Muhammad Badahdah, assistant secretary-general of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth (WAMY), has underlined the need to make use of modern information media, including the highly popular social media, to propagate the message of Islam. Opening a media workshop organised by Chennamangallur Islahiya Association, Jeddah chapter, Badahdah said Muslims should obtain more training in media activities in order to become masters in the field and give the mass media a...

The public prosecutor of Jordan’s State Security Court (SSC) on April 24 officially charged 146 suspects with plotting to carry out “acts of terrorism” that harmed 83 policemen earlier this month, judicial sources said. The defendants, who belong to Salafist groups, were also accused of “conducting riots and provoking sectarian sedition,” according to the indictment statement. The suspects were arrested last week in the wake of clashes with policemen in the city ...

More than 500 people were killed in post-election violence last week in the mostly Muslim north, a Nigerian human rights group said on April 24, and it warned of further unrest during state elections. At least 11 recent college graduates who helped run polling stations as part of the country’s national youth service corps were among those killed and other female poll workers have been raped, police also said.

Nigeria’s Civil Rights Congress (CRC) said more than 500 people ...

At least 115 people have died in violence between government forces and a rebel militia in Southern Sudan this week, an official said on April 24, raising concerns of southern instability ahead of the region’s independence declaration in July. Brig. Malaak Ayuen, the head of the Southern Sudan’s Army Information Department, said fighting between a group of rebels led by Maj. Gen. Gabriel Tanginye in Jonglei state and southern government forces led to 57 people being killed and sco...

Deep divisions within Yemen’s opposition appeared to doom an Arab proposal for the president to step down within a month, raising the prospect of more bloodshed and instability in a nation already beset by deep poverty and conflict. President Ali Abdullah Saleh, who has ruled for 32 years, on April 23 agreed to the Gulf Cooperation Council’s formula for him to transfer power to his vice president within 30 days of a deal being signed in exchange for immunity from ...

Syeeda Hussaini has suffered from neck pain the past few years, to the extent that it’s difficult for her to drive and get a good night’s rest. So on a recent weekend, she, her husband, and their three kids loaded up the car and drove less than a mile to Mattress Firm. Her husband, Mohammad, encouraged her to lie on different beds to see which one felt best. She said the store manager approached, but oddly didn’t want to help. He told the family that he wouldn’t sell t...