Dr Ahmed’s documentary, “Journey into Europe,” is an important window into a period in Muslim history, which created high culture and art through an emphasis on inclusiveness and tolerance. For this reason, the film ought to be mandatory viewing in the Muslim world, which is in dire need of these values. By Yasser Latif Hamdani…
A group of Muslim women students at colleges across the United States are part of the Books Not Bombs campaign, an initiative organized by The Syria Consortium to help Syrian refugees access education. The campaign launched last year, Books Not Bombs organizers “ who are primarily Muslim women “ have been ramping up their efforts.…
A Muslim man in the USA is on a mission to counter misconceptions about Islam. His approach is simple “ travelling the country, challenging strangers to ask him anything. Mansoor Shams, who is also a former US Marine, currently resides in Maryland. He is travelling across the country, standing on street corners in cities and…
Through local donations and a GoFundMe page, the mosque raised over $900,000 from 18,000+ people to rebuild the mosque. By Rabbi Allen Maller In the small city of Victoria, Texas (USA), there are several churches, but just one synagogue and one mosque. At least that’s how it was, until the mosque, built in 2000, mysteriously burned down…
Mother Teresa always was a figure admired across religious divides, so it seems only fitting that an international prize named in her honor went this year to a Muslim who died in Dhaka, Bangladesh, trying to save two friends from a terrorist attack. On Nov. 20, the family of 20-year-old Faraaz Hossain was presented with…
Every Friday, St Paul’s Anglican church in Beaconsfield, just outside Australia’s port city of Fremantle, hosts Muslim prayers in its community hall. Fittingly, the hall was the original church. The enterprise began shortly after Imam Faizel Chothia knocked on the door of Reverend Peter Humphries. Mr Chothia said he had been trying to find somewhere…
Riyadh: Just retired Pakistan Army Chief, General Raheel Sharief has reportedly consented to head the Islamic Military Alliance to Fight Terrorism which includes 39 Islamic countries, but keeps away Iran, a major regional power in the Middle East. The Alliance was set up by the Saudi regime in Riyadh in December 2015. The Alliance was…
Vatican City: Cardinal Antonio Maria Vegliò, president of the Pontifical Council for Migrants and Itinerant Peoples, has said that the migration issue is an urgent one that can’t be solved by the “human egoism” that closes doors and fosters a xenophobic attitude toward foreigners. “It’s not Christian to be xenophobic, it’s not Christian to not…
The ‘Arab Spring’ cost the region some 600 billion dollars in lost growth. It is equivalent to 6% of the region’s total GDP between 2011 and 2015, the UN’s Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) estimates. The uprisings, which started in Tunisia, saw leaders toppled in four countries, and led to war in…
Engineering classes look different in Jordan, Malaysia and Tunisia, and it has nothing to do with their lecture slides. Up to 50 per cent of university students studying engineering in these Muslim-majority countries are women, while in Australia that figure sits at closer to 15 per cent. The same can be said for America where…
