9 May 2013 The Church of Scotland has held “useful” discussions with the Jewish community over a controversial report which questioned the divine right of Jews to the land of Israel. The 10-page discussion paper will be debated and voted on at the Kirk’s general assembly later this month. Israel’s ambassador to the UK has [...]
6 Jan 2013 Assalamualaykum My name is Jennifer and I am 36 years old, from the United States. My life has been kind of strange. I was born the middle child, middle sister, in the middle of chaos. As a result of neglect, malnutrition and abuse, my 4 siblings and I were removed from our [...]
3 Feb 2013 Assalamualaykum My name is Meliha Senol. I am an Australian from Sydney. I came to embrace Islam around four years ago. ALHAMDULILLAH!! I would like to share with you a little about myself and how I came to accept Islam. I grew up in a very hard household where drugs and alcohol [...]
27 Feb 2013 From Darkness to Light Assalamualaykum My name is Aisha. I am 42 years old, of Indian origin and settled in Sydney for over a year now. I accepted Islam less than 5 months ago and the story I am about to tell willInsha’Allah renew the faith that you already have in the benevolence [...]
11 May 2013 Assalamualaykum Wa Rahmatullah Wa Barakatuh I was born in a small city in Romania, a country in the South East of Europe. Romania is 97% Christian Orthodox but very much non-practicing. Religion has turned into tradition, folk, and culture. Religion is seen as something that everyone has, but that is not necessary [...]
By Maryam Amir Ebrahimi “Why are you majoring in that field?” I asked a sister in college. She sighed, “To be honest, I just want to get married. I don’t really care about what I’m studying right now. I’m just waiting to get hitched so I can be a wife and a mother.” “It’s [...]
By Yousef Munayyer 3 May 2013 Most observers agree that if the Israeli-Palestinian “peace process” is still alive it is on life support with the plug half hanging out of the socket. Last year’s vote at the United Nations, when most of the world opposed the United States’ position and voted for Palestinian statehood, was [...]
9 May 2013 JERUSALEM — The Israeli occupation of East Jerusalem is driving its Palestinian residents into deeper economic isolation and they face far greater poverty than Jewish neighbors, said a U.N. report on the city at the heart of the Middle East conflict. The U.N. Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) report, published on [...]
Considered Jerusalem’s best friend in Europe, Prague accuses Israel of taking unnecessary steps ‘to provoke everybody’ In exclusive interview, Karel Schwarzenberg says bid to call Hezbollah a terror group is pointless propaganda, won’t back Israeli airstrikes on Syria or Iran, and calls for settlement goods to be labeled; Jerusalem says Czechs are good enough friends [...]
By Majed Al-Sugairi 23 April 2013 Sheikh Abdulrahman Al-Sudais, head of the Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques, delivers a copy of the Holy Qur’an to Arnoud Van Doorn during a reception in Makkah on Sunday as Shahzad Muhammad (right), head of the Canadian Dawa Association (CDA), looks on. MADINAH – Former [...]