American scholar visited the region on fact finding tour.
“Wherever sugar went, slavery followed it like a parasite.” Dr. Umar Faruq Abd’Allah, scholar-in-residence at the Nawawi Foundation,Chicago, U.S.A. Between March 26 and April 7,…
Barbados
Barbados debate: Green space or multi-faith centre?
Barbados Nation newspaper reported that there is a raging debate whether UWI Cave Hill Campus took the best course of action by planning to construct…
Two Muslim students in top three of Martin Luther King essay competition
Two Barbadian Muslim students were recently rewarded for their participation in the Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Competition hosted by the United States Embassy and…
Barbadian Hafiz Degia passed away
Hafiz Muhammad Ibrahim Degia passed away today (Friday January 22nd, 2010) after several years of illness. Hafiz Degia was active in the sixties, seventies and eighties in…
Bajan Muslims celebrate Eid-ul-Fitr
Access the original post in Nation News here. Bridgetown, Barbados: Barbados Nation Online news reported that: MUSLIMS ACROSS BARBADOS celebrated the end of Ramadan, the…
Overview of Barbados Muslims
That Barbados had Muslims on its shores before the arrival of the Europeans is perhaps a reality that hasn’t been proven by physical evidence. Nevertheless,…
Attempted bombing of Barbados Mosque
The Muslim community in Barbados was given a scare Wednesday morning after an unidentified man threw an explosive device into the Mosque at Kensington New…
Muslim women in Barbados plea for access to Masjid
First published in Imam Johari’s blog (click to go to source) I got the following email from a sister in Barbados. We must move away…
U.S. Ambassador hosts first Iftaar for Eastern Caribbean Muslims
The United States Embassy and the regional Islamic Community took a historic step in cementing ties of friendship when Ambassador Mary Ourisman hosted an Iftaar…