Irish Times: When Imam Ibrahim Noonan began celebrating the Qu’ran in a housing estate inGalway, his hope was that the temporary mosque in Wellpark would be replaced by a permanent structure. Now, […]
Dawn: ISTANBUL: When Turkish pupils received their school entry exam results after the end of last term, textile worker and father Halil Ibrahim Beyhan received an unpleasant surprise. His daughter […]
There has been a systematic attempt by the state since the 1980s to drive non-Muslim Pakistanis into oblivion For those of us who are still free of cynicism towards this country of ours and those who believe sincerely in the much battered idea of Jinnah’s Pakistan, it is a solemn […]
The East African: Eric Turyasingura chases after a ball made from polythene bags outside his mud-brick home in the mountainous southern Uganda. Yelling in his mother tongue, Nkore, “Arsenal with the ball! Arsenal with the ball!” he jostles with his younger brothers for possession. The fame of the English football […]
Homeconimicusnet: No one seems, in their rush to condemn Dawkins as a sexist misogynist dinosaur that damages the atheist movement, to actually see what the law states regarding evidence of rape when alcohol has been consumed. Nor that about 40% of rape cases brought by the Crown and Prosecution Service […]
A former UK attorney general says in an interview that Christians in Britain are forced to hide their beliefs because of an “aggressive form of secularism” to “push faith out […]
BY HENRI ROSE CIMATU It’s time to make their voices heard say a group of young British Muslims who have launched a video and social media campaign to condemn the terror acts of the Islamic State group. London-based group Active Change Foundation launched a YouTube and Twitter campaign #NotInMyName to […]
Epigraph: And when My servants ask you (Muhammad) about Me, say: I am near. I answer the prayer of the supplicant when he prays to Me. So they should lend an ear to Me and believe in Me, that they may follow the right way. (Al Quran 2:187) Brandenburg Gate in Berlin […]
Huff Post: by Jim Campbell — Everyone is an optimist and a pessimist. The pessimist in me knows that, out of the 75 countries that account for the vast majority of maternal and child deaths globally, fewer than half will achieve Millennium Development Goal (MDG) 4 (reducing child mortality by two thirds), […]
32 years ago today, the first media reports began to emerge of an atrocity carried out in Sabra and Shatila refugee camps. Thousands of innocent Palestinian civilians had been slaughtered […]
Summary ISIS jihadists were closing in on Syria’s third largest Kurdish town Sunday after their capture of surrounding villages sent tens of thousands of refugees streaming into Turkey, an activist […]
Summary by Emal Haidary| Agence France Presse Afghanistan’s two presidential rivals are due to sign a power-sharing deal Sunday, officials said, ending a prolonged stand-off over disputed election results at […]
Haj is one of the five pillars of Islam. Muslims declare that there is no god worthy of worship but Allah and that Muhammad is His messenger; they pray, they […]
A Saudi citizen who recently returned from Syria after fighting with the “Islamic” State (IS) terror organization has posted an online video urging fellow youth not to fall victim to the group’s rhetoric. Fahad Al-Zaidi stressed that he had been brainwashed and deluded into thinking this was a legitimate form […]
Huff Post: by Carol Kuruvilla — German Muslims are fighting extremism with prayer. Muslims from more than 2,000 mosques across Germany came out in force on Friday, using their traditional […]
The Constitution or Charter of Medina pre-dated the English Magna Carta by almost six centuries. It was executed and implemented for 10 years (622-632 A.D.) and applied to 10,000 citizens […]
Huff Post: by Eleanor Goldberg — Across the globe, students stocked up on fresh supplies and caught up with old classmates last week. But for 31 million girls, there were no teachers to meet, no first-day jitters to quell and no new homework to get cracking on. The issue of girls […]
Foreignpolicy.com: Sept. 21 will mark the annual observation of the International Day of Peace, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1981 to commemorate and strengthen the ideals of peace and to focus attention on the purpose of promoting peace by the world community. Marking a day of peace […]
Foreignaffairs.com: many European countries, including France and Germany, the number of anti-Semitic crimes committed this year already exceeds the total for 2013. It would be an exaggeration to say that […]
Foreignaffairs.com: many European countries, including France and Germany, the number of anti-Semitic crimes committed this year already exceeds the total for 2013. It would be an exaggeration to say that […]