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 […]
Vice president Khumbo Kachali has been earmarked as guest of honour at Muslim’s Ijtima at Kamuzu Stadium despite recommendation from engineers to keep the facility closed from any activity until renovations are undertaken. Government closed Kamuzu Stadium from any other activities in August this year due to its deteriorating condition feared to put lives of […]
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 […]
Muslim Women will hold a two- day National Women Conference (Ijitma) in Mzuzu, where, among other issues, the women will discuss safe motherhood and women empowerment. The meeting, organized by the Malawi Muslim Women Association, will be held from 29th to 30th September and will be attended by Muslim ladies across the country and international visitors from […]
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. […]
Sex workers in Malawi’s commercial capital, Blantyre have now resorted to putting on Islamic headscarf in a bid to attract new clients a development that has attracted concerns among Muslims community. Nyasa Times has established that most of them are doing this to attract levellers mostly Asian Muslims and other libidous prominent Malawian Muslim clerics who […]
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 […]
The Mzuzu Muslim Minority Association and Lwana Investments are claiming MK100 million from the Mzuzu City Council as damages for defamation. The association is also seeking an unconditional apology from the Council following remarks by the Mzuzu Town Planning Committee that the Asians rejected land at Zolozolo for use as their graveyard because they did […]
My writing is specifically directed in response to the assertions made by the Rastafarian fraternity in Malawi concerning their petition to President Mrs Joyce Banda to legalize Indian Hemp or Chamba. The Rastafarians argue that smoking the drug locally knowns as ‘chamba’ is part of their religious doctrine which must be respected and upheld. It is not […]
Malawi President Joyce Banda has wished Muslims well for the feast of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Banda, who returned from Mozambique on Sunday where she attended Southern African Development Community (Sadc) summit, extended warm wishes to Muslim communities on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr celebrations. President Banda said Malawians should […]
The Mzuzu City Council has obtained a court injunction against members of the Mzuzu Muslim Minority Association barring them from further burying the dead in residential areas and other areas aside from designated public and private cemeteries. Residents lodged a complaint to the Council querying the opening a cemetery on land designated for Residences and […]
In Malawi, Muslim artists are abandoning traditional rhythms and are turning to modern genres like R&B and hip-hop. The change of tune has helped the Islamic musicians attract larger audiences. However, some Muslim groups have banned some of the songs for what they say un-Islamic. Among the artists who have taken the country’s Islamic song […]
Muslim Women Organisation (MWO) has asked President Joyce Banda to ensure her government allows Muslim women should be allowed wear an Islamic headscarf, or “hijab” in public offices. Hijab has been subject of ban in some European countries on security issues but this has raised tension with the Muslim religion. Islam sees hijab as an obligatory […]
Muslim women in Malawi have been urged to be vigilant in fighting HIV/AIDS to contain the spread of the pandemic, which has adversely affected the Muslim community at large. Marriam Ali Khan, Coordinator for Mai Aisha Sisters Youth AIDS Programme (MASYAP) at Mpingwe Mosque said this recently in Blantyre at a ‘monthly meeting’ (May) for […]
Malawi’s medical regulating body has approved a request to allow Muslim nurses to wear the Islamic headscarf – or hijab – while on duty. The request came from the education arm of the Muslim Association of Malawi – the Islamic Information Bureau. “It has taken us almost one year communicating with [officials from] Nurses and […]
There was drama Friday afternoon when an enforcement team from the Blantyre City Council (BCC) uprooted well decorated celebration structures erected in major roundabouts by Muslims. Moslems in the commercial city had put up the makeshift Islamic structures in all the major roundabouts like Clock Tower, Stadium (Chichiri) and Midima as part of celebrations to […]
Irate Muslims who were attending an Islamic gathering on Saturday stormed MBC-TV premises in Lilongwe where they asked the state broadcaster not to beam an interview its journalist Charles Vintula did with one of Muslim cleric from Mchinji, Imran Omar earlier in the day. The move followed a secret interview which Omar did with Vintula […]