Ashura August 18, 2021 is Ashura (meaning tenth in Arabic) - the most sacred day of the month of Muharram. The Encyclopaedia of Islam says, “When Muhammad came to Medina he adopted from the Jews amongst other days the Ashura. The name...
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Topic: عاشوراء
When is Hajj 2021? The 2021 Hajj will start the evening of July 17 and end on July 22. Because of the Islamic lunar calendar, the exact start dates may vary. This is a time when some 3,000,000 Muslims from...
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Topic: hajj, Islamic Calendar
Below are stories about the Uighur Muslims in Northwest China and the largest mass incarceration of an ethnic group since the Holocaust, an estimated two million since 2015. Do Muslims really believe in the ummah--all Muslims are bound together by...
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The late Ahmed Deedat, an Islamic apologist, made much of the story of Jonah in arguing against the death of Jesus on the cross. Here is an example of his theatrical argumentation, [embed]https://s3.amazonaws.com/bible-quran-video/Ahmed+Deedat+-+Highlights+12+(Jonah+%26+Jesus+1_2).mp4[/embed] Why do Muslims find Deedat's argument...
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Topic: crucifixion, Jesus' death
‘The Thirty-Year Genocide’Review by Gabriel Said ReynoldsJune 2, 2020 A traveler in Ottoman Turkey in the mid-nineteenth century would have discovered a robust and diverse Christian presence of different denominations and ethnicities, including Armenians, Greeks, and Assyrians. There were between...
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