The Obama administration, emerging as a strong voice on international human rights issues within the UN, has

The Obama administration, emerging as a strong voice on international human rights issues within the UN, has submitted its first appraisal of the United States’ own human rights record, writes Barbara Crossette

submitted its first appraisal of the United States' own human rights record, admitting to gaps in social and…

GAZA CITY - Israeli warplanes Saturday launched three strikes against the southern Gaza Strip, killing one,

The air strikes follow the firing of a rocket from Gaza into Israel

One killed, three injured in three Israeli air strikes targeting smuggling tunnels at Rafah, former Hamas base.

wounding…

Tens of thousands of Muslims poured into the heavily guarded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in

Over 200,000 Palestinian worshippers pray in occupied Jerusalem on last Friday of Ramadan.

Jerusalem for the last Friday prayers of Ramadan as Palestinians protested over…

Writers often romanticize their subjects. At times they even manipulate their readers. A book - or any

(Potomac Books, 2010)

Book review of: Rich Wiles' 'Behind the Wall: Life, Love and…

RIYADH - Some 600,000 Muslims crowded into the Grand Mosque in Islam's holiest city of Mecca for

More than a million worshippers in the mosque and surrounding areas

Mecca, Medina swollen with worshippers from around world undertaking minor…

If President Barack Obama was true to his campaign pledge in ending the war in Iraq, he would have delivered

Article by WorldNews.com Correspondent Dallas Darling.

his speech on August 19 instead of on August 31. Unlike Canadian soldiers who in 1944 marched triumphantly into Dieppe after having defeated Nazi forces, two years earlier on August 19…

President Barack Obama’s instruction to “turn the page” on the Iraq War has set off a new wave of

Rather than any accountability, the neocons and other hawks have retained positions of influence in Washington. Their jobs at prominent think tanks and their access to influential op-ed pages also ensured that when the…

AMMAN - Jordanian and US archaeologists have discovered what they say is a 3,000-year-

Also unearthed more than 300 Moabite artefacts

Archaeologists discover in Jordan 'largest and most complete' Iron Age temple in region.

old Iron Age temple dating…

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following was released today by the Coalition of

African American Muslims (CAAM):

What: Press Conference

When: Thursday, September 2, 2010 1:00 pm

Where: National Press Club 529 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20045

Why: The controversy…

54. Chapter: On the Excellence of Weeping

Allah Almighty says, “Weeping, they fall on their faces in prostration, and it increases them in humility,” (W17:108; H17:109) and the Almighty says, “Are then amazed at this discourse and laugh and do not cry?” (W53;58-59; H53:59-60)

446. Ibn Mas’ud said, “The Prophet, may Allah bless him and grant him peace, said to me, ‘Recite the Qur’an to me.’ I said, ‘O Messenger of Allah, shall I recite…

Muslim men and women across the world are currently observing Ramadan, a month long celebration of self-

2010. (AP Photo/K.M.Chaudary) #

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Muslim girls offer prayers before having their Iftar (fast-breaking)…

Mamoon Alabbasi argues that, five years after Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans, the principal lesson from

By Mamoon Alabbasi

that disaster – the need to put humanity above prejudice and greed – has still not been learnt, and greed and inhumanity can be found in the responses to the Haiti earthquake and the Pakistan floods.…

While the Republican right will be leading their Anti-Mosque Rally at Ground Zero in Manhattan this September

by Michael Carmichael

11th, Dr. Terry Jones will simultaneously launch what he hopes will become a global Anti-Muslim crusade from his modest church in Gainesville, Florida.

Dr.…

A coalition of US Muslims launched a Web-based campaign Monday aimed at countering what they

Front page of MyfaithMyvoice.com

'My Faith, My Voice' campaign seeks to give voice to Muslim Americans facing…

South Sudan vowed on Monday to end its use of child soldiers by the end of the year, as the former

SPLA child soldiers waiting for food

900 south Sudan children remain under arms as 22,000 former child fighters quit…

JERUSALEM (Reuters) – An influential Israeli rabbi has said God should strike the Palestinians and their

Rabbi …

Al Quds 2010

And so it begins. A drunk college student climbs into an NYC cab, asks the driver how long he's been in the

By: Bro. Shyam Sriram

U.S., where he's from, if he's Muslim and if he's celebrating Ramadan. Then the student pulls out…