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Contest dedicated to prominent Islamic scholar started in Dagestan

Russian muftis strengthen cooperation

A pilot project on Islamic banking to be launched in Chechnya and Dagestan

A new mosque to be built in Khakassia

Muslims of Donetsk to receive religious knowledge in Russia

Suleiman Kerimov to finance the construction of the Spiritual Center in Dagestan

Tatarstan Mufti congratulated the Mufti of Crimea on his anniversary

Young talents present start-ups at the All-Russian forum of Muslim youth

Russian Mufti urged to make a film on interreligious friendship

Muhammad is the second most popular name in Kaluga

Spread of Wahhabism was done at request of West during Cold War

The Saudi-funded spread of Wahhabism began as a result of Western countries asking Riyadh to help counter the Soviet Union during the Cold War, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman told the Washington Post.

Speaking to the paper, bin Salman said that Saudi Arabia's Western allies urged the country to invest in mosques and madrassas overseas during the Cold War, in an effort to prevent encroachment in Muslim countries by the Soviet Union.

Arab Spring is West-pushed process out of control

By RT | 14 Jun 2012

Islamists are attempting to capture the initiative of the Arab Awakening, as Ramadan labels it, but it is doubtful they can actually steal the show since they do not have support of the majority of the population in Arab countries.

Finding the Wisdom We Need to Survive

By Robert C. Koehler | Iviews | 31 Mar 2012

I'm far more interested in forgiveness than justice.

I say this just to calm myself down after a morning of media overkill, so to speak. There are so many murdered mothers and children in the news, some with names and faces, so many just adding anonymously to one death toll or another.

Arab Spring not Islamist uprising, says Muslim intellectual

Source : Robert Sibley | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA | 18 Jul 2011

The future of the Arab Spring is "unpredictable," and, indeed, hopes for democracy in the region could be derailed if the political situation becomes too divisive, says a prominent Muslim intellectual. "It is a very difficult reality we have now in these countries (Egypt and Tunisia)," says Tariq Ramadan. "The polarization . could in fact stop the democratic process itself."