By Thom Chiumia, Nyasa Times President Joyce Banda on Friday wished Malawi Muslims well in the occasion of Eid-e-Milad, marking the birth anniversary of Prophet Mohammad. Malawi Muslims join the rest of the world to mark the day of the birth of Islam leader, Prophet Muhammad –Peace Be Upon Him (PBUH). State House Press Officer […]
Muslims in Malawi today (October 26) have joined their counterparts around the world in celebrating Eid al Adha (festival of sacrifice). During the four-day religious holiday which starts with prayers in various mosques Muslims slaughter animals and share it to friends and needy. National Coordinator of the Malawi Islamic Information Bureau, Sheik Dinala Chabulika, says Eid al […]
Malawi Muslims have announced that their plans to open a university in the country to promote modern education among Muslims will have to come to fruition and that they should also establish an Islam Television station. A communiqué issued by the Muslim Supreme Council of Malawi, the Muslim Association of Malawi, and the Qadria Muslim […]
Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) chairperson Sheikh Idrissa Muhammad says the administration of Joyce Banda has tried to uplift Moslems in the country than all its predecessors. Sheikh Muhammed told Vice President Khumbo Kachali during the Ijtima – largest Muslim gathering – in Blantyre on Sunday, not to expect all Malawians to appreciate all the good things President […]
The national coordinator of the Islamic Information Bureau, Sheik Dinala Chabulika, says Muslims all over the world including Malawi are being provoked with the recent release of anti-Islam video trailer and the publishing of cartoons of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Muslims consider any representation of Prophet Muhammad offensive. Chabulika said Malawian Muslims would protest “peacefuly” against the YouTube video clip […]
Representatives of the Muslim Association of (Malawi MAM) says they have no plans hold demonstration protesting against the US anti-Islam Film which depicts the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) as a womanizer and a warmonger. MAM’s General Secretary Sheik Dr Salmin Omar Idruss was reacting to reports that some Muslims are planning to match to […]
The country’s influential Islamic body, the Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) has reacted angrily to an anti-Islam film Made in the United States of America that mocks Islam. The film depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womaniser and leader of a group of men who enjoy killing. Clips were distributed online with an Arabic voice-over. […]
Representatives of the Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) are asking Member of Parliament for Chiradzulu East Constituency, Henry Mussa, to apologise to the Muslim community for incorrect use of scared Islamic words. In a statement which Nyasa Times possesses issued Wednesday signed by MAM’s Secretary General Dr Salmin Omar, the Muslim mother body is accusing […]
Many Muslims across the country are calling on the resignation of Muslim Association of Malawi (MAM) Chair Sheikh Idrissah Mohammad for allegedly being money hungry. The MAM Chair has allegedly been cunningly and unrelentlessy travelling up and down in all the three regions calling on Muslims to support Peter Mutharika, the younger brother of the […]
All programs on Malawi’s only Islamic radio station, Radio Islam were suspended on Wednesday from morning to midnight when the station closes except its 7:30 p.m news bulletin which comes back to back in English and Chichewa. Instead the station was airing Quran recitations and condolence messages as one way of mourning the death of […]
Authorities of Zomba Islamic High School were engaged in quarrelled over money which was donated by President Bingu wa Mutharika. On Friday the 17th February, Rev. Dr. Billy Gama, a presidential advisor of religious affairs, went to Zomba Islamic High School as a visit made in response to an appeal made by the Chairman of […]
Muslims in Malawi are strongly accusing the country’s state president Bingu wa Mutharika as the one wholly responsible for the failure of this year’s Islamic annual gathering known by an Arabic word, Ijtima. Information reaching Nyasa Times indicates that the National organizing committee for the gathering had planned to hold the Ijtima early September but […]
Some of the Malawi’s Muslims who have just returned from this year’s Hajj prayers in the Saudi Arabia’s City of Mecca are complaining of ill-treatment they got from authorities of one of the local organizers of the trip during their stay there. One of the sheikhs, who went for the Hajj prayers under the aegis […]
Some Muslims in Malawi are pressurizing members of the organizing committee for this year’s annual Muslims gathering known as Ijtima in Arabic to refund the money they collected from them for the event. According to a story monitored on Radio Islam, this comes after reports that the committee will not able to organize the IJTIMA […]
Trouble is brewing among Muslims in Malawi following revelations that some leaders of their association in the country are cunningly enticing members to support the candidacy of President Bingu wa Mutharika’s young brother, Peter, for the 2014 presidential polls. The development comes after some senior members of the Muslims Association of Malawi (MAM) reportedly connived […]