eDigest: Laylat Al Qadr 2014: What Is The ‘Night Of Power?’
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Mecca: Fire at Grand Mosque in Mecca leaves 14 injured
Fire at Grand Mosque in Mecca leaves 14 injured Three were hospitalized after a fire broke out in scaffolding. World Bulletin / News Desk muslimworld/141273 A fire broke out on Wednesday night at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, leaving 14 people injured. The Saudi Red Crescent Authority […]
The new generation of Muslim American leaders
When widespread criticism arose from President Barack Obama’s gratuitous lecturing of Muslims at a White House iftar, about Israel’s right to defend itself as unarmed civilians in Gaza died by the hundreds, it signalled a generational shift in Muslim American leadership. This year’s White House iftar could have proceeded uneventfully like the many others […]
Guiding Dr. Yasir Qadhi to Better Understanding of Evolution and Providence of God
Written and Collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Let me first of all applaud Dr. Yasir Qadhi for being one of the few Sunni […]
Whose God Is the One True God?
The Huffington Post: By Ronald Tiersky, Eastman professor of political science, Amherst College As ISIS/Islamic State takes over Mosul and other parts of Syria and Iraq it is imposing an […]
My soul was thirsty till I found Islam
Source: Arab News By: DR. ABDUL KARIM GERMANUS Dr. Abdul Karim Germanus is a well-known Orientalist of Hungary and is a scholar of world repute. He visited India between the […]
ISIS jihadists order genital mutilation of all women in Iraq
Source: TOI GENEVA: Jihadists in Iraq have ordered that all women between the ages of 11 and 46 must undergo female genital mutilation, which could affect up to four million women and girls in the war-ravaged country, a UN official said Thursday.The UN’s second most senior official in Iraq, Jacqueline […]
Laylat Al Qadr 2014: What Is The ‘Night Of Power?’
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
Laylat Al Qadr 2014: What Is The 'Night Of Power?'
Epigraph: The Night of Destiny is better than a thousand months. Therein descend angels and the Spirit by the command of their Lord — with every matter. (Al Quran 97:4-5) […]
For Muslims in New York, Observing Ramadan Is a Blend of Rituals Far and Near
By KIRAN NAZISHJULY 23, 2014 Mahmud Syed, 67, from Long Island, during Friday prayers at the Imam Al-Khoei Foundation in Jamaica, Queens. On a sweltering afternoon, Mohab A. Sewilam worked […]
Argentina is now very close to default
http://i.cdn.turner.com/money/.element/script/7.0/players/embed.js?videoid=/video/news/2014/07/01/n-richard-quest-interviews-former-argentina-finance-minister.cnnmoney By Charles Riley @CRrileyCNN July 25, 2014 HONG KONG (CNNMoney) The clock is ticking. Argentina will default in just a few days unless the country can find a way […]
Prepare for the Middle East’s version of the Thirty Years’ War
Summary It is a region wracked by religious struggle between competing traditions of the faith. Conflicts take place within and between states; civil wars and proxy wars become impossible to distinguish. That could be a description of today’s Middle East. In the Middle East in 2011, change came after a […]
Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: ‘All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion’
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Ex-Israeli Security Chief Diskin: 'All the Conditions Are There for an Explosion'
Interview Conducted by Julia Amalia Heyer REUTERS SPIEGEL.DE In an interview with SPIEGEL, Yuval Diskin, former director of Israel’s internal security service Shin Bet, speaks of the current clash between Israel and the Palestinians, what must be done to achieve peace and the lack of leadership in the Middle East. […]
Israel facing new Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions support in US
Aljazeera: The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which aims to pressure Israel to comply with international law and end its military occupation of Palestinian territories, has garnered significant institutional and governmental support in recent years. Much of its growth has been in Europe, but the BDS movement is also […]
Jeremy Bowen’s Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
Jeremy Bowen's Gaza notebook: I saw no evidence of Hamas using Palestinians as human shields
Newstateman: Trouble has been brewing between Israel and Hamas for months. The signs were there before the Israeli and Palestinian teenagers were kidnapped and murdered, and before Israel’s crackdown on Hamas in the West Bank. It’s all horribly familiar. Missiles, rockets and threats, and another Israeli prime minister saying that […]
IMAMS WARNED AGAINST RADICALISM TO ABORIGINAL INMATES: SYDNEY MORNING HERAL
Imams warn against radicalism to Aboriginal inmates converting to Islam Date July 24, 2014 8 reading nowRead later Rachel Olding Rachel Olding Reporter View more articles from Rachel Olding Follow Rachel on Twitter Email Rachel inShare submit to redditEmail articlePrintReprints & permissions Goulbourn prison. ASIO alerted: Imams called into prisons […]
Human Rights Council establishes Independent, International Commission of Inquiry for the Occupied Palestinian Territory
UNCHR: 23 July 2014 The Human Rights Council this afternoon concluded its Special Session on the human rights situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, after adopting a […]
Islamic scholars condemn expulsion of Iraq’s ‘Christian brothers’
Yahoo News: DOHA (Reuters) – An influential group of Islamic scholars has denounced the forced expulsion of Christians from northern Iraq by Islamist hardliners, saying it paves the way for fighting between the country’s ethnic and religious groups. The Christian community of Mosul fled to the Kurdish autonomous region last […]