I embraced Islam after graduating from Cambridge. Prior to that I was a skeptical Catholic; a believer in God but with a mistrust of organized religion. The Qur’an was pivotal for me. I first tried to approach it in anger, as part of an attempt to prove my Muslim friend wrong. Later I began reading it with a more open …

Kumar Sangakkara delivered an exceptional speech in his 2011MCC Spirit of Cricket Cowdrey Lecture, touching on the history, culture and opportunties for Sri Lankan cricket as well a moving recounting of the terrorist attack on their team bus in Pakistan. Holding forth: Kumar Sangakkara's wide ranging talk on the history and culture of cricket contained criticism of the political power …

  Mansour Al-Yousef, official from the Ministry of Finance, right, hands over the consignment of dates to Abdul Hameed Mohammed Fowzie, senior minister for urban affairs, center, in Colombo on Friday. Farouk Mohamed Wazeer Ali, charge d´ affaires of the Saudi mission in Colombo is on the left. (AN photo) Saudi Arabia donated 150 metric tons of dates to Sri …

  CAIRO – Bringing back bad memories of the Soviet repression, the Tajik parliament has passed a bill that would ban children and adolescents from attending mosques, drawing sharp criticism from Muslim leaders as a crackdown on religious freedom. "It's a black day for Muslims," prominent Muslim theologist Akbar Turadzhonzoda told Times of India on Saturday, June 18. “Even in …

  The Obama administration appears to have given a green light to an Israeli attack on an unarmed flotilla carrying peace and human rights activists — including a vessel with 50 Americans on board — bound for the besieged Gaza Strip. At a press conference on June 24, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticized the flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Campaign …