The more known: Source: Wikipedia. Muharram (Arabic: المحرّم) is the first month of the Islamic calendar. It is one of the four sacred months of the year in which fighting is prohibited.[1] Since the Islamic calendar is a lunar calendar, Muharram moves from year to year when compared with the […]
BEIJING – China is witnessing an increasing number of foreign women who have been cheated, kidnapped and smuggled into the country, a senior official has said. Most of these women are from rural areas in Vietnam, Myanmar and Laos. They eagerly want to find jobs in China or marry rich […]
By Richard Allen Greene, CNN (CNN) – Every religion has its true believers and its doubters, its pious and its pragmatists, but new evidence suggests that Muslims tend to be […]
Atheists are right in exposing the irrationality of the Christian dogma. However, the Christians are right in as far as their claim that there needs to be a Creator of […]
Japan’s oldest person, 115-year-old Chiyono Hasegawa, has died. Hasegawa, who was born Nov. 20, 1896, died at a facility in southern Japan on Friday. Read more
The hospital serving the London borough of Chelsea, the smartest and most fashionable in the capital, has the highest caesarean rate in England, inviting the irresistible conclusion that its female residents are “too posh to push”. More than one third of births to women at the Chelsea and Westminster hospital, […]
Misinformation, medieval and prejudicial information abounds, when it comes to Islam in the West. So, I thought it is necessary for me to suggest some Christian sources of information, where readers could get ‘fair and balanced’ information, rather than vitriolic propaganda against Islam and its founder. To have a more […]
“The life of the Holy Prophet, peace be on him, was a life of grand success. In his high moral qualities, his spiritual power, his high resolve, the excellence and […]
(Reuters) – Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood has called on its rivals to accept the will of the people after a first-round vote set its party on course to take the most seats in the country’s first freely elected parliament in six decades. Egyptians will return to the polls on Monday for […]
by Mathieu van Berchem in Paris, swissinfo.ch The United Nations culture agency is dealing with the financial consequences of a political decision taken in October – a funding shortfall of 22 per cent. On October 31 the United States suspended its financial contribution to Unesco after Palestine was admitted as […]
By Laila Azzeh AMMAN – Often invisible to the eyes of the public or the law, many domestic helpers still face hardship when working in Jordanian households, having their wages […]
Source Huffington Post. In a move to “promote greater unity” among its body and the Pike County community it serves, a small Kentucky church voted to ban interracial couples from […]
Source: The Vancouver Sun The confessed killer behind the July massacre in Norway disputes an expert conclusion that he is criminally insane, a newspaper reported Saturday, quoting one of his […]
Article Source: The Associated Press Photo Source: Change.org A report given to a high-level advisory group in Saudi Arabia claims that allowing women in the kingdom to drive could encourage premarital sex, a rights activist said Saturday. The ultraconservative stance suggests increasing pressure on King Abdullah to retain the kingdom’s […]
Buffeted by lackluster profits and turmoil in the global markets, Wall Street is bracing for one of the worst bonus seasons in recent memory. But in the alchemy of high finance, bankers are hoping to turn the slump to their advantage. Financial firms are preparing to dole out huge amounts […]
Sufism – once just another variant of Islam, now bankrolled by Britain and the US as a ‘moderate’ form of the religion that could help counter extremism in Pakistan. But what is Sufism? Where did it come from? And what role does it play today? In the first of a […]
Thirty years ago this month, religious extremists pulled off an audacious attack on Islam’s holiest site in Mecca. Sec Kanwar speaks to one of the few writers to study this under-reported event, and looks at how what followed led to the global spread of Wahhabism, whose impact has been felt […]
France is repatriating a number of diplomats and their families from Iran following an attack on the British embassy in Tehran. French officials said the move was a temporary security measure. Britain expelled 25 Iranian diplomats following Tuesday’s attack, when hundreds stormed the British embassy. British officials say the attack […]
Source: Qantara Sharia is a collection of norms that can be interpreted in many ways – either for or against democracy. Islamist parties are not per se opposed to democracy, writes the renowned scholar of Islam, Mathias Rohe in his commentary How terrible would it be if, in future, Libyan […]
President Ernest Bai Koroma has commended the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at in Sierra Leone for contributing towards national development in the areas of Education, Health, and Energy. Declaring the 50th Annual […]