The sanctity of Muharram
Muharram is the month that marks the beginning of the Hijrah calendar. It is one of the four sanctified months about which the Holy Qur’an says, “The number of the […]
Burkina Faso; military seizes control
Source:CNN (CNN) — The military in the West African nation of Burkina Faso seized control of the government on Thursday and set a dusk-to-dawn curfew in what one general described as an effort to protect lives and restore order. Unrest has gripped Burkina Faso — a key ally for the […]
Picture of the Day: Employees of Dead Sea hotels form ‘world’s largest floating image’
DEAD SEA — A total of 261 foreign and Jordanian employees as well as administrative staff members working at the Dead Sea’s eight hotels managed to break the Guinness World […]
A non-Muslim asked: Why is Friday your Sabbath Day?
Question and answer details Name of Questioner: Hannah Reply date: 2014/10/30 Question: Can you please explain to me why is Friday your “Sabbath” Day? consultant: Amir Ali Answer Salam (Peace) Dear Hannah, Thank you for your question and for contacting Ask About Islam. In Islam there is no Sabbath. For […]
Makkah-Madinah train to be shipped by year-end
Makkah-Madinah train to be shipped by year-end JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Published — Friday 31 October 2014 The first Spanish-made train for the multibillion-riyal Haramain railway project would arrive in […]
Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenge and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy
Amazon: Few things provoke controversy in the modern world like the religion brought by Muhammad. Modern media are replete with alarm over jihad, underage marriage and the threat of amputation […]
Islam and hadiths: Sifting and combing
Economist: IN GREAT spiritual traditions, followers are often presented with two distinct phenomena: a supreme moment of divine revelation, and a tradition spanning many centuries in which teachers or clerics have distilled the contents of that revelation and delivered it to their contemporaries. Most people think of Islam, especially in […]
Toronto: 30 Years Old Pakistani Aqiq Ansari arrested -threat to Canada
Arrest shows police using new strategy to charge suspected extremists Colin Freeze And SAHAR FATIMA Globeandmail MILTON, ONT. and and MISSISSAUGA, ONT. — The Globe and Mail Published Thursday, Oct. 30 2014, 3:00 AM EDT, Last updated Thursday, Oct. 30 2014, 11:59 AM EDT A 30-year-old assault-rifle collector from Pakistan has been […]
Watch Canadians Punch Racism In The Face
Huff Post: by Nick Robins-Early — http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php?action=like&app_id=46744042133&channel=http%3A%2F%2Fstatic.ak.facebook.com%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2FehazDpFPEnK.js%3Fversion%3D41%23cb%3Df27a258a18%26domain%3Dwww.huffingtonpost.com%26origin%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%252Ffbb7307c%26relation%3Dparent.parent&color_scheme=light&font=arial&href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.huffingtonpost.com%2F2014%2F10%2F29%2Fcanada-racism-video_n_6068832.html&layout=box_count&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&send=false&show_faces=false&width=450 There are many recent “social experiment” videos showing average citizens’ candid responses to public injustice — but they rarely end with one of the subjects getting punched squarely in the face. In a new video by 18-year-old York University student Omar Albach, that’s just what happened, as […]
French right-winger converts to Islam.
Local councillor Maxence Buttey, 22, has been suspended from a regional Front National committee after he went public with his decision and sent out a ‘proselytising video’ to party members. […]
Canadian actor punched in face after ‘Islamophobia’ experiment goes wrong in wake of Ottawa shooting
A social experiment that ended with an actor posing as an Islamophobe getting punched in the face has shown that Canadians are prepared to defend Muslims in the face of overt racist abuse in the wake of a recent terror attack. In an attempt to test whether Canadians feel safe […]
Israel Reopens Contested Holy Site in Jerusalem
Source: NY Times: JERUSALEM — Under heavy pressure and the threat of new Israeli-Palestinian strife, Israel announced on Thursday that it would reopen a contested holy site in the Old City of Jerusalem on Friday morning, a day after closing it for the first time in years. The site, which […]
Isis in Syria: General reveals the lack of communication with the US – and his country’s awkward relationship with their allies-by-default
A senior officer of Bashar al-Assad’s regime talks to Robert Fisk about his army’s brutal struggle with Isis, in a dirty war whose challenges include widespread atrocities ROBERT FISK DAMASCUS Wednesday 29 October 2014 Phones were ringing through the army headquarters in central Damascus and a veteran of Syria’s 1982 […]
Why She Removed the Veil
Source: The daily Beast. No piece of cloth throughout history has sparked more controversy as the veil. Many Muslim women are forced to wear it daily. The hijab has a spectrum, of course, from its most radical embodiments, the niqab, which covers the entire face, to loose fitting headscarves. Saudi […]
Nurse Breaks Quarantine With Bike Ride
Source: The daily Beast. bostonglobe.com Kaci Hickox is a woman of her word. After vowing to defy Maine’s voluntary quarantine for health workers who treated Ebola patients by Thursday, she and her boyfriend left their home to go for a bicycle ride. The two were followed by state police; however […]
Burkina Faso Parliament Set on Fire
Source. The daily Beast. Issouf Sanogo/AFP/Getty On Thursday, protesters in Burkina Faso set fire to the nation’s parliament building, the city hall of the capital Ouagadougou, and the ruling party’s headquarters. Protesters are angry over plans to extend term limits so that the current president, Blaise Compaore, can extend his […]
Scientists Pinpoint Genetic Origins of More Than 20 Autoimmune Diseases
Scientists have discovered genetic links that could put them closer to finding better treatments for a range of diseases, including multiple sclerosis, juvenile diabetes, lupus and arthritis. Their genetic research […]
1st Al-Aqsa Mosque closure since 1967
RT The Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem has been closed to all worshipers for the first time since 1967. Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas called the closure a ‘declaration of war.’ Both […]
Brother’s grief (Ahmadi Muslim Mahmood Butt grieving the loss of his Martyred brother Latif Butt)
Source: berwicknews.starcommunity.com.au A NARRE WARREN-based Ahmadiyya Muslim has expressed his agony after learning of the fatal shooting of his younger brother in Pakistan this month. Latif Alam Butt, 62, was shot […]
Calling a Spade a Spade by Imam Naseem Mahdi
Epigraph: “The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum….” Noam Chomsky, The Common Good […]