During the civil war in Libya in 2011, troops loyal to Dictator Mommar Ghaddaffi raped thousands of innocent women from teenagers to mothers. MWB is proud to be one of the few American Muslim agencies that stepped up to help these survivors … Sisters Week 2012 Fighting Rape as a Tool of War-…
British gay Muslims have joined the world homosexuals’ fight for acceptance, announcing they actually seek marriage, according to a news report published a few weeks ago by UK’s leading news agency, BBC. Regardless of the fact that a growing number of countries and American states are starting to accept same-sex marriage as legal, the…
Speaking to the General Synod, the Church of England’s national assembly, in York, Rt Rev Nick Baines, the Bishop of Bradford, told Christians to learn coexistence from the Muslim minority living in British cities, adding that some parishes in his diocese were 95% Muslim, The Daily Telegraph reported Tuesday. According to the CIA World Fact…
Indonesia witnessed unprecedented increase in calls demanding the ban of Ahmadiyah, a fundamentalist cult or movement founded 1889 in India by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, who claimed to be have fulfilled the prophecies about the world reformer of the end times, the Messiah. According to Jakarta Post, about 300 Muslims, belonging to different organizations, grouped…
A PAS-led Kadeh state government has imposed a ban on all nightspots during the holy month of Ramadan. PAS Youth supported the Kedah state decision, saying it is to “save” Muslims who were fasting during the holy month, according to The Star Online. The proposed ban in Kedah, a state of Malaysia located in the…
News of U.S. killing Al Qaeda leader triggered conflicting reactions among Muslims worldwide, split between those who felt a bit of personal sadness over a brutal ending of his life, and those who felt remorse and may be joy for a long awaited end to the core reason of the U.S. so-called war on…
The speech delivered a few days ago by the U.S. President, seen as a fresh new attempt to reach out to the Muslim world in the wake of the killing of Al Qaeda leader Usama bin Laden and the recent wave of uprisings sweeping the Arab world, brought back to memory his historic and largely…
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), a prominent Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy group urged the FBI to probe a disturbing hate attack targeting New York Muslims, the third of its kind in recent months. CAIR issued a press release calling on the FBI to launch an immediate investigation into a NY anti-Muslim incident involving…
Recent weeks witnessed strong split among South Africa’s Muslim community over a new bill seeking to regulate Islamic marriages, providing legislation for Muslims according to both constitutional gender equality and the dynamism of Islamic Jurisprudence, or Fiqh. A number of unknown groups started to circulate pamphlets at mosques as well as text messages and…
VOA news has reported that, adding that the decision has split the country’s religious leaders. Islamic banking is an interest-free banking system that abides by the Shariah law which also prohibits investing in businesses that provide goods or services that violate Islamic principles. Islamic Banking involves profit sharing which is termed “Mudarabah”, as well as…
I haven’t got a doubt that Muslim women in our modern age bear part of the blame for the widespread misconception pertaining to: their status, perceived rights in Islam, and that they are mostly unrepresented; with scarce contribution to the development of their societies.
Islamic history is full of bright figures of Muslim women who set good example of strong, righteous, smart and resilient character of Muslimahs who, besides being obedient observant of the noble teachings of Islam, were also liberal and vigilant. Whenever an argument alludes to the subject of Muslim women, claims about their misrepresentation, weakness and…
By employing all that’s in their capacities of social, academic and professional skills, besides comprehensive understanding of Islam, Muslim women can be powerful institutions educating people about Islam, thereby serving the message of Allah and Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him), the Muslim Ummah, and humanity at large. I thought twice…
In the previous episode of Contemporary Muslimahs series, I tackled the contemporary and greatly challenging role Muslim women play nowadays, as human institutions known for 3D influence impacting world communities and as far as each woman’s sway can reach, her children, definitely her husband, where she works if she chose to, among other areas…
Let’s talk about the notion of Freedom, what it connotes and how it poses a real challenge for Muslimahs nowadays, same way it can be an opportune opportunity if well analyzed and pursued. Dear Brothers and Sisters, Assalamu alikum, The reason I’m addressing you Brothers and Sisters at the beginning of this article even…
