a road to destruction’
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 […]
Ahmadiyya Mosque: Leipzig mosque construction site targeted with dead pig
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, […]