Source: The Guardian David Cameron has described members of the Muslim Brotherhood as possible extremists but stopped short of banning the group after a long-delayed official inquiry into its activities […]
Source: Yahoo News Abuja (AFP) – West African leaders said Thursday they were seeking to “forbid” women wearing full-face veils in an effort to curb the growing number of female […]
Source: Reuters A grandson of Iran’s Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini registered on Friday for February’s election of the Assembly of Experts, the clerical body that chooses the supreme leader, state broadcaster […]
Dr. Abdus Salam 29th January 1926 died: 21 November 1996 Singapore: plans are underway to hold a grand meeting on the 90th birthday of Nobel Laureate Prof. Dr. Abdus Salam 29th January 2016. What is unique about this meeting is that there will be 4 Nobel Laureate speakers, and many mother […]
Source: The Washington Post ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — In a country that has more than 20,000 religious schools, Pakistani investigators say the madrassa where Tashfeen Malik studied the Koran doesn’t stand […]
Source: Slate One of many ugly patterns since Sept. 11, 2001, is that those who say they are worried about Islamic terrorism often fight to keep mosques out of their […]
Source: The Guardian It did not even seem like a good idea at the time. British diplomats warned from the start, in April 2014, that David Cameron’s decision to conduct […]
A Sunday Jane’s Walk will take participants through the west end, touring the site of city’s first mosque and other Islamic touchstones. VIEW 2 PHOTOS zoom CHRIS SO / TORONTO STAR Order this photo Himy Syed, seen at the Albanian Muslim Society of Toronto building, will lead a chilly Jane’s Walk […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published December 18, 2015 Photo: Wikimedia Commons Some citizens of the small Swiss town Oberwil-Lieli have recently established a committee and named the possible arrival of six refugees “an invasion,” calling for a referendum to redeem the municipality from the obligation to admit the refugees, various Swiss […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL Published December 18, 2015 AFP Photo This year saw an unprecedented rise in the number of refugees fleeing conflicts and poverty, nearing above 60 million. Though the number continues to rise at an alarming rate, especially for those heading to Europe whose number approaches to 1 million […]
İBRAHIM KALIN @ikalin1 Remembering Rumi today can go a long way in healing many of the spiritual wounds that we have inflicted upon ourselves. His teachings can liberate us from […]
DAILY SABAH ISTANBUL The Ottoman palace features a huge garden with an ornamental pool and various types of trees as well as a second garden with 27 different corridors that have a cooling effect on hot summer days. The Palace of Ahmet Bey in Constantine, Algeria stands as a […]
Dec 19th 2015 | ISTANBUL Source: Economist ORHAN OSMANOGLU cradles a French handkerchief embossed with the letter H. “This is all I have left that’s my great-great-grandfather’s, the caliph’s,” he […]
detroitnews.com: I am an ordinary American Muslim. I moved to the United States about 20 years ago. My husband came here for his medical training. After spending some years in the U.S., we decided to stay in this country, not for money or lifestyle — but for its religious freedom. […]
Palestinian families hope for justice at ICC A group of cases related to Israel’s 2014 war on Gaza were recently submitted to the International Criminal Court. Creede Newton | 18 […]
An Editorial by Klaus Brinkbäumer spiegel.de REUTERS A boat full of refugees on the Aegean Sea between Turkey and Greece. What would we do in their situation? The debate over refugees in Germany has grown divisive. Those in favor are unwilling to recognize the difficulties ahead while those opposed too […]
The Independent Rebecca Flood © Provided by The Independent Mohammed bin Salman attends a summit of Arab and Latin American leaders in Riyadh (Picture: [copyright])Earlier this week Saudi Arabia announced a new 34-country coalition of Muslim nations to fight terrorism, but two of the key countries have said they had […]
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg & Carol Kuruvilla — The world is a difficult and scary place to be, but we are continually floored by the way human beings to […]
Source: ET It is as if the sectarian mobs have started taking turns targeting a different minority every month, putting Pakistan to shame internationally. This time, the Ahmadis are in the spotlight — again. First, we saw the disturbances in Jhelum and now there are hate posters at Hafeez Centre, […]