Radical Islam in the Caribbean Basin: A Local Problem or a Global Threat?
Radical Islam in the Caribbean Basin: A Local Problem or a Global Threat? Introduction On June 2, 2007, U.S. federal authorities announced that they broke…
BILAL MUSLIM MISSION OF AMERICAS
BILAL MUSLIM MISSION OF AMERICAS Bilal Muslim Mission of Americas was incorporated in October 1993 in New York USA as a non-profit corporation with IRS…
Young Muslim businessman kidnapped for ransom in Trinidad
NAAIL ALI, 26, was kidnapped outside his family’s Gasparillo hardware at about 8.45 am yesterday by three armed men and up to late yesterday, no…
Muharram Ritual and the Carnivalesque in Trinidad
Muharram Ritual and the Carnivalesque in Trinidad Beginning in the 19t h century, a wave of indentured workers were brought by the British from India…
Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience
Prayer in the Surinam-Javanese Diasporic Experience The Surinam-Javanese community in the Netherlands is divided over the question of the prayer direction; some perform their prayers…
Muslim and Missionaries of Trinidad
The Caribbean has seen two waves of Muslim migration, the first wave of which was comprised of slaves from Africa. Indentured labourers of India, who…
Muslim Women in Trinidad
Muslim Women in Trinidad Until recently we didn’t pay much attention to Muslims living next door, in the Caribbean and Latin America–not even to one…
Trinidad & Tobago Muslim Marriage & Divorce Regulations
Trinidad & Tobago Muslim Marriage & Divorce Regulations LAWS OF TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO. 4. Chap. 45:02. Muslim Marriage and Divorce. 20. Filing of certificate and…
Reaction to the introduction of divorce law into Trinidad in 1931.
Reaction to the introduction of divorce law into Trinidad in 1931. The attached scanned document illustrates the reaction of Trinidad’s population to the introduction of…
Religious diversity in the Indian-Trinidadian community
Religion has always been central to Indian life. As D.N Vidyarthi put it (from ‘130 Years – Challenge and Transition’):”Whatever else our ancestors might have…