2nd July 2021, marks 121st birth anniversary of Muhammad Asad. He was born as Leopold Weiss in Lviv Ukraine and rose to fame as a journalist, traveler, writer, lin-guist, political theorist, diplomat an Islamic scholar and most importantly as a worker of Pakistan Movement.
During his life time Asad...
Sheikh Said Ismagilov: “Defending the Fatherland is the only way to preserve our dignity”
Thanks to their active civic stand and patriotism, Ukrainian Muslims have managed to win the respect of the rest of society in the past two years of the ordeal that has befallen this country and to arouse...
Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States.
As for political violence, people of Christian heritage in the twentieth century polished off tens...
On Tuesday evening, two Republican presidential candidate hopeful accidentally enraged Ukrainian Americans with a single word: "the." John Kasich and Donald Trump referred to Ukraine as "the Ukraine," a common but unfortunate mistake. Lindsey Graham made the same blunder at the third GOP debate. ...
On Ukraine Today’s Viewpoint, Volodymyr Solohub is joined by Imam Nuridin, Islamic Culture Centre in Kyiv, to discuss the violation of religious and human rights of the Crimean Tatars in Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula which was annexed by Russia last year.
"Some activists among Crimean Tatars, among...
The “Ode to Joy” is the great hymn of Europe. However, more and more Europeans do not sing along to it so fervently when it says: “Be embraced, you millions”. The financial crisis and the controversial payments to the Greeks have seriously shaken the idea of Europe and its foundations. On the...
Ms.Amina Okueva — a surgeon, a volunteer ATO fighter and a public figure — shared her vision of problems Ukrainian blood donation system has, in terms of another benefit of Kyiv Muslim promoting unpaid blood donation (...
Several hundred persons attended the solemn opening of Ichkerian General Isa Munaev’s Commemorable Exposition Stand on Sunday, September 6, despite the heavy rain. Isa was killed in battle near Debaltsevo earlier this year, in February. Personal stand containing the Peoples’ of Icheria and Ukraine...
More than two million people are now refugees or internally displaced due to war but their plight is little reported.
"All our belongings were destroyed. We don't have bed linen, we don't have a fork, we don't have a spoon".
Natalya Beskorovana’s words condense the everyday reality of the majority...
Sheikh Said Ismagilov, mufti, performed a monitoring of the situation in the occupied part of Donbas and shared his information on RISU blog.
"The Holy Ramadan is the most important period of religious calendar for...
Four years ago, Moldova’s Muslims, a tiny minority in this overwhelmingly Orthodox Christian country of 3.56 million, won the legal right to organize. But now, following the arrests of suspected collaborators with Islamic State, they face another daunting challenge – fighting the stereotype that...
