Are some mosques brewing militant Islam and terrorism? France thinks so, and they are doing something about it. Over the past three years, France has deported 40 foreign imams for “preaching hatred.” A quarter of those have taken place since the January terror attacks in Paris, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said on Monday. The minister vowed…
Raphie Hayat conducted a research on ‘Islamic finance’ concluding that this is not safer than ‘regular financing’, as is often argued. Question: Is Islamic financing nothing more than a trick to attract Muslims? Hayat: It is a bit too farfetched to call it a trick. For a company to be called ‘halal’, it has to…
Hospitals in the West Midlands are urging Muslims to consider donating their organs for patients waiting for transplants. Muslims needing an organ donation, such as a new kidney or liver, wait on average a year longer than non-Muslims. This is due to a lack of donors coming forward from a matching ethnic background. The reason…
As the Muslim holy month of Ramadan approaches, and British Muslims prepare for four weeks of fasting during day light hours, a perennial debate on changing the Ramadan observance times in northern regions has sprung up again. Dr Usama Haswan, an Islamic researcher from anti-extremism group Quilliam, has said that it would make more sense for Muslims…
DENVER — A civil rights group said on Friday it was deeply disturbed by reports that a Colorado motorcycle club has distributed flyers for an anti-Ramadan barbecue, including a pig roast, this weekend “in defiance of the Islamic holiday of Ramadan.” Scott Levin, regional director of the Mountain States Anti-Defamation League (ADL), said in a…
