Thu 20 October 2022: French President, Emmanuel Macron, has toured the Grand Mosque of Paris yesterday to mark 100 years of its founding. Macron was greeted by the Mosque’s rector, Chems-Eddine Hafiz, before inspecting an exhibition about the mosque’s history. Hafiz was awarded with the insignia of the Legion of Honour by Macron, France’s highest […]
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Wed 19 October 2022: In a tragic incident, the Jakarta Islamic Center mosque in Indonesia was destroyed by a fire during its renovation on Wednesday. Dramatic social media footage showed the moment the mosque’s dome collapsed. Firefighters were alerted about the blaze shortly after 3pm local time, with at least ten fire engines being dispatched […]
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Sun 16 October 2022: In an excerpt from his new book released on Sunday, Pope Francis stated that the Covid-19 pandemic and the Ukraine War exposed the UN’s shortcomings and that the need for reform was “more than obvious.” The Argentine pope stated that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February demonstrated the necessity of finding […]
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Sat 15 October 2022: The European Union’s highest court has ruled that companies within its member states may prohibit hijabs as long as it is done in a “general” manner that does not constitute “direct discrimination.” The ruling, issued on Thursday by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU), concerned a dispute that […]
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Thu 13 October 2022: Petitions challenging the Karnataka hijab ban led to a split verdict in the Supreme Court today. Justice Hemant Gupta dismissed the petitions against the hijab ban, while Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia allowed them. One of the lawyers representing the petitioner said that the matter will be placed before the Chief Justice of […]
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Tue 11 October 2022: Saudi Arabia has announced that female pilgrims performing Hajj or Umrah no longer require a mahram, or closely-related male guardian to accompany them. At a press conference at the Saudi Embassy in Cairo yesterday, the Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr Tawfiq Al-Rabiah, said that women from any part of the […]
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Fri 07 October 2022: Most victims of religious hate crimes in England and Wales were Muslims and Jews in the year to March 2022, according to official government data. The Home Office reported on Thursday that the overall number of hate crimes rose 26 percent from 2021 until 2022, to 155,841. Some 8,307 were religious hate […]
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Erdogan with Fatima Kaoukji, daughter of Marwa Kaoukji, the first veiled deputy in the Turkish parliament, Fatima was seen sitting with Erdogan wearing Hijab while he held his discussion on bilateral issues with Joe Biden. (June 15, 2021). Thu 06 October 2022: Turkiye’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, criticised the main opposition party CHP’s proposal for […]
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Wed 05 October 2022: France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen has demanded more mosques be closed in the country. Her demand comes despite the closure of 24 mosques in France in the past two years upon the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. In an interview with French TV channel BFMTV, Marine Le Pen said: […]
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Sun 02 October 2022: Pope Francis said he is haunted by “rivers of blood and tears” and has made a direct appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin to halt the “spiral of violence and death” in Ukraine. In a speech devoted to Ukraine in St. Peter’s Square, the head of the Catholic Church also denounced […]
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