Caught between a world of enjoyment and acceptance and a world of truth and reality, I found myself booking a flight to Italy. I had to get away from it all. I was a bar tender in a popular Italian cafe and spent my weekends singing shows with my band. On the outside I was your typical Italian girl, just trying to have a good time, but on the inside, I was dying. I couldn’t live this life any longer.I couldn’t just serve drinks all ...
Three and a half years ago, when Nassrene Elmadhun was 8-1/2 months pregnant with her first child, she never dreamed she would ever go out without wearing hijab.Since her early teens in Colorado, Dr. Elmadhun has worn a headscarf, both as an expression of her traditional Muslim faith and her commitment to its requirements for public modesty. She wore it throughout her years as a doctor in Boston, where she became the chief surgical resident at ...
A new report by the British parliament has warned that Muslim women are the most economically disadvantaged group in British society, adding that they are three times more likely to be unemployed and looking for a job than women ...
A Muslim teacher who replaced her head-scarf with a beret pulled down over her ears has been fired from school.The teacher, who tried to preserve her religious values and at the same time follow Germany’s social norms lost a lawsuit Friday against a German state which banned religious head-dress from public schools; IRNA reported.Presiding judge Heike Menche of a labour tribunal in the western city of Dusseldorf upheld a pre-dismissal ...
By: Allamah Sayyid Sa'eed Akhtar Rizvi Tomorrow all nations will be observing Labour Day, to remind them-selves that a laborer deserves to be respected because he earns his bread by his sweat. The example set by the religious leaders of Islam have established the dignity of labor beyond any doubt. Holy Prophet (S.A.) himself worked for Khadija for years. When the Prophet’s mosque at Madina was being built, the Holy Prophet participated fully ...
This picture taken on November 30, 2012, shows a village where houses belong to Muslim Shiites had been burnt down during a clash, at Bluuran village in Sampang. (AFP Photo/Adek Berry)
(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Sampang’s persecuted Shiite Muslim minority, fearful of another round of forced conversions by Sunni Muslims, called on President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono to ensure their religious freedom after a forum meant to negotiate the ...
A Pro-Democracy Group in Nigeria, ‘Concerned Nigerians’ has condemned the black history award given to President Muhammadu Buhari by Martin Luther King Jrn’s family yesterday in Abuja.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A Pro-Democracy Group in Nigeria, ‘Concerned Nigerians’ has condemned the black history award given to President Muhammadu Buhari by Martin Luther King Jrn’s family yesterday in Abuja.In a statement ...
Seven people martyred including one civilian, and two other civilians were injured in terrorist attacks with sniper and macinegun fire on the terrorist-besieged Shiite towns of al-Fouaa and Kefraya in northern countryside of Idleb.(AhlulBayt News Agency) - Seven people martyred including one civilian, and two other civilians were injured in terrorist attacks with sniper and macinegun fire on the besieged Shiite towns of al-Fouaa and Kefraya in ...
A final verdict in the case against Bahraini female detainee Najah Al-Sheikh is expected on June 25.
(AhlulBayt News Agency) - A final verdict in the case against Bahraini female detainee Najah Al-Sheikh is expected on June 25.Al-Sheikh appeared in court on Monday where her request to be released from detention and placed under house arrest was denied.Rights campaigners classify Al-Sheikh among a handful of Bahraini women that were arbitrarily ...
On Tuesday, Bahrain's Fourth High Criminal Court, presided by Ali Khalifah al-Dhahrani, delivered the death verdicts to Sayed Ahmed Fouad al-Abar and Hussein Ali Mahdi, sentenced two other defendants to life imprisonment and passed prison sentences ranging from 3 to 10 years to eight others, Arabic-language Bahrain Mirror news website reported. The court also revoked the nationality of nine of the convicts, and ordered them to pay 28, 716 ...
The mosque in the Greek capital will be located at a former naval base in the downtown neighborhood of Votanikos, Kathimerini reported last Thursday. Parliament last August passed a bill greenlighting the mosque – the first since the 19th century – but an occupation of the premises by self-proclaimed Greek “patriots” stalled its construction. As the occupiers told Anadolu Agency at the time, they opposed the ...
A Shia Muslim community preacher has been stabbed to death in Jhenidah’s Kaliganj upazila of Bangladesh. The so-called Islamic State insurgent has allegedly claimed responsibility of the killing.The victim was identified as Abdur Razzak, 48, son of Abul Hashem Khan in the upazila, local correspondent reports. He was also a homeopath doctor by profession.Locals said he was returning from his chamber around 9:30pm last night when ...
Birth and Childhood Brother Wariton Karbasi was born in the French town of Fontanblo that is fifty kilometres away from the French Capital Paris. In 1951 he left France to continue his studies in Britain in the field of electronic engineering after which he returned to Paris.In 1956, Wariton Karbasi attained a contract with an airline for work in Mehrabaad Airport in Tehran, Iran. After a while he returned to live in Iran. He then spent ...
Tackling Fear and Building Trust: Society’s Collective Responsibility We will now turn to the second part of this speech, which concerns the responsibilities of European countries. What I have previously been talking about would be easier if this was the only part of the process, that is, if the problems only had to be tackled from the Muslim side of things. But in Europe today, we are facing problems. The first one is fear. We are dealing ...
Kuwait said it arrested a Filipina it accused of joining the ISIS group through its affiliate in Libya and who planned to launch an attack.
Security forces monitoring the woman’s email found messages by the woman to the ISIS group’s Libyan affiliate, pledging allegiance to the group. “She confessed she was ready to carry out any terrorist attack once circumstances and means were ripe in order to undermine security ...
Some of Shia boys has organized 4th Annual Combine Iftar and Namaz (Shia-Sunni) in Badshahi Mosque Lahore on 27th May,(Sunday) 2018.
LAHORE, Pakistan (AhlulBayt News Agency) - Some of Shia boys has organized 4th Annual Combine Iftar and Namaz (Shia-Sunni) in Badshahi Mosque Lahore on 27th May,(Sunday) 2018.It is the 4th consecutive year that the event organized.The event is dedicated to holy Prophet Muhammad’s grandson Imam Hasan Mujtaba ...
An Italian young man converted to Islam at the Imam Ridha Holy Shrine (8th Shia Imam) and on the eve of holy month of Ramadan 2016.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 choose Muhhammad as his new name. Regarding his conversion into Islam, he said, “I had heard about Islam a lot and all these ...
