11 Sept 2020 At a time when the holy Quran and its principles for children are hardly of importance for the millennial children, a 15-year-old girl has stunned the world by learning the Quran in less than 6 months. Taqwa Zahir, 15 year old from Palestine achieved the feat during a lockdown in her country. […]
Two soldiers reportedly admitted to killing dozens of villagers in northern Rakhine state, burying them in mass graves. 8 Sept 2020 Two soldiers who deserted from Myanmar’s army have testified on video they were ordered to kill and rape Muslim Rohingya villagers, a human rights group said Tuesday. The comments appear to be the first […]
A new report calculates the number of people who fled because of wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001. 8 Sept 2020 At least 37 million people have been displaced as a direct result of the wars fought by the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a new report from Brown University’s […]
Pakistani PM says Israel-Palestine issue will not be resolved unless there is a ‘just settlement’ for the Palestinians. 4 Sept 2020 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan says the Israel-Palestine issue will not be resolved unless there is a “just settlement” for the Palestinians, even if more countries decide to recognise Israel. “Any one-sided settlement which […]
2 Sept 2020 BJP’s Raja Singh accused of posting hate material against Rohingya refugees and Muslims Facebook has banned a politician from Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ruling party for alleged hate speech after the social media platform came under scrutiny over its handling of extremist content in the country. Raja Singh, a Bharatiya Janata […]
Some employees said the sentiments and actions conflicted with the company’s longstanding neutrality pledge Aug. 30, 2020 A Facebook Inc. executive at the center of a political storm in India made internal postings over several years detailing her support for the now ruling Hindu nationalist party and disparaging its main rival, behavior some staff saw […]
(pic : A shoe is placed on a poster depicting Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed al-Nahyan during a Palestinian protest against the UAE-Israel deal to normalise relations, in Nablus in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, August 14, 2020) Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said the country is considering withdrawing its ambassador and suspending […]
Imran Khan’s comments come days after a US-brokered deal between UAE and Israel to normalise relations. 20 August 2020 Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan said his country will not recognise Israel until there is a Palestinian state acceptable to the Palestinians. In an interview with local broadcaster Dunya News, Khan said on Tuesday Islamabad would […]
21 August 2020 Former Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has slammed the normalisation agreement concluded between the United Arab Emirates and Israel, describing it as a “step backward”. In remarks to This Week in Asia newspaper, Mohamad said: “The agreement will divide the Islamic world into warring factions where the Israelis would be able to pour fuel […]
Academics say Yusuf’s endorsement of the Israel-UAE deal is part of a long history of condoning the actions of the UAE government 21 August 2020 Hamza Yusuf, a prominent Muslim scholar based in the United States, is facing a deluge of criticism after publicly endorsing the United Arab Emirates’ decision to normalise ties with Israel – […]
“A political government tries to find the scapegoat when there is pandemic or calamity and the circumstances show that there is probability that these foreigners were chosen to make them a scapegoat,” the court said in its order. Press Trust of India – August 22, 2020 Mumbai: The Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High […]
Hundreds of thousands of worshippers have gathered across the world to perform the first day of prayers for the Eid al Adha festival. Muslims in many countries around the world have started celebrating Eid al Adha, the annual festival of sacrifice. It marks the 12th and last month of the Muslim lunar calendar. […]
James Zogby – 31-7-2020 Zogby is founder and president of the Arab American Institute, a fellow at the Sanders Institute, and a member of the Democratic National Committee. I’ve been engaged in Democratic Party platform debates for over three decades and am amazed at how the party consistently gets the section on the Mideast wrong. […]
President of Turkey Recep Tayyip Erdogan (C) salutes public after a visit to inspect Hagia Sophia Mosque which will be opened on 24th of July for worship after 86 years with Friday prayer, in Istanbul, Turkey on 19 July 2020. Omar Ahmed – July 30 2020 The Hagia Sofia Grand Mosque was opened for public […]
29-7-2020 The annual pilgrimage to Makkah and Madinah has been allowed to take place but with new measures, including less worshippers than previous years, to try and prevent the spread of coronavirus This year only 10,000 people already residing in the kingdom will participate, a tiny fraction of the 2.5million pilgrims from around the world […]
