South Africa in the news: Muslim leaders laud Turkey’s Hagia Sophia move: Religious leaders send letters to Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate praising reopening of Hagia Sophia as mosque – Anadolu Agency …: “South Africa” – BingNews Rival officials differ over restart date for South African league: A war of words has broken out among South …
Government policy has left Muslim students feeling unable to speak up on campus: University students and staff alike reported feeling like they cannot speak their mind due to concerns about the government's Prevent strategy. Amir Ridhwan/Shutterstocl When he first arrived at his university campus, Tom found his roommate was Muslim. He had never met a …
Sajid Javid and the complex life of a Muslim Conservative leadership hopeful: Sajid Javid, the son of Pakistani Muslim immigrants and currently the British home secretary, has positioned himself as the “change” candidate in his bid to become the next leader of the Conservative Party, and de facto prime minister. It’s been a complicated journey …
How Muslim leaders can respond in an age of extremism: Newspaper headlines the day after the 2017 terrorist attack in Westminster, London in which Khalid Masood killed at least three people. Shutterstock Islamic terrorism remains a global issue – with the horrific bombings in Sri Lanka on Easter Sunday, which claimed over 250 lives, just …
Forging the Ideal Educated Girl: The Production of Desirable Subjects in Muslim South Asia – a Africa interest event taking place on 2018-10-15 12:00:00 in United States An Islam and the Humanities lecture and book talk, in Forging the Ideal Educated Girl, Shenila Khoja-Moolji traces the figure of the ‘educated girl’ to examine the evolving …
South Africa in the news: Lut’s People: The struggle to be gay and Muslim in South Africa: How do gay South African Muslims negotiate the seemingly irreconcilable divide between their sexual orientation and their religion? Are attitudes towards homosexuality as hardline among ordinary Muslims as those preached from the pulpit? And can things …: “South …
MFest – Festival of Muslim Cultures and Ideas – Sunday Pass – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-04-29 10:30:00 in United Kingdom The Muslim community is one of the most diverse groups in the UK, with cultural influences from across the world. MFest is a celebration of those cultures and the burgeoning ideas …
Man convicted in killing of Muslim cleric and his assistant: In this Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2016 file photo Oscar Morel appears in a Queens courtroom in New York. Morel was convicted Friday, March 23, 2018, of first-degree murder for the broad daylight killings of a Muslim cleric Imam Maulana Akonjee and his assistant Thara Uddin. …
MFest – Festival of Muslim Cultures and Ideas – Saturday Day Pass – a Culture interest event taking place on 2018-04-28 10:30:00 in United Kingdom The Muslim community is one of the most diverse groups in the UK, with cultural influences from across the world. MFest is a celebration of those cultures and the burgeoning …
Writing Along the Water: Law and Muslim Commercial Society in the Western Indian Ocean – a Africa interest event taking place on 2017-11-28 00:00:00 in United States CMES, Rm 102, 38 Kirkland St, Cambridge, MA 02138 Tue., Nov. 28, 2017, 4 – 6 p.m. Fahad Bishara specializes in the economic and legal history of the Indian Ocean and …
South Africa in the news: South Africa court battle to recognise Muslim marriage: Johannesburg: A South African legal rights group on Monday took the government to court in a campaign pressing for new legislation to recognise Muslim marriages as legally valid. The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) said it was lobbying against “unfair …: “South Africa” …
Another century, another witch-hunt: this time it’s poor Muslim women: Poor, uneducated, housebound women appear to be almost wholly responsible for the lack of integration of some Muslim communities in Britain. At least, that seems to be the finding of a new report on social cohesion, carried out by Dame Louise Casey. She says that …
South Africa in the news: Muslim woman sues for R50k maintenance: That is referred to as Iddah. According to Imam Yusuf Patel, the secretary general of the United Ulama Council of South Africa, once the Iddah period is over, the responsibility of caring for the divorcee falls on either her father, brothers or sons.: “South …
What it’s like to be gay and a Muslim: shutterstock Nando Machado/Shutterstock.com The Orlando shooting was a hate crime against gay people – even if, once it emerged that the attacked had been a Muslim, many people claimed this as a terrorist attack rather than a hate crime. And, in an important sense, this was …