Muhammad – The Messenger of Peace – Series of Lectures in USA
Epigraph “If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.” […]
The United States frets as Egypt nears the financial cliff (or: where are the Muslim friends?)
By David Ignatius The Daily Star Story Summary As Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood government slides toward the financial cliff, what’s the right policy for the United States? Mursi has been dithering for a year in negotiating a roughly $5 billion rescue package from the International Monetary Fund that Egypt desperately needs. […]
Islam’s Wide Embrace: The Universal Message
Source: The Asian Age, by Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi. One of the glorious aspects of Islam is that it is an entirely pluralistic concept of faith, both culturally and religiously. It […]
Religion in the 21st Century
Source: Huff Post, by Akash Arasu. Recent times have seen an increasing trend in non-affiliation to religion in many parts of the world — in the United States there’s been an increase of nearly 5 percentage points in the past five years. Coupled with this, there has been an increase in atheism, dubbed “New […]
Indonesian women who made it big (in Saudi Arabia)
Two Indonesian women, who came to work in Saudi Arabia as domestic helpers, have become millionaires after inheriting millions of riyals from their late Saudi husbands. The Saudi men initially employed them as domestic helpers but later married them. One of the women living in Riyadh received SR 5 million […]
MWL TV channel to spread Islamic message, defend Muslim causes
JEDDAH: P.K. ABDUL GHAFOUR ARABNEWS Thursday 7 March 2013 The International Media Organization, an affiliate of the Makkah-based Muslim World League, has announced plans to establish a television channel and […]
Jordan: 8,000 saplings to be given to mosque, church goers on Friday
by Hana Namrouqa JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Mosque and church goers will leave on Friday with tree saplings to plant in their gardens under a campaign to raise awareness about […]
Arab League clears member states to arm Syria rebels
CAIRO — Arab League ministers decided on Wednesday to let member nations arm Syrian rebels fighting President Bashar Assad, and invited an opposition coalition to take the League seat formerly […]
End blasphemy laws threatening minorities: U.N. faith expert
(Reuters) – Countries should repeal all laws punishing blasphemy and people who leave a faith, the United Nations’ top expert on freedom of religion said on Wednesday, thrusting himself into […]
Can Atheists and Muslims Support Freedom of Conscience Together?
Source: Politics & Religion, by Qasim Rashid and Chris Stedman. Let’s look at atheists and Muslims. Or, in this case, one atheist and one Muslim. As members of minority communities in the United States, the two of us recognize that true freedom can only exist when it is rooted in […]
Time to get your facts right about the Prophet of Islam
Source: examiner.com, by Saima Ahmad. There is no question about the love Muslims have for their Prophet or their desire to uphold his honor at all times. But, the willingness of some to take their own lives or of others who might have insulted him is in fact un-Islamic. The […]
Internet Marriages on Rise in Some Immigrant Communities
Source: New York Time By SARAH MASLIN NIR With a red embroidered veil draped over her dark hair, Punam Chowdhury held her breath last month as her fiancé said the words that would make them husband and wife. After she echoed them, they were married. Guests erupted in applause; the […]
Israel mistreats Palestinian children in custody: UNICEF
Courtesy: Yahoo News JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinian children detained by the Israeli military are subject to widespread, systematic ill-treatment that violates international law, a UNICEF report said on Wednesday. The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) estimated that 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17, most of them boys, are arrested, […]
Catholicism’s future
Source: The Economist: FATHER Brendan Hoban is a priest in a remote Irish village who is also active in the national and international Catholic scene. In the midst of this busy life, he told me, he often reflects on something he heard from a professor when he was in seminary 40 years ago. “Irish […]
U.N. Peacekeepers Held by Syrian Insurgents in Golan Region
By RICK GLADSTONE and ALAN COWELL New York Times Syria’s civil war entangled the United Nations peacekeeping operation in the disputed Golan Heights area between Syria and Israel on Wednesday, when 30 armed fighters for the insurgency detained a group of 20 peacekeepers investigating a damaged observation post, the United […]
A Marked Life – by Saba Imtiaz
Source: the revealer “His last gesture was that he pointed to me that he had been shot in the back,” Aijaz recalls. “We barely managed to give him a spoonful of water and dragged him into a car. He took his last breath before we reached the hospital.” By Saba […]
Sephardic Jews invited back to Spain after 500 years
By Gerry HaddenPRI’s The World More than 500 years ago, tens of thousands of Jews fled Spain because of persecution. Now their descendants are being invited to return. Before the infamous Spanish Inquisition of the 15th Century, some 300,000 Jews lived in Spain. It was one of the largest communities […]
Indonesia gets “Gold Certificate” award in Basel trade exhibition
The Jakarta Post, Indonesia’s recent participation in the Mustermesse Basel (Muba) trade fair in Switzerland has received a “Gold Certificate” award for its innovative and entertaining pavilion. The award was […]
महिला दिवस : फिर दहलीज पर…
नारी फिर खड़ी है एक और दिवस के मुहाने पर। एक और दिन की दहलीज पर। नारी, महिला, औरत, स्त्री, वामा, खवातीन जैसे खुद को संबोधित किए जाने वाले […]
Organizations against Pancasila may be banned in Indonesia
The Jakarta Post In the next few weeks, Indonesia’s liberal-minded middle class will possibly get what they have always wanted: the end of the Islam Defenders Front (FPI). This is […]