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The American Islamic Outreach Foundation hosted a “Meet your Muslim neighbor” event, inviting thousands of people in the surrounding community to do just that. On Saturday afternoon, a Muslim call to prayer echoed through the Islamic Community Center of South Charlotte, a foreign sound to some inside.

Nigeria’s foremost Shiite Muslim cleric is currently being held in custody after violence broke out between his followers and the Nigerian military. Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky, leader of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN), was detained after deadly clashes between Nigerian soldiers and his followers in the city of Zaria, Kaduna …

She is a beautiful Palestinian girl with a courageous and fervent spirit. She loved her homeland so she devoted herself for it. She refused to let it be forgotten so she exerted every effort. In her school she played a mobilization role that her friends talked about. She was in …

The Islamic Supreme Religious Authority, His Eminence Sayyed Ali al-Sistani has ruled on a game called, “Clash of Clans” where it is, nowadays, played and sold its stages for thousands of dollars. Such a game has been going viral among a large number of the youth where some advanced stages …

More than half of the total population of Yemen, some 14.4 million people, are food insecure due to ongoing conflict and import restrictions, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Thursday. The number of food insecure people has grown by 12 percent since June 2015, UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said …

I went to Zaria to be interviewed by a Journalist from a major daily Nigerian Newspaper about the Zaria massacre. Before I arrived the Journalist was taken to the Ahmadu Bello University Teaching Hospital, Zaria, where some injured victims of the brutal Zaria massacre by the Nigerian Army are recuperating.

Popular leader of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, Sheikh Ibrahim El-Zakzaky was secretly flown out of Nigeria for treatment of gun shot injuries he suffered during the Army’s brutal attack on members of the Movement on Dec. 2015, Vanguard reported yesterday.

Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) at University of Regina in Canada, was getting the conversation going about Islam by handing out roses at the university on Tuesday. The MSA hands out the flowers every year as part of Islam Awareness Week.

Nigerian army soldiers fired six bullets at Sheikh Ibrahim al-Zakzaky, seriously injuring the Shia cleric when they raided his residence to arrest him, says a member of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA). Professor Dahiru Yahaya of Bayero University Kano (BUK), who has visited Sheikh Zakzaky, said he …

An investigation has been launched into the killings of 67 Muslims in Uganda following the fall of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in 1979. Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda, who announced the probe, said a team had been set up to “carry out a thorough verification exercise of all the claims by …