Germany has four million Muslim inhabitants but the market for halal food — produced according to Islamic law — is still in its infancy, partly because firms fear the wrath of animal rights groups. But companies are slowly waking up to this fast-growing market.
Gehlenberg is a sleepy village in northern Germany. It has a population [...]
This week I reached out for a McArabia grilled chicken sandwich at McDonald’s in the food court at the Mall of the Emirates in Dubai, where you can go snow skiing — indoors — even when it’s 120 degrees outdoors.
My body went from 120 degrees outside to 72 degrees inside the mall to 26 degrees [...]
Ramadan in Saudi Arabia have a special spiritual atmosphere that does not exist in other parts of the Muslim world; may that is because the fact that it is the home land of the Two Holy Shrines, which are have a special place in the hearts of believers world wide.
people in the kingdom [...]
Candle-lit dinners may be romantic, but researchers are warning they could be harmful to health.
South Carolina State University experts analysed the fumes released by burning candles in lab tests.
They found paraffin wax candles gave off harmful fumes linked to lung cancer and asthma – but admitted it would take many years’ use to risk health.
UK [...]
DIET DURING RAMADAN
According to Sunna (the practices of Prophet Muhammad, Pbuh) and research findings referred in this report, a dietary plan is given:
1. Bread/Cereal/Rice, Pasta, Biscuits and Cracker Group: 6-11 servings/day; 2. Meat/Beans/ Nut Group: 2-3 servings/day. 3. Milk and Milk Product Group: 2-3 servings/day. 4. Vegetable Group: 3-5 servings/day; 5. Fruit Group: 2-4 [...]
Activities
You will never be bored in the UAE. You may decide that your hotel, swimming pool and beach are all that you require. However, if you are feeling a little more adventurous you can choose from a huge range of exciting sports and other activities or tour the cities and surrounding countryside.
Bird-Watching
The United Arab Emirates [...]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Over the long months that federal investigators delved into the baffling recruitment of young men who left Minneapolis to fight with Islamic militants in Somalia, the city’s Somali community grappled with the fear they would all be branded terrorists.
But this week as the FBI netted its first grand jury indictments in the [...]
Ramla Bile , Mshale News
Despite fears of distractions from the missing Somali youth saga that has engulfed the Somali community in Minnesota, the Abubakar As-Saddique Islamic Center held its 9th Annual Convention at the Minneapolis Convention Center over the weekend where thirty speakers addressed 10,000 people over three days. Participants said it was encouraging to [...]
By Abdulkadir Khalif
As Quresha and I prepared for the short flight to Chicago from Minneapolis for Autism One Conference on the evening of 05/19/2009, I was not sure what to expect and how events would fold out for the next few days. I was mostly quiet worrying about the other members of the Minneapolis Somali [...]
By Lien Hoang
Monday, June 22, 2009
Bibi Abdalla graduated from the College of Saint Benedict this spring, in the first group of twelve students in the iLEAD program. (Pioneer Press: Scott Takushi)
Frightened and knowing no one, Bibi Abdalla, of St. Paul, entered college with one thought: get in, get her education and get out.
But taking part [...]