Islamic Culture Foundation 

Functionality, Symbolism, Minarets, Islam & the Swiss
By Rajai Masri
Saturday December 5, 2009
A prominent retired Egyptian Ambassador who last served in a very important Arab country forwarded today to me for wider distribution an urgent write up protesting the Swiss decision as a result of a referendum to stop the issuing of future permits for the […]

Solidarity with Palestine: Crisis Responses and Movement Building
Toronto January 11, 2009
Kole Kilibarda*
* Kole Kilibarda spent ten months in 2004 working in the Balata Refugee Camp near Nablus, Palestine. He is an organizer with the Coalition Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto and can be reached at kole@riseup.net.
As the number of deaths from Israel’s carnage in Gaza […]

Anna Lindh Foundation’s statement on the situation in Gaza
06-01-2009 
* The Anna Lindh Foundation (ALF) expresses its concern and deep anxiety about what has been happening in Gaza over the last few days, and in particular it deplores the number of civilian deaths caused by the Israeli aviation bombings. It also deplores the deaths of […]

Zionist Massacre in Gaza
Source: Neturey Karta International
January 2008
Following is a letter that was sent from Neturei Karta to Dr. Mahmoud Al-Zahar Co-Founder of Hamas: January 25, 2008 To the Honorable Doctor Mamoud Al-Zahar.
“To the Distinguished People of Gaza and the entire Palestine.  Assalam Alaikum.
 May the Almighty’s blessing be on you, your family and all our […]

A Message to the Western World: What a Price Israel!
By Rajai Masri
A Palestinian
No manner of exaggeration AFFIRMATIVELY stating that no more fatal and reversal blunder to the evolution of the process of coming together of humanity around the concept of a world civil society than the Western Democracies’ conspiratorial and imperialist design of the creation […]

By: Sayyid Abul Ala Mawdudi
Source: IslamiCity.com
Jesus or Isa in Arabic (peace be upon him) is of great significance in both Islam and Christianity. However, there are differences in terms of beliefs about the nature and life occurrences of Jesus . There are about 71 verses in the Quran that refer to Prophet Jesus. Following […]

By: Rajai Jerusalem 
“Prayed Al-Fajr prayer this early morning at Al-Aksa Mosque in Beautiful, ever beautiful Jerusalem.  Not the religious person I am, attending prayer symbolized and and signified for me a sign of defiance, a desperate, for desperate stand of affirmation of identity in a fast, very fast obliteration of the Arab identity of the […]

By: Tariq Ramadan
The eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency have accustomed us to so many errors, lies, wilfull distortions and political manipulation. Let us hope that a page is turned in the history of the United States. Since September 2001, the Bush regime has been obsessed by the “global war against terrorism” and the […]

By: Umesh Desai
International Herald Tribune
The global credit crisis presents the $1 trillion Islamic finance industry with an opportunity to expand its appeal beyond Muslim investors, as a haven from speculative excess.
The message may have particular resonance in the West after the crumbling of the U.S. mortgage market left banks holding hundreds of billions of dollars […]

By Margot Badran
10 February, 2006
Countercurrents.org
I gave a talk in Cairo in 2002 titled: “Islamic Feminism: What’s in a Name?” There I explored the paradigm shift in feminism occurring within the Muslim umma at various locations during the 1990s that Muslim observers led in the process of naming Islamic feminism (see Al-Ahram Weekly, 17- 23 January, […]