Sat 24 October 2020: The General Secretariat of the (OIC) on Friday condemned continued attacks and incitement against Muslim sentiment and insults of Prophet Muhammad. A statement by the group criticized the “discourse from certain French politicians, which it deems to be harmful to the Muslim-French relations, hate-mongering and only serving partisan political interests.” It […]
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Fri 23 October 2020: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah is preparing its Hajj and Umrah Terminal for foreign Umrah pilgrims after entry was restricted for almost eight months due to the coronavirus pandemic. Several precautionary measures to ensure that pilgrims arriving in the Kingdom are safe, the Jeddah-based Okaz newspaper reported. Adnan […]
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Thu 22 October 2020: France will not give up cartoons, President Emmanuel Macron vowed Wednesday in a homage to teacher Samuel Paty, beheaded for having shown caricatures of the Prophet Mohamed to pupils in a lesson on free speech. “We will not give up cartoons,” Macron told a solemn ceremony at the Sorbonne university attended […]
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Wed 21 October 2020: On Sunday evening, two “European-looking” women stabbed two Muslim women in Paris after reportedly shouting racist insults. French police opened an attempted murder investigation after arresting the two suspects. The incident occurred on Sunday evening at the Champ de Mars Park, near the Eiffel Tower. The two victims, Kenza and Amel, were […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: French authorities said Tuesday they would close a Paris mosque as part of a clampdown on following the beheading of a teacher who had shown his pupils a caricature of the Prophet Mohammed. The Grand Mosque of Pantin, a low-income suburb on the capital’s northeastern outskirts, had shared a video on […]
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Tue 20 October 2020: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has reiterated his criticisms against French President Emmanuel Macron for using what he called an anti-Islam rhetoric that includes the creation of “French Islam” to cover up his failures in running his country. “Those who are disturbed by the rise of Islam are attacking our religion through the crises they […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: A Tunisian MP is being investigated for allegedly attempting to justify the decapitation of a French teacher in a gruesome terror attack this week, reports DW. History teacher Samuel Paty, 47, was beheaded on Friday afternoon in the suburb of Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, about 30km northwest of Paris. Paty had conducted a class on freedom […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Saudi Arabia allowed its citizens and residents inside the kingdom to perform prayers in one of the most holy religious sites, Al Haram Mosque (Grand Mosque) in Makkah, for the first time in seven months, state television reported early on Sunday. A group of worshipers prayed Fajr (the dawn prayer) in […]
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Sun 18 October 2020: Man argued that he had promised his wife not to shake hands with another woman A German court ruled on Friday that a Muslim who refused to shake hands with a woman should not be granted German citizenship. The 40-year-old Lebanese doctor, who came to Germany in 2002, he studied medicine […]
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Wed 14 October 2020: A Toronto mosque remained closed on Monday night after it received several violent and offensive threats by email early Saturday. Toronto police are investigating. On Twitter, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said he was “deeply disturbed” by the news, while Toronto Mayor John Tory said the threats are “completely unacceptable” and he stands […]
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