You need not to be Pat Condell to know that Islamic cultural values are becoming increasingly well recognised throughout the world (take, for example, the existence of Islam merchandise shops, like the one in Reading, Berkshire, UK, bordering the cemetery, on King’s Road, A329, just before the traffic lights-marked A329 / A4 crossing). And if [...]
SANAA, (IRIN): At least 16 Africans died, and 49 others are missing and presumed dead, in three separate incidents as boats smuggling them from Somalia to Yemen capsized in the Gulf of Aden on 13 and 14 September, according to the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR). Ahmad Akam, a Yemeni coast guard official, said the people [...]
At least 11 people including six African Union (AU) peacekeepers have been killed after two large car bombs exploded in the AU’s headquarters in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. Seven more people were also killed and 18 wounded in gun battles that broke out after the blasts on Thursday, witnesses said. Sheikh Ali Mohamud Rage, an [...]
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — On Tuesday, September 15, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT), a coalition of major national Islamic organizations, will host a Capitol Hill citizens’ hearing on mobilizing Muslim support for health care reform. DATE: Tuesday, September 15, 2009 PLACE: Rayburn Building, Room 2203, Capitol Hill, Washington, D. [...]
Rory Cellan-Jones meets the man in Mombasa who oversees the Seacom cable bringing fast internet from Asia to Africa. By Adam Blenford BBC News, Nairobi A new high-speed undersea cable connecting East Africa with the rest of the world is poised to go live, Kenya’s top internet official has told the BBC. The launch of [...]
RIYADH (Reuters) – A Saudi television show has illustrated problems plaguing the education system in the Islamic state, where reformers are locked in battle with religious conservatives over the future of the U.S. ally. A recent episode of “Tash Ma Tash,” a popular comedy during the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, plowed into the debate [...]
Un-Islamic Marriage – A Rising Threat for the Muslim Community by Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani Translated from Urdu by Raihan Nezami The religious uniformity is of great significance in the solemnisation of the marriages in Islam to maintain similarity of Faith and Thought for the stability and sustenance of matrimonial relation. Islam does not allow [...]
STAFF WRITER BY FAKHRUDDIN AHMED As Muslim Americans fast from dawn to dusk to purify their body and soul during the holy month of Ramadan (Aug. 22 “” Sept. 19), two insults were unfairly hurled their way. Mayor John Piper of Clarksville, Tenn., sent an e-mail to every member of the city council, many city [...]
The Local: Swedish citizen Ousama Kassir was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday by a New York court after being after being found guilty earlier this year of planning to set up an Al-Qaeda training camp in the United States. Kassir, a Swede of Lebanese origin, was convicted in May. He was extradited to the [...]
Members of Somalia’s al-Shabab group have vowed to avenge the killing of an al-Qaeda suspect in a US raid in the southern part of the country. Saleh Ali Saleh Nabhan, wanted over a deadly hotel bombing in Kenya in 2002, was killed in a helicopter raid along with al-Shabab fighters on Monday, according to unnamed [...]