The Prophet's Wisdom in Dealing with His Wives
D uring a time in Arabia when widows were seen as a curse and "obsolete" for marriage, Prophet Muhammad accepted her marriage proposal, marking one of the most loving and romantic relationships in Islamic History.While he could have chosen any young virgin wife, Prophet Muhammad, a young man of twenty five, married Khadijah, who had been twice widowed and was also fifteen years older than him. Even in today's modern age, this type of relationship would bring upon a certain stigma
The return of Islam: "Islam is the answer"
The Islamic movements combined an attractive ideology with a catchy slogan — "Islam is the answer" — used a familiar set of symbols (like the battle between Pharaoh and Moses, when everyone knows what it really symbolizes) and provided welfare and assistance where the governments failed to do so.[...]
15 08 12 • Wahhabi Islam
Saudi officials indict Shia cleric after year in jail
Sheikh Amer was detained and is being prosecuted over his calls for the establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Saudi Arabia and an end to widespread discrimination in the country. Saudi Arabia, viewed as the Middle East's powerhouse, is an absolute monarchy with zero tolerance for public dissent. [...]
As-Salamu Alaykum, Islamic Facebook!
A new Islamic social networking site will be launched in Indonesia in November, and will offer "better protection" for young Muslims from "harmful content" reports the Jakarta Globe. According to the Indonesian newspaper, the Beta version of the site is currently being tested by 1,000 users around the world.[...]
Western and Islamic democracy
This is the dividing line in Islamic concept of political rule. No law can deny any human being his rights. The exact word is "Huquq El Ibad" not Huquq el Muslimeen, that is its application is not limited to Muslims [...]
Pakistan: Fatwas From Hell – Analysis
But Islamist extremist fatwas in Pakistan are not restricted to the jihad against the kafirs. In an almost paranoiac act of hatred, a cleric in the Pakistan's Punjab province, on June 12, 2012, warned that a jihad woul[...]
Report highlights Islam's global diversity
"The World's Muslims: Unity and Diversity" draws on 38,000 face-to-face interviews in 39 countries, and finds that Muslims differ sharply over questions of faith like who counts as a Muslim and what spiritual practices are acceptable.[...]
14 08 12 • Jihad & Terrorist
Jihad: True meaning — 25
Jihad entails getting united as one large Muslim Ummah and striving to help each other. We are one community, the issues that our plaguing other Muslim nations are our concerns too. We need to extend our gesture of solid[...]
Muslim group: Republican 'Islamophobia machine' encouraging violent attacks
Just two months ago in Dearborn, Michigan, a group of Christian missionaries hijacked an Arab-American festival, walking through it carrying a pig's head on a pike and signs insulting the Prophet Mohammed. In Californi[...]
The Many Faces of Political Islam: A Review
From Pakistan's Abul Ala' Mawdudi and the Jamat Islami trying to find a theological basis for the new Islamic republic to Sayed Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood vigorously working to remake Egypt in their preferred im[...]
