I Planned to Destroy Islam, I Became Muslim
Source: Revert2IslamToday.com Sister Shariffa Carlos was being groomed by individuals in high Government positions in US to study, learn and then go to Egypt to destroy Islam by instigating the […]
Central African Republic Christians, Muslims unite to heal trauma
Reuters International JAN 5, 2017 By Zack Baddorf BANGUI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Blindfolds secured tightly, more than a dozen men and women are led by their partners around leafy plants and trees in the compound of an international charity in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui. The occasional stumble […]
Ban the Burkini?
(This is one of the ten most read articles in 2016 of the Project Syndicate) https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/multiculturalism-versus-french-burkini-ban-by-peter-singer-2016-09 MELBOURNE – My parents came to Australia as refugees, fleeing Nazi persecution after Hitler annexed Austria. They arrived in a country eager to assimilate immigrants into its dominant Anglo-Irish culture. When my parents spoke […]
Religion and Education Around the World
Large gaps in education levels persist, but all faiths are making gains – particularly among women Jews are more highly educated than any other major religious group around the world, while Muslims and Hindus tend to have the fewest years of formal schooling, according to a Pew Research Center global […]
American Muslims reveal the most ridiculous questions they’ve been asked
IMAGES STAFF DESK REPORT This hilarious video features some pretty ugly questions One of the questions was: Do Muslims have sex in Ramadan… “What’s the weirdest thing you’ve been asked about being Muslim?” American Muslims answer this question with the most absurd things they’ve been asked, and the result? Hilarious […]
How debate on ‘Trump-Muslims’ chokes Palestine rights
RAY HANANIA | Published — Thursday 24 November 2016 Ray Hanania Many Arabs and Muslims are angry over President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign rhetoric vowing to halt Muslim immigration until immigration screening process can be improved. Most are reacting with emotion rather than with reason or logic, and in the long […]
Who are we to label ISIL members non-Muslims?
Source: Aljazeera By Christa Blackmon A media analyst and digital anthropologist. “ISIS is not Islam!” declared many Muslims on social media after the attack on the mosque holding the final resting place of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina during the holy month of Ramadan. Popular social justice figure and New York […]
Muslim association suspends Winterthur mosque
AFTER THE RAID Muslim association suspends Winterthur mosque NOV 6, 2016 – 13:07 Police raided the mosque premises on Wednesday and temporarily cordoned off the immediate area (Keystone) The umbrella association of Islamic organisations in Zurich (VIOZ) has suspended a mosque that was raided by police on Wednesday. An […]
Muslim teen is on a quest to create a hijab-themed emoji – here’s her story
Posted Sep 21, 2016 A Muslim teen has issued a passionate appeal to the organization that oversees the creation of emojis, proposing a number of symbols that represent her faith, including a man wearing a keffiyeh (headscarf) and a woman wearing a hijab. By Billy Hallowell, Deseret News A […]
Dirty business of ‘Kafir-calling’ must be stopped
By Bilal Farooqi July 17, 2016 KARACHI: In Pakistan, calling another Muslim a ‘Kafir’ (an infidel) sells really well and is as easy as buying an over-the-counter drug. Not only is it a lucrative affair, but ensures power and dominance too, so the merciless killing of hundreds as a consequence […]
Jordan: Accident exposes hate, intolerance
Aug 03,2016 – JORDAN TIMES – DAOUD KUTTAB The incident was tragic by any standard, but the response appears even more tragic. When Shadi Abu Jaber, a 17-year-old Jordanian, along with another passenger died in a car accident in Amman, social media users started talking about the young man whose […]
We love to talk of terror – but after the Munich shooting, this hypocritical catch-all term has finally caught us out
How come a Muslim can be a terrorist in Europe but a mere ‘attacker’ in south-west Asia? Robert Fisk @indyvoices Monday 25 July 2016 377 comments The frightful and bloody […]
Excessiveness leads to shirk
SHEIKH NASIRUDDIN AL-ALBANI | Published — Friday 29 July 2016 From that which has been established in the shariah (prescribed law) is that mankind was, in the beginning, a single nation upon true Tawheed; then shirk (directing any part or form of worship, or anything else that is solely the […]
Switzerland: Report finds prejudice over skin colour, religion
Anti-racism Jun 7, 2016 – 14:10 Recorded cases of victims seeking advice grew from 87 in 2008 to 239 in 2015. (Keystone) Most racial discrimination in Switzerland happens in the workplace, according to an annual survey published by the interior ministry. Of the 239 incidents where victims sought advice […]
Switzerland: Islam museum set to open amid rightwing criticism
Source: Swiss Info The controversies continue in the run-up to Friday’s opening of the Museum for Islamic Culture in La Chaux-de-Fonds, canton Neuchâtel. A related cross-party resolution, “No to the […]
London’s Muslim Mayor is nothing New: 1300 yrs of Muslims who Ran Major European Cities
By Juan Cole | May. 7, 2016 | By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | The press is declaring Sadiq Khan, victor in the electoral contest for mayor of London, the “first Muslim mayor of a major European city.” They mean of course, something like ‘the first Muslim mayor of […]
Allah enjoins us to be kind on earth
Abdulrahman Al-Sheha | Published — Friday 6 May 2016 www.arabnews.com ALLAH, the Almighty, says: “Allah commands justice, the doing of good, and liberality to kith and kin, and He forbids all shameful deeds, and injustice and rebellion: He instructs you that ye may receive admonition.” (Qur’an, 16:90) Justice and […]
Universe has only One to worship
Sheikh Muhammed Salih Al-Munajjid | Published — Friday 29 April 2016 The entire universe, in the way it is created and the way it is controlled, bears witness to the oneness of Allah: “Surely, His is the creation and commandment. Blessed is Allah, the Lord of the Aalameen (mankind, jinn […]
Leading Israeli Rabbis: Time for Messiah to Come
Monday, April 25, 2016 Topics: Bible Just a day before the start of Passover last week, two of Israel’s most prominent rabbis got together to discuss the delayed coming of the Messiah. Rabbi Moishe Sternbuch is head of the Rabbinical Court and a leader of one of Israel’s largest and […]
Are Ahmadis Muslims? Let us ask Prophet Muhammad
Source: Huffington Post By Kashif N. Chaudhry, Physician, writer and human rights activist An Ahmadi Muslim shopkeeper, Mr. Asad Shah, was recently stabbed to death in Glasgow, UK. Mr. Tanveer Ahmad, a […]