Credit Image Beginning of Story Content A pledge from the European Central Bank to support the shaky bonds of Italy and Spain helped calm investor nerves in Europe Monday despite big losses in Asia following the downgrade of U.S. debt by Standard Poor’s. Though Europe’s main markets in London, Paris and Frankfurt were trading lower, [...]

Tariq Ramadan Urges France to Unite PARIS – Criticizing the anti-Islam rhetoric played by presidential aspirants to win votes, prominent Swiss Muslim intellectual Tariq Ramadan has urged French politicians to work to unite their country. “Instead of talking about halal meat, the burka, national identity and dividing France, you should unite it,” Ramadan told a [...]

ANKARA, 28 Dhul Qadah/26 Oct (IINA)- The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) has assigned $75 million line of finance to Turkey’s Islamic Bank, Turkye Finans Participation Bank. At the 27th meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, (COMCEC), in Istanbul, IDB Group President Dr. Ahmad Mohamed Ali [...]

Thirty people, most of them homeless, have died of hypothermia in recent days in Ukraine, part of a surge of deaths across eastern Europe as the region grapples with an unusually severe cold spell. In all, at least 58 people have died from the cold in Europe over the last week. Of the victims in [...]

Credit Photo: Stock Xchng   Last night in perhaps the most shocking incident to have occurred during the UK riots three Muslim men from Birmingham were killed via a deliberate hit and run incident while defending their city from the mindless criminality. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi rajiun (إِنَّا لِلّهِ وَإِنَّـا إِلَيْهِ رَاجِعونَ).. London Muslim BLog.