The pro-Trump violence in the U.S. Capitol earlier this month has pushed the nation’s law enforcement authorities to high alert for White supremacists groups seeking more chaos around Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration. The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, has advised community …
Read More »French Muslim leaders approve charter of republican values
French Muslim leaders agreed on a charter of republican values. The new 10-point charter “states clearly that the principles of the Muslim faith are perfectly compatible with the principles of the republic,” French Council of the Muslim Faith (CFCM) president Mohammed Moussaoui said. Moussaoui said all eight of the CFCM’s …
Read More »Hadrat Fatimah Zahra (A.S.) the Link between Prophethood and Imamat
Fatimah (A.S.) was the only woman connecting Prophethood and Imamate and was the link between the two. She was the daughter of the Holy Prophet (S.A.W.), the wife of the first Imam (A.S.) and the mother of the rest of the Imams (A.S.) who descended from her and her husband …
Read More »Bin Salman talks with Barham Salih on Riyadh-Baghdad relations
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman today (Tuesday) talked with Iraqi President Barham Salih about relations between Riyadh and Baghdad. Barham Salih made a phone call to bin Salman, during which relations between the two countries were examined. The Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia and the President of Iraq discussed …
Read More »New shelter for Muslim women and children opening in Canada
Mississauga-based Sakeenah Homes has offered support to Muslim women in London, Ont., for two years through its virtual counselling services, but in recent days, CEO and founder Zena Chaudhry said the nonprofit began receiving calls from women in need of shelter. Chaudhry said the calls now are coming from women who …
Read More »Umm ul-Banin (S.A), the lady who conveyed message of Ashura martyrs
Lady Umm ul-Banin (S.A) was known for her noble lineage, upright morals, and enduring devotion toward the Ahl al-Bayt (A.S). After having been wed to Imam Ali (A.S) and raising his children after the death of his first wife, Lady Fatimah (S.A), she displayed excellence in her responsibilities as a …
Read More »Saudi Arabia sentences an eulogist and eight Shia youths to prison
The criminal court of Dammam in Saudi Arabia yesterday sentenced “Mohammad Bojbarah”, the eulogist of the Ahl al-Bayt (A.S), to 9 months in prison. The Dammam Criminal Court also sentenced eight other Shia youths in the region to four months in prison. Meanwhile, legal activists say: Mohammad Bojbarah has not …
Read More »Shia Uprisings in Saudi Arabia
| by Leila Yazdani: Over decades of systemic discrimination in Saudi Arabia, Shia anger has periodically boiled over, leading to widespread protests that have always been suppressed by Riyadh. However, these protests have always resulted in brutality and bloodshed for the Shia Muslims and the statements of the Saudi ministry …
Read More »First phase of human trial of Iran-made COVID-19 vaccine wraps up
IRNA: The first phase of the human trial of the domestically-produced coronavirus vaccine came to an end in Iran, Director of the Clinical Trial Center of Tehran University of Medical Sciences Hamed Hosseini said on Saturday. The vaccine test on the human sample was carried out on another six volunteers …
Read More »456 Palestinians arrested by Israeli forces in January, says prisoners’ advocacy groups
Israeli forces arrested 456 Palestinians including ninety-three minors and eight women in the occupied West Bank in January, the Palestinian Authority’s Prisoners’ Affairs Commission, the Palestinian Prisoner Society, the Addameer Prisoner Support and Human Rights Association, and the Wadi Hilweh Information Center said in a joint statement. According to the …
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