SHAFAQNA- A South Korean state-run tourism promotion agency is pushing to introduce a “Muslim-friendly certificate” for local restaurants where visitors could be served well-prepared halal food, industry sources said Thursday. According to the sources, the Korea Tourism Organization (KTO) plans to l...

During the Utah presidential caucus, Republican voters in the state rejected Trump by a wide margin. Jeremy Pope, the co-director of the Center for Elections and Democracy at Brigham Young University, said rhetoric aimed at Islam was one of many factors that caused the state to vote against Trump. T...

SHAFAQNA- Popular Malaysian actress Noor Neelofa Mohd Noor (pic) is taking legal action against a textile company in Vietnam for copying her hijab (headscarf) designs. The creator of Naelofar Hijab said work is ongoing to register her trademark in Vietnam to allow for the legal action to be taken. A...

Commentary of the Quran (Chapter 2:41; Part-1)By: Mohammad Sobhanie Divine Advices to the Children of Israel بِسْمِ اللَّـهِ الرَّحْمَـٰنِ الرَّحِيمِوَآمِنُوا بِمَا أَنزَلْتُ مُصَدِّقًا لِّمَا مَعَكُمْ وَلَا تَكُونُوا أَوَّلَ كَافِرٍ بِهِ ۖ وَلَا تَشْتَرُوا بِآيَاتِي ثَمَنًا قَلِيلًا وَإِيَّايَ فَات...

SHAFAQNA – How fickle a friend Britain proved to be when following much political grand-standing and calls for a very “humanitarian intervention” against the Gaddafi regime in Libya (2011), Britain could only master £50, 000 towards Libya’s reconstruction came 2016. Following what can only be descri...

SHAFAQNA – Islam has often been represented by Christian writers as a religion which not only tolerated slavery but also encouraged it. This is a serious accusation levelled against Islam, and in this book I propose to show its falsity. I would have taken, if possible, the charitable view that the c...

SHAFAQNA – Events in Oromia have been described as the worst civil unrest in a decade. “This gove ment is at least better than previous ones,” remarked a 74-year-old Eritrean man to me last month in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, his longtime residence. Clad in a tattered grey suit and speaki...

SHAFAQNA – Lawyers who have gained access to the detained leader of Nigeria’s Islamic Movement (IMN) have called on the Nigerian gove ment to release him unconditionally and without delay. Femi Falana was among a group of activist lawyers recently allowed to see Sheikh Ibraheem Zakzaky who has been ...

SHAFAQNA – Imam Ali (AS) said: It is not appropriate that the servant of God to rely on two characteristics; health and wealth; because while in good health you suddenly see him/her an ill person, and in wealth suddenly you see him/her in poverty [1]. [1] Nahjul Balaghah, Wisdom 426. SHARE Facebook ...

SHAFAQNA – It is narrated from Imam Sadeq (AS) who said: The house in which Haram music and singing are played, is not immune from painful calamities, and prayers are not accepted in that house, and angels do not enter that house [1]. [1] Da’aaemal Islam, Vol. 2, page 280. SHARE Facebook Twitter Pre...

SHAFAQNA – Abu Baseer who was a close companion of Imam Sadeq (AS) has narrated that he was with Imam Sadeq (AS) when a man came to Imam (AS) and asked: O’ the son of the Prophet (PBUH), I have a neighbour who hires music players and singers (to play in his house), sometimes when I go to my washroom...

William H. Reynolds Memorial Carillon Recital will be held at UC Riverside on Saturday, Feb. 28. SHAFAQNA-UC Riverside police are still investigating anti-Muslim incidents at the university’s Department of Ethnic Studies that appeared to have happened over spring break. UCR Assistant Vice Chancellor...

SHAFAQNA- Sounds like this teacher could use some sensitivity training — or just a clue about what is and isn’t an appropriate way to speak to children. Seventh-grader Waleed Abushaaban, who attends middle school in Fort Bend County, Texas, says his teacher called him a “terrorist” during class. Can...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA- A group of students from a nearby art school hosted what they called a “hijab wrap challenge” in one New York City’s most popular parks, Union Square, late last week. The point of the challenge, according to one student, Karina, was to help New Yorkers who do not usually...

SHAFAQNA – Being Muslim in the West is no easy task … In between the name-calling, terror-shaming and allegations that Islam is pretty much the inca ation of evil … only foreign-looking, our mode , well-thinking Judeo-Christian Society is decidedly, and most certainly not tolerant of Muslims … never...

SHAFAQNA – A new Islamic cultural center project has recently been proposed for New York City, commissioned by the NYC-based American Society for Muslim Advancement and designed by Buro Koray Duman, an architecture studio based in New York. The proposed building would be a 100,000 square feet Islami...

SHAFAQNA – ISIS terrorist group released a video on Tuesday suggesting it may carry out further attacks in the West, naming London, Berlin and Rome as possible targets. “If it was Paris yesterday, and today Brussels, Allah knows where it will be tomorrow. Maybe it will be in London or Berlin or Rome...

SHAFAQNA – In dealing with terrorism, generally speaking, one should be aware that radical religious violence in society in the East as well as in the West is very much the result of what happening in the Middle East. Nowadays, the world is like a small village and the information is at the tip of o...

SHAFAQNA – A suicide blast rocked Parwan in northe Afghanistan earlier today leaving nearly 30 people dead, local officials said. The incident took place in Seya Gerd district but the target of the attack has not been ascertained so far. Seya Gerd district administrative chief confirmed that the inc...

SHAFAQNA – Usually those who lie, do so for two reasons: Either for the sake of attracting the benefits or to ward off the losses; these are the roots of lying. A person lies when there is a fear of losing benefits or profits; for example for the sake of not losing a customer, a person lies. Or on t...