SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The newest Utah polygamous family featured in a reality TV show says sharing their story with a wide audience has been liberating. Brady Williams and his five wives were a bit apprehensive ahead of the airing of a pilot episode in September, but they said this week in an interview with The Associated Press that …
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New initiatives to make Madinah eternal capital of Islamic culture MADINAH: ARAB NEWS
CULTURal OASIS: Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman with Culture and Information Minister Abdul Aziz Khoja at the opening of a conference of OIC culture ministers in the city. (SPA) Madinah Gov. Prince Faisal bin Salman on Tuesday announced 13 initiatives aimed at making Madinah the eternal capital of Islamic …
Read More »RIS Convention Gathers World Muslims By Muneeb Nasir OnIslam Correspondent
TORONTO – Amid inspirational speeches from renowned scholars around the world, the Reviving the Islamic Spirit Convention got underway on Friday, December 27, in Toronto welcoming thousands of people who traveled from across North America and beyond to attend the landmark annual gathering. “These conferences are an exercise on how to live as a community,” Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan told …
Read More »Madrassas in India attract Hindu students
Islamic seminaries with modern curriculum in eastern Indian state of West Bengal are helping to bridge religious divide. Clad in white and blue salwar kameez (traditional Indian dress) and translating an Arabic verse from her Islamic studies textbook into Bengali, 15-year-old Puja Kshetrapal could pass for a Muslim. But she, along with almost half of the 200 tenth graders …
Read More »Attacks a travesty of Islamic Teachings
Sailan Muslim Foundation unreservedly condemns the recent attacks on All Saints Church in Pakistan and a shopping mall in Nairobi by terrorists purporting to act in the name of Islam. The cowardly attacks only goes on to show how misled these elements are and the mischief they are bent on causing to the good name of Islam. The killing …
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