The senior Iraqi Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, denied political leanings towards any specific candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Arab country, spokesman for the Sadr bloc has said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sheikh Salah al-Ubaidi, the spokesperson for al-Sadr political movement, …

An Iranian mother spared the life of her son’s convicted murderer with an emotional slap in the face as he awaited execution with the noose around his neck, a newspaper reported Thursday. The dramatic climax followed a rare public campaign to save the life of Balal, who at 19 killed …

Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face detention and harassment in the UK and overseas. They have made …

Written by Haseeb Rizvi I woke up this morning to find all my social media news-feeds plastered with a YouTube video entitled Happy British Muslims. In short, its a video of a diverse range of British Muslims miming and dancing to a song by artist Pharell’s song ‘Happy’. The objective …

Ayatollah Jawadi Amoli, in a part of his class on the commentary of the Quran in Masjid al-A’adham, spoke about the contradiction to the approach of gaining knowledge in the methods of the west and others who believe religion and knowledge do not go hand in hand. The highly respected …

Dear Hamza, How difficult and painful the task at hand is. It is more difficult than all the exams you had to sit at the Faculty of Media Studies. It is more difficult than the graduate school classes you used to complain about, and its dreary coursework and compulsory attendance. …

Dr. Hassen Al-Sader, Director of Al-Shaheed Al-Sadr Office in London Everywhere around the Muslim nation, especially in the Middle East, and probably starting from Iraq: sectarianism has been eating its way through the nation. Shedding blood, increasing tension, fragmenting society and even breaking the family unit, sectarianism has done a big …

A former EDL member who stormed a mosque in Essex in a revenge attack for the murder of British soldier, Lee Rigby in Woolwich says he’s sorry. Geoff Ryan, 44, embraced the Imam of Braintree Mosque and said: “I’m sorry.” Last year Mr Ryan entered Al Falah Centre armed with …

Al-Manar television crew came under gunfire Monday during its coverage of the Syrian army’s recapture of the Christian town of Maalula from the terrorist hands, which resulted in the martyrdom of the reporter Hamza al-Hajj Hassan along with a cameraman and a technician. Al-Manar said 27-year-old Hajj Hassan and his …

The first Saudi lady joined the “ID Revolution” in which a number of Saudi citizens posted separately posts in YouTube attacking the regime. The following is a translation of the clip posted on Youtube by a lady calling herself Ali’niziyah (From the tribe of ‘): In the name of God. …