Wed 29 January 2020: Italian Muslims don’t make international headlines. Unlike most of its neighbors in Europe, Italy hasn’t seen a major terrorist attack in decades. On the other hand, Western Europe, stretching from the United Kingdom, France, Germany and Spain, has been attacked on several occasions and has had trouble dealing with radicalization from some segments […]
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Tue 28 January 2020: The former grand imam of Mecca tweeted a prayer in protection against the deadly coronavirus, as Saudi Arabia denied the disease spreading into the kingdom. “Coronavirus: a prayer from the Prophet Mohammed peace be upon him,” Adil al-Kalbani tweeted, citing a prayer for protection that was said by Islam’s final messenger. “Oh Allah, I seek refuge from leprosy, […]
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Tue 28 January 2020: Anti-Muslim attacks in France jumped by 54% in 2019, the president of the National Observatory of Islamophobia said Monday. In a written statement, Abdallah Zekri said there were 100 attacks against Muslims in France in 2018, and the number increased to 154 in 2019. The attacks mostly occurred in the Ile-de-France, […]
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Sun 26 January 2020: Former Saudi minister of justice, Mohammed Bin Abdul-Karim Issa, has announced that his country will stop funding mosques in foreign countries, Arabi21.com reported on Friday. According to the Swiss newspaper, Le Matin Dimanche, Saudi Arabia is to establish local administrative councils for each mosque, in cooperation with the local authorities, in order to hand over […]
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Wed 22 January 2020: Dozens of members of Union of African Muslims Scholars or ulemas take part in a conference that kicked off Tuesday in Nouakchott, on the importance of tolerance and moderation in the behavior of Muslims.This meeting, the first of its kind, is initiated by the International Forum for the strengthening of peace […]
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Wed 22 January 2020: Saudi Arabia has introduced new charges on Hajj visa’s which will come into effect this year. Pilgrims from across the Muslim world will be required to pay $80 in addition to the skyrocketing fees charged by travel agencies to perform what is considered a religious obligation for those that can afford […]
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Members of the National Council of Muslims Mustafa Farooq, centre, and Bochra Manai, left, alongside supporters leave the Quebec Court of Appeal in Montreal, Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019, where they are challenging Quebec’s Bill 21. Sun 19 January 2019: he National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM) filed on Friday a challenge to Quebec’s controversial religious […]
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Wed 15 January 2020: As the year is still new, the new government program in Austria is drawing fire for its anti-Muslim, xenophobic slant. The program announced on Jan. 1 by the coalition of the center-right Austrian People’s Party (OVP) and the Green Party shows no change from the one applied by the previous government, […]
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Tue 14 January 2020: India’s most popular Muslim televangelist Dr Zakir Naik – who has been living in self-exile in Malaysia since 2016 – has confirmed that an emissary of Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered him a “safe passage to India” in return for supporting the BJP government’s revocation of Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IOJ&K)’s […]
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Mon 13 January 2020: A woman of Indian descent has become the U.S. Air Force’s first female Muslim chaplain candidate, breaking taboos and shattering glass ceilings. Second Lt. Saleha Jabeen on Dec. 18, 2019 was appointed at the Catholic Theological Union in Chicago by Air Force Chief of Chaplains Maj. Gen. Steven Schaick, the Air […]
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