Fri 22 July 2022: Following online criticism of an Israeli journalist, police in the kingdom announced on Friday that a Saudi who is accused of assisting a non-Muslim in entering the holy city of Mecca had been detained. The journalist, Gil Tamary of Israel’s Channel 13, on Monday posted to Twitter video of himself sneaking […]
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Thu 21 July 2022: Pope Francis has urged world leaders to pay attention to the “chorus of cries of anguish” coming from the Earth as a result of climate change, extreme weather, and biodiversity loss. He urged nations to address climate change with the same attention as global challenges like wars and health crises in […]
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Wed 20 July 2022: An Israeli minister on Wednesday denounced as ‘stupid and harmful‘ to Israel-Gulf ties a TV report by a journalist who entered Islam‘s holiest site Mecca despite a ban on non-Muslim visits and who apologised for the event after an online backlash. Israel‘s Channel 13 News aired a 10-minute report from Saudi Arabia, Islam’s birthplace, by […]
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Tue 19 July 2022: Russian authorities are drafting a new law which would legalise and regulate Islamic banking in the country, initially to be introduced across four Muslim-majority republics as part of a pilot scheme, including Chechnya, Dagestan, Tatarstan and Russian Bashkiria. The implementation of non-credit banking institutions would function as Financing Partnership Organisations (FPO), […]
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Fri 15 July 2022: The new British prime minister must treat “systemic” Islamophobia in the ruling Conservative Party seriously, according to the head of the UK’s leading Muslim organization. As the party searches for outgoing Premier Boris Johnson‘s successor, whoever wins “must represent everybody and they have to make sure that they do that fairly,” said Zara Mohammed, secretary general of […]
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Wed 13 July 2022: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman has launched the second phase of a programme to refurbish and restore historic mosques across the kingdom, the Saudi Press Agency has reported. The Prince Mohammed Bin Salman Project for Historic Mosques Renovation, which was announced in 2018, aims to restore a total of 130 mosques […]
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Tue 12July 2022: Iranian rights activists have urged women to publicly remove their veils on “National Day of Hijab and Chastity” on Tuesday, risking arrest for defying the Islamic dress code as the country’s hardline rulers crackdown on “immoral behaviour”, Reuters reported. Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their […]
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Mon 11 July 2022: On Monday, Saudi Arabia declared that the current Hajj season is successful and safe. The success of the pilgrimage in 2022 at all security, service, and health levels was announced by Saudi Prince Khaled Al-Faisal, who is also the chairman of the Central Hajj Committee, according to the Saudi Press Agency. […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: Kostiantynivka: By the time the Russians invaded, 43-year-old Mufti Said Ismahilov one of the Muslim spiritual leaders of Ukraine had already resolved that he would step aside from his religious duties to fight for his country. At the end of last year, as warnings of an imminent attack grew louder, Ismahilov began […]
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Sun 10 July 2022: On Saturday, US President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden marked Eid al-Adha, also known as the Feast of Sacrifice, and they wished Muslims around the world a “joyous holiday.” “Jill and I send our warmest greetings to Muslims across the United States and around the world celebrating Eid al-Adha,” Biden said in a statement. […]
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