Islam is a Religion for Women: New Publication Tre donne: una sfida (Three women: a Challenge)

3/8/2013  ANSAmed   Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, and Biancamaria Scarcia Amoretti both condemn the use of the Islamic faith to suppress women, denouncing those who do this as “tyrants” during a meeting in Rome on women and Islam. The discussion in Rome stemmed from the presentation of Three Women: A Challenge a book which presents…

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UK Census 2011 reveals increasing Muslim presence in the UK

01 January 2012   Since the data of the UK Census 2011 was revealed last month, the public has been debating the increasing presence of British Muslim community.  The data has revealed that the Muslim population in Britain has almost doubled in ten years so that Muslims make up 50 percent of the residents in…

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9th Islamic Congress of Catalonia

16 December 2012 The objective of the Congress was to reflect and speak about social action and volunteer work from a religious perspective. There were several roundtables and a space dedicated to the discussion of feminine volunteer work.  

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Anger and an Arrest as a Leader of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood Visits Brooklyn

The tension that has gripped Egypt in recent weeks over a draft constitution written by Islamists briefly erupted on a New York street on Saturday night, with the arrest of a protester who disrupted a discussion of the document byEssam El-Erian, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mr. Erian, who is also the vice president of the…

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Rising Muslim American leader in D.C. speaks for his generation

Within the span of about a week recently, Haris Tarin spoke at a Washington panel on how the next U.S. president can combat violent Islamic extremism, delivered a guest sermon for Eid in Alexandria, launched an ad campaign on District buses calling for religious tolerance, and hosted an election night party and discussion in Great…

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