Sat 22 July 2023: Pop band from the United Kingdom The 1975’s performance at a Malaysian music festival was stopped short after frontman Matty Healy kissed a male bandmate onstage and criticized Malaysia’s anti-LGBTQ laws. In Muslim-majority Malaysia, homosexuality is a crime. In videos posted on social media, Healy was seen kissing bassist Ross MacDonald […]
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A group of Iraqi protesters set fire to the Swedish flag in Tahrir Square on July 21, 2023, to protest against the deportation of Iraqi refugees from Sweden. Fri 21 July 2023: Sweden’s ambassadors have been summoned in various countries following a second event held to desecrate the Quran, Islam’s holy book, was held in Sweden. […]
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Tue 18 July 2023: Well-known Saudi cleric, Sheikh Badr Al-Meshari, has been detained by the authorities for reasons which are currently not known, according to Saudi Arabian human rights organisation Prisoners of Conscious who announced the arrest yesterday on social media. Although no official reason has been given, many observers suspect Al-Meshari was arrested for being an outspoken […]
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Sun 16 July 2023: The Secretary General of the Makkah-based NGO Muslim World League (MWL), Sheikh Muhammad bin Abdul Karim Al-Issa has paid a visit to a Hindu temple in New Delhi as part of a five-day visit to India. Issa who is also President of the International Islamic Halal Organisation, spent three hours at […]
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Sun 16 July 2023: Pope Francis has decided to approve the appointment of the bishop of Shanghai who was previously installed by Chinese authorities without the Vatican’s approval. Vatican Secretary of State Cardinal Pietro Parolin announced on Saturday that Pope Francis wanted to “remedy the canonical irregularity created in Shanghai, in view of the greater […]
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Sat 15 July 2023: Mumbai: For as long as Aslam recalls, men from the Muslim community have been congregating inside the Jumma Masjid in Jalgaon’s Erandol Taluka five times a day to offer namaz. The 800-year-old structure is an important place of worship in northern Maharashtra and a property registered under the Waqf Board. But it […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: The Kuwaiti government has announced plans to publish 100,000 copies of the Quran in the Swedish language for distribution in the Scandinavian country, in response to the provocative Quran burning incident in Stockholm on the day coinciding with Eid Al-Adha last month. Yesterday the Council of Ministers made the decision during its weekly […]
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Wed 12 July 2023: The United Christian Forum (UCF) stated that 400 acts of violence against Christians occurred across 23 states in the first half of 2023, with Uttar Pradesh topping the list of states with 155 cases. This amount indicates a considerable increase over the same time period the previous year when 274 occurrences […]
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Tue 11 July 2023: The Taliban administration said on Tuesday all activities by Sweden in Afghanistan must stop after the burning of the Koran outside a mosque in the Swedish capital last month. “After the insulting of the holy Koran and granting of permission for insulting of Muslim beliefs …The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is […]
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Mon 10 July 2023: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan emphasized the need for collective action Saturday to address escalating Islamophobia and xenophobia in Western nations. “The vile attack on our sacred book, the Quran, in Sweden on the first day of Eid al-Adha reveals the terrifying dimensions of Islamophobia,” he said in a video sent […]
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