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Coronavirus: Muslim Turkish Germans raise new Covid vaccine hopes

A Turkish-German husband-and-wife team have emerged as frontrunners in the race to market a vaccine against coronavirus, which would be an extraordinary achievement. Turkish-born Ugur Sahin, 55, is CEO of…

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Confronting Insult To The Prophet

MUSLIMS ALL OVER the world are deeply hurt by the caricatures of our beloved Prophet Muhammad ﷺ in several Western publications. Every now and then, some Western media outlets provoke…

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Jihad By Night

By Shaykh Yahya Ibrahim   “For twenty years I waged Jihad against myself.  I struggled, all throughout to remain standing in prayer at night.  For those twenty years I never…

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“I refused to be just a picture.” The first veiled mayor in Britain reveals to Al-Jazeera Net the reasons for her resignation

Rakia British politician Ismail succeeded in writing her name as the first veiled mayor in the history of the United Kingdom, but this inspiring story did not last long, and…

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MPs Exit Inquiry In Protest At Student Wearing Muslim Veil In French Parliament Building

An MP from President Macron’s centrist LREM party led a walkout after a student union leader appeared for a parliamentary inquiry hearing wearing a hijab. In line with French laws…

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Sabra and Shatila: Israel’s Forgotten Genocide

Between September 16-18, 1982, Israel was responsible for one of the bloodiest and infamous massacres of unarmed Palestinians in refugee camps in Lebanon, writes journalist Robert Carter. Estimates for the death toll of…

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“And the Male is not Like the Female”: Is One Gender Preferred Over Another in Islam?

By Zainab bint Younus   …And the male is not like the female. [Sûrat Al ʿImrân, 3:36]   CRADLING HER NEWBORN daughter in her arms, Ḥinna bint Fâqûdh, the wife of…

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Are There Rules in Islam to Protect the Rights of Workers?

“As-salamu alaykum. Could you kindly enlighten me on the rights of workers in Islam?” Answered by Dr. Muzammil H. Siddiqi Wa alaykum As-Salamu wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh. In the Name…

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The Spread Of Islam From Africa To The Americas

By Dona Vassall-Fall, Ed.D.   CONTRARY TO WHAT is taught by some historians, many of the enslaved Africans brought to the New World were Muslims with highly cultivated Islamic religious traditions….

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Time In The Quran: Taking A Clue From Einstein’s Theory Of Relativity

By Dr Ghazi Al Nakshabandi    How are we to understand the Qur’anic verses wherein a day is likened to thousands of years and the events such as those of…