By MICHELLE LEE Staff Writer | Posted: Friday, November 27, 2009
ATLANTIC CITY — Bernie Robbins Stadium temporarily transformed from an empty baseball field into a hall of worship Friday morning when hundreds of people from the Masjid Al-Tawqa crowded the windswept upper stands to honor God.
Continue reading ‘Atlantic City’s Bernie Robbins Stadium opens doors to Muslim faithful’
Monday, November 30th 2009, 4:00 AM
Image taken from al-Lafeta TV channel on Saturday reads in Arabic ‘raise your sword’ next to a portrait of former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.
BAGHDAD – Turning on their TVs during the long holiday weekend, Iraqis were greeted by a familiar if unexpected face from their brutal past: Saddam Hussein.
Big News Network.com Sunday 29th November, 2009
Swiss voters have approved a right-wing initiative banning construction of new minarets attached to mosques.
The controversial measure has been backed by over 55 percent of the electorate.
Continue reading ‘Swiss constitution to be changed after minaret ban’
France’s foreign minister has condemned Switzerland’s referendum vote to ban the building of minarets.
Bernard Kouchner said he was shocked by the decision which, he said, showed “intolerance” and should be reversed.
More than 57.5% of voters and 22 out of 26 cantons – or provinces – voted in favour of the ban on Sunday.
Continue reading ‘France’s Bernard Kouchner condemns Swiss minaret ban’
| The right wing Swiss People’s Party says that minarets are political symobols [EPA] |
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Continue reading ‘On the occasion of the start of Eid Al Adha Al Mubarak!’
Bright weather greeted some 3 million Muslims who rallied around Mount Arafat to beg for God’s forgiveness at the peak of the haj.
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Bright weather greeted some 3 million Muslims who rallied around Mount Arafat, where Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) delivered his farewell sermon, to beg for God’s forgiveness on Thursday at the peak of the haj.
Continue reading ‘Muslim pilgrims pray at Arafat after heavy rains ease / PHOTO’
By Alaa Abul-Enein
TALLINN – After decades of oppression under the Communist rule, Muslims in the northern European republic of Estonia are happily enjoying their religious festivals with congregational prayers and outdoor festivities.
By Dina Rabie, IOL Staff
WASHINGTON – The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Jordan and Georgetown University have just released a book featuring the world’s 500 most influential Muslims, saying the aim is to help people understand the different ways Islam and Muslims impact the world today.
Nearly three million pilgrims flocked to the arid valley of Mina early on Wednesday, November 25, for the start of the soul-searching journey of hajj.
“Labbaik Allahumma Labbaik” (“Here I am, my Lord, here I am”), chanted the faithful walking or boarding buses to Mina, five kilometers east of the holy city of Makkah.
The Saudi government might manage hajj but a few number of young Muttawifs (hajj guides) strive to make the annual journey much easier for nearly three million Muslims.
“We take control of the pilgrim from when he first puts his foot on the soil of Makkah,” Imad Abdullah, a Muttawif, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Monday, November 23.
His lawyers are pressing for the UK to release a seven-paragraph summary of US intelligence files on his detention, a document he claims proves Britain’s complicity.
Thursday’s high court ruling concerned four paragraphs from an earlier court judgment that the government says reveal the content of the secret material in the seven-paragraph summary.
Amid growing concerns over anti-Muslim backlash, the Obama administration has vowed to protect rights of American Muslims while battling security threats, the Detroit Free Press reported Friday, November 20.
“We are committed to protecting the rights of all Americans, including Muslims,” Attorney General Eric Holder told the first annual banquet of the Advocates and Leaders for Police and Community Trust (ALPACT).
Continue reading ‘US Blasts Muslim Profiling, Vows Protection’
Barack Obama, the US president, has admitted that his administration will miss the January 2010 deadline set for closing the Guantanamo Bay military prison in Cuba.
Obama said on Wednesday that a new deadline would not be set for the facility, which still holds more than 200 detainees, but does expect it to be shut down at some point in the new year.
The New York Mets are allowing the Hebron Fund, a Brooklyn-based non-profit supporting violent and racist Israeli settlers living in the West Bank City of Hebron, to hold a fundraiser at Citi Field on November 21st. Tell the Mets to cancel this event.
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When the start of Mix It Up at Lunch Day was announced at Seth Johnson Elementary in Montgomery, Ala., cheers rose up in the halls. At lunch, the fifth-grade class – leaders of this year’s activities – proudly displayed the banner they created for the event.
Tuesday, 17 November 2009 15:19 Noam Chomsky
The hopes and prospects for peace aren’t well aligned — not even close. The task is to bring them nearer. Presumably that was the intent of the Nobel Peace Prize committee in choosing President Barack Obama. The prize “seemed a kind of prayer and encouragement by the Nobel committee for future endeavor and more consensual American leadership,” Steven Erlanger and Sheryl Gay Stolberg wrote in The New York Times.
By Aamir Latif, IOL Correspondent
PESHAWAR – While ambulances keep bringing bombings victims, hospitals in violence-ravaged Peshawar are being forced to treat people in hospital corridors and discharge them prematurely.
