Nigerian Muslim Women protest after Shutting out Muslim girls from school for wearing headscarves. FILE PHOTO: Anadolu Agency. . Sun 02 February 2020: The start of February marked World Hijab Day, (WHD) but it was met with an array of mixed feelings from many. Founded by American Muslim woman Nazma Khan in 2013, WHD aims to “foster […]
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Sat 01 February 2020: All eyes were on Brexit, and now Britain finally left the European Union, what will happen to ethnic minorities and British Muslims? The Independent reported that almost a third of Brexit voters believe “Muslim immigration is part of a secret plot to Islamicise Britain” while some voters are “more interested in […]
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Fri 31 January 2020: William Henry Abdullah Quilliam, a prominent Islamic leader of the U.K., founded the first mosque and Islamic center in Liverpool in the 19th century after he converted to Islam following a short trip to Morocco. A journalist and lawyer by profession, Henry, a Christian, became Abdullah after returning from Morocco in […]
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Thu 30 January 2020: Israeli occupation forces in Jerusalem have shut off access to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the Old Jerusalem area yesterday (29 January) afternoon, further increasing tensions in the city amid the proposed ‘peace plan’ offered to the Palestinians by the US and Israel. According to an official source from Jerusalem’s Islamic […]
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Thu 30 January 2020: A new project by two Turkish universities would give mosques in Turkey a chance to generate their own energy with wind turbines. A group of researchers from Karadeniz Technical University (KTÜ) in Trabzon and Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam University (KSÜ) proposed to place vertical-axis wind turbines on mosques’ minarets and roofs that […]
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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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