Sat 18 September 2021: French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin on Friday announced the closure of the Muslim-owned publishing house Nawa, describing it as contrary to Western values and having separatist tendencies. Taking to Twitter, Darmanin wrote: “I have started the termination process due to some of the works of the Islamist publishing house Nawa, in […]
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Sat 18 September 2021: A French court convicted a billboard owner to a €10,000 fine on Friday after he used a sign to mock COVID measures by portraying President Emmanuel Macron as Adolf Hitler. Michel-Ange Flori announced on Twitter that he will appeal the court’s decision in Toulon, southern France. “I can’t believe it,” he […]
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Fri 17 September 2021: After a long legal fight, two ornately adorned 18th-century doors stolen from a Cypriot church decades ago have finally arrived on the split island from Japan. On Thursday, the Orthodox Church of Cyprus legally took over the doors of the church of Saint Anastasios in Peristeronopigi village. The church, which was […]
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Thu 16 September 2021: After receiving information about a possible threat to a synagogue, German police arrested four people, including a 16-year-old boy, on Thursday. Late Wednesday, police increased up security around a synagogue in Hagen, a town of 200,000 people on the outskirts of Germany’s Ruhr industrial region in the west. The warning came […]
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Thu 16 September 2021: “Abortion is murder”, the Church cannot change its position, but “every time the bishops have not confronted the problem as pastors, they have taken sides politically.” These were Pope Francis’ words during a conversation with journalists on the papal flight from Bratislava to Rome, at the conclusion of his trip to […]
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Tue 14 September 2021: On Monday, a militia leader was sentenced to 53 years in prison for the 2017 bombing of a mosque outside of Minneapolis that “terrified” the community of Somali immigrants it served. After a five-week trial, Emily Claire Hari, 50, was found guilty of five federal crimes linked to the pipe bombing […]
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Mon 13 September 2021: According to a tweet from Saudi Arabia’s national security team, individuals who attempt to do Umrah without a permit will be fined $2,666 (10,000 Riyals). Those who attempt to enter the premises in the holy city of Mecca without a permit will be fined $266 (1,000 Riyals), according to the notification. […]
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Mon 13 September 2021: The International Union of Muslim Scholars sent a congratulatory message to Mullah Muhammad Hassan Akhund on Sunday, following his appointment by the Taliban as the new Prime Minister of Afghanistan. “On behalf of its presidency, board of trustees, general secretariat, and members,” said the Doha-based organisation, “the union expresses its sincere […]
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Thu 09 September 2021: A British businessman has launched the country’s first halal cat food brand targeting some 500,000 Muslim cat owners in the country. The Manchester-based firm Tiana, owned by Pankaj Hurria, is currently in talks with some of the UK’s leading pet food stores ahead of the official launch next month. Hurria is […]
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Tue 07 September 2021: A recent outcry was observed on Social media regarding building of 10 cinemas in the holy city of Madinah . It is outside the scope of ‘Inside the Haramain’, we believed it was best to address and put the rumor to rest. The outcry began when one of the learned scholars […]
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