More than 114,500 Indonesians arrive in Holy Land
Medina (ANTARA News) – Some 114,508 or about 74.33 percent of the Indonesian hajj quota of 154,053 pilgrims for this year`s pilgrimage season have arrived in the Holy Land, according […]
Children in Isreal & USA simulate Hajj journey
Gaza’s children learn Hajj pilgrimage- The children who live under the Israeli blockade in Gaza are learning how to perform the Hajj pilgrimage in a primary school. Wearing ihram, the […]
Hajj GIFs Take You Inside Mecca
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BRITISH WOMEN CONVERTING TO ISLAM: THE GUARDIAN
Converting to Islam: British women on prayer, peace and prejudice Around 5,000 British people convert to Islam every year – and most of them are women. Five of them talk about prejudice, peace and praying in car parks Ioni Sullivan: ‘In my heart, I began to consider myself a Muslim.’ […]
OUR FOUNDING FATHERS INCLUDED ISLAM -111-DENISE SPELLBERG
VIEW : Our Founding Fathers included Islam — III — Denise Spellberg Thomas Jefferson would be the first in the history of American politics to suffer the false charge of being a Muslim, an accusation considered the ultimate Protestant slur in the 18th century Even earlier in his political life — […]
Hajj in Pictures
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Hajj: God, human dignity and unity
Source: muslimvillage.com Abu Uthman al-Sabani al-Shafii (d 449) in his book Kitab ul Maitain narrates Prophet Muhammad as saying, “towards the end of the time, four main groups of people will […]
Buddhist Author Conover sheds light on prophet Muhammad (saw)
Source: spokesman.com A lot’s been written about the Prophet Muhammad. But a 104-page narrative about the first half of his life, written for a multi-generational audience, by a Buddhist – that’s new. […]
More than 14,000 American Muslims leave for pilgrimage [Hajj] to Saudi Arabia
Source: communities.washingtontimes.com WASHINGTON, October 11, 2013 — This week, thousands of American Muslims are departing from the United States to travel to Saudi Arabia, where they will perform the Islamic Hajj. […]
Walking Bosnian reaches Makkah for Hajj
Source: muslimvillage.com MAKKAH – Walking thousands of miles through six countries on foot, a 47-year-old Bosnian Muslim has finally reached the holy city of Makkah to fulfil his life-time dream of performing […]
Exclusive: Red Cross launches emergency food aid plan for UK’s hungry
Welfare cuts and the economic downturn send soaring numbers of people to soup kitchens and food banks across Europe CHARLOTTE MCDONALD-GIBSON BRUSSELS FRIDAY 11 OCTOBER 2013 The Red Cross will this winter start collecting and distributing food aid to the needy in Britain for the first time since the Second […]
eDigest: Hajj: The Best Symbol for Our Universal Brotherhood!
Epigraph And remember the time when We assigned to Abraham the site of the House and said, ‘Associate not anything with Me, and keep My House clean for those who […]
Gateway to Freedom: Camp Preps Syrian Refugees for German Life
By Friederike Heine spiegel.de Friedland, a German refugee camp that has hosted displaced people since the end of World War II, welcomed its second group of Syrian refugees this week. […]
Switzerland : MIGRATION FIGURES : Emigration hits highest rate since 1990s
October 11, 2013 – 15:36 The number of people – Swiss and foreign nationals – departing Switzerland for pastures new or old has increased to levels not seen for 20 years, figures show. But the country still remains attractive to immigrants. In total the population of Switzerland grew by 1.1 […]
Why the ‘Atheists: You’re Wrong’ Billboard isn’t a Christian Message
Huff Post: by Cynthia Jeub – The first reason I don’t think Christians should support this photo should be obvious. To say “you’re wrong” is unconvincing. It’s also unloving, but while being loving should be first on the list of priorities for people who follow Jesus, my experience with supporters […]
Why the 'Atheists: You're Wrong' Billboard isn't a Christian Message
Huff Post: by Cynthia Jeub – The first reason I don’t think Christians should support this photo should be obvious. To say “you’re wrong” is unconvincing. It’s also unloving, but while being loving should be first on the list of priorities for people who follow Jesus, my experience with supporters […]
MALAYSIA: Ahead of appeal, PAS okays non-Muslim use of ‘Allah’
SHAH ALAM, Oct 12 — Non-Muslims cannot be forced to exclude the word “Allah” when practising their respective faiths, PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang said today, ahead of Monday’s highly-anticipated court decision on the protracted dispute between Christians and Muslims here. But the Islamist leader stressed that although […]
John Kerry in Afghanistan to push to keep U.S. troops in the country after 2014
Karzai said this week that he was prepared to walk away from the Bilateral Security Agreement (BSA) talks if Afghanistan was not happy with its conditions. The United States has […]
The Syria Dilemma
Edited by Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel Overview The United States is on the brink of intervention in Syria, but the effect of any eventual American action is impossible to […]
Jerusalem life: ‘Are you aware? Women should not be strolling outdoors’
Yahoo News: by Christa Case Bryant – As I was interviewing a secular Jewish man off to the side of a street, a flurry of flyers rained down from a balcony above us. “ARE YOU AWARE?” the flyer asked, one side printed in English and the other in Hebrew. “Separating […]