By Taha Ghayyur / Sound Vision While divorce is not something encouraged by Islam, especially when all the means of reconciliation have not been exhausted, it is not something to be kept hidden from the community. The fact that about a third of the respondents decided to keep their divorce hidden, shows how much stigma divorce still carries in our community.

Categories: Divorce  American Muslims  Family  Islam  Lifestyle  Survey  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By Richard Allen Greene / CNN There are about 1.57 billion Muslims in the world, according to the report, "Mapping the Global Muslim Population," by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life. That represents about 23 percent of the total global population of 6.8 billion.

Categories: The Muslim World  Population  Survey  Islam  

Added: October 09, 2009

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By Zahed Amanullah / altmuslim.com There is a tendency to view Muslim communities only in terms of policy decisions, with little regard to cultures (of both hosts and immigrants), economics, and class. Instead the debate in Britain revolves only around religion. Not all the successes and failures in Britain and America can be tied to religion alone. Blaming clerics is too simplistic.

Categories: Gallup  Muslims in the West  Education  Lifestyle  Survey  

Added: March 05, 2009

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By SAJA Forum Bangladesh, India and Pakistan ranked 64th, 68th and 81st in the latest World Values Survey published by the United States National Science Foundation which surveyed people from 97 countries

Categories: Survey  

Added: July 13, 2008

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