Dallas Mosque Feeds the Hungry at a ‘Day of Dignity’...
Not even the recent furlough of federal workers was enough to snuff out the latest community outreach effort of Masjid al Islam mosque in Dallas. On a weekend in early October, the mosque was participating in a national initiative known as the Day of Dignity, an annual event during which mosques feed, clothe, and equip people living in poverty. But federal workers who had been scheduled to attend to speak about the details of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) healthcare legislation had been forced to cancel because of a partial federal government shutdown. It was a blow to the mosque’s boosters, says Muhammad Abdul-Jami, treasurer of Masjid al Islam and coordinator of the Day of Dignity event. But...
Struggling Church to Reopen as a Mosque...
A CATHOLIC church that struggled to survive amid dwindling attendance numbers has been sold – to a muslim community group. St Peter’s, on Waterloo Road, Cobridge, dates back to the 1930s and there has been a Christian church on the site since the late eighteenth century. But the church was hit by a sharp decline in attendances, and finally closed in July last year. Now the Archdiocese of Birmingham, the body responsible for the church, has sold it to the Medina Mosque community group, who are currently operating out of two terraced houses on the same road. A spokesman for the archdiocese said: “The parish of Cobridge has a long history, but in recent times the number of...
Halal Products Exports Growth on Uptrend in Malaysia...
KUALA LUMPUR: The government expects the growth of Malaysia’s halal export to increase in line with the country’s total trade expansion which is projected at three per cent this year. International Trade and Industry Minister Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed said up to June this year, Malaysia had exported halal products worth RM15.7 billion. “Out of this figure, 14.4 per cent or RM1.6 billion was contributed by halal certified Bumiputera companies,” he said to reporters after witnessing the signing of a memorandum of collaborative arrangement between Halal Industry Development Corporation (HDC), SME Bank and Bumiputera Agenda Steering Unit (Teraju) here yesterday. Mustapa said based on export statistics, Malaysia was the biggest halal product exporter among the countries in the...
Can Islamic Finance Feed a Sustainable Economic System?...
Is your mortgage halal? How about your pension? Islamic finance has been a significant global force for the past few decades, but in recent years sharia-compliant saving and investing have become more common in the United States. For example, in June, Goldman Sachs provided a loan to Arcapita Bank, an Islamic investment company, that in compliance with sharia law did not charge interest. In July, a US-based trade association, the World Council of Credit Unions, published a manual explaining to would-be community financiers in developing countries how to operate sharia-compliant credit unions. Western discussions of sharia law often focus on extremist groups imposing brutal interpretations of these legal codes on unwilling populations. But sharia law, which derives from the Qur’an and the religious teaching...
“Mr. Bean” Actor Rowan Atkinson Converted to Islam...
The world-famous British comedian Rowan Atkinson, who is the creator of an amazing figure of Mr. Bean, has converted to Islam. On Tuesday, October, 1 the leader of the ruling party in Tunisia “Al-Nahda” (“Revival”) Rachid Ghannouchi congratulated with this event the English actor. The head wished a new Muslim “resistance in this thorny path”. It is worth mentioning that Mr. Atkinson and the party leader has long-standing relationships: men often communicated during Ghannouchi’s stay in London’s exile. For example, the article in “Wikipedia” names the date of Mr Bean’s conversion to Islam the 1st October 2013. At the same time, Rowan Atkinson says that the interest of the Muslim religion awoke after the appearance of...
Actress Liz Anjorin Converts To Islam, Changes Name To Aisha...
The actress has obviously paid her dues in the industry and she’s making waves one of which was the success of the shooting of her forthcoming thriller entitled “Kofo De First Lady.” The Badagry Lagos State-born mother of one is said to have traveled to India, Morocco, Cameroon and other neighboring countries to shop for her newly re-branded fashion out fit called Pick Me Reloaded, at Ogba, Lagos. Lizzy who is said to have traveled to Mecca this year has joined the list of Nigerian celebrities who have visited the holy land....
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