Category: Religion

Sun 29 December 2019: Dutch anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders said on Sunday he had ended a contest for cartoons caricaturing the Prophet Mohammad, only hours after announcing the contentious event. In a tweet posted on Sunday morning, Wilders said international attention on the contest had enabled him to make a point about the importance of […]

Sun 29 December 2019: Far-right Islamophobic group says members joined Boris Johnson’s party More than 5,000 members of an Islamophobic far-right group in Britain joined the leading Conservative Party in recent weeks, according to local media reports. The fringe group Britain First said their support for Tories came with the stance adopted by the leading […]

Sat 28 December 2019: A group of Malaysian tourists were arrested for praying inside a Uighur mosque in China’s northwestern province of Xinjiang without a ‘license’, World of Buzz revealed on Thursday. A member of the group shared details of the frightening experience after their safe return to Malaysia from Xinjiang – where more than a million Uighur and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities […]

FILE PHOTO Fri 27 December 2019: The Turkish capital Ankara hosted an opening exhibition on Thursday of a handwritten manuscript of the Islamic holy book, the Quran, and a calligraphy art fair featuring multiple masterpieces from Turkish and Iranian artists. Organized in cooperation with Turkey’s Religious Affairs Directorate, or Diyanet, and Iran’s Islamic Culture and […]

Thu 26 December 2019: The Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission (IPHRC) of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Tuesday strongly condemned the violence and loss of life in the wake of peaceful protests against the Indian government’s discriminatory Citizenship Amendment Bill 2019 (CAB). The commission said that Muslims and non-Muslims alike across India have categorically […]

Thu 26 December 2019: The Chinese government’s crackdown on religion is increasing at an alarming scale, as the administration attempts to “imprint” socialist and communist values in society. One of the latest step taken to guide faith in the direction of sinicization is “rewriting the holy books of major religions” to eliminate contents that contradict […]

Tue 24 December 2019: With Brexit looming, the economic forecast for Britain might look uncertain, but the booming halal food industry proves that the ‘green pound’ and Muslim spending remains at an all-time high. Just less than a decade ago halal meat could only be bought from small, local butchers in heavily Muslim-populated areas. The […]

Mon 23 December 2019: ‘We are from a people that built such a great civilization from Samarkand to Cordoba,’ says Turkish president Erdoğan Following on its rich history of science and culture, now the Islamic world can forge a new renaissance, said Turkey’s president on Monday. “The Islamic world, which made Istanbul, Cairo, Damascus, and […]

Sun 15 December 2019: Far right groups in Sweden are spewing hatred online by asking people to set mosques on fire and slaughter Muslims, according to a report by Expo magazine. The magazine managed to document the correspondence of 11 different closed groups used by far right groups which were followed by 44,000 people — […]