Islamic research

As a charity bids to boost feminism among Muslim women,  Shelina Janmohamed asks why British female Muslims would want to join a feminist movement born in the West, which asks women of faith to leave their religion at the door. Everyone loves Malala Yousufzai, right? Fearless, inspiring and courageous, she is the …

A young Muslim girl has received the new Respectful Citizenship Award from the governor of Wolfville in eastern Canadian maritime province of Nova Scotia in recognition of her efforts in building interfaith relations and collecting charity for those in need. “She is kind, conscientious and mature beyond her years,” Angie …

Darren Aronofksy’s Noah could be banned across large swaths of the Middle East and parts of north Africa for contravening Islamic rules on the depiction of prophets,according to the Hollywood Reporter. The fantasy epic, which stars Russell Crowe as the biblical patriarch, has already been refused a licence by censors in Qatar, Bahrain and …

The head of the British Veterinary Association has said that religious slaughter methods need to change to prevent animal suffering. It is unfortunate that the BVA and other animal welfare organisations in the UK tend to view religious slaughter as incompatible with humaneness; quite the contrary is true – compassion and …

Raheem Kassam, the Managing Editor of the website “Breitbart London,” has been named “Islamophobe of the Year” after a public vote organised by the Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC). Kassam made his name with the “Student Rights” organisation which has lobbied British universities to keep “extremist preachers” off campus. He …

Facebook has blocked several pages and profiles from posting on the popular social networking site for 12 hours over posting pictures of Sayyid Hassan Nasrallah. Prominent Facebook pages ‘AhlulBayt Islamic Mission (AIM)’ with over 170,000 users and Iran’s news broadcaster ‘Press TV’ which celebrates over 1 million users, have been …

An old Kurdish saying goes: “When a cat wants to eat her kittens, she says they look like mice.” In 1962, on the eve of the American invasion of Vietnam, US propaganda movie “Red Nightmare” portrayed the peoples of the Communist Bloc as bellicose, duplicitous, semi-human fanatics. The Warner Brothers-produced …

Iran’s Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani has called for more solidarity among Muslim countries, expressing concern over woes in the Islamic world. In an address to the executive committee of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Member States in Tehran on Friday, Larijani said the meeting …

A delegation of the Syrian Arab Republic has arrived in Geneva to take part in the second round of talks in the context of the international conference dubbed ‘Geneva II.’ The delegation, headed by Syrian Deputy Prime Minister Faisal Mikdad and Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem, is to resume …

Presidential Political and Media Advisor Buthaina Shaaban said that the essential, big problem in the search for a political solution through Geneva track lies in the fact that “we don’t know whom representing those who came by the name of opposition, how many, and what is their relation to Syria.” …