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Patna: A class 12 students was thrashed by two police officers and locked up behind bars for three days for speaking in English. The incident happened in Khagaria district of Bihar when policemen perceived him as arrogant for speaking in a foreign language. Abhishek Kumar approached Chautham police station with the owner’s book of his uncle’s bike and to visit his uncle who was in custody in a bike-theft case. On enquiring why his uncle was being kept in custody even after providing documents, he was thrashed by policemen. Abhishek had asked, “What is the reason behind his detention?” “The police officers apparently did not understand my question in English. More than that, they saw my speaking in English as a display of arrogance,” Abhishek said as per a report by DC. Abhishek was admitted to a hospital due to wounds on his legs and back. DSP Ramanand Sagar who found the two policemen guilty suspended them from service on Friday. Bihar policemen often discourage peopl...

New Delhi: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Saturday praised Imam Rashidi of Asansol and Yashpal Saxena from Delhi, as both of them appealed for peace despite losing their sons in communal violence. He also asserted that his party will not allow ideology of BJP and RSS to win. “After losing their sons due to hate and communalism, messages from Yashpal Saxena and Imam Rashidi show that love will always defeat hatred in India. “The foundation of Congress rests on compassion and mutual brotherhood. We will not allow the hatred spreading BJP/RSS ideology to win,” Gandhi tweeted in Hindi attaching messages from both the fathers. View image on Twitter Rahul Gandhi ✔ @RahulGandhi अपने बेटों को नफरत और सम्प्रदायिकता के कारण खोने के बाद यशपाल सक्सेना और इमाम रशीदी के संदेश ये दिखाते हैं कि हिन्दुस्तान में हमेशा प्यार नफरत को हराएगा। कांग्रेस की नींव भी करुणा और आपसी भाईचारे पर टिकी है। हम नफरत फैलाने वाली BJP/RSS की विचारधारा को जीतने नहीं देंगे। 4:38 PM...

Q uestions: As-salamu `alaykum. Thanks for having this service. I’m sure it helps many people in the Islamic community. My issue has to do with my daughter. She is 15 years old and refuses to listen to her parents. We think she has had somewhere between 19 and 24 boyfriends in the last 2 years. We know that she has been sexually active with at least 7 guys. One time we found her in our home giving oral sex to a young man. We asked her why she does this, and she says she likes to be popular with the guys. She says giving them what they want allows her to get drives in cars and her lunches are paid for at the nearby mall during school lunch hour. We give her lunch to take to school. She says she hates curry food and that American food is the only standard of food she can eat. She also refuses to wear hijab and says tight jeans and low cut tops are the fashion. We ask our daughter what she wants to be when she grows up and she says a female escort. We have taken her to the do...

Egyptian has dug deep to gift Cairo’s 57357 Children’s Hospital 12 million Egyptian pounds for new equipment MO SALAH has cemented his hero status in Egypt – by donating £500,000 to a children’s hospital. The Liverpool striker is enjoying an epic season, scoring 32 goals in 38 games. Salah, 25, recently touched the hearts of his home nation by helping fund a bone marrow transplant for a young boy. The former Chelsea frontman has now dug deep to gift Cairo’s 57357 Children’s Hospital 12 million Egyptian pounds. The money, worth just under £500,000, will go towards buying medical equipment used to treat young cancer sufferers. Mostafa Zamzam, chief trustee of a charity linked to the hospital, revealed Salah’s generous donation on social media.

In some foreign countries – kafir (non-Muslim) countries – there is the well-known custom of April Fools, which happens on the first day of April. Some Muslims are imitating them in this, thinking that it is permissible to tell lies on this day… what is your opinion on this belief and on this custom? Praise be to Allah Lying is not permissible at all, at any time. And it is not permissible to imitate the kuffar (non-Muslims) and to be like them, on this day or on any other, because the Prophet (peace and blessings of Allah be upon him) said: “Whoever imitates a people is one of them.”   And Allah knows best.

