Category: Religion

Fri 05 July 2019: CAIRO: A new training course has started at Al-Azhar Foundation to rehabilitate British and Ethiopian Muslim imams to spread the moderate concept of Islam, enhance the presence of Al-Azhar in Islamic territories around the world and counter extreme ideologies. Al-Azhar is known for its enlightened moderate heritage.  The training course for British […]

Fri 05 July 2019: Prime Minister Youssef Chahed decided Friday to ban the niqab Muslim face covering for women in Tunisian government offices “for security reasons”, his office said. It said Chahed signed a government circular “banning access to public administrations and institutions to anyone with their face covered… for security reasons”. The ban on […]

Thu 04 July 2019: Every year, millions of Muslims perform Hajj in Saudi Arabia. These Muslims belong to different nations. As atmosphere differs from nation to nation, people tend to get ill. They tend to catch up infectious diseases. Or in another case, they may come along being equipped with certain viral and infectious diseases. […]

Wed 03 June 2019: Overlooking the Kaaba, the four-storey Clock Tower Museum opened a month ago Like millions of other Muslims, Cory Ireza from Indonesia travelled to Makkah to pray in the Grand Mosque. But she also found a new attraction just a stone’s throw away from Islam’s holiest shrine. After performing the pilgrimage, Ireza, […]

  Muslim prayer room in a hospital in Sweden’s Gothenberg city has been targeted in an Islamophobic attack, reports said Saturday. The attack took place in Mölndal Hospital, where the perpetrator(s) ripped the Holy Qur’an and spilled drinks on the carpets, a statement by the Gothenberg Mosque Association said. “Muslims feel offended and hurt in […]

Fri 28 June 2019: A female successor to the Dalai Lama must be “more attractive,” the spiritual leader has claimed in an interview, explaining if she wasn’t, people would “prefer not to see her face.” Speaking with the BBC, the guru was asked whether he understood why his 2015 claim that if a woman were to […]

Thu 27 June 2019: Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Hajj and Umra is rolling out a bundle of smart systems to facilitate the travel of pilgrims from around the world and ensure that the rituals are performed with ease. This includes an integrated e-track electronic system for the external pilgrims, which applies from the initiation of contracts on […]

Thu 27 June 2019: Secretary of State calls out China, Iran, Myanmar, Russia for violating religious freedom U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rolled out the State Department’s report on religious freedom Friday, saying it found a “chilling array of abuses” on religion last year. Pompeo called out China, Iran, and Russia for religious freedom […]

Wed 26 June 2019: Muslim women have pushed back against a ban on burkinis, a full-body swimsuit, at a public pool in the French southeastern city of Grenoble, in bid to defy growing Islamophobia and discrimination in the country. “Operation burkini” was launched last month by members of the group Citizen Alliance of Grenoble to […]