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20 Million — According to many estimates, that’s the number of Muslims in Turkey, who oppose the wearing of hijab by Muslim women in universities and schools.

Heeding to that support and in respect of the “secular principles”, Turkey today has a ban on wearing Hijab in universities and schools. The ban has been in place for a few years.

Very recently however, the Turkish government led by Prime Minister Erdogan’s Justice and Development Party in association with the Nationalist Action Party has proposed an amendment to the constitution seeking the removal of a ban on hijab in schools and universities. (more…)

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A summit was held a few months ago in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA to promote a “secular version of Islam“. This Summit was an international forum spearheaded by Muslim secularists and was organized and sponsored by the Center for Inquiry in partnership with the International Intelligence Summit. 

Many who attended issued a declaration at the end of the summit. While many of the clauses of that declaration are in tune with Islam and its teachings, there were others that clearly are based on faulty and presumed premises (e.g. submitting Islamic practices to criticism or condemnation when they violate human reason or rights). The fact is that mainstream Muslims do not believe that any of it’s teachings violate human rights - rather Islam came and through its principles and teachings, it protected the weak, elevated the status of women, lay down rules for protection of minorities in Muslim lands and many other such principles. (more…)

Quran is powerful enough to have driven anti-Islam people to develop websites that propagate false messages about Quran and Islam. Yes…it is true and sometimes unbelievable that people will go to such extra lengths to invest the time to build websites and populate it with misleading content…

What could be the motivation behind such sites? Obviously, it would be difficult to fool Muslims of such websites. The only logic seems to be that they may have a reason to dissuade non-Muslims interested to learn about Islam. (more…)

Browsing for Islamic magazines published from the west, you are sure to be amazed with their growing popularity among the Muslim population residing in the US, Canada and European countries. Some of these accomplished publications regularly feature a comprehensive list of issues that of are great interest to the Muslim community.  Below is a list of the magazines you may find interesting for your reading

Produced by two distinguished women Tayyibah Taylor and Marlina Soerakoesoemah under the banner of WOW Publishing, Inc., ‘Azizha magazine’ is rather a catalyst for empowering Muslim women in North America. The central focus of the publication is to reflect the perspectives and experiences of Muslim women through featured articles, lifestyle topics, special reports, global issues and poetry. (more…)