Dear Sir, The article titled “Natural Born Futurist” by Ziauddin Sardar (May 2012 issue) was highly insightful. I am sure that after reading such articles, Muslims will stop living in the past. This article should be given more publicity and I would appreciate if you can inform where I can get the book, “The future of Islamic Civilisation”. Haroon Shaikh, [email protected] Editor replies: The full article…
The latest edition of the best-selling 1001 Inventions book has been published by National Geographic, and will introduce the enduring legacy of Muslim civilization to new audiences in North America and the rest of the world. The previous two editions of the flagship 1001 Inventions publication sold more than 150,000 copies, with Turkish and Arabic versions also proving very popular. Modern society owes a tremendous amount to the Muslim world for the many groundbreaking scientific and technological advances that were…
Muslim families have become very demanding about the looks of a girl or bride that they are looking for their sons. It is quite disheartening that even Islamic Voice is also adding more fuel to the fire. The matrimonial advertisements in your paper all mention “girl should be fair and beautiful.” This is absolutely ridiculous! Fortunately, Muslim girls are empowered today with education and values. A…
Muslims number 2.6 million, much against their own estimates of seven million. American Muslims grew in number over the past decade, outnumbering Jews for the first time in most of the Midwest and part of the South, while most mainline churches lost adherents, according to a census of American religions released recently. The number of adherents of Islam rose to 2.6 million in 2010 from…
Veteran Khushwant Singh has pointed fingers only at Muslims stating that they are always at war. Singh has forgotten the massacre of Sikhs, how lakhs of Sinhalese were killed in Ceylon. The deadly warfare in Latin America, in Vietnam and Japan during the World War may be history, but this is reality and Singh seems to have overlooked it. The non-stop war between different non-Muslim…
A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims. The Senate approved the bill on May 11 on a 33-3 vote. The House had approved it, 120-0, earlier in the week. The measure goes next to Republican Gov. Sam Brownback, who…
On behalf of the Shillong Muslim Union, I wish to express my heartfelt gratitude to the Islamic Voice team for publishing our SMU news in the magazine in the month of April 2012. Sayeedullah Nongrum, MLA President, Umshyrpi College, Shillong.
A poll by L’institut de sondages OpinionWay suggests that in the second round of voting in the French presidential elections on May 6, 93% of Muslims voted for Presidentelect Hollande. 59% of those polled voted for Hollande in the first round of voting. “It is the mark of a true rejection of Nicolas Sarkozy,” said Julien Goarant, research director at Opinionway. Sarkozy’s attempts to woo Far-right voters and…
The northern Uttar Pradesh town’s fortunes seems to be upswing. Once the capital of the Nawabs of Rampur, the town is likely to get a massive facelift with a Rs. 2.5 billion project set to begin. Local MLA and minister in the new Samajwadi Party Government told media recently that all drains in the city would be reconstructed and the under-construction of Palika Mall on Topekhana Road will be completed at…
The Netherlands may drop the planned ban on the burqa and on dual nationality which are currently making their way through the national parliament. The change comes with the fall of the minority government, as those aspects of government policy influenced by the presence of the anti-Islam PVV (Freedom Party) enter into renegotiation. Notably, MPs have implored outgoing Interior Minister Liesbeth Spies (CDA) to eliminate the country’s planned burqa ban.…