• Jayati Ghosh – professor of economics at Jawaharlal Nehru university, New Delhi Draconian government responses to the pandemic have merely served to widen India’s class, caste, gender and religious divides In February, 12-year-old Jamlo Makdam left her home in the Indian state of Chhattisgarh to work as a farm labourer in the chilli […]
This is the full transcript of the first Friday prayer sermon since the Hagia Sophia’s restoration to a mosque. 24-7-2021 Honorable Muslims! May the blessings and help of Allah and the peacefulness and divine abundance of Friday be upon you! In this blessed hour, in this sacred place, we are witnessing a historic moment. Hagia […]
Philip Weiss JULY 28, 2020 Writer/comedian Seth Rogen was on the Marc Maron podcast yesterday, promoting his new movie “An American Pickle,” which involves Jewish life in the U.S. Maron raised the idea of Jews moving to many places in the world after the Holocaust, and not to Israel. Rogen agreed: I think that’s a better strategy. […]
Muslims around Europe hailed the opening of Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque to worship after 86 years with Friday prayer Muslims around Europe hailed the opening of Turkey’s Hagia Sophia Mosque to worship after 86 years with Friday prayer, Anadolu Agency reported. Vehbija Secerovic, muezzin of the historic Gazi Husrev-Beg Mosque in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo, thanked Turkish President Recep […]
Turkey’s senior administrative court issued a ruling on 1 July that annulled the 1934 decision of the Turkish Council of Ministers to transform Hagia Sophia Mosque into a museum. It was another step in the secularisation of the Republic of Turkey under its founder Mustafa Kemal Ataturk. “The decision was taken to hand over the […]
“A temple from which the nation has been deprived for 86 years has opened its doors to believers again,” the Institute for Islamic Thought (IDE) said in a statement after Turkey’s decision to reopen Hagia Sophia as a mosque after years of it being classed as a museum. The 1934 ruling to convert the ancient […]
I became an American groupie because the India of my youth was bedevilled by poverty and protest. Living in the US for the past two decades — and the George Floyd protests this week — have offered me a sharply different perspective John Kenneth Galbraith famously described India as a “functioning anarchy”, an ungovernable country which miraculously survived despite […]
America’s love-hate affair with billionaires took an uncomfortable twist this spring: As the coronavirus spread across the country, both fans and critics wondered what these titans of capitalism would do to address this devastating health and economic crisis. The answer so far: Not much, when accounting for their vast personal fortunes. A Washington Post survey of the […]
amnesty.org.uk By Kristyan Benedict – @KreaseChan Over recent days, we’ve seen numerous major companies around the world issuing statements of support for the Black Lives Matter protests. In truth, many feel hollow – paying lip-service to the issues raised by George Floyd’s horrific killing without looking inward at their own responsibilities. Take the intervention from online holiday […]
Bilal ibn Rabah (may Allah bless him) is one of the most illustrious names in the Islamic history. A Negro slave originally from Habasha (Ethiopia), Bilal is an evident story of Islam’s respect for human equality, anti-racism and social equity. Born in 680CE in Makkah, to his slave parents — Rabah and Hamamah — […]
It helps not to keep old people in nursing homes In early march, before Turkey had formally registered its first case of covid-19, Sabah, a pro-government newspaper, praised the country for setting a “leading example” in the fight against the novel coronavirus. Some 160,000 confirmed cases later, the fanfare is rather quieter. Still, as the country […]
Dr. Craig Considine – Feb 2015 Relations between different ethnic and religious groups in the Middle East, U.S., and EU are deteriorating at a rapid pace. Across these three areas, Muslims are pitted against non-Muslims and black and brown people are pitted against white. What is needed now more than ever is a role model […]
Islam with its universal concept of brotherhood rejects all artificial and man-made marks of distinction. When listening to the radio, reading newspapers, surfing the Net or watching television, we are confronted daily with the same sad news: Violence, crime, wars and disasters. This constant awareness of fear and tension should make us think what has […]
Since early last decade, Defense Ministry teams have scoured local archives and removed troves of historic documents to conceal proof of the Nakba Hagar Shezaf | Haaretz.com Four years ago, historian Tamar Novick was jolted by a document she found in the file of Yosef Waschitz, from the Arab Department of the left-wing Mapam Party, […]
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Imam Zaid Shakir is a Muslim American scholar and co-founder of Zaytuna College in Berkeley, California. He teaches courses on Arabic, law, history, and Islamic spirituality. There are a large number of books that discuss the coming of the Antichrist, known to Muslims as the Dajjal (The Great Deceiver). One can spend a lifetime studying […]