Ayatollah Jafar Subhani, in a program commemorating one of his students, spoke about the importance of remembering those who have been a source of guidance for the Ummah. His eminence stated: “It is our duty to remember our scholars. Those that have been luminous like a torch and been a …

Asda seems to have scored an own goal with a “wearable England flag” launched for the World Cup that shoppers have compared to a Ku Klux Klan outfit. Yours for £3, the accessory has a large St George’s Cross with the world “England” and a triangular white hood. Members of …

Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the general who toppled Egypt’s first freely elected leader, took more than 90 percent of the vote in a presidential election marred by a dismal turnout, provisional results showed on Thursday, as he joined a long line of leaders drawn from the military. A low turnout figure …

Al-Akhbar editor-in-chief Ibrahim al-Amin appeared briefly before the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (STL) by video-link Thursday where he told the court he does not recognize its legitimacy and excused himself. “I reiterate today that I do not acknowledge the legitimacy of this tribunal. It was created by the United Nations Security …

In 2006, at the height of the hysteria over the face veil, the Guardian‘s Jonathan Freedland imagined what it must be like to be a Muslim in Britain. “I wouldn’t just feel frightened,” he wrote. “I would be looking for my passport.” On Sunday, as the European election results began to …

Indian police are hunting a gang of men responsible for raping and killing two teenage girls and then hanging them from a tree. The attack reportedly took place on Tuesday night, in the village of Karta in the Uttar Pradesh region, UK newspaper The Mirror reported. The girls, who are from the …

The UK Independence Party (UKIP) has been victorious in the European elections, marking their first national election win and pushing the Labour party and the Tories into a position of having to vie for second place — for the first time since 1906. Posing as quintessential nationalists, UKIP spokespersons have run …

The dietary laws that forbid Jews and Muslims from eating pork date back millennia—but when they were laid down, nobody conceived of detection tools that could find minuscule traces of the forbidden foods. Malaysia is the latest country to find itself with a tainted food scandal, after the government’s halal inspectors—who ensure that …

Toronto has emerged as an important locale where the plight of the Kashmiri people suffering decades of brutal Indian occupation has found a voice.In a ringing declaration, the International Solidarity Conference on Kashmir held in Toronto on May 24 called for an immediate end to the gross human rights violations …

Manama: The Governor of Makkah has ordered a probe in the case of a policeman leaning on the Kaaba with his shoes against the wall. Prince Mishal Bin Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz said that such an attitude could not be tolerated and called for disciplinary action against the policeman for …