Sun 24 July 2022: A Hindu woman who had earlier accused a Muslim businessman, Prince Qureshi of raping her has made a u-turn and said that she was hired by two persons to frame the man. Earlier, the woman, aged 24 years, had said that the Qureshi, aged 27 years, made a false marriage promise […]
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Sun 24 July 2022: The state of controversy arose on the communication platforms, coinciding with the circulation of field research showing the extent to which veiled women are exposed to racism and discrimination when they apply for jobs in the countries of the Netherlands, Germany and Spain. The research report was published on a website affiliated with […]
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Sat 23 July 2022: When Pope Francis touches down Sunday in Canada, he will seek to apply a soothing salve to the scarred hearts of Canada’s Indigenous peoples. The pope has come to apologize for the historical wrongs the Catholic Church inflicted on the Metis, Inuit and First Nations. About 150,000 Indigenous children attended Indian Residential Schools beginning in the […]
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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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