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The Prophet (ﷺ) said, "Amongst the men of Bani Israel there was a man who had murdered ninety-nine persons. Then he set out asking (whether his repentance could be accepted or not). He came upon a monk and asked him if his repentance could be accepted. The monk replied in the negative and so the man killed him. He kept on asking till a man advised to go to such and such village. (So he left for it) but death overtook him on the way. While dying, he turned his chest towards that village (where he had hoped his repentance...

Former devout Catholic, Walter Veith, presents the evidence that Islam was created by Roman Catholicism. VIDEO https://youtu.be/qZRj-CleopA

“My name is Dimas, like the good thief,” he says with that smile that characterizes many Asians. He tells us about his life and how his mother, a Muslim, converted to Catholicism.Dimas Kusuma Wijaya is a young seminarian from Indonesia who is in Pamplona studying at the University of Navarra and resides and is training at the International Seminary of Bidasoa. He welcomes us with a smile while we have an interview about his life, his family, and his call to vocation.A seminarian in a family of thirteen Muslim brothers“Indonesia is one of the countries in the world with the...

Kosovo, the war-torn Muslim-majority Balkan nation of 1.5 million people has witnessed a growing trend of Muslims converting to Catholicism. A group called the Decanski Movement Association has been promoting the voluntary exit from Islam, while also preserving Albanian national identity and values under the motto: “We are no longer Muslims.” Catholicism is seen as the original faith of majority Albanians living in Kosovo, and neighboring Albania, by these representatives of the movement. They argue that emotionally, Albanians have always connected with the Catholic religion, but they remained in hiding as “crypto-Catholics” and practiced Catholicism only in their personal spaces...

He had no doubts at first, but slowly they emerged. He was struck, he says, by the fact that the first coins bearing Muhammad’s name did not appear until the late 7th century — six decades after the religion did. He traded ideas with some scholars in Saarbrücken who in recent years have been pushing the idea of Muhammad’s nonexistence. They claim that “Muhammad” wasn’t the name of a person but a title, and that Islam began as a Christian heresy. Prof. Kalisch didn’t buy all of this. Contributing last year to a book on Islam, he weighed the odds...

...The series, “Muawiya,” tells the story of Muawiya ibn Abi Sufyan, a major figure in early Islam. He was one of Islam’s early rulers and the founder of the Umayyad dynasty — the first hereditary rulers in Islam where power passed down within the same clan. He was also a reputed companion of the Prophet Muhammad. this chronicles events in seventh century that led to Islam’s first civil war between Sunnis&Shiites. The show was produced by a media conglomerate in Saudi Arabia, which, like most other Middle Eastern countries, is dominated by Sunnis. Some in Shiite Iran and Iraq, one...

I recently had a passionate debate with a German friend about whether Islam lies at the root of the dysfunction in Islamic societies and whether it can be reformed. Like many of my privileged Western liberal friends, his understanding of the Islamic world seems to rest on a brief visit to the Egyptian pyramids and perhaps a guided city tour through Istanbul. He offered the usual well-meaning but tired arguments I've heard countless times. When I asked whether he had read the Quran or the Hadiths, he admitted he hadn't yet insisted that Islam wasn't the problem—it was merely a...

(RNS) — For Muslims, the monthlong fast of Ramadan is an occasion to deepen one’s knowledge of Islam and congregate with loved ones to break fast at sunset. But for Muslims who are incarcerated, it can be a month of frustration as prison schedules aren’t set with Ramadan’s daily rhythms in mind. Prisoners who observe Ramadan, who don’t take any food or water between sunrise and sundown, are often forced to break their fasts when eating is not officially permitted, or are not allowed to congregate for Eid al-Fitr, the celebration marking the end of the holy time. Instead of...

RNS) — On a Tuesday night at J.R. Tucker High School in Richmond, Virginia, parents and faculty guided students as they put final touches on simple tablescapes and two buffet tables. Last-minute stragglers carrying trays of food were directed to one of two tables: dates and other snacks to break the day’s Ramadan fast over here, bigger plates for dinner over there. I walked in with a large tray of keema thahari, a rice and spiced ground beef dish, but minus my own son, a junior at a different school, who had chosen to stay home because he was feeling...

Islamic populations are said to have lower IQs due to inbreeding. This characteristic may extend to the UK, as Two-Tier Keir and friends progressively impose Islam. Via Daily Mail: Keir Starmer [on Wednesday] signalled Labour would block a Tory MP’s bid to introduce a legal ban on first cousins being able to marry in England and Wales. … Current laws state the prohibited degrees of relationship for marriage include those to a sibling, parent or child, but not marriages between first cousins. As progressivism progresses, existing laws will be repealed as necessary to conform to Muslim custom. Conservative MP shadow...

