Sailan Muslimah

The number of Britons converting to Islam has doubled in 10 years. Why? Jerome Taylor and Sarah Morrison investigate     The number of Britons choosing to become Muslims has nearly doubled in the past decade, according to one of the most comprehensive attempts to estimate how many people have embraced Islam.   Following the global spread of violent Islamism, …

Religious scholars from different Islamic sects have unanimously announced that the custom of dowry in vogue in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh was un-Islamic. Speaking in a seminar held by the Social Reforms Society, Ahmaduddin Owaisi said that this system was synonymous with corruption and was, therefore, invalid. The ulema have passed a resolution that says that the marriage ceremonies in …

(The Ceylon Moor Ladies’ Union founded in 1936 and incorporated by ACT No. 27 of the Parliament of Ceylon in June 1968 as an Approved Charity) 5th July 2011 Dear brothers & sisters in Islam Assalamu Alaikum Wa Rahmatullahe Wa Barakatuhu, Take a look down memory lane and see the achievements which were hallmarks of history by CMLU. Don’t you …

Strangers walk up, point to her hijab – the headscarf some Muslim women wear – and tell her she’s in America now, has rights and can’t be forced to wear the covering. She thanks them. Then she tells them that she’s American-born, Kentucky-raised and understands her rights quite well since she’s an attorney. And she assures them she wears the …

  MEN, it’s time to wake up. We’re losing ground and failing in our charge. We are ignorant of how women in the glorious middle ages used to be, so we have no idea how we should expect our women to be. Blame it on foreign influence, disconnect with history, or whatever, but the modern status quo is unacceptable. And to …

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 …