Sailan Muslim Foundation

First seed library sprouts in Palestine

Project aims to preserve seeds of crops that once grew across historic Palestine, and to safeguard waning biodiversity. By Dalia Hatuqa Ramallah, occupied West Bank – A search for rare seeds may seem like something out of a fairytale, but for Vivien Sansour it is a quest to bring back what years of Israeli occupation practices and climate change have …

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God’s love in the Quran – By AGA Barrie

God’s love in the Quran My wife related an interesting incident she couldn’t help observing whilst travelling in the subway. An apparently Muslim lady wearinga hijab was standing  next to her seat holding on to the vertical steel support with one hand and reading sotto voce from a little book she held in the other.It did not take long for …

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Sweden stirs debate with women-only swimming, in nod to Muslims

MODELS OF THOUGHT As Muslims become a larger part of Swedish society, some municipal pools are offering women-only swimming to accommodate the new arrivals. But while well intended, the new policy is bumping up against Swedish ideals of equality. By Elisabeth Braw, Correspondent MALMÖ, SWEDEN — On the face of it, the decision to offer special women's swimming hours at the …

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The year the Democrats turned against Israel

By Post Editorial Board Mark this as the year the Democratic Party turned decisively anti-Israel. The party’s ever-more-dominant liberal base has turned increasingly against the Jewish state — while Bernie Sanders is using his movement to push for Israel-bashing language in the platform. And Israel’s remaining Democratic friends are afraid to speak up. A new Pew Research Poll discloses that, …

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