Islam

Just a short hop from the undisputed world capital of gambling, fornication, drunkenness and gluttony is a 10,000-strong Muslim community. Jonathan Margolis heads down to the mosque   ‘Other Muslims think it’s crazy that we’re here’: Ahmadullah Rokai Yusufzai, aka Rocky (right), with, from left, his cousin Farid Jalal, son Naweed Belal Yusufzai, 18, and daughter Medinah, 11. Photograph: Jonathan …

1. Islam – The Religion of Excellence   2. Islamic Guidance Towards coexistence   3. Halaal & Haraam     4. Crime & Punsiment in Islamic Law     5. Dress Code of Women in Islam 

The first wave of Muslims to arrive in Sri Lanka came from West Asia. Therefore let us briefly look at the Muslim achievements in West Asia. Islam originated in the Arab Peninsula, where the Prophet Mohammed preached in 622 AD. Islamic religious teachings are held in the Koran and the Islamic social life is guided by the Islamic Sharia Law. …

  The Syed Shah Mustafa Jame Masjid mosque was too small to fit everyone in Church minister Rev Isaac Poobalan saw worshippers praying outside Now he has handed over part of St John's Episcopal Church in Aberdeen Bishop says: 'It would be good to think we can change the world' By HELEN LAWSON A Scottish church has become the first in …

  A former member of the far-right PVV has converted to Islam, if a statement released via Twitter is to be believed. Arnoud van Doorn was a member of Geert Wilders' anti-Islam party until the end of 2011 and, according to the Doğan News Agency, a personal friend of Wilders himself. The surprising announcement came via Van Doorn's Twitter account, …

The road to renewal THE sleep has been long and deep. In 2005 Harvard University produced more scientific papers than 17 Arabic-speaking countries combined. The world’s 1.6 billion Muslims have produced only two Nobel laureates in chemistry and physics. Both moved to the West: the only living one, the chemist Ahmed Hassan Zewail, is at the California Institute of Technology. …