As ISIS gains more attention and notoriety some seek to place attention on the wider Muslim community and Islam itself. This is to be expected, ISIS after all claim to be an Islamic group, the I in ISIS or IS stands for ‘Islamic’, and they have declared a […]
BBC Hate crime against Muslims in London has risen by 65% over the last 12 months, Metropolitan Police figures show. Islamophobic hate crime offences have increased from 344 to 570 in the last year, with many attacks targeting women wearing traditional Islamic clothing. Asian Network’s Shabnam Mahmood has […]
Muslim Academy Islamic contributions to World History were several, touching such different areas as art, architecture, medicine, agriculture, and technology. The medieval Islamic world, from Central Asia to the shores of the Atlantic, was a world where scholars and men of wisdom flourished. The many references to astronomy […]
RT Hundreds of Muslims have gathered near the Grand Mosque in Paris to condemn the execution of the French tourist, Herve Gourdel, by Islamic State-linked jihadists and the rise of Islamophobia caused by it. The demonstrators were holding up placards, reading “”Tribute to Herve Gourdel” and “God is […]
RT A large group of Islamic theologians addressed the head of the Islamic State in an open letter, articulately accusing the movement of practices that have nothing to do with Islam, even rejecting the extremists’ right to call themselves jihadists. Over a hundred Muslim scholars and clergymen from […]
The Muslim Debate Initiative 