Whether it’s protesting the president’s decision to send 30,000 more troops to Afghanistan or developing community programs, Muslim women like Monami Maulik have been at the forefront of advocacy work to help and empower their people. In 2000, Maulik and a handful of others founded Desis Rising Up and Moving in Jackson Heights, Queens to [...]
Doctor Qanta Ahmed dared to enter the land of Saudi Arabia. Although trained in the United States, her visa to remain had been denied. From Kennedy airport, she arrived in Riyadh, the capital city of Saudi Arabia. As a Muslin woman, she thought mostly of the privileges her status as a practicing doctor would provide [...]
North Texas Muslims entered 20,000-strong Friday morning into the Dallas Convention Center, in native costumes of far-flung lands for communal prayer for one of the holiest days of the Islamic faith. “This is the time to come together, to help each other and to understand each other,” said Imam Yusuf Kavakci, the religious leader of [...]
THE HAGUE, November 30 (Reuters) – The business of selling food that is halal, or acceptable to Muslims, is set to grow rapidly in Europe in coming years as more supermarket chains target the sector, a Nestlé executive said. Frits van Dijk, executive vice president at the world’s biggest food group, told Reuters on the [...]
Yasir and Ashraf from Huddersfield’s Nawaab restaurant talk about what Eid means to them and their families EID-UL-ADHA (‘Celebration of Sacrifice’), also known as the Greater Eid, is the most important festival in the Muslim calendar. It marks the end of the Hajj, the annual pilgrimage to Makkah (Mecca). It takes place on the 10th [...]
Colonel Muammar Gaddafi invited hundreds of attractive Italian “hostesses” to a villa in Rome last night for an evening at which he urged them to convert to Islam and told them Christianity was based on a fraud, Italian reports said today. The Libyan leader is in Italy to attend a United Nations summit on world [...]
