Sri Lanka thanked the Kingdom and other GCC countries for voting in her favor at the UN summit for human rights held in Geneva on Thursday. The United States brought a resolution before the UN rights council urging Sri Lanka’s government to investigate allegations of human rights abuses and to seek reconciliation. The island’s Industry and Commerce Minister Rishath …

The long-felt need for a Masjid in the University of Peradeniya (former University of Ceylon) was fulfilled when the Masjid was completed in 1971, although the foundation stone was laid in 1952. It was built with the effort and support of a group of Muslim intellectuals,graduates, undergraduates and philanthropists. Alhamdulillah the Masjid was incorporated as a registered charity by the …

Many sisters in our community have taken the names of their husbands without realizing that they should have kept their father’s name. Should they change their name back to the father’s name or is it allowed to keep the husband’s name? It is a common custom in the west and also among muslims that after marriage, women drop their father’s …

In March 2011 several member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) launched a military campaign against Colonel Mu’ammar al-Gaddafi’s forces. Although NATO appears to have made significant efforts to minimize the risk of causing civilian casualties, scores of Libyan civilians were killed and many more injured. Amnesty International is concerned that no information has been made available to …

 It is now confirmed that Saudi Arabia is shipping arms to foreign fighters and Syrian rebels operating out of Jordan. The Australian reports in their article, "Bombs in Syria as Saudis 'send arms to rebels'," that "Saudi military equipment is on its way to Jordan to arm the Free Syrian Army," quoting an Arab diplomat. Of course, as reported below, …

Arwi or Arabic-Tamil (ل س ا ن ا ل أ ر و ي lisā n-ul-arwī அ ர ப ு -த ம ி ழ ் arabu-tamil) is an Arabic-influenced dialect of the Tamil language written with an extension of the Arabic alphabet, with extensive lexical and phonetic influences from the Arabic language. Arwi was used extensively by the Muslim minority of …