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Best Woman Preacher Unveiled 25-year-old Amie Sofia Ahmad was triumphant at a recent competition organized by an Islamic TV station in Malaysia. Amid much fanfare on a stage that could have easily been mistaken as that for a singing contest, the Egyptian-trained graduate of Quran studies was declared the winner of a televised reality TV show and [...] Jesus In The Quran So it’s Christmas time again. But what has Muslims got to do with Christmas? For one, Christmas is certainly not the day of the birth of Jesus – that much even Christians agree. But if Christmas is about Jesus Christ, then the Quran has plenty to say about this. Muslims’ View About Jesus Ayman Oweida, [...] Asghar Ali Engineer Asghar Ali Engineer, aged 72, is an Engineer by name and a civil engineer by training who worked as a sanitation engineer for 20 years. His reputation, though, is as an Islamic modernizer and an advocate of communal harmony and sex equality. His autobiography, “A Living Faith: My Quest for Peace, Harmony And Social [...] Grand Mufti Asked To Issue Fatwa Against Farooq Abdullah On August 25 this year, just days before the ending of the holy month of Ramadan, Union Minister Dr Farooq Abdullah made a speech in Ahmedabad in the presence of Narendra Modi, Chief Minister of Gujarat. But exactly what he said is now being disputed. Angry hardline Muslims [...] Consequences The Quran (Koran) is the Holy Book of Islam. Why then do some people continue to mishandle/insult it. The deliberate mishandling the Quran through acts of disrespect can bring about undesired consequences. Muslims feel insulted and frequently retaliations of sort will result. Just recently, I read of 2 such cases, one in Saudi Arabia and the other [...] More Quran Burning While the world is still reeling from the tragic deaths of innocent UN personnel in Afghanistan following the senseless burning of a copy of the Holy Quran in Florida, USA supervised by Pastor Terry Jones, now there are copycat burning of the Quran reported in Iran and Britain. The Iranian Case A 7½ minute video clip is [...] ”You Burn Quran You Burn In Hell” September 11 this year is the ninth anniversary of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center Towers in New York City and on the Pentagon. At a time when tension is running high over the controversial plan to build a mosque near Ground Zero, along came the Dove World Outreach Center’s [...] Of “Beggers” And Damsels In “Distress” Isn’t it sad that during the holy month of Ramadan there are those who seek to exploit the generosity of Muslims by engaging in the phony act of begging to enrich themselves? And now this act of begging has taken on a new cover - that of a damsel in “distress” in [...] Temporary Halt To Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Execution? The international outrage over the imminent stoning of Iranian Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old woman convicted of adultery, appeared to have caused a temporary halt of her execution. However, a judiciary official in Iran surprised many by saying that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani had also been convicted of murder. New Twist To [...] |
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