Muslims in the UK armed forces

Imam Asim Hafiz is not surprised that more and more Muslims are joining the British military. He is in no doubt, either, that British Muslims can be good soldiers?. That is not because Mr Hafiz was the first Muslim chaplain for the Armed Forces when he was appointed in 2005…

World Wars and hadith of the Holy Prophet Muhammad (s)

Documentary — The Berlin Mosque

Muslim student harassed at hearing about mosque

A Muslim student journalist covering a hearing in Tennessee about a mosque cemetery was harassed and told that Islam was “not a religion” and she was “scary.”
Noor Tagouri was in Tennessee covering a hearing about a mosque cemetery that was…

So, what did the Muslims do for the Jews?

Within a century of the death of Mohammad, in 632, Muslim armies had conquered almost the whole of the world where Jews lived, from Spain eastward across North Africa and the Middle East as far as the eastern frontier of Iran and beyond, almost all the Jews…

84pc of Pakistani Muslims want Sharia

The latest US-based PEW Research Center survey, released 11 days before Pakistan goes for elections, shows that 84% of Pakistani Muslims favour Islamic sharia as their official law.
 
While none of the leading political parties with the only exception of Imran…

Islam Conversion Issue

Yuvan Shankar Raja quits Twitter after being abused by his followers. The music director’s post on his decision to follow Islam has not gone well with a section of his fans. Their negative feedback has made the Illayaraaja’s son to bid goodbye to the social networking site. He had…

Easter — A Muslim perspective

Just War Part 5