Bahraini Medic Ibrahim Al-Demistani Released after Serving a Three-Year Sentence

The Bahraini authorities released the Secretary-General of the Bahraini Nursing Society, Ibrahim Al-Demistani, on Tuesday (April 28, 2015), after serving a three-year jail sentence Ahlul Bayt News Agency - The Bahraini authorities released the Secretary-General of the Bahraini Nursing Society, Ibrahim Al-Demistani, on Tuesday (April 28, 2015), after serving a three-year jail sentence over charges of treating injured protesters during the ...

( 2023-05-15 19:57:37 )

Report: Rise, Fall in Number of ISIS Terrorists in Iraq

- One of the backbones of ISIS' capability for cellular proliferation in its hotbeds Syria and Iraq is its manpower. At the same time, the easiest argument about its stable stay in its geography is based on the fact of its enjoying social reception among the people of the cities it is holding. Meanwhile, the international forces that join the terrorist group in Syria and Iraq with the aim of contribution to establishment of the Islamic caliphate ...

( 2023-05-15 17:46:21 )

IOM says 62,000 migrants arrived in Greece in January

The International Organization for Migration says the total number of the asylum seekers entering Greece on their journey to more prosperous countries in Europe topped 62,000 in January. “(It) is many, many times what we saw a year ago in the previous January,” IOM spokesman Joel Millman said on Tuesday, adding that there were more than 360 deaths among the refugees in the waters off Greece, Turkey and Italy during the month. ...

( 2023-05-14 19:00:33 )

Muslims must ‘participate’ in U.S. democracy

Most recently, Texan participants at the Muslim Day event in Washington, D.C., were denied a meeting with presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz despite their repeated efforts and despite the fact he represents them in Congress. The hateful rhetoric is hurtful. It generates a sense of disconnect among the roughly 10,000 to 15,000 Muslims residing in Oklahoma, largely due to a false notion of their religious ideology being ...

( 2023-05-13 19:44:30 )

Philippine college bans Muslim students from wearing hijab

The ban was ordered at the Pilar College in the mixed Muslim-Christian port city of Zamboanga. Head of the National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) Mehol Sadain, along with local politician, have asked the college to reconsider its decision.In an open letter to Pilar College Sadain wrote: “I am writing, not to argue, but to enlighten; and not to object, but to appeal for your kind reconsideration and compromise, in behalf of the ...

( 2023-05-13 00:46:26 )

Ramadan in Palestine

August 1 marked the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan for Muslims around the world. In Palestine, this month of Ramadan happens in particular conditions.The month of Ramadan is one of the Five Pillars of Islam; one of the five fundamental religious obligations for Muslims along with the sincere faith in God, the five daily prayers, alms and the Pilgrimage to Mecca.During Ramadan, one cannot eat or drink and has to stay away from all ...

( 2023-05-12 20:28:01 )

Prayer of Lady Fatima (SA)

Qutb e Rawandi narrates from Imam Zain ul Abideen (AS) regarding the day of Aashura and the last moments of Imam Hussein (AS) as: My Father (PBUH) on the day of his martyrdom hugged me as the blood was flowing from his body and said: احفظ عنّي دعاء علَّمتنيه فاطمة صلوات الله عليها و علّمها رسول الله صلّي الله عليه و آله و علّمه جبرئيل في الحاجة و ...

( 2023-05-12 14:04:00 )

Iran: 500 Quran Recitation Sessions Planned for Ramadan

500 Quran recitation sessions are planned to be held across the country during the holy month of Ramadan, a Quranic official said.Vali Yarahmadi, head of the Quranic Affairs Center of the Awqaf and Charity Affairs Organization, said a number of Egyptian Qaris will take part in some of these Quranic programs.Speaking to reporters on Sunday, he added that 9 Egyptian reciters have been invited to Iran and that they will take part in Quranic ...

( 2023-05-12 12:01:53 )

'I'd go tomorrow': Islamic extremist Anjem Choudary wants to leave UK and move to war torn Middle East

Notorious Islamist preacher Anjem Choudary claims he wants to leave Britain for good - and move to the Islamic State, writes Patrick Hill in the Sunday People. Benefits dad Choudary, who revealed his kids are being privately educated, claims he'd jump at the chance to go and live under Sharia Law in Syria or Iraq. "I'd go tomorrow. I'd love to bring my children up there," he told us - just days before last night's successful pounding by US-led ...

( 2023-05-12 07:53:16 )

“Unemployed youth, mostly Muslims, being roped in by IS in Bengal border” says Indian official

Unemployed youth, preferably from Muslim community, are being roped in by handlers of terror groups like Islamic State and Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) to expand their networks in border districts of West Bengal. JMB has been targeting unemployed youth and ISIS too could be following its tactics. The recent arrest of 25-year-old Mohammed Musiruddin has exposed the presence of the terror group in the state, particularly in the districts ...

