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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...
Young Muslims in US Seek Homegrown Imams
April 16, 2010 Vidushi Sinha | Washington The Muslim population in the United States is growing, and so is its need for spiritual guidance. A new generation American Muslims is demanding more from local mosques than they can always provide. “It’s not what you see on television or it’s not what people are talking about or a dress code or whatever. It’s about being good to your fellow man, about being good to your God. That’s all it is. That’s what it is,” said Adeel Zeb, an aspiring imam and a Muslim chaplain at American University in Washington. He reaches out to young Muslims with what he calls the real message of Islam. Zeb says there is often...
Muslim Environmentalists Push for Green Hajj
April 13, 2010 Brian Padden | Jakarta With a population of 1.4 billion and control of the world’s largest oil reserves, Muslim communities can play a crucial role in protecting the environment. There is a new effort to organize an international green movement within the Islamic community. An environmental movement is emerging within the Islamic world. Devout Muslims say there is no contradiction between their faith and environmental protection, and, they say, global warming does not discriminate by region or religion. Environmental activist Mahmoud Akef with the Earth Mates Dialogue Center was among about 200 Muslim delegates from around the world at a recent environmental conference in Jakarta. “Because we are all living on this Earth and what...
Muslim Society Organizes Clothing and Food Donations
By Jamie Komarnicki published 2 years ago Original Article Source: Calgary Herald Photo: Volunteers Hiba Fadol (left) and Souad Abdelrehim were on hand to help with the Muslim Families Network Society’s city-wide food and clothes distribution on April 11, 2010 at the Falconridge community centre. Photograph by: Lorraine Hjalte, Calgary Herald Four years ago, Hanan and Mohamed left their homeland, Sudan, eager to begin a new life in Calgary. Mohamed, a trained nurse, soon got a job working in a private home, and the couple happily settled in to raise their young family. But two years ago when the economy took a turn for the worse, like many other Calgarians, Mohamed lost his job. Since then, he hasn’t...
Muslim Students Bring Food, Conversation to Florida Homeless
March 29, 2010 Imran Siddiqui | Tampa In the southern U.S. state of Florida, a group of American Muslim students is running a non-profit organization called Project Downtown. The project’s goal is to help the poor, poor people of all backgrounds and cultures. Our correspondent went down to the city of Tampa, Florida to learn more about Project Downtown and the Muslim students who belong to it. Like just about any major city in the United States, the city of Tampa has its share of homeless people. But it also has people who are reaching out to help Tampa’s homeless. “We are here because, in Islam, we are supposed to feed the hungry,” said one of the students....
Muslim Chaplain Delivers Prayer for US House of Representatives
March 03, 2010 A Muslim chaplain has delivered the opening prayer for the U.S. House of Representatives, an honor few Muslim clergy get. Abdullah Antepli of Duke University in North Carolina served as a guest chaplain Wednesday, at the invitation of Representative David Price, a North Carolina Democrat. He prayed for God to guide members of Congress and enable them to serve citizens of the country and all humanity, regardless of gender, ethnicity or religion. Duke University says Antepli, who was born in Turkey, is only one of a few full-time Muslim chaplains at U.S. colleges and universities. It says his work focuses on religious leadership for Duke’s Muslim community, pastoral care and counseling for people of any...
Islamic and Black US Communities Remember Malcolm X
February 25, 2010 Nico Colombant | Chicago One of the foremost, if controversial, figures of the civil rights movement in the United States was Malcolm X. He, himself, rejected the term civil rights, preferring to call it a fight for human rights. Islamic and black communities in Chicago recently held events to remember his life, which they said was marked by transformation. Once a controversial figure, Malcolm X, assassinated 45 years ago, is now considered an icon in the struggle for black equality. He was a leader of the black power movement and refused to renounce the use of violence by blacks in their own self defense. Malcolm X became prominent in Chicago which boasts the only US college...
1001 Muslim Innovations, Ancient Knowledge Passed Through the Ages
Sonja Pace | London February 16, 2010 Many Muslim scientists like Ibn Sina (Avicenna), al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, known in the West as Alhazen, and Muḥammad ibn Musa al-Khwarizmi (Algorithmi), made great contributions that shaped the modern world. In the 9th century, Muslim inventor Abbas ibn Firnas was the first to design and test a flying machine, hundreds of years before da Vinci drew plans of his own. Hospitals as we know them today believed to have come from 9th century Egypt. A replica of the first person said to have flown with wings is displayed at the science museum in central London on January 21, 2010. The debt owed by European scholars to their Muslim counterparts on everything...
World History Looks Different When Seen Through Islamic Eyes
February 05, 2010 Judith Latham Afghan-American writer, lecturer, and teacher Tamim Ansary is man ideally placed to help Westerners see the history of our world through another set of eyes. Growing up in Afghanistan as a young history buff, Ansary had an opportunity to read and learn about the world from dual perspectives. A decade ago, when he was working as a textbook editor, a publisher in Texas hired him to develop a new world history textbook for high school students. “What that meant was that I had to select and arrange the most consequentialevents to reveal the arc of history, not a chronological list of every damn thing that ever happened,” Ansary said. What emerged was a narrative...
Dedicated Pediatrician To Lead Muslim Doctors’ New Free Clinic
Caring for the poor Dedicated pediatrician to lead Muslim doctors’ new free clinic By Meredith Heagney The Columbus Dispatch Friday January 15, 2010 5:50 AM Dr. Malika Haque grew up in a life of privilege. She lived in a mansion in India. She enjoyed the benefits of chauffeurs, cooks, butlers and a gardener. She didn’t have to do her own laundry. She excelled in academics and finished at the top of her class at Madras Medical College in 1967. At her graduation, her father presented her with a diamond ring and a message. He told her that just as the rich get whatever material goods they want, they also get the best health care. “I would like you...
NY Rabbi Brings Style to Interfaith Activism
December 10, 2009 Adam Phillips | New York Influential New York rabbi hosts a weekly talk show on an American Muslim TV network to encourage religious inclusiveness, tolerance Rabbi Brad Hirschfield is president of CLAL, a New York-based non-profit organization dedicated to the promotion of Jewish knowledge and religious tolerance around the world. Hirschfield is also author of You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to be Right and the host of a popular interfaith program on a leading Muslim television network. From the modern art on his walls to the traditional Talmudic texts stacked on the shelves, the décor of CLAL’s midtown offices reflects Rabbi Brad Hirschfield’s eclectic style and his unique mission. Dressed in a dark, conservative suit,...
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