Cape Town is known to many as the ‘Mother City’. It is from the foot of Table Mountain that Cape Town gave to South Africa its trek Boers and its English pioneers. For the Muslims of South Africa it has an even greater importance – it is where Islam first[…]
Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi says the death sentences ruled against himself in absentia and against Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian president, violated Islamic legislation. The Egyptian Islamic theologian and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars said that the death sentences handed on by the Egyptian court against[…]
The following is a transcript of the Jumuah khutbah delivered by Imam Rashied Omar from Claremont Main Road Mosque on Friday 1 May, Workers Day. Since this jumu’ah service takes place on Workers Day, it is fitting for us to reflect on the struggle of workers for dignity and a[…]
“Now the Muslims will milk this”, read one comment posted online shortly after news that Cape Judge president John Hlophe had embraced Islam before marriage to a fellow judge on Freedom Day. The story made headlines on the front page of the Sunday Times and Cape Argus and has sparked[…]
In a world where mobile internet and social media has dominated the way we communicate and learn things, it’s not hard to understand why today’s youth are becoming more politically conscious and engaged in global socio-political spaces. In the age of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, political engagement through social media[…]
South African ulema, joined by a number of Muslim organisations, have urged Muslims not to resort to vigilantism or violence, as a means of protesting certain ideas. This call comes in the wake of a recent assault on Durban born author Zainub Priya Dala, who at an academic workshop last[…]
OPINION by Aayesha Soni – A story regarding the attack of an author, Zainub Dala, supposedly inspired by her public lauding of Salman Rushdie has been making the rounds. I am stunned a story loaded with so many insinuations and extrapolations of the facts has even been published. It most[…]
French Interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve has proposed a plan aiming at promoting a better dialogue with France’s Muslim community, that notably includes training of imams at university. The plan would promote an Islam “faithful to the values of the Republic,” Cazeneuve said Wednesday, insisting on France’s tradition of secularism. He[…]
The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC ) will mark its 70th Anniversary on the 10 February 2015, a significant milestone for South Africa’s leading ulema body. Preparations are under way to commemorate and give recognition to the scholars who have served the MJC and the community since 1945. As part of[…]
Germany’s anti-Islam Pegida movement was in disarray Thursday after its public face, Lutz Bachmann, resigned over a selfie in which he posed in an Adolf Hitler moustache and hairstyle. Pegida, which denies that it opposes Islam or refugees per se, has staged weekly rallies since October against alleged “Islamization.” On[…]
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