Following complaints from Muslim organizations regarding the ADL’s reference to the Shahada as being an expression of hate, the ADL issued a “clarification” saying that the organization ...

In Islam, the first of the five pillars is the shahada. Shahada is the Muslim profession of faith, expressing the two simple, fundamental beliefs that make one a Muslim.

No symbol represents the soul of Islam more than the Shahada. But today there is a contest within Islam for the ownership of that symbol. Sign Up for Our Ideas Newsletter POV.

TRUE: Students in a Massachusetts school were taught an Islamic creed (Shahada) as part of a social studies lesson on Islam. FALSE: Students in that school were forced to recite the Shahada and ...

Its flag includes the white inscription at the top of the flag, which is the shahada, or the Islamic declaration of faith. Underneath the shahada is the name “Jabhat al-Nusra” in Arabic. 2.

Taking the shahada and converting last April, as the coronavirus pandemic began to spread quickly, was the right time for the 25-year-old from Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Indeed, in most of the 39 surveyed countries with sizable Muslim populations, more than nine-in-ten Muslim adults fast, making it the second-most-observed of Islam’s Five Pillars, behind only the ...