The Islamic Online University (IOU) is the brainchild of Dr. Bilal Philips. He envisioned an institution that would offer online intensive, undergraduate, and graduate courses in Islamic Studies completely tuition-free.

 Parnell will celebrate his 22nd birthday as a Muslim on Friday. PHOTO: REUTERS   South African fast bowler Wayne Parnell in a statement on Thursday announced his conversion to Islam from Christianity,Times of India reported on Friday. He has also changed his named to Waleed after his conversion to Islam earlier in January this year. Parnell confirmed in the statement that …

Anders Behring Breivik, the Norwegian who killed 93 people in a combined terror attack that included car bombings in Oslo and a shooting rampage at an island summer camp, held fiercely anti-Islamic and pro-Israel views, according to a 1,500 page manifesto he uploaded before his killing spree. In the 1,500-page document, he mentions Israel 359 times and “Jews” 324 times, …

ISLAMABAD — The United States is threatening to cut off aid to Pakistan unless it is given access to the wives of Osama bin Laden. A draft Bill being considered by the House foreign affairs committee Wednesday would also insist on proof that weapons provided by the U.S. were not used for anything other than fighting terrorists along the Afghanistan-Pakistan …

A senior Israeli army commander has warned that unchecked "Jewish terror" against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank threatens to plunge the territory into another conflict.   In unusually outspoken comments, Major General Avi Mizrahi took aim at extremist Israeli settlers, and said the yeshiva, or religious seminary, in Yitzhar, one of the most radical Jewish strongholds in the West …

Dismissing this murderous act as the work of "a lone madman" ignores a more detailed study of the killer's motivation. A few years ago, the respected Cambridge scholar T J Winter, also known by his Muslim name of Abdal Hakim Murad, gave a fascinating lecture to Humanities staff and students at the University of Leicester. The title was "Islam and the threat of …