Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump on Monday called for a “total and complete” block on Muslims entering the United States, in the wake of last week’s mass shooting in California by a Muslim couple believed to have been radicalised. A statement from Trump’s campaign team said the halt on Muslims[…]
Muslims have too often turned a blind eye to the pandemic of HIV/AIDS under the guise that the disease cannot affect them. So says Nuraan Osman from the Muslim Aids Programme, as South Africa marks World AIDS Day on December 1st. While the fight against the disease has been augmented,[…]
A debate on whether the Khmer Rouge committed genocide against Cambodian Muslims during the 1970s continues after a UN war crimes tribunal resumed this week. A large number of ethnic Cham, mostly Shia Muslims, were killed during the horrific Khmer Rouge rule from 1975-79 with some death toll estimates ranging[…]
British government policies are fuelling a worsening “environment of hate” in which abuse, discrimination, and even the threat of violent assault have become the “normal experience and expectation” for Muslims living in the UK, according to the conclusions of a new report. The study into the day-to-day experiences of British[…]
OPINION by Waheeda Amien – The debate relating to the recognition and regulation of Muslim marriages in South Africa raises many complex issues, some of which I wish to address in this article. The first, and it appears the most contested issue, is whether or not a secular state should[…]
The outpouring of condemnation towards Friday evening’s assault on Paris bears testament to the fact that the world places more focus on the loss of “white European lives” above those in third world countries. So says Afro-Middle East Centre director Na’eem Jeenah, as the world reels after a callous and[…]
A community leader from Paris’s working-class suburbs says he fears a “tsunami of hatred” may await Muslims and residents of poor neighbourhoods following the deadly terror attacks, AFP reports. Nadir Kahia of the Banlieue Plus community association says its members are shocked and feel a sense of solidarity “but we[…]
As South Africa grapples with a water crisis, its time for Muslims to change their attitude to how they use water. So says Dr Sheikh Muhammed Ridwaan Gallant, from the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) Environmental Desk, in light of a national shortage of water, which has caused drought in some[…]
Muslims heeded the call for an urgent prayer for rain on Sunday, in the wake of South Africa’s growing water crisis. The Jamiatul Ulema South Africa led the Salatul Istisqa in Johannesburg on Sunday morning which saw thousands of Muslims to prostrate in hopes of some relief to the current drought plaguing[…]
Muslims are finding it easier to travel to holiday destinations abroad, amid a boom in the global halal tourism sector. This emerged at the first World Halal Travel Summit 2015, which concluded in Abu Dhabi last week. The summit brought together a myriad of role-players in the global halal tourism[…]
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