Leftover meat from the traditional Muslim sacrifice during Eid-al-Adha, will go straight to needy persons, said the Association of Cooperative Muslim Organizations. Most of the leftover meat will be processed into sausages, which will be sent to food banks. The holiday commemorates the prophet Ibrahim (Abraham) who was ready to sacrifice his son for God,…
A proposal by several Muslim organizations in Belgium has been made to allow Muslims to take religious vacation days. Under the proposal, a Muslim employee would be allowed to choose from a number of holidays to take throughout the year. The proposal came from distress during the past Eid holiday, in which many Muslim works…
State Secretary of Social Affairs and Rotterdam mayor Ahmed Aboutaleb has said that he thinks it is “absurd” to propose that Christian holidays of Easter Monday and Pentecost Monday ought to be replaced with Muslim holidays. Aboutaleb added that such Christian holidays have been embedded in the Dutch calendar, and cannot be touched. He does,…
To Indonesian eyes, there does not seem to be anything special about the photos of soaring minarets and people praying in mosques currently on display in an auditorium in Paramadina University in South Jakarta. Indeed, they seem an everyday thing, much like what you’d see on any ordinary Friday or Islamic holiday. But the 60-odd…
An estimated 2,000 mosques and Islamic prayer halls in Germany opened to the public during a holiday Wednesday, with non-Muslims invited to come in, look around and ask about Islam. Open Mosque Day has been an annual event in Germany since 1997. Despite the added strain of observing Ramadan at the same time this year,…
