Zabiha News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“While Saudi university students in the United States are concerned about Saudi Arabia’s image abroad, efforts to change negative and false stereotypes are being put together by a group of Saudi students at the Indiana University World Fair 2008. [...]

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“American Muslims have been called the “outcasts” of this presidential election. Muslims themselves have told the media that Islam is being treated as “political leprosy”, a “scarlet letter”, or the “kiss of death”. In Pittsburgh, a city with a large Muslim population, the Guardian team heard sentiments like these when we attended a lecture by [...]

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“Here’s something you don’t see every day: Muslim men and women, all unmarried, mingling with one another. That’s taboo in a lot of their cultures. What’s more, the singles attending this Muslim mixer in Sterling, Va., on a recent Saturday morning are not here for idle chitchat.
“I’m definitely not interested in dating. That’s not [...]

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“Many young Muslims in the U.S. clash with their parents over the issue of arranged marriages. There are tensions involving family traditions and the yearning for independence.
Take Mediha Sandhu. The 25-year-old sits in an Internet cafe, texting on her phone. She’s still single, living with her family in Bayonne, N.J., and her whole family is [...]

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“I’m so glad that I set a precedent in Denmark,” 15-year-old Khatib, the star of the national team for girls under 16, told IslamOnline.net.She was recently chosen to join the team after receiving permission from the Danish Football Association (DBU) to be the first ever hijab-clad girl to play for a national team, not [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: Cuba has been offering scholarships to international students willing to study in Cuba and now Pakistan will become the first Muslim country to send students to Cuba.
Cuba has promised to provide halal food, which will be imported and certified halal. Also, Cuban authorities have reserved places for students to perform [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: In a Wall Street Journal article, members of the American Islamic Congress discuss a new campus group founded by Muslims: Project Nur.

Project Nur was formed after a series of confrontations between what the authors claim “hardcore Muslims and cultural Muslims”. The authors quote a GWU student “There is a [...]

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