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Study: Radicalized Muslims Have Little Actual Knowledge Of Islam...
Extremists and Islamophobes alike have attempted to paint violent factions within Islam as the true expression of the faith. But a new study gives credence to what countless Muslim leaders, activists and scholars have argued: that groups like the self-proclaimed Islamic State are Muslim in name alone. A group of German scholars at the Universities of Bielefeld and Osnabrück analyzed 5,757 WhatsApp messages found on a phone seized by police following a terrorist attack in the spring of 2016. The messages were exchanged among 12 young men involved in the attack. The attack itself was not identified in the report. Deutsche Welle noted that the timeframe suggested it may...
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Boxing Champ Launches Sports Hijab...
A boxing champion from the East End has created a sports hijab to help more Muslim women get into combat sports. Ruqsana Begum (below) – who is the current British female Atomweight Muay Thai boxing champion – runs personal training sessions and women-only sessions in the sport at the Osmani Centre in Whitechapel. She said: “I came up with the idea during the Olympics. I was interested in the story of an American athlete who was told she couldn’t compete wearing her hijab due to health and safety reasons, so her father created one that was approved for her to fight in. “I thought if they can create one...
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Is Islamic Law an Answer for Humanitarians?...
DUBAI, 24 April 2014 (IRIN) – Humanitarian action today is largely taking place in Muslim-majority countries where some combatants turn to Islamic law, among other sources, to guide their military behaviour. As a result, in the last decade, aid and advocacy agencies have increasingly tried to understand Islamic law in order to use its humanitarian provisions as tools of negotiation with armed groups in the Muslim world. This is particularly helpful in engaging Islamist armed groups, some of whom reject international humanitarian law (IHL). Some aid agencies try to situate their arguments for access or protection of civilians within a religious context, sometimes using scholars, mullahs or other religious...
Cincinnati Muslims Hold Blood Drive
Thursday, September 13, 2001 Muslims urged to give aid By Kevin Aldridge and Earnest Winston The Cincinnati Enquirer Tristate Muslims called on their community Wednesday to donate blood, give money and pray for the victims of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. And they pleaded with the public not to take out its anger on them. The Islamic Center of Greater Cincinnati scheduled a special prayer service for Friday, and plans to launch a blood drive later this week. The center also has opened a fund at Fifth Third Bank for the victims of the attack. “We always help in any disaster. We helped when the earthquake happened in Turkey,” said Majed Dabdoub,...
Energy Industry Publication Defends Proposed New York Mosque
September 01, 2010 Greg Flakus | Houston The plan to build an Islamic Center and mosque two blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center in New York City has drawn widespread opposition and, as a result, many Muslims feel they are being unfairly blamed for the actions of the terrorists who brought down the two skyscrapers on September 11, 2001. They have an ally in the editor of a widely read energy industry publication who says strident rhetoric produced by the controversy is un-American and harmful to US interests in the Muslim world. The Oil and Gas Journal is not the magazine where one would normally find debate about such an issue as the proposed mosque in New...
Survey of US Muslims Finds Little Support for Extremism
Jerome Socolovsky | Washington, D.C. August 30, 2011 Since the 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, many Americans have worried about the potential for home grown militancy among Muslims living in the United States. A new survey of American Muslims suggests that a decade after the attacks, there is very little support for extremism. The survey by The Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life was released just ahead of the 10th anniversary of the September 11 attacks and on the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of Ramadan. According to the survey of more than 1,000 American Muslims, only one percent said suicide bombings and other forms of violence against civilians are often justified to defend Islam...
Maryland Mosque Invites Jewish Neighbors for Iftar
As Muslims around the world observed Ramadan over the past month, one mosque in the suburbs of Washington found the holy month of fasting from sunrise to sundown could provide an opportunity for some interfaith understanding. The Islamic Center of Maryland hosted members of the local Jewish community for evening prayers and an Iftar dinner, the daily meal in which Muslims break their Ramadan fast. Then, they joined their guests for a Havdalah ceremony – to mark the end of the Jewish Sabbath. VOA’s Saqib UI Islam was also there. It’s sunset in the town of Gaithersburg, Maryland, just north of Washington, about time for the Muslims living in this area to break their fast. Many have gathered...
Muslims in America Celebrate End of Ramadan
August 30, 2011 Jerome Socolovsky | Washington Muslims across America gathered in mosques to mark the Eid al Fitr holiday that closes their holy month of Ramadan. Muslims from around America’s capital poured into the Islamic Center of Washington in one of the most elegant parts of the city, known as Embassy Row. Egyptian law student Youssef Muhammad Auf hurried toward the men’s entrance with his mind on what he would ask of God this year. “Of course, pray [for] my country, the Islamic world, and all human beings – to be safe, peace, and have peaceful relations with every country, especially the United States and the Islamic World,” he said. Eid al-Fitr marks the breaking of the...
Muslims Around Globe Celebrate Eid al-Fitr
August 30, 2011 Muslims around the world are celebrating Eid al-Fitr, a three-day holiday that marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Observers of Islam in Egypt, Syria and several other Arab countries started marking the holiday Tuesday by crowding into mosques for prayers. Muslims in several non-Arab countries, including Russia and Turkey, also began Eid celebrations Tuesday. Religious authorities in Saudi Arabia, home to Islam’s holiest sites, started the celebrations in their country Monday. They said the new moon had been sighted and proclaimed that Ramadan ended Monday, with the Eid feast to begin the next day. Eid al-Fitr celebrates the purification achieved during Ramadan, a month of sunrise-to-sunset fasting, one of the five pillars...
Athletic, Muslim, Fashionable – a Tale of the Sports Hijab
Olympic hopeful, 17-year-old Zeinab Hammoud Female Muslim athletes who observe a strict Islamic dress code sometimes face the question of whether they will be allowed to participate in major competitions — with their heads and most of their bodies covered. Now, one Iranian-Canadian woman is marketing a product to change that. It complies with the requirements of many major sports, and it’s fashionable, safe and comfortable — while still meeting Islamic requirements. An Olympic hopeful faces a small obstacle Seventeen-year-old Zeinab Hammoud has a brown belt in Taekwondo, and dreams of one day making it to the Olympics. But unlike her sister, Rana, Zeinab chooses to wear the Islamic headscarf, or hijab. This became a problem four...
Science and Islam 1 – The Language of Science
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Maurice Bucaille Converts to Islam: The Preservation Of Pharaoh’s Body (Prediction in The Quran)...
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Science and Islam 2 – The Empire of Reason
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