“We started to see people go ‘What? Is it really a religion that promotes terrorism?’ And that’s when I saw it gain momentum,” she told me. In her eyes, access to social media today has humanized Muslims. Islam has kept individuals in Gazasteadfast in the face of adversity, appea...
Muslims pray five times a day. Not all may follow it strictly but they do follow it to different degrees. The Arabic word for prayer used in Islam is “Salat”. When I started to work in Male, Maldives as a doctor, I saw that there was a separate prayer hall where the muslim doctor...
When it did reach Muslim youth (from Europe to Asia to the Middle East), it tended to initially manifest in secular and antireligious terms. Yet by the 1990s, some examples of punk arose that claimed a Muslim identity, and by the year 2005, a scene called “taqwacore” developed. This ...
In light of recent events… terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found a few years ago) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible ...
Christianity when you study it from Islam, and that was the only source. When I studied the Bible carefully verse by verse, I made sure that that was the book of God, the word of God for sure, so I started to see things in a different way, which was difficult for me, to say Isl...
when his normalconsciousnesswas transformed. This state was accompanied by heavy sweating. The Qurʾān itself makes it clear that the revelations brought with them a sense of extraordinary weight: “If we were to send this Qurʾān down on a mountain, you would see it split asunder out ...
The word Islam means “submission” or “surrender,” as its faithful surrender to the will of Allah. Although its roots go back further in time, scholars typically date the creation of Islam to the 7th century, making it the youngest of the major world religions. Islam started in Mecca, ...
When Did Islam Start in China? When Did Islam Start in China? There was no consensus in academia. According to Chinese Muslims' traditional legendary accounts, Islam was first introduced to in 616-18 AD. But It is generally believed that Islam was introduced into China from Arabia to Guangzho...
It is a striking question, especially when a Catholic – such as myself – considers it after years of research on Muslim-Christian relations. One matter which has struck me in my experiences with Muslims is the sanctity of life that so many of them hold dear in their…… Continue reading...
He realized it was a terrorist attack. “I started the evacuation (疏散) plan right away, directing people toward the Crocus Expo International Exhibition Center next to the concert hall,” he said.Khalilov said that the staff had recently received training on what to do during such emergencies...