DALLAS (Reuters) – Plans for a cemetery for Muslims on the outskirts of a small North Texas town have sparked a backlash among some local residents who said they fear it will bring radical Islam and terrorism to their doorsteps. The Islamic Association of Collin County purchased 34 acres to […]
The Hindu: Amid the perceived and possible dangers of the terror group like the Islamic State (IS) radicalising and recruiting Muslim youths, the Barelwi sect among Muslims has decided to include a chapter against terrorism in all madrassas functioning under its fold across the country. The Dargahe-Aala-Hazrat, the headquarters of […]
Economist: Aug 6th 2015, 15:11 | From the print edition DO FRIENDS of the opposite gender distract teenagers, hampering their academic performance? It may seem obvious, at least to paranoid parents, and yet it is hard to prove. Read more at http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21660556-its-official-having-friends-opposite-sex-bad-childrens-grades#61rgZ88f9wVBwV0G.99 Read more at
Source: BBC 22 November 2013 A simple tweet from a university student of Somali origin in Norway has triggered a big debate in the country over racism. It started with a tweet. On Sunday evening, medical student Warsan Ismail began to list a series of everyday examples of racism she […]
Source: Huffington Post By Anantanand Rambachan; Professor of Religion, Saint Olaf College. Latest book,”A Hindu Theology of Liberation.” The recent PEW Research Center findings on America’s religious landscape revealed that approximately 56 million […]
Our source: Huffington Post PATNA, India (AP) — Dozens of villagers in eastern India beat to death five women Saturday, accusing them of practicing witchcraft and blaming them for a […]
Epigraph: O mankind, We have created you from a male and a female; and We have made you into tribes and sub-tribes that you may recognize one another. Indeed, the […]
Documents dating back to the 16th century show that naturalist Charles Darwin was not the first to discover the existence of heterostyly – floral forms that differ in male and […]
There are even Muslims running against each other, Omar Alghabra (Liberal) and Farheen Khan (NDP) in Mississauga Centre, a riding where an estimated 16.5% of eligible voters are Muslim, and […]
Global Issues: by Wambi Michael — KAMPALA, Aug 07 (IPS) – After years of a protracted battle against Uganda’s “bride price” practice, the country’s Supreme Court this week ruled that husbands can no longer demand that it be returned in the event of dissolution of a customary marriage but has […]
Global ssues: by Thalif Deen — UNITED NATIONS, Aug 04 (IPS) – The United Nations has declared that 2015 is already “the deadliest year” for millions of migrants and asylum seekers fleeing war and persecution in their countries. A group of refugee women and their children await the arrival of […]
THIS is the moment a dinghy full of migrants landed on a beach of stunned tourists in Greece as Europe’s immigration crisis continued to spiral out of control. By NICK GUTTERIDGE PUBLISHED: 22:20, Sat, Aug 8, 2015 | REUTERS The dinghy full of migrants arrived at a beach in Kos […]
HARUN YAHYA Published — Friday 31 July 2015 ARABNEWS.COM People, generally speaking, do not want to die. Even at an advanced age, they remain unconcerned about imminence of death. They live as though death is a far distant reality. Almighty God draws attention to this human instinct, saying: “And you […]
OLD IN THE TOOTH Mammoth tusk found on Roche building site By swissinfo.ch and agencies AUG 7, 2015 – 10:41 Tusk-oriented behaviour: measuring the recent discovery (NLZ) An almost two-metre […]
FEATURE How Saudi Arabia exports radical Islam The Week Staff AP Photo/Kamran Jebreili August 8, 2015 Saudi Arabia has spent billions promoting its extremist version of Islam. What has it wrought? Here’s everything you need to know: Why do the Saudis proselytize? To combat the spread of Shiite Islam and […]
Source: Time Magazine Dear presidential candidates: With the first anniversary of the killing of Michael Brown this weekend, America needs to know how the tumultuous events of the last year […]
Is Music Prohibited In Islam? By Naseer Ahmed, New Age Islam 03 august, 2015 There is no verse in the Quran that discourages or bans music and yet, based on several Ahadith that contradict each other, it is commonly believed that music is allowed only in a limited way and […]
Surely 70 years is long enough for us to put to rest the tired canard of the atomic bombings on Japan being “the lesser of the two evils”, and recognise […]
United Nations committee expresses concern that lack of oversight and safeguarding measures could lead to rights abuses and unlawful deportations A UN human rights body has joined a chorus of […]
As media focuses on the news about “radicalized” Muslim youth, a Huffington Post article has shed some light on stories of successful Canadian Muslims, focusing on the positive contribution Muslim […]