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 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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
Muslim volunteers earned a round of applause and even a few “amens” from the homeless huddled inside a shelter in Dallas, USA, recently. “We’re Muslim, but we care about everyone,” Urooj Waheed said at the Austin Street Shelter. Waheed and his wife, Sobia Waheed, were among about 125 volunteers—children, parents and grandparents—who packed survival kits that contained bottled […]
London: Britain’s Prince Charles warned against intolerance towards refugees fleeing religious persecution, saying the rising tide of populism was reminiscent of the “dark days” of the 1930s. “The suffering doesn’t end when they arrive seeking refuge in a foreign land,” the heir to the throne told BBC radio. “We are now seeing the rise of […]
A man was photographed holding a sign on the side of a road outside the Islamic Center of Irving, near Dallas, USA, reading: “You Belong. Stay Strong. Be Blessed. We Are One America.” A passerby snapped a photo of the man and shared it on Twitter, where it quickly went viral. A representative for the Islamic […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]