Maldives votes in first presidential election

Today, 208,000 Maldivians vote in presidential elections for the first time ever.  Its longest serving ruler and leader of the Rahyithunge Party (DRP), Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, faces five challengers. The will...

When Jesus Returns We Will Have Peace

As a muslim I am taught that the world will almost certainly not know peace untill the saviour jesus of nazereth is reborn. That doesn't mean we shouldn't work for peace...

Women who took on the Taliban – and lost

A chilling news essay from Kim Sengupta who reports that three years on from interviewing five women fighting for a new Afghanistan with better rights for women only two have escaped the assassination. The latest...

Information On Jinn

Part of mystical folklore for centuries Jinn are not such a great mystery. Much is known about them misleading humanity since the days of Adam. In Islam, Iblis (satan) is not a fallen angel but a rebellious Jinn. Angels...

Swedish Muslim finds Muhammad in a mango

Personally I think the Divine have better things to do than graffiti our fruit....But who knows ? The Virgin Mary likes to show up on stop signs, or so I have heard. "Rubina Sheikh from Helsingborg in southern Sweden believes she’s received a message from God – in a...

Review: Religulous – Bill Maher's intellectual war on religion

Religulous opens on the valley floor of Meggido, the future birthplace of Armageddon and home to a 200 million man army during the Great Tribulation, but, at present, it’s simply an empty stage for Bill Maher to...

'My book honours the prophet Mohammed,' says author whose novel provoked fire...

The author should of realised the response its best not to write about fictional things about Mohammed let alone the truth that gives the prophet bad character. The fact that he did not go by his own law and advice on how many wifes a man could have can be a touchy thing...

Anti-Muslim Video Mass Mailed Into US Swing States

The true "Obsessions" demonstrated by this real life horror story are those of the Republican Party and call for widespread repudiation by honest people of the sordid and inexcusable methods the GOP has stooped to in...

Interfaith Dialogue, What is it Good for?

As I am doing my research on the issue of Islam I sometimes come across articles speaking about interfaith dialogue. Interfaith sounds well and good but the question is what are the actual results of these meetings? Most recently there was a world wide interfaith conference...

It Is Time For Equality Now

Cases of human rights abuses are a growing problem. I would like to highlight the case of Kobra Najjar, an Iranian woman sentenced to death in her home country. Kobra's crime ? Suffering domestic violence at the hands of her, late, heroin addict...

Iranian Jewish Community Refutes US anti-Iran Claims

Confirming the distintion between Zionism and the Jewish community by the Ahmadinejad government , this article states Tehran Jews condemned "claims of the US State Department on Iranian religious...

Malaysia 'dissent' blogger jailed

One of the very prominent Malaysian blogger Raja Petra has been arrested and sent to a detention centre in the state of Perak by order of Malaysia's home minister. Raja Petra was one of three critics of the...

Islam! The growing Religion of the 21st Century! Why? (Opinion-News)

Once the dominant Religion in the World was Christianity mainly due to massif forced conversions at first. Forcing out all other religions through out Europe with barbaric religious War that went on for over 800...

In Egypt, sexual harassment grows

"  According to a study released by the Egyptian Center for Women's Rights (ECWR) in July, 62 percent of Egyptian men admit to sexually harassing women, and 83 percent of Egyptian women reported being harassed....

Militant group claims responsibility of Islamabad suicide attack

"ISLAMABAD: A militant outfit, Fidaen-e-Islam has claimed responsibility of the suicide attack on Marriott hotel in Islamabad.Militants of the outfit made a telephone call to Geo News and claimed responsibility of the deadly act of September 20. According to Geo News, in a...

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