Hundreds of Nigerian Muslims and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria on Thursday staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, to mark the 3rd anniversary of the Zaria massacre and detention of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky’s by...
Read More »End Killing of Shias in Nigeria: Human Rights Watch
Nigerian authorities have failed to ensure justice for the killings of hundreds of members of the Shia Islamic Movement of Nigeria (IMN) since 2015, Human Rights Watch said today in releasing a...
Read More »Ayatollah Sistani Strongly Criticizes Political and Tribal Violence
Representative of Grand Ayatollah Sistani, sheikh Abdul-Mahdi Al-Karbalaei said at Friday’s sermon that "using politics as a means to serve the country, politicians must refrain from using illegal means to...
Read More »Shari’a and Human Rights, the Challenges Ahead +PDF
There are some people among the non-Muslims and even the Muslims who spread confusion that the concept of human rights is alien to Shari’a (Islamic law) and it has no place in the provisions of the ...
Read More »The Myth that Religion is the Cause of War
Atheists and secular humanists consistently make the claim that religion is the #1 cause of violence and war throughout the history of mankind. One of hatetheism's key cheerleaders, Sam Harris, says in...
Read More »British Muslims Urge Legal Protection against Islamophobia
Muslims in the United Kingdom have called on the government of Prime Minister Theresa May to speed up its efforts to recognize a working definition of Islamophobia as hate attacks against members of the...
Read More »Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Jump 200 percent in Canada
Hate crimes targeting Muslims have increased by over 200 percent in Canada's most populous province of Ontario in the past year, according to the country's national statistics agency...
Read More »UN Special Envoy for Iraq Visits Ayatollah Sistani
The Head of the UN Envoy in Iraq Yan Kubish visits Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, the Supreme Cleric of Iraq, early in Thursday...
Read More »Muslims Should Strengthen the Movement of Islamic Awakening
On the auspicious birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad and Imam Sadiq (peace be upon them), the heads of power branches, government officials, ambassadors of Islamic countries as well as...
Read More »Movie: What’s the Fuss between Shias and Sunnis?
After the holy Prophet passed away the Muslims faced a dilemma, what do we do now? One group said after the Prophet we have to follow his successor –Imam Ali (P.B.U.H)- this is the principle of Shia school of thought. Another group claimed that...
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