Fri 08 October 2021: A top Muslim body on Thursday denounced an Israeli court decision allowing Jews to perform silent prayers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Jerusalem. The Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), Yousef Al-Othaimeen, said in a statement that the ruling is a provocation to Muslims globally. “Such illegal […]
Continue Reading
Wed 06 October 2021: Referring to an investigation report on sexual abuse against children in France’s Catholic churches, Pope Francis said on Wednesday he was ashamed. Since 1950, around 216,000 children have been sexually molested in French churches. Following a meeting at the Vatican, Pope Francis said: “I would like to express my sadness and […]
Continue Reading
Wed 06 October 2021: Between 1950 and 2020, an independent commission found 216,000 cases of child sex abuse in the Catholic Church in France, according to a shocking report released on Tuesday. A 2,500-page report prepared by an independent panel was released, detailing decades of abuse and cover-ups. The report cited the French Catholic Church’s […]
Continue Reading
Mon 04 October 2021: According to local media, Swedish cartoonist Lars Vilks, who was known for his derogatory depictions of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad, died in a car accident on Sunday. Police have not revealed the identity of those killed in Sunday’s incident, but Vilks’s partner confirmed his death to Dagens Nyheter newspaper. According to Sweden’s state broadcaster […]
Continue Reading
Sun 03 October 2021: Thousands of paedophiles have operated inside the French Catholic Church since 1950, according to the head of an independent panel examining the scandal, who spoke to AFP only days before the report’s release. According to Jean-Marc Sauve, the commission’s research discovered between 2,900 and 3,200 paedophile priests or other members of […]
Continue Reading
Thu 30 September 2021: It has been more than 800 years since the birth of Islam’s great Mevlana Jalaladdin Rumi, a 13th-century Sufi mystic, poet, philosopher and theologian who was born on Sept. 30, 1207, but Rumi’s influence has never lost its touch with the lands that he blessed. As such a special ceremony was […]
Continue Reading
Thu 30 September 2021: Interior Minister Gerard Darmanin announced on Tuesday that France is closing six mosques and disbanding other organizations suspected of spreading extremist propaganda. A third of the 89 places of worship “suspected of being radical” and flagged by the intelligence services had been checked since November 2020, he told Le Figaro newspaper. Of those, […]
Continue Reading
Wed 22 September 2021: The Uttar Pradesh Anti-Terrorist Squad arrested Islamic scholar Maulana Kaleem Siddiqui in Meerut on Tuesday night on charges of alleged illegal religious conversions, reported PTI. Siddiqui is one of the prominent clerics from western Uttar Pradesh and the president of Global Peace Center as well as Jamia Imam Waliullah Trust. The […]
Continue Reading
Mon 20 September 2021: The new culture secretary of the United Kingdom has been accused of Islamophobia after describing Muslim women wearing a burqa – a full-body covering with a face veil – as a “medieval” dress code. She was appointed to the post during a Cabinet reshuffle last week. Within the bounds of U.K. […]
Continue Reading
Mon 20 September 2021: Anti-Muslim hatred and xenophobia, which disrupt the daily lives of Muslims, have taken politics hostage in the West, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Sunday. Erdoğan noted that both ideologies have been shaping state policies and have become destructive trends that pose a direct threat to social peace. Erdoğan arrived in New York […]
Continue Reading
