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EL CAJON, Calif. (AP) — An Iraqi immigrant was convicted Thursday of bludgeoning his wife to death in a case that initially was considered a hate crime because a note found next to her body said: “This is my country, go back to yours, you terrorist.” Kassim Alhimidi, 49, shook his …

Hujjat al-Islam Shaikh Kadhim Siddiqi, the temporary Friday prayer leader in Tehran, congratulated the congregation on the birthday of Lady Fatima Al-Zahra (s) and presented a few important points to learn from her blessed life. Stressing the important of the status of women in Islam, his eminence highlighted the status …

UK citizens make up the largest proportion of foreign mercenaries in Syria, according to a new report published by the International Centre for the Study of Radicalization. The ICSR stated that 17.9% of gunmen in Syria were from the UK, based on their database of fighters identified from their social …

Written by Zainab Rahim, joint Editor-in-Chief of The Platform.   If Aronofsky’s Noah met the Qur’anic Noah they probably wouldn’t recognise each other  WARNING: Contains Spoilers Mass human outrage is no stranger to our 21st-the-pope’s-on-Twitter-and-Russell-Crowe-is-irritating-him century. And there’s no better way to earn your Hollywood director stamp of approval than by interpreting …

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. …