There is a roaring Hajj business in Sri Lanka. As a friend of mine commented, no business is as good as the religious business. The Hajj committee, whose members are appointed on recommendations of Muslim politicians, in collusion with Hajj agents, operate like a mafia that has converted a religious obligation into a money making enterprise with blessings of the …

Muslims opposed to LGBTQ  – It boils down to moral values rooted firmly in one’s faith, not in a political ideology — left or right. A young Muslim-American woman student holds the US flag during a pageant at the Islamic Center of America in Dearborn, Michigan, March 26, 2010 [Rebecca Cook/REUTERS] We are witnessing a unique and welcome phenomenon: Muslims …

Sixteenth June is the death anniversary Dr, Badiuddin Mahmud- the iron man who served the nation through his dynamic personality left no stone unturned as college principal and a minister. His life was peaceful and died as an ordinary man who never amassed wealth through his political career. He said what he really meant what he said  and what is …

This year marks 74 years of Al-Nakba, or the Palestinian experience of dispossession and loss of their homeland. Every year on May 15, Palestinians around the world mark the Nakba, or catastrophe, referring to the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948. Having secured the support of the British government for the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine, on May …

  Made of carbon fiber molded around an internal iron structure, the imposing crescents are coated with gilded glass JEDDAH: Two new crescents have been installed on minarets near the King Abdulaziz Gate at the Grand Mosque in Makkah. Made of carbon fiber molded around an internal iron structure, the imposing crescents are coated with gilded glass. Mohammed Al-Waqdani, undersecretary …