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In the days of vaudeville, comedians oftentimes started monologues with the line, “A funny thing happened on the way to the theater.” But, unfortunately, at this year’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner (WHCD), which President Trump opted not to attend, a not-too-funny thing happened. Something went totally unnoticed by those attending, who certainly were responsible for …
Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice President said, recognising the Muslim heroes was crucial and important to the development of the Muslim communities and the nation at large. He therefore commended them for the recognition of the Muslim Ummah, especially the youth who were contributing to the development of the religion, their communities and the nation at …
Sawsan Morrar, says the Washington Post, is “a multimedia journalist at the University of California at Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism,” and “was chosen as a 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar.” She also wears a hijab. And that is no doubt why she was chosen as a 2017 White House Correspondents’ Association Scholar. The …
VIENNA: A debate is raging in Austria after a study suggested that Islamic kindergartens in Vienna were helping to create “parallel societies”. According to its author, Ednan Aslan, a Turkish-born Austrian professor at Vienna University, some 10,000 children aged two to six attend around 150 Muslim preschools, teaching the Holy Quran much like Christian ones …
In bookshops across Pakistan, there is no shortage of religious literature – translations and interpretations of the Quran, books of Hadiths (oral traditions of Prophet Mohammed) and stories of the prophets abound. Book stores stock long, elaborate texts, replete with quotes from scripture and anecdotes from the earliest days of Islam. But over the past …
Last year we asked the question, does the Middle East need a curated web? It’s a question that certainly doesn’t have one correct answer, but one Serbian entrepreneur seems to think that is the case for the World Wide Web’s Muslim community as a whole. Speaking to Turkish daily, Hürriyet, Abdulvahed Niyazov gave some insight into why he’s …
