Tarek Fatah As Iraq dies, Kurdistan is born 8 By Tarek Fatah ,Toronto Sun First posted: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 05:49 PM EDT | Updated: Tuesday, June 24, 2014 06:09 PM EDT Article Iraq is imploding in a fiery mess as it nears its expiry date, and from its […]
Huff Post: by Murali Balaji — One of the great things about The Huffington Post is its willingness to provide a forum for open discourse about the role religion can play in social uplift. To the dismay of many of us who write regularly for the publication, however, an article this week […]
Huff Post: by Murali Balaji — One of the great things about The Huffington Post is its willingness to provide a forum for open discourse about the role religion can play in social uplift. To the dismay of many of us who write regularly for the publication, however, an article this week […]
Source: BBC Few Australians are aware that the country’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples had regular contact with foreign Muslims long before the arrival of Christian colonisers. And Islam […]
A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced under Sharia […]
A Sudanese woman sentenced to death for abandoning her Islamic faith has been freed from jail, her lawyer has told the BBC. Meriam Ibrahim’s death penalty was overturned by an appeal court, the official Suna news agency reported. She is married to a Christian man and was sentenced under Sharia […]
New Delhi: Even as the Iraq crisis continues to be a cause of concern for the world, abhorrent reports of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants killing civilians who do not know Arabic have emerged from the war-torn country. READ MORE…
Remarkable pictures from the Saudi Arabian funeral of a student murdered in the UK have emerged on social media, showing hundreds of grief-stricken mourners. University of Essex PhD student, Nahid Almanea, 31, was stabbed 16 times last week as she walked to campus. READ MORE…
This Saturday will mark the start of the World Cup knockout stages. It will also, for millions of Muslims around the world, mark their final unrestricted day before the start of the holy month of Ramadan, in which abstinence from food and liquids during daylight hours is mandatory. With six […]
The Isis recruitment video that emerged on the internet last week featuring two men from Cardiff and another from Aberdeen has caught the media’s attention across the UK. However, the issue of young British Muslims travelling to Syria has been a real concern to those working on the counter-terrorism agenda for many […]
The number of Muslims performing the Umrah pilgrimage is expected to increase with the advent of Ramadan. The latest statistics reveal that around 5.3 million pilgrims have entered the Kingdom […]
swissinfo.ch and agencies June 23, 2014 – 17:43 Among Switzerland’s university graduates, it seems that new teachers have the easiest time finding good jobs. Also, those with teacher education degrees earn more than their peers – including those with degrees from technology and applied science universities. Hardly any new teachers […]
Just as rape is a vile tool of war, so is the jailing of journalists As if the risk of being killed is not enough. Must journalists endure the threat of imprisonment as well as the threat of death or serious injury? It is not just the outrageous, unfair, trumped-up […]
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy […]
Source: Stratfor U.S. President Barack Obama’s speech at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point sought to raise the bar for military action. However, it was not clear in the speech what Obama meant in practical terms when he said: “Here’s my bottom line: America must always lead on the […]
Written for The Muslim Times by Dr. Abdul Alim In a recent article in Huffington Post, my friend Qasim Rashid, the author of “the Extremist” has given a very bold […]
Epigraph: And when Allah will say, “O Jesus, son of Mary, didst thou say to men, ‘Take me and my mother for two gods beside Allah?’”, he will answer, “Holy […]
ET: DHAKA: Bangladesh’s war crimes court delayed a verdict on the leader of Jamaat-e-Islami at the last minute Tuesday after doctors said he could not be moved from jail due to ill health. Motiur Rahman Nizami, 71, who could face the death penalty for alleged war crimes such as genocide during the […]
Source: The Guardian A group of former British ambassadors have joined a campaign calling for Tony Blair to be removed from his role as Middle East envoy after his recent attempt to “absolve himself” of responsibility for the crisis in Iraq. The letter, organised by the makers of George Galloway’s […]
peacefmonline.com: The Vice President, Kwesi Amissah-Arthur has described the late Maulvi Wahab Adam, the Ameer and Missionary in charge of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Mission in Ghana, has passed away at […]