Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — March marks Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate and critically assess the ways in which women’s rights have and have not progressed around the world. In the realm of religion, there is still much work to be done, as many faith traditions continue to bar […]
Dawn: SALMAAN TASEER was murdered by an unrepentant Mumtaz Qadri in a deliberate, premeditated and ruthless manner for the vilest and most distorted of reasons. That makes Qadri a murderer who must be punished. The Islamabad High Court hearing Qadri’s appeal did both the legally and morally correct thing in […]
NY Times: One of Russia’s main goals is for Donetsk and Luhanskto become fully autonomous regions. In months of fierce fighting, separatists took over government buildings in major cities and destroyed or seized crucial infrastructure, like water pipelines in Horlivka and the rail hub in Debaltseve. More:
NY Times: Somewhere between stepping off the school bus and climbing into the go-kart, Sandra Ibrahim, 14, took off her pink hijab. She was on a trip to an indoor amusement park in New Rochelle, N.Y., with her Islamic weekend school, surrounded by other Muslim children, parents and teachers. She […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post The Israeli Chief Rabinnate has removed a prohibition against the placement of Christmas trees in Israeli hotels. Prior to the change, hotels that offered “references to gentile holidays” were liable to lose their kosher licenses, hurting the chances of religiously observant customers staying there. The removal […]
403. Commandment – Mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years [2:234] And mothers shall give suck to their children for two whole years; this is for those who desire to complete the suckling. And the man to whom the child belongs shall be responsible for their (the mothers’) food […]
402. Commandment – It is not lawful for you that you take anything of what you have given them (your wives) unless both fear that they cannot observe the limits prescribed by Allah [2:230] Such divorce may be pronounced twice; then, either retain them in a becoming manner or send them away with kindness. And it is not lawful […]
Source: The Jerusalem Post “Jordan is a Muslim country, with a deeply-rooted Christian community. Together, the Jordanian people make up an indivisible society, friends and partners in building our country” […]
GRAND RECEPTION: Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman holds a special reception on Tuesday in honor of Abdulaziz bin Abdulrahman Kaki, adviser to Madinah Development Authority, for winning King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies. (SPA) MADINAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Wednesday 11 March 2015 Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal […]
Jordan Times His Majesty King Abdullah speaks at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday (Photo courtesy of Royal Court) AMMAN — His Majesty King Abdullah on Tuesday reiterated that the war against terrorism has to be carried out by Muslim nations “first and foremost” because it is a fight […]
Public Safety minister cites Qur’an verse as example of hate speech By Brian Daly, QMI Agency, Tuesday, March 10, 2015 12:42:47 EDT PM Public Safety Minister Steven Blaney paraphrased a controversial verse from the Qur’an on Tuesday as an example of hate speech that “goes against Canadian values.” Blaney made […]
Places I have been I have been in many places, but I’ve never been in Cahoots. Apparently, you can’t go alone, you have to be in Cahoots with someone. I’ve also never been in Cognito , I hear no one recognizes you there. I have, however, been in Sane. […]
BY MOHYUDDIN MIRZA, EDMONTON JOURNAL MARCH 9, 2015 Edmonton News: There is no dearth of commentaries, analyses, ideas and reports on the subject of extremism, terrorism, extremist Islam and radicalization […]
Dawn: Maha Ahmed Qureshi was a 20-year-old student at NUST Business School when she was diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer of the lymph nodes. She was treated with eight rounds of chemotherapy in 2012. Next year, her cancer relapsed and she had to go through another six rounds of chemotherapy. […]
Huff Post: What does it mean for a religion to be woven into American history? The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to scholars — historians have put their population in the tens of thousands — yet when President Obama noted last month that “Islam […]
Huff Post: What does it mean for a religion to be woven into American history? The presence of Muslims in the early United States is well known to scholars — historians have put their population in the tens of thousands — yet when President Obama noted last month that “Islam […]
Huff Post: Emilie Faye is no stranger to flooding. The walls in her home are discolored from rainwater and past floods in her community, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, have driven water levels up to the seat of her couch, she told Reuters. But the Senegalese woman is now using […]
Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef gets some last-minute makeup done before appearing on his TV show as an ultra-conservative politician. Photograph: David Degner/David Degner/Getty Images http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/jan/12/laughing-in-face-of-danger-satire-in-muslim-world It’s a sweeping generalisation, of course, but Arabs and Muslims really don’t have much to laugh about these days: mayhem and death, war and repression, […]
Salt Lake Tribune | By Peggy Fletcher Stack Posted: 03/09/2015 SALT LAKE CITY — Mormonism begins with a simple story of heavenly manifestations. A 19th-century farm boy in upstate New […]
Source: ET A young German woman fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria was killed over the weekend in clashes with Islamic State fighters, Kurdish officials and a Turkey-based communist group said on Monday. The Kurdish forces, backed by US air strikes and local rebel fighters, have been battling Islamic State […]