Prosecutors complete indictment of televangelist Oktar

Sat 13 July 2019: Adnan Oktar and gang are charged with espionage, attempt to murder and sexual abuse Turkish prosecutors have completed the indictment against the controversial Turkish televangelist, Adnan Oktar, and his collaborators, judicial sources said on Friday. Oktar, who owns a TV channel, was arrested in mid-2018 along with over 200 collaborators, following […]

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Senior Scholars, Minister of Islamic Affairs Warn From Disrupting Hajj Season

Fri 12 July 2019: The Saudi General Secretariat of the Council of Senior Scholars welcomed pilgrims, who have begun arriving in the Kingdom to perform Hajj this year. Earlier, the Saudi cabinet renewed its call to all pilgrims not to politicize this Hajj season or raise any political or doctrinal slogans and devote their time […]

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Turkish businessman refuses entry to veiled Muslim women in Istanbul hotels, cafes

Fri 12 July 2019: Turks were left shocked and horrified when it was revealed that businessman Muzaffer Yıldırım, the partner of Turkey’s famous comedian Cem Yılmaz, is currently refusing entry to women wearing a headscarf or hijab in his hotels and cafes in Istanbul. On June 29, when Turkish businessman Engin Yakut went to the […]

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Chile removes statute of limitations on child sex abuse amid Church crisis

Fri 12 July 2019: SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera signed into law on Thursday a bill to remove the statute of limitations on sex crimes involving children amid a sex abuse crisis that has rocked the country’s Catholic Church and claimed more than 200 victims. The law, which first was proposed in 2010, […]

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Islamic tourism has huge potential: Bangladesh premier

Thu 11 July 2019: Tourist traffic within OIC expected to value $243B by 2021, with annual growth of 8.3%, says Sheikh Hasina Bangladeshi Premier Sheikh Hasina on Thursday highlighted the need to promote tourist traffic within the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which constitutes a collective population of over 1.8 billion. Pegging the value […]

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Christianity gives way to atheism in Britain, survey suggests

Thu 11 July 2019: Just one-in-three people polled for the British Social Attitudes report described themselves as Christian – the lowest figure since records began. There has been a “dramatic decline” in Britain’s Christian identity over the last 35 years – with a “substantial increase” in atheism, a state-of-the-nation survey has suggested. Slightly over one-third […]

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Amnesty sends letter to top Iran judge for detained anti-hijab activists

Thu 11 July 2019: The human rights global organization Amnesty International has sent a letter to Iran’s top judicial official demanding the release of three anti-hijab women activists detained since April. The letter is addressed to Ebrahim Raeesi (Raisi), a conservative cleric appointed as head of the all-powerful judiciary earlier this year. Amnesty says in […]

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US Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf joins Trump’s human rights panel

Wed 10 July 2019: Hamza Yusuf joins commission on unalienable rights after being chosen by Pompeo Hamza Yusuf, a U.S.-born Islamic scholar and founder of the first Islamic university in America, has joined a panel on human rights in Washington’s foreign policy, hosted by President Donald Trump’s administration. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday […]

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Picture of Quebec education minister with Malala stirs controversy

Sun 07 July 2019: A picture of Quebec Education Minister Jean-François Roberge with veiled education campaigner Malala has stirred controversy, as the Canadian province recently adopted a law barring teachers and other civil servants from wearing religious symbols. The Canadian official posted the picture on its Twitter account, hailing a “beautiful encounter with Nobel Peace […]

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