Fri 18 September 2020: Nutella has caused an internet storm this week after the brand’s US Twitter account incorrectly said the product was not halal. The claim was made after a Manchester-based Twitter user asked the company if their products were suitable for a halal diet, to which Nutella responded, “No, they are not halal”. […]
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Thu 10 September 2020: Learning the Quran in Urdu translation mandatory for all students nationwide, except for non-Muslims LAHORE, Pakistan – Pakistan has made learning the Quran in Urdu translation mandatory for all students nationwide, except for non-Muslims, so they can better understand their faith in the country’s native tongue and use that knowledge to […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: TERNTON, Canada – A Muslim woman whose hijab was compared to wearing a hat and sunglasses in court, finally received an apology Tuesday from a Quebec judge. But the apology was five years in the making after Judge Eliana Marengo refused in 2015 to hear the case of Rania El-Alloul, who […]
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Wed 09 September 2020: Scholars say normalization agreements seek concession of remaining Palestinian lands Hitting back at last month’s controversial UAE-Israeli deal, a group of global Muslim scholars on Tuesday issued a religious ruling (fatwa) forbidding normalization with the Israeli occupation. The ruling came in a statement by the Qatar-based International Union for Muslim Scholars […]
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Tue 08 September 2020: VATICAN – Pope Francis on Monday accepted the resignation of an American priest accused of child abuse, weeks before he was set to become the bishop of Duluth, Minnesota. According to local media, Michel J. Mulloy, 66, decided to resign after an accusation surfaced in early August that he sexually abused […]
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Sat 05 September 2020: Saudi authorities have recently arrested Sheikh Abdullah Basfar, one of the famous Quran reciters across the Islamic world, the Prisoners of Conscience revealed on Twitter on Friday. ? BREAKING 4 We confirm the detention of Sheikh Dr. Abdullah Basfar since August 2020.#عبدالله_بصفر pic.twitter.com/twynCDmnjM — Prisoners of Conscience (@m3takl_en) September 3, 2020 The Prisoners […]
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Wed 02 September 2020: Deliberately offending billions of Muslims cannot be justified through freedom of expression or the press, says Pakistan Pakistan on Tuesday denounced a French magazine’s decision to republish offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad. “Pakistan condemns in the strongest terms the decision by the French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, to re-publish deeply offensive caricatures […]
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Tue 01 September 2020: The French satirical newspaper whose Paris offices were attacked in 2015 is reprinting the controversial caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad that the gunmen who opened fire on its editorial staff cited as their motivation. “We will never lie down. We will never give up,” editor Laurent “Riss” Sourisseau wrote in a […]
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Sun 30 August 2020: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday condemned the burning of a copy of the Muslim holy book Quran in the southern Sweden city of Malmo. In a statement, the Jeddah-based bloc described the burning as an “act of incitement and provocation” and “contradicts with global efforts to combat extremism […]
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Fri 28 August 2020: German court rules Muslim teacher who wears headscarf was subjected to discrimination because of her religion The capital Berlin’s ban on teachers who are wearing headscarves is unconstitutional, a top German court ruled Thursday. A Muslim teacher who was not allowed to teach in Berlin state schools because she wore a […]
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