Cardinal Cupich praises Muslim ‘brothers and sisters’ at annual ‘Iftar’ dinner for RamadanThe liberal Chicago cardinal has received intense criticism on social media for attending a 'Muslim-Catholic Iftar.'Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich is under fire for attending an annual Muslim-Catholic “Iftar” dinner.“Happy to be at the … Muslim-Catholic Iftar in Morton Grove tonight to break the daily fast observed by our Muslims brothers and sisters during Ramadan,” Cupich said on X yesterday.Cupich is one of the most liberal members of the clergy in the United States. He has attended multiple Iftar dinners in the past, dating to at least 2016. His...

Each year, tens of thousands of inmates in the U.S. are converting to Islam while incarcerated. The latest installment of the "CBS Mornings" series "The State of Spirituality with Lisa Ling" explores why the faith is connecting with so many behind bars. Converting to Islam in prison Most days, Rami Nsour heads to his local post office to find his mailbox stuffed with letters from incarcerated people from all over the country seeking his spiritual guidance and Islamic education resources. Nsour is the founding director of the Tayba Foundation, the first organization in the U.S. to offer a distance-learning program...

Two men were publicly flogged in Indonesia after they were found guilty of sexual relations by a court operating under strict Islamic law. While gay sex is not illegal elsewhere in Indonesia - the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation -, it is outlawed in the conservative Aceh province, which imposes a version of sharia, the Islamic legal code. The flogging began before midday on Thursday at a park in provincial capital Banda Aceh, with one man accused of instigating the relationship lashed 82 times and the second man 77 times. Both were caned with a rattan stick as dozens watched...

Saudi Arabia has announced significant changes for the 2025 Hajj pilgrimage, including a new rule prohibiting children from accompanying pilgrims. The Ministry of Hajj and Umrah stated that the decision was made to protect children from the dangers of overcrowding during the pilgrimage, which sees millions of worshippers gathering annually. The ministry emphasized that the restriction aims to safeguard young children from potential risks associated with managing large crowds in hazardous situations. The move is also intended to make the pilgrimage experience more seamless for all attendees. Priority for First-Time Pilgrims First-time pilgrims will be given preference for the 2025...

This is the horrific moment a teenage boy snatched a young girl as she worshipped in a mosque and then sexually assaulted her behind closed doors. The 19-year-old suspect, since seized by police, was caught in the act on security CCTV at the mosque in Batang Kali, Selangor, Malaysia, on February 21. In the grim footage, the suspect wearing a yellow T-shirt can be seen emerging from an office and running behind a row of praying women. As all women are knelt down, he can be seen picking up the young girl, who appears to be no older than 10....

The world's first openly gay imam has been killed after he was shot in a drive-by shooting after allegedly officiating a Lesbian wedding. Muhsin Hendricks, 57, was ambushed in his car on Saturday morning while he was travelling in the South African city of Gqeberha. The Muslim cleric ran a mosque in Cape Town which was intended to be a safe haven for LGBTQ Muslims. His Al-Ghurbaah Foundation, which runs the Masjidul Ghurbaah mosque in the Wynberg suburb of Cape Town, confirmed he had died in a targeted attack on Saturday morning, BBC News reported. Shocking CCTV footage from the...

In Britain under moonbat rule, basic public safety is sacrificed for the sake of pandering obsequiously to the Islamic colonists the government has imported to displace the native population yet again: Police released a mugshot of a woman convicted of terrorism offences wearing a niqab – after she complained an earlier custody image showed her without a head covering. The niqab hides her face, completely defeating the purpose of the mugshot. But the proper mugshot caused her “distress” according to her lawyer. Jurors heard Farishta Jami, 36, had been preparing to travel to Afghanistan with her children, planning for them...

The UK is suffering from a “tidal wave of Islamophobia,” the outgoing leader of one of the country’s largest Muslim bodies has warned. Zara Mohammed has served as the first female leader of the Muslim Council of Britain since 2021, and through her tenure tackled nationwide riots last year, the COVID-19 pandemic, and being frozen out of government contact. Ahead of her departure as MCB general secretary on Saturday, Mohammed spoke to the BBC about the difficulties she has faced over the last four years. “It was the Southport riots for us that made it really quite alarming,” she said,...

(Photo by Krakenimages.com on Shutterstock) TEL AVIV — As the Middle East grapples with ongoing conflict even amid the ceasefire, Arab citizens of Israel are showing increasing support for political integration and normalization with neighboring states. A new survey reveals that over 70% now favor Arab party participation in government coalitions, while more than half view potential Israeli-Saudi diplomatic relations positively—findings that suggest a significant shift in community attitudes. The survey, conducted by the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University’s Moshe Dayan Center, comes at a pivotal moment in Israeli history. “The war between Israel and...

Two men chatting in front of a church in the village of Llapushnik, Kosovo, where a baptism ceremony took place in November The Catholic priest stood at the altar in the hilltop church for the mass baptism, dunking dozens of heads in water and tracing a cross with his finger on each forehead. Then he rejoiced at Christianity’s recovery of souls in a land where the vast majority of people are Muslim — as the men, women and children standing before him had been. The ceremony was one of many in recent months in Kosovo, a formerly Serbian territory...