As salaam alaykum wa rahmatullah Dear All, The Muslim American Society welcomes the news of the demise of Osama bin Laden. The intentional killing of civilians for political ends is terrorism, and this has been the mode of operation of Al Qaeda as directed by Osama bin Laden. We pray that this development leads to…
14 February 2011 More than 100 UK-based German students and academics have signed an open letter objecting to the choice of panellists for a debate at the London School of Economics on Monday. The “Integration Debate: Europe’s Future – ‘Decline of the West’?”, which opens a week-long German Symposium at the LSE, will feature Thilo…
9 February 2011 The Society for Women and Qualification (VFQ) invites speakers every year to speak on International Women’s Day, and this year it will be the Islamic scholar Amira Hafner-Al Jabaji who will speak about the relationship between Islam and feminism. Hafner-Al Jabaji has been active in the fields of Islam, female Muslims in…
As the revolt has transfixed the world, scores of Egyptian Americans throughout Southern California have also joined the call for the embattled Mubarak to step down. They have demonstrated at the Egyptian Consulate in Los Angeles. They are fasting in solidarity with the protesters. They have written missives of support for the people, including Nobel…
November 10, 2010 During a raid last week after a bomb threat on central Göteborg, Swedish Police locked eight Muslims in a mosque during morning prayer. One of the men suspected to have something to do with the bomb threat – he has later been dismissed from the investigation – was in the mosque to…
