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Ilhan Omars husband discovered the truth about her torrid affair with her chief fundraiser when he went to her Washington D.C. apartment last spring and found the lovers lounging around in pajamas, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively. Ahmed Hirsi had long …

The Iranian revolution, which took place 41 years ago this week, was not the only seismic event to shake the Gulf and the Middle East that year. In November 1979, Juhayman al-Otaibi, a former corporal in the Saudi National Guard, seized the Ka’aba in Mecca with a Salafi armed group proclaiming…

Dr. Andrew G. Bostom The writer is Associate Professor of Family Medicine, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and the author of The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims, The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History, and, Sharia Versus…

The blog post covers 5 free Qibla direction finder online to perform ritual prayers facing the right direction. In Islam, Qibla is called the Direction which points towards Kaaba (located in Mecca). Kaaba is considered the most im…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday berated the Arab countries that back U.S. President Donald Trump's Middle East plan, charging it as "treasonous." Trump’s Unreal Deal: No Peace, No Plan, No Palestinians, No Point. Listen to Haaretz's podcast "Some Arab countries that support such a plan commit treason against…

More and more footballers, many from Africa, are openly displaying their religious beliefs on the field. An increasingly secular Europe is baffled, but not untouched. Sadio Mané at Liverpool vs. Chelsea, UEFA Super Cup. Image via Wikimedia Commons. For many p…

Rabbi Pirzada, who said goodbye to the singing, performed Umrah and recieved umrah blessing. Rabbi Pirzada had recently reaffirmed his commitment to practice and spread the teachings of religion by leaving the showbiz, and now she has performed Umrah. Rabbi Pirzada posted pictures of the Kaaba during her Umrah on…

On a dusty Cairo street at Souk Al Khayamiyya run seams and stitches holding together Egypts rich cultural tapestry. Luxurious fabrics are delicately laid and interwoven to depict bright blue sparrows, a vase of flowers, geometric maze-like marvels, Quranic …

Any reader of these columns is familiar with the landscape – an intergalactic Star Wars struggle between three blocks of regional powers, as the US retreats in disarray. The struggle for power is played out in one sandbox after another – first Yemen, to Liby…

Led mostly by Muslim women, thousands attended the protest at Eidgah-e-Jadeed on Tannery Road in Bengaluru earlier this week.An all-womens protest which saw the footfall of nearly 5,000 persons occurred at Eidgah-e-Jadeed on Tannery Road in Bengaluru earlier …