( 2023-05-09 11:49:52 )

Grand Ayatollah Sobhani: We must accept those who are not aware of the Islam of Imam Ali

Ayatollah Sobhani said: "we must also prepare ourselves to accept those who are not aware of the Islam of Imam ‘Ali (A) so that we can teach them about the theology and prophetic traditions of true Islam" Grand Ayatollah Sobhani: We must accept those who are not aware of the Islam of Imam Ali (Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - “If the world knew that today what the prevalent conditions in the world were, it should reflect ...

( 2023-05-09 10:48:38 )

ISIS spend $25m to recruit 'Elvis Costello'; Promise eternal rewards in heaven if songwriter martyrs himself for glory of Allah

With each passing day, ISIS reaches new heights of ruthlessness and brutality, and the terrorist group’s most recent campaign might be its most devastating yet. According to the CIA, ISIS has invested over $25 million attempting to recruit Elvis Costello.This is absolutely horrifying.Over the past 18 months, the so-called Islamic State has attempted to secure Costello’s undying allegiance through a sustained targeted recruitment ...

( 2023-05-09 10:48:37 )

Annual Ramadan feast in Irvine is a blending of the faiths

Imam Atef Mahgoub said there’s a reason God didn’t create humans to look and think the same way. “God created people differently to test you, how they put up with one another,” Mahgoub, the religious director at the Islamic Center of Irvine, said. “And the winner is the one who opens up to everybody and gets to know everyone.” Mahgoub talked about verses in the Quran addressing the beauty of diversity, a meal ...

( 2023-05-09 07:45:17 )

Amnesty urges release of senior opposition cleric 'Sheikh Ali Salman'

Amnesty International has called on Bahraini authorities to release “immediately and unconditionally” the prominent Shia cleric and opposition leader, Sheikh Ali Salman.In a statement released on Monday, Amnesty described Salman as "a prisoner of conscience detained solely for peacefully expressing his views.”The detention and trial of Salman is “a blatant violation of his right to freedom of expression,” the rights ...

( 2023-05-09 03:31:13 )

Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan turns to Islam

Famous American actress Lindsay Lohan has reportedly turned to Islam after she was photographed carrying a copy of the Qur'an on her first day of community service in Brooklyn, New York on Wednesday, according to media reports. The Hollywood actress was completing the first day of her court-ordered community service at a Brooklyn children’s centre, when she was pictured carrying a hard copy of the Muslim holy book. The actress who is of ...

( 2023-05-08 16:06:29 )

Thousands hold Hunger Strike in major cities of Pakistan against Shia-Genocide / Photos

The activists of Majlis-e-Wahadat-ul-Muslameen (biggest Shia political-religious party in Pakistan) staged a countrywide Hunger Strikes in the major cities of Pakistan in solidarity with the Days long Hunger Strike of MWM Pakistan Secretary General Allama Raja Nasir Abbas at Islamabad against recent spate of Shia-Genocide in Pakistan and against the plot to divide Pakistan on sectarian grounds.The Hunger Strikes of Majlis-e-Wahadat-ul-Muslameen ...

( 2023-05-08 10:55:14 )

Second International Conference of "Imamat" to be held in Germany

In the holy month of Rajab and between the happy and auspicious occasion the birth of Imam Ali ibn Abi Talib (a.s) and of Idd al-Ma'bath (the appointment of Holy Prophet Muhammad (s.a.w.w) to the divine prophetic mission) the second international conference of “Imamat” to be held in Germany. This conference, attended by Muslim scholars and lovers of Ahlul Bayt (a.s) from all over the Europe on Sunday June 10, 2012 (19 Rajab 1433) from 12:00 ...

( 2023-05-08 09:55:10 )

Malaysia prints braille Koran for Muslims

Malaysia's Muslim Association of Visually Impaired People is printing braille version of the Koran, with each copy taking four hours to print. As the fourth week of the holy month of Ramadan approaches, copies of the Koran printed in braille mean that blind Muslims in Malaysia don't have to lose out on reading their holy book. Printed by the Malaysia Muslim Association of Visually Impaired People (PERTIM), the braille books are printed off at ...

( 2023-05-08 04:41:08 )

Italian police arrest 10 people for planning to join ISIS

talian security forces say they have detained 10 people accused of planning to go to crisis-hit Syria to fight for terrorist groups. The suspects were arrested in the Italian cities of Milan, Bergamo and Grosseto and in an unnamed Albanian city, Milan police officials said on Wednesday. According to Italian officials, a few dozen residents of the country are fighting within the ranks of the Takfiri ISIL terrorist group in Iraq and Syria. Last ...

( 2023-05-08 01:35:09 )

Professor Hussein Ansarian: After death, the doctor

The lord of says: when the Pharaoh said: "I believe in you", I said to him: have you now believed that I am the lord? This belief you have now is like after death, the doctor and is of no advantage. I recommend you the youth, do not let it be so late, after the dying, the intellect, the nature and the faith is of no benefit, because they all have been expired.

( 2023-05-08 01:34:48 )