- French authorities have shut down around 20 mosques and prayer halls considered to be preaching radicals since December, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on ...
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was returned to prison from hospital despite his health "getting worse," one of his lawyers said Wednesday.The 51-year-old, who had been pardoned for health reasons last year, was rearrested earlier this month as part of intensifying crackdown on government critics that has drawn protests from human rights groups.Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), was taken to ...
There is growing concern over Hassan al-Moallem’s wellbeing nearly one month after he was arbitrarily detained by Bahraini security forces in the Manama suburb of Juffair.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Activists are reporting that another Bahraini youth is being subjected to incommunicado detention.There is growing concern over Hassan al-Moallem’s wellbeing nearly one month after he was arbitrarily detained by Bahraini security forces ...
An official reported unidentified people on a motorbike, gunned down Advocate Shahid Abbas Shirazi near Wensam College in DI Khan. The incident triggered widespread protests.
AhlulBayt News Agency - The killing of a Shiite lawyer in Pakistan's DI Khan on first day of Eid al-Fitr sparked widespread protests.According to the police, the incident took place even though security had been tightened. This was the fifth such attack in the last few ...
A Shia Muslim community preacher has been stabbed to death in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila of Bangladesh. The so-called Islamic State insurgent has allegedly claimed responsibility of the killing.The victim was identified as Abdur Razzak, 48, son of Abul Hashem Khan in the upazila, local correspondent reports. He was also a homeopath doctor by profession.Locals said he was returning from his chamber around 9:30pm last night when ...
Black-clad mourners have taken to the streets across Iran to take part in the ceremonies of Tasu’a, the ninth day of the lunar month of Muharram.During the ceremonies, eulogies are recited and sermons delivered in honor of one of the sacred figures of Shia Islam and his 72 companions.Imam Hussein, the grandson of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and his companions were martyred in the Battle of Karbala, in southern Iraq, in 680 AD after fighting ...
[Precise observation and an ability to find new mathematical solutions to old problems were the two main strengths of Muslim scientists in the Middle Ages. Celestial mapping sprang from a religious concern: the need to establish correct coordinates of cities so that Muslims could determine the direction of Ka'bah - the qibla - towards which all Muslims face themselves in prayer five times a day. This need led to significant developments in ...
Multiple Identities and Muslim Responsibilities Moving into the main part of this lecture, I want to begin by highlighting some of the circumstances that require Muslims to be critical – self-critical – and to come with new answers. This is really essential. First, when you come to a continent, there are two things that you have to acknowledge as parts of the society you are living in. The first is the collective memory and the second is the ...
- Seyed Aftab Haider on 20 June 2016 delivered at a special program for the Birth of Imam Hassan ibn Ali (a.s) at the Ahlul Bait (a.s) Islamic Centre, Ottery for the night of 15 Ramadaan ...
Tackling Fear and Building Trust: Society’s Collective Responsibility We will now turn to the second part of this speech, which concerns the responsibilities of European countries. What I have previously been talking about would be easier if this was the only part of the process, that is, if the problems only had to be tackled from the Muslim side of things. But in Europe today, we are facing problems. The first one is fear. We are dealing ...
The High Criminal Court in Bahrain has sentenced two Bahraini nationals to 15 years in jail over allegations of damaging a police vehicle. The court on Wednesday issued the sentence in connection with an alleged bomb explosion in 2013 that damaged the vehicle. The new development comes as human rights organizations have cast doubt on the independence of the Bahraini courts and challenge the sentences issued against the political detainees as ...
“During the current situation of country, the government has distressed masses by showing hastiness with regard to Mumtaz Qadri’s punishment and has committed a great mistake by not giving a thought to religious parties’ recommendations.
Not fulfilling legal importunities is the incompetency of rulers, Namoos e Risalat is part of every Muslim’s faith. Why rulers are not taking any action against killers of thousands of ...
Arbaeen Procession held at Aligarh Muslim University in Aligarh city in Uttar Pradesh state, India 2015-1437Annual Arbaeen Procession 2015 Aligarh Muslim University Aligarh (U.P), India 3/December/2015The Arbaeen (40th Day) of Imam Hussain(a.s) and the Martyrs of Karbala was marked by mourning processions here in the Aligarh Muslim University at Aligarh. The university campus echoed with the chants of Labbaik ya Hussain ...
the Kuwaiti member of the Ahlul Bayt World Assembly was put to trial on charges of spreading false information and opposition to national unity act after a speech in Imam Hussain (A) mosque in Kuwait but was exonerated of all charges.
"Hujjat al-Islam Hussain al-Matough" had protested to the torture of the Shia suspects of the so-called "Abdoli Core" case in a speech in Imam Hussain (A) mosque near Howli square in Kuwait.
After his speech, he ...
In the letter to the Minister and Defence Chief, entitled: “Pictures & Video Clips Of How Nigerian Military Massacred 22 Unarmed IPOB Members & Dumped 13 of Them In Aba Borrow Pit: Why Security Chiefs Must Desist From Provoking More Insurgencies Capable Of Plunging Nigeria Into Syrian Style Violence”, the coalition said they had just visited the horrorful Borrow Pit where they saw the corpses of the massacred IPOB ...
Speaking at a session in Rahyaftegan (converts) Section of the 21st International Holy Quran Exhibition, Oscar, or Mostafa since his conversion, said he studied about Islam for three years before embracing the religion.Mostafa noted that he is the first El Salvadorian to become a Shia Muslim.“At first, I thought Muslims are all one group and sect but after coming across the word ‘Ahl-ul-Bayt (AS)’ in my studies and ...
A Muslim television reporter for a British news channel yesterday filed a complaint against a columnist for Rupert Murdoch's 'Sun' newspaper who singled her out for wearing hijab while reporting on the recent terror attack at Nice in France.
Fatima Manji, 'Channel 4 News' correspondent, was reporting on the Nice terrorist attack from the channel's London studio earlier this month when Kelvin MacKenzie questioned in his column whether the Muslim ...
