30th Annual Quran Competition started in Makkah

Saudi Gazette – Qur’an competition starts Sept. 13 in Makkah
The 7-day 30th annual Qur’an competition is set to start in Makkah from Sept. 13. The competition, started 30 years ago, aims to teach the participants from around the world how best to read the Holy Book and comprehend its meanings and the laws laid [...]

Geert Wilders’ Fitnah countered by Saudi Hidaya

Saudi Gazette - Geert Wilders’ Fitnah countered by Saudi Hidaya
A new short film titled ‘Hdaya’ (or Guidance) has been out to counter ‘Fitna’ (or affliction) film posted by Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders in which he deliberately misrepresented Islam and the Quran.
The Saudi film opens to explain the veracity of Islam. It displays the story of a [...]

Ms. Modesty

Saudi Gazette – Ms. Modesty
You know hijab styles have come to be recognized as legitimate fashion statements, when a mainstream newspaper like The Guardian does a fashion feature on ‘autumn’s key hijab look.’
Over the past few years, hijab styles and ‘modest’ fashion have blossomed into a full-grown preoccupation with Muslim women who wear the [...]

Briton jailed in Dubai for plane bomb scare

AlArabiya – Briton jailed in Dubai for plane bomb scare
A Briton who sparked a bomb alert on an Emirates flight from Manchester to Dubai in July while he was drunk was sentenced to four months in prison in the Gulf emirate on Wednesday.
Mark Winterbottom, 37, will be deported after serving his sentence and has also [...]

OIC appeals for urgent relief to people of Eastern Africa

IINA – OIC appeals for urgent relief to people of Eastern Africa
The Secretary General of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) Prof. Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu has made an urgent humanitarian appeal in favor of the people of eastern Africa following persistent rain failures. In a press statement, Prof. Ihsanoglu said “it has been brought to [...]

Yemen: Deadly car bomb attack targets US embassy

Adnkronos – Yemen: Deadly car bomb attack targets US embassy
At least 16 people, including civilians, were killed in a suspected car bomb explosion outside the US Embassy in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Wednesday
According to media reports, citing Yemeni officials, the victims included six security guards, six attackers and four civilians.
Two vehicles are reported to [...]

Hate DVDs spread anti-Islam message in Florida

Middle east Online - Hate DVDs spread anti-Islam message in Florida
The mass mailing of a controversial DVD “Obsession: Radical Islam’s War Against the West” has sparked anger among many in South Florida.
The hour-long video began turning up in mailboxes last week as a direct mailing, and also as an advertising insert in dozens of newspapers, including [...]

Muslim workers walk off job at Neb. Swift plant

9News – Muslim workers walk off job at Neb. Swift plant
About 500 Swift workers, all Muslim and mostly of Somali background, walked off the job Monday afternoon at the plant in Grand Island, Nebraska. The workers said they have been unable to pray during their holiest month, Ramadan, which occurs in September this year.
A Colorado-based [...]

IDB, ADB sign $4 billion co-financing accord

IINA – IDB, ADB sign $4 billion co-financing accord
The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and Asian Development Bank (ADB) signed a landmark co-financing agreement which will allow them to work together on projects in common member countries (Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Maldives, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan). The agreement calls on both organizations [...]

South Korea, Indonesia sign deal on fuel from seaweed

IINA – South Korea, Indonesia sign deal on fuel from seaweed
South Korea has signed an initial deal to lease 61,750 acres of Indonesian coastal waters to grow seaweed for bioethanol fuel, it was announced today. The letter of intent was signed between the Ministry for Food, Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and its Indonesian counterpart.
Yonhap news [...]

Indian Muslims angry for being targeted in bomb probe

Daily Times – Indian Muslims angry for being targeted in bomb probe
Minority Muslims told Reuters in several Muslim-dominated areas of New Delhi that police were conducting a “witch hunt” and accused authorities of reinforcing stereotypes about Muslims. “Terrorists do not belong to any religion,” said Feroze Alam, a young trader in New Delhi’s Daryaganj [...]

World differs on perpetrators of terror attacks

Dawn – World differs on perpetrators of terror attacks
There is no consensus in Muslim countries about the perpetrators of 9/11 attacks as significant minorities cite the US government itself and in a few countries Israel. These responses were given to an open-ended question that did not offer response options.
According to a survey by WorldPublicOpinion, 46 [...]

Muslims can read, listen to Quran on LG television

IHT – Muslims can read, listen to Quran on LG television
LG Electronics Inc. said Tuesday it has marketed a new large-screen plasma display television in the Middle East that allows users to both read and listen to the Quran, the Muslim holy book.
Quranic verses can be read on screen and listened to via software embedded [...]

Property developers turn to Islamic alternatives

Zawya – Property developers turn to Islamic alternatives
In an increasing tough financial world hammered by the global credit crisis, more property developers are turning to Islamic financial instruments to get projects off the ground, say the organisers of the Islamic finance industry’s leading global event.
“Financing based on Islamic rules requires that gains are derived from [...]

Pakistan’s tribes threaten to join Taliban

Quqnoos – Pakistan’s tribes threaten to join Taliban
Pakistan’s tribesmen, reacting to a missile strike in North Waziristan and an earlier cross-border ground assault by US forces last week, said it would switch sides and join the Taliban unless Washington halted its attacks.
“If America doesn’t stop attacks in tribal areas, we will prepare a lashkar [...]

Arab-based group takes management of Pakistani electricity company

Zawya - Arab-based group takes management of Pakistani electricity company
The Dubai-based AbraajAbraajLoading… group of companiees Tuesday took over management of the Karachi Electric Supply Company (KESC) from the Saudi Aljomaih group following finalization of a deal through which the Saudi company offloaded 50 per cent of its 73 per cent shares and management in the utility.
The [...]

South Korean Mosques Full in Ramadan

IslamOnline – South Korean Mosques Full in Ramadan
 Like other communities of their faith around the globe, Muslims in South Korea observe the holy fasting month of Ramadan by flocking to mosques every day for prayers and Qur’an recitation.
Every evening, after the breaking the dawn-to-dusk fast, the Central Masjid in the heart of Seoul draws [...]

Italy’s right to curb Islam with mosque law

Reuters – Italy’s right to curb Islam with mosque law
Italy’s Northern League, allies of centre-right Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, want to limit the growth of Islam in the centre of world Catholicism by blocking the construction of mosques through strict new regulations.
.. Fearing the advent of “Eurabia”, the League has used its control of Berlusconi’s [...]