I expect the people of my country to accept me with the individual identity that I have, and that’s where I am wrong again. ‘Hijab’ refers to the head cover that Muslim women wear when they’re outside.
In the first few months, there were times when I thought whether I made an impulsive decision. But somehow, I knew it was the right thing to do as I started to feel comfortable in it. My family did not take my ...
The Russia's Council of Muftis has expressed its protest against an Orenburg court ruling with respect to Islamic books."On March 26, 2012, Judge A.V. Nuzhdin at the Leninsky District Court in Orenburg granted a prosecutor's request to ban 65 book titles of theological and historical content from all Russian Islamic publishing houses," the Mufties Council said in a statement.A copy of the ruling effective as of April 2012 was produced to book ...
Leader of the Hamburg Islamic Center Ayatollah Reza Ramezani underlined that the Muslim community in Europe have given a wide welcome to the Iranian Supreme Leader's message to the European youth.
"Based on field information, your kind letter to the European and North American youth has received a massive welcome by the Muslims of the region," Ramezani said in a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei on Saturday.
He expressed the hope that the young ...
On Sunday, al-Hashd al-Sha’bi leader Jabbar al-Maamouri announced the killing of the so-called ISIS executioner, along with one of his companions, during an incursion into the district of Sharqat north of Salahuddin. Maamouri said in a statement obtained that “A special force from al-Hashd al-Shaabi penetrated Sharqat District through secret paths and succeeded in killing a man known as Abu Eman, who is also called the ISIS ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - KARACHI: Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) Zulfiqar Zaidi was gunned down along with his friend in Shah Faisal colony area after takfiri terrorists of the so-called Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) opened fire in Karachi city of Pakistan on Saturday evening.Witnesses and police officials said that the incident occurred when DSP was having dinner at a restaurant along with his friend Shahzad when at least two armed men ...
In a statement on Tuesday, Al-Wefaq said that the ruling against Sayed Jameel Kazem is vengeful and politically-motivated.
A Bahraini court has handed down a six-month imprisonment term to Kazem over posting a tweet criticizing the elections in the kingdom in November 2014.
Al-Wefaq said in its statement that, "The ruling against Kazem demonstrates an escalation against the opposition and the people, given that he is a prominent leader in ...
At least one Bahraini youth was arrested during the latest round of police raids in the kingdom’s village of Buri on Friday. The young man has been identified as Mansour ...
One of the leaders of the Bahrain’s Islamic Action Society reiterated that if the Al Khalifa regime takes any action against Bahraini Shi’ites’ spiritual leader, they will face severe and negative consequences. Hujjat al-Islam Sayyid Ja’far Alawi, one of the leaders of Bahrain’s Islamic Action Society, explained that the charges brought against Shaykh Ali Salman, a prominent Shi’ite cleric and opposition ...
Iran Cultural Center in Thailand held Imam Reza (AS) Art Cultural Festival from October 9 to 12 at Imam Ali (AS) Mosque of Iranian School. The four-day festival included a forum on the status of Divine leaders, an exhibition of artworks and different parts of Imam Reza’s (AS) holy shrine and a movie featuring Imam Reza’s (AS) life in Thai language. The forum was held at Imambarah of Bangkok with the presence of Iranian ambassador to ...
Muslims and Christians will gather to eat and break down barriers during eight meals planned for the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. For the next month, the Minnesota Council of Churches and Twin Cities-area mosques have planned community meals at Iftar, the sunset feast when Muslims break their Ramadan fast. It's part of the Taking Heart program, which aims started to bring faith communities together. Ramadan calls for Muslims to pray and fast ...
Now they can eat noodles with everyone else. In July the kitchen at The U-don, a Sanuki udon noodle shop, was halal-certified. This was no mere act of cultural kindness: From 2011 to 2012, the Renzo Piano-designed airport witnessed a 70% increase in visitors from Indonesia, the world’s fourth most-populous nation and home to its largest Muslim population. The people’s stomachs have spoken, and halal udon was only the beginning of the ...
-- On the occasion of the victory anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution, a seminar is to be held in Indonesia discussing the effects of the Islamic Revolution in developments of the present-day world.
It is organized by Iran Culture Center in Indonesia and hosted by Jug Jakarta University.
Mohammad Ali Rabbani, Iran cultural attaché in the Southeast Asian country, said that the seminar is among the culture center’s programs for ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Tribal sources said the tribal forces clashed with the Saudi troops, and killed 12 soldiers in retaliation for the Saudi army's blind artillery pounding of their regions.
Earlier reports said the Yemeni tribal fighters have regained control of 5 military posts in the Saudi border areas of Jazan and Najran.
Cross-border skirmishes between the Saudi troops and Yemeni tribes have flared up over the last four weeks, as the ...
The convoy of the Saudi armored vehicles arrived to the crisis-hit Bahrain on Saturday, Rasad News reported.
Meanwhile, a new footage has emerged showing the Al Khalifa regime's continuing its brutal crackdown on the demonstrators.
The anti-regime protesters have been rallying in Bahrain since mid-February, demanding an end to the Al Khalifa dynasty, which has ruled the Persian Gulf country for over 40 years.
In mid-March, Saudi Arabia and ...
The praying ceremony predicted to be attended by over 23000 Iranian pilgrims, will begin at 9:30 pm local time during which Sadegh Ahangaran and Mojataba Bagheri will perform religious singings lauding Ahlul Bayt (AS) and Mohammad Reza Qolamzadeh will recite Doa Komeil.
Some 800 Iranian pilgrims will voluntarily cooperate with the organizing committee of the program affiliated with the Office of the Supreme Leader in Saudi Arabia to provide ...
In response to the Bahraini authorities' decision to deport Dr. Masoud Al-Jahromi by force, Amnesty International stressed that expulsion is now "Bahrain's new weapon of choice" to banish ‘unwanted' individuals & silence dissent.
Amnesty International further stated on its official Twitter account that the expulsion of Jahromi represents a violation of international law.
A source close to the family of Dr. Jahromi, who was stripped of ...
