The Olympics in Rio may have started off with fears of a terror attack, but these were soon replaced by talk of the proficiency of Muslim athletes who are breaking stereotypes.Although many Muslim athletes from around the world competed in the Games, here we highlight the stories of four exceptional Muslim Olympians. Britain’s Mo Farah overcame the shock of a mid-race fall on Saturday to take a second straight Olympic 10,000m title and ...
The Government of Pakistan has strongly condemned today’s terrorist attacks on Iranian Parliament and mausoleum of Imam Khomeini in which, reportedly, precious lives of innocent people have been lost. We stand in solidarity with the people of Iran in their hour of grief," reads the statement by Pakistan Foreign Ministry. The message continues "we offer our deep condolences to the people of Iran, the Government, and the bereaved families ...
Prominent Bahraini human rights activist Nabeel Rajab was returned to prison from hospital despite his health "getting worse," one of his lawyers said Wednesday.The 51-year-old, who had been pardoned for health reasons last year, was rearrested earlier this month as part of intensifying crackdown on government critics that has drawn protests from human rights groups.Rajab, who heads the Bahrain Centre for Human Rights (BCHR), was taken to ...
Muslim lands and Muslim communities are in a state of violent and intense political transformations across the Muslim heartland. States are destabilized, national identities are being deconstructed, sectarian and ideological fault lines are getting exacerbated and radicalism, extremism and state oppression is escalating. In this ocean of despair, one finds the Indian Muslim community, an island of calm moderation. Its not a small island either, ...
ETALING JAYA, Malaysia (AhlulBayt News Agency) - Shia Muslims in Malaysia should be allowed to freely practise their religion not only based on the Federal Constitution, but also to fulfil an international declaration signed in 2004 by Malaysian leaders, including former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, says the moderate group G25.“The Amman message is an expression of the spirit of religious pluralism that defines the understanding ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Dozens of religious leaders boarded a bus on the Champs Elysees in Paris on Saturday to kick off a European tour of the sites of recent terrorist attacks to remember the victims and condemn violence.
Tour stops will include Berlin -- where organizers say they hope to meet Chancellor Angela Merkel -- Brussels and Nice, with a return to Paris for July 14, the first anniversary of the Nice truck attack. ISIS claimed ...
An Italian young man converted to Islam at the Razavi Holy Shrine and on the eve of holy month of Ramadan.After years of research on Islam and getting familiar with Qur'an, Alessandro Juliani completed his understanding of this holy book and converted to Islam.This Italian young man chose Muhammad as his new name. Regarding his conversion into Islam, he said, “I had heard about Islam a lot and all these hearings persuaded me to learn more. ...
Custodian of Astan Quds Razavi in a meeting with the Custodian of the Holy Shrine of Hazrat Masumeh (S.A.) stressed the need for further interaction between the Holy and Honorable Shrines to facilitate the pilgrimage and develop the cultural and promotional ...
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Members of Islamic Movement of Nigeria who arrested during 1437 Arabeen Symbolic Trek from Kano were released on bail by a Court in Kano after spending months in Prison.
They were release on Wednesday the 7th of April 2017. Among those released are 20 males and 10 females including minors.It could be recalled that well armed police men in tens of trucks on Monday the 14th Safar, 1438 (14/11/2016), opened fire on the ...
( The Moroccan convert Fatima Mubarak visits the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) for the first time. Her visit corresponded to Al-Arbaeen pilgrimage.In a statement to the Media Center of the Holy Shrine of Imam Ali (PBUH) she said, “Al-Arbaeen Pilgrimage brings the hearts’ of Muslims together and unites the multitude of millions of visitors from different countries.”“I came to Najaf for the first time in my life and ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Speaking at the Third International Conference on Wilayah [Guardianship] in Ahvaz, Dr. Muhammad al-Tijani al-Samawi, a renowned Tunisian Shi’a scholar, said this conference is a good opportunity for scholars from various Islamic countries to participate in the strengthening of solidary among Muslims.
Speaking on the eve of Eid al-Ghadir, a Shi’a Islamic holy day which celebrates the divine ...
Christians and Muslims in Nigeria have opened a historic interfaith peace center in Kaduna state, where more than 20,000 have been killed in religious conflicts in the last 30 years.On Aug. 19, Nigerian Christians and Muslims gathered together for the opening of the International Center for Interfaith Peace and Harmony (ICIPH) in Kaduna. The center, which is only one of the interfaith initiatives being launched in the country, aims to document ...
The Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center in Stockholm, Sweden, will host a program on Tuesday in which the Arafah Supplication is recited.
AhlulBayt News Agency (ABNA): The Imam Ali (AS) Islamic Center in Stockholm, Sweden, will host a program on Tuesday in which the Arafah Supplication is recited. According to the center’s website, the program will begin at 5 PM at the center’s Mosalla (prayer hall). It will include recitation of verses from ...
Anti-Muslim hate crimes shot up 67 percent in 2015, compared with the year before, according to the bureau’s Hate Crime Statistics report issued on Monday. At least 257 of hate crime incidents against Muslims took place in 2015 while 154 happened in 2014.“That is the highest number since 2001, when the al-Qaeda attacks on New York and elsewhere drove the number to its highest ever level, 481 hate crimes,” said Mark Potok with ...
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has declared when the sovereign state of Biafra is finally actualized, it will reject application to be a member of the Organisation of Islamic Countries, (OIC), and other relevant Islamic bodies but it will welcome the Shiite and Islamic Movement of Nigeria.The group made this statement on Saturday via its spokespersons Emma Nmezu and Dr Clifford Chukwuemeka Iroanya, adding that the Biafra ...
Nigeria’s Nollywood famous actress, Lola Alao, has reverted to Islam and changed her name to Rhodiat, joining the fastest growing religion in the world.
“Glory be to Allah. Join me in congratulating Lola Alao (a popular Nollywood actress). She just took the Kalimatu Shaa’dah from me, and chose the name Rhodiat,” Adepoju Yusuf, who claims to be her teacher, wrote on Facebook on Wednesday, July 20.
“May Allah give her ...
A Russian Christian woman has embraced Islam in the office of representative of supreme leader.
A Russian lady who was the follower of Christianity has embraced Islam and Shia school of thought on January 24th, 2015 in the office of Ayatollah Tabrasi, the representative of supreme leader in Sari, Mazandaran.
It is to be remembered that the Russian lady was inspired from Islam. She went to the office of representative of supreme leader in Sari ...
Mohammad al-Tijani al-Samawi was a Tunisian student who, upon making Hajj, was influenced by orthodox Saudi teachings, against saint veneration and tomb visitation, which were central to the North African Sufi tradition.
A few years later, al-Samawi was in Egypt on an Islamic tour of the Middle East and ran into an Iraqi student, Mun'im, who invited him to Iraq to see shia Islam with his own eyes, and forget what he had heard of them through ...
