India: Teacher resigns after told to remove face veil
By Abdul Gani GUWAHATI, India : A Muslim teacher who resigned from her job at a school in India’s commercial capital Mumbai last week…
Islamic Schools Top Table of UK’s Best Schools
LONDON – Both Muslim girls’ and boys’ schools in Blackburn, Lancashire, run by the Tauheedul Education Trust, beat off competition from London grammars to…
Syria, Russia Back to the Midpoint!
By Tariq Alhomayed Last week I wrote an article titled: “Russia, Turkey, Assad and a New Stage,” which aimed to introduce a new phase…
Muslims and Islam: Key findings in the U.S. and around the world
by MICHAEL LIPKA, PEW RESEARCH The FINANCIAL — Muslims are the fastest-growing religious group in the world. The growth and regional migration of Muslims,…
Muslims pray with Catholics over French priest’s murder
Churches in Italy also saw Muslims visiting in solidarity over Father Jacques Hamel’s killing [EPA]Muslims have attended Catholic mass in churches around France in…
Mosque from Early Islam Discovered in Saudi Arabia
Riyadh-Antiquities found in Al-Kharj in Saudi Arabia highlight an important civilization back to the Stone Age. Therefore, the joint French-Saudi mission for archeological exploration…
Scotland, Canada Encourage Veiled Muslims to Join Police Forces
By MICHEL ABO NAJEM, NAJLAA HABRIRI, ASHARQ AL-AWSAT Paris, London, Ottawa- As the debate over the Islamic swimsuit Burkini has taken a new dimension…
Saudi Arabia and Iran accuse each other of not really being Muslim
By Ishaan Tharoor The Middle East’s two great geopolitical adversaries entered into a war of words ahead of the annual hajj pilgrimage to Mecca,…
Hajj 2016: More than 1.5m Muslims descend on Mina
Pilgrims have been given electronic bracelets storing personal and medical information that will help authorities provide care and identify people; and nearly a thousand…
Simon Collis becomes first UK ambassador to perform Haj
Ambassador Simon Collis and his wife performing Haj Simon Collis has become the first British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia to perform Haj while still…