How Did I “End up” a Muslim? That’s the question I often get asked, but, in my opinion, it’s more of a how did I get so lucky to see the mercy, love and peace in Islam, especially in a world where Muslims are often untolerated and misunderstood. As I sit here listening to the Quran, I try to think back to the moment I became Muslim but it wasn’t a moment, a split decision, nor a quick change… It was over a period of two years from first resisting any religion, to trying to convince my Muslim partner that Islam is man-made, like all other religions, to discovering the truth about Islam. Oftentimes, my heart would beat faster, the hair on my arms would stand up straight and my jaw would literally fall open with shock at all the things I learned. However, back to the beginning, I now know that there is a thing called ‘Qadar Allah’ – i.e. preordained destiny. Your life is already perfectly planned and mapped out, but I didn’t always have that conviction… I believed t...

War shattered 14-year-old Manaal’s dreams for the future. Now safe in the Netherlands, with new friends, her spirits are soaring once more. “I have only been in an airplane once and that is when we arrived here from Somalia,” says Manaal, who fled the country with her family. “In the airplane, I felt butterflies in my stomach the whole time. I saw a movie about a stewardess and she looked so pretty and smart that I decided I want to become a stewardess as well.” Twenty-eight long years of conflict have left Somalia reeling. The peaceful canals and cafes of Amsterdam, where Manaal found safety in 2014 , have offered the youngster a refuge she could barely have imagined. Manaal is one of 12 refugee and asylum-seeking children living in Europe who star in a new project that lets their imagination run free. Titled The Dream Diaries, the project sees the young refugees and asylum-seekers reveal their hopes and dreams from the safety of their new homes in Austria, Belgium, G...

As thousands of Rohingya refugees  streamed into the Kutupalong area from Myanmar last September, he did not hesitate when a group of exhausted families asked if they could use some of his lands for temporary shelter. “Seeing their sufferings, I couldn’t bear it anymore, which is why I agreed to let them stay on my land,” says the father of three. “Many of them brought rice on their own, I provided them firewood and vegetables and fish.” At first, Karim allowed 40 of the families to stay in his home, surrounded by rice paddies, mangrove trees, and vegetable plots. After nine days, the newcomers were able to build their own makeshift shelters with materials provided by UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency. Among those Karim sheltered was 26-year-old Abul Manzur, who fled attacks by Myanmar troops and militia. He trekked for weeks in search of safety before finally settling on Karim’s land. “We have never been disturbed by anyone since we got here,” says Manzur with evide...

Russian based news agency operated by KGB agents has spread the news that Saudi Crown Prince admitted that West demanded the spread of Wahabism during cold-war with Soviet union. The news quotes WashingtonPost, while the original news article never mentions what RT misconstrued. The Crown Prince never used the word Wahabism in any of his interviews to date. The word is a phobia the western journalist love to use in their questions. He said “Investments in mosques and madrassas overseas were rooted in the Cold War, when allies asked Saudi Arabia to use its resources to prevent inroads in Muslim countries by the Soviet Union,” he was quoted as saying. “We have to get it all back,” he said. He went on to say funding now comes largely from Saudi-based “foundations”, rather than from the government. “I believe Islam is sensible, Islam is simple, and people are trying to hijack it,” he said. Bin Salman said lengthy discussions with clerics have been positive ...

KOLKATA: In an unprecedented gesture, an imam of a mosque in West Bengal’s Asansol on Thursday at religious congregation appealed Muslims for peace and harmony by urging them not to retaliate his son’s murder. Imam Maulana Imdadul Rashidi even threatened to leave the mosque and town if Muslims did not pay heed to his appeal, The Indian Express reported. The Imam made thousands of people gathered at the Eidgah Maidan cry because of his passionate speech made soon after the burial of his son, Sibtullah Rashidi. “I want peace. My boy has been taken away. I don’t want any more families to lose their loved ones. I don’t want any more houses to burn. I have already told the gathering that I will leave Asansol if there is any kind of retaliation. I told them that if you love me, you will not raise a finger,” said Rashidi, Imam of Noorani Mosque in Chetladanga Nadi Par. “I have been an Imam for the last 30 years. It is important that I give the right message to the people — a messa...