Bank Scandals Increase Interest in Islamic Banking October 26, 2015 8:33 AM SINGAPORE—A stream of major bank scandals has increased interest in “ethical finance,” which could benefit the Islamic banking sector. Supporters argue the growing area of Islamic finance is more ethical because banks and businesses must undergo scrutiny to […]
Muslim Majority Senegal Condemns ‘Excessive’ Islam, Urges Imams To Promote ‘Tolerant’ Form By Morgan Winsor @MorganWinsorIBT on November 10 2015 Senegalese followers of the Mouride sect of Islam line up to enter the Grand Mosque in the holy city of Touba, during an annual pilgrimage on March 7, 2007. Reuters/Daniel […]
Source: Hufington Post By Qasim Rashid; Visiting Fellow, Harvard University’s Prince Alwaleed bin Talal School of Islamic Studies Dear daughter, Next month I’ll become a father for the first time to […]
Commandment – Do not take interest when you borrow money [2:279] O ye who believe! fear Allah and relinquish what remains of interest, if you are believers.
Source: The Guardian By Yasmin Khan, who is the producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi. Follow her on Twitter @Ya5min_BL Jim Al-Khalili, physicist and Ziauddin Sardar, chair of the Muslim Institute, talk science, […]
By Alexander Smoltczyk Ahead of the planned lifting of Western sanctions against Iran, businessmen from around the world are visiting the country, and as one group from Germany discovered, there […]
Muslim-Majority City Council Elected in Michigan Hamtramck is believed to be first U.S. city with the distinction; 4 of 6 seats filled by Muslims The city of Hamtramck, Mich., was once mainly Polish and Catholic. Now, by some estimates, its Muslim population has surpassed 50%, and the city council will […]
IMMIGRATION QUOTAS Swiss ambivalence towards immigration approach By swissinfo.ch and agencies NOV 8, 2015 – 13:15 Swiss voters are coming to terms with their 2014 vote to reimpose curbs on immigration for foreigners like this Spanish construction worker at the UN’s European headquarters in Geneva. (Keystone) A growing number of […]
SWITCHING ON Nearly half of current jobs could be lost to machines NOV 9, 2015 – 19:12 While self-scan machines at checkouts are becoming more common, some people prefer to […]
Nov 09,2015 – JORDAN TIMES On the first World Food Day in 1945, people around the world celebrated the creation of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation and the launch of the first coordinated global action to combat hunger. This year, on the 70th World Food Day, countries are […]
Guardian: It has been 15 years since the UN security council passed resolution 1325, which aimed to end violence and abuse against women during war, and to bring women’s voices into peace talks. But there is little to show for it. Government forces, rebel groups and even peacekeepers are still […]
The Asian Image: Members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association were in Manchester’s Heaton Park to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds for charity. They took part in a 10k run to raise more than £400,000 for UK charities. The event is part of the ‘Mercy for Mankind’ series of […]
Yahoo.com: The Hague (AFP) – A Liberian teenager was Monday awarded the prestigious International Children’s Peace Prize for his “tireless campaigning” to end violence against minors. Seventeen-year-old Abraham Keita was […]
Bait-uz-Zafar Mosque 118-15 McLaughlin Avenue, Queens, NY Saturday November 14th, 2015 10AM-5PM 9:00 AM Breakfast 10:00 AM Session 1: The Quran on science & religion: Partners, not rivals Moderators: Moulana […]
Commandment – O ye who believe! when you borrow one from another for a fixed period, then write it down [2:283] O ye who believe! when you borrow one from another for a fixed period, then write it down. And let a scribe write it in your presence faithfully; and no scribe should […]
SHEIKH SALMAN AL-OADAH Published — Friday 6 November 2015 ALLAH Almighty says: “And if you were to count God’s favors, you would not be able to number them; most surely God is Forgiving, Merciful.” (Qur’an, 16:18) Our lives are a continuous succession of God’s gifts. Many people, due to their […]
Islamic State using kidnapped civilians as human shield against airstrikes near Kuweires Airbase 15:12, 09 Nov 2015 Siranush Ghazanchyan Photo from Fars News Agency The ISIL terrorist group has kidnapped a large number of civilians from Aleppo countryside and is using them as human shields against Syrian-Russian airstrikes near the […]
Jordanian officer shoots dead two Americans, one South African at security training site Reuters International NOV 9, 2015 – 19:20 By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – A Jordanian officer shot dead two U.S. government security contractors, a South African trainer and a Jordanian translator at a U.S.-funded police training facility […]
Israeli forces kill Palestinian in West Bank By AFP – Nov 09,2015 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Car-ramming and stabbing attacks wounded six Israelis in the West Bank on Sunday while two alleged Palestinian assailants were shot. In the first incident, a Palestinian rammed a group of Israelis with […]
Saying he takes “full responsibility for the inaction that has occurred,” he asked that the university community listen to each other’s problems and “stop intimidating each other.” “This is not […]