Event Review: Islamic Finance Services Conference (ISFC) 2013
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Event Review: Islamic Finance Services Conference (ISFC) 2013 Date of Event: 1 October 2013 Venue: Orchard Hotel Singapore Time: 8:30am – 5:00pm Organisers: Gulf Asia Shariah Compliant Investments Association (GASCIA), Singapore Business Federation, Singapore Malay Chamber of Commerce and Industry[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Like a fish out of the water, I was baffled with all the […]
Circumcision in Islam: A Meaningless Tradition Worth Discarding?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]About a week ago, in the midst of raging hijab debates and raucous Halloween debaucheries, The Real Singapore, a local alternative news website, did something rather strange and wholly unnecessary. It decided to publish an article, written by a Muslim man, on his disdain for male circumcision. This was more trick than treat. […]
Being Grateful Makes You Healthier, No Kidding.
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]As individuals we can be different in many ways, from our personalities to our preferences to our physical appearances. But there is one universal and fundamental element that has been encoded into our DNA. It’s the one thing we all have in common and that is the desire to be happy. Everybody wants to […]
Today, I Saw My Grandparents’ Bones
Dear reader, I am not sure what benefit this note will bring you, or how it might affect you. I am writing this because I need to tell someone what’s going on inside of me. Because right now, it feels like I am going to implode. Earlier this year, I accompanied my father to the […]
Event Review: Ustadh Nouman Ali Khan “Rediscovering the Fatihah”
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]What: Rediscovering the Fatihah Where: Sunctec City Convention Center Who: Ustazh Nouman Ali Khan When: 7 September 2013 By: Bayyinah Institute (USA) and Youth Alive Discourse (MUIS)[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_gallery type=”flexslider_fade” interval=”3″ images=”4804,4805″ onclick=”link_no” custom_links_target=”_self” img_size=”400×280″][vc_column_text]For any avid follower of Ustazh Nouman Ali Khan who has been voraciously reading his articles and watching his talks and […]
Event Review: The Singapore Muslim Youth Debate Grand Finals (2013)
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Organizers: Youths of Darul Arqam (YODA) and Darul Arqam Singapore Date, Time & Venue: 28th September 2013, 2pm-5pm, Masjid Sultan Auditorium. Motion: Cultural and Religious Diversity in Singapore is Tolerated But Not Celebrated. Teams: Praxis – Proposition (Winners) 1) Noor Hanisah 2) Siti Nur Atiqah (Best Speaker) 3) Nur Zahirah 4) Muhammad Haziq 5) […]
Fresh Attacks on Muslims in Myanmar by Hardline Buddhists
BANGKOK — Six Muslims has died and dozens of homes destroyed, amid a resurgence of religious violence in western Myanmar, a senior police officer said Wednesday. The deaths and the burning of houses in and around the city of Thandwe occurred Tuesday, just hours before President Thein Sein arrived in the area on Wednesday as […]
An Open Letter to “Islamic” Extremists
Dear “Islamic” Extremists, As you would have noticed, I used quotation marks around the word Islamic because there is nothing Islamic about what you are doing. Your status in the sight of Allah is between you and Him so I will not go so far as to commit takfir on you, like you are wont […]
Al-Shabaab Attacks Kenyan Shopping Mall and Leave 68 Dead
Shabaab militant attackers held civilians hostage in Westgate Shopping Mall since Sunday as the Kenya Defense Forces tries to save the remaining 10 hostages. Security forces have already saved more than 1,000 since the violence started on Saturday. The assault on Westgate was the deadliest terrorist attack in Kenya since the 1998 Qaeda truck bombing of […]
Underground water reserve discovered in drought-stricken Kenya
Scientists in Kenya have discovered a massive underground reserve that could allow the drought-ravaged country to meet its water needs for the next 70 years. Discovered in the desert of Kenya’s Turkana region, the Lotikipi Basin Aquifer contains more than 200 billion cubic meters of fresh water, and is about the size of Rhode Island. All […]
Watch what an American soldier says when he overhears anti-Muslim comments
The bigot and the Muslim are both actors, but their small social experiment proves that there are still good souls out there.
Finding the Prophet in his People
I spent a lot of time looking at art the year before I became a Muslim. Completing a degree in Philosophy and Fine Arts, I sat for hours in darkened classrooms where my professors projected pictures of great works of Western art on the wall. I worked in the archives for the Fine Arts department, […]
Food Review: Pho 4A
The name of this restaurant is definitely very unique. PHO 4A – it sounded like a tag to a robotic creature out there. That’s my first reaction to the name. However, PHO 4A is actually a new Halal Vietnamese restaurant which recently opened its doors about the Bugis area – to be more precise, the […]
Andalusian Adventure: A Honeymoon across Granada, Cordoba, and more
[imagebrowser id=13] After a couple of days to rest after the hustle and bustle of our wedding, my wife and I were on a flight heading to Barcelona’s El Prat Airport for our Spanish honeymoon. We’d considered various other options before settling on Spain, including Turkey, the Maldives, and others. We finally decided on Spain […]
More than 200 killed in poisonous gas attack in Syria
The Associated Press news agency has reported that 2 Syrian pro-opposition groups are claiming that government forces carried out a “poisonous gas” attack near the capital Damascus, leaving dozens of people dead on early Wednesday, 21 August 2013. The two groups quote activists as saying that regime forces fired “rockets with poisonous gas heads” in the […]
