Sun 22 August 2021: Turkey and Pakistan are set to co-produce a television series on the life of Salahuddin al-Ayyubi, a revered Muslim general popularly known in the West as Saladin. Having welcomed the project offer from Pakistan’s Ansari amp; Shah Films, producer Emre Konuk, owner of Turkey’s Akli Films, announced on Saturday that they […]
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Sat 21 August 2021: US soldiers stationed at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport are providing pork-containing meal packages to Afghans who are desperate for a way out of the country. An Afghan woman, who is stranded at the airport with her children and husband, posted a photo of the food parcel on Instagram. “Feeding us […]
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Tue 10 August 2021: Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) taxpayers’ ombudsperson will launch a probe after Muslim and other minority charities submitted a complaint about being unfairly targeted for audits, the Canadian Press reported Friday. Francois Boileau said he will address the issues and concerns expressed by Muslim charities and other charities led by people of […]
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Mon 09 August 2021: The General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques has chosen two women to its top leadership posts as assistants to the presidency for the first time in its history. Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais made the announcement on Sunday, appointing Dr. Al-Anoud al-Aboud and Dr. Fatima al-Rashoud as assistants […]
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Mon 09 August 2021: Law enforcement in Milan is investigating the source of an envelope containing three bullets addressed to the pope, Italian paramilitary police said Monday. The suspicious envelope was intercepted by postal employees overnight at a mail sorting facility in a Milan suburb, according to the carabinieri provincial command in Milan. It had been […]
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Sun 08 August 2021: Saudi Arabia announced on Sunday that applications for Muslim pilgrims wishing to perform umrah from abroad will be accepted beginning Monday, with 2 million requests per month being processed. The Saudi news agency SPA cited Deputy Minister of Hajj and Umrah, Dr. Abdulfattah bin Sulaiman Mashat, who said his ministry “has […]
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Wed 04 August 2021: The UN Security Council does not support “the restoration of the Islamic Emirate” in Afghanistan , a statement said Tuesday. “The members of the Security Council recognized that a sustainable peace can be achieved only through a comprehensive and inclusive Afghan-led, Afghan-owned peace process,” said the statement, adding that an inclusive, […]
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Tue 03 August 2021: On Friday, a German court sentenced a woman to six years in prison for threatening local lawmakers and plotting a firebomb attack against the Muslim community. The court in Munich found that the 55-year-old woman, an alternative medicine practitioner, sent threatening messages to a mayor and a local official. She also […]
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Sat 31 July 2021: Rashad Hussain, an Indian-American, has been nominated as Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom by US President Joe Biden, making him the first Muslim to be nominated for the position, according to the White House. It goes on to say that the news demonstrates Biden’s determination to “create an Administration that…reflects people […]
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Sun 25 July 2021: The functional usage of the Hagia Sophia and the Chora are solely related to Turkey’s sovereign rights, Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Tanju Bilgiç said on July 24, noting that since the Hagia Sophi, opened to worship one year ago, was registered in its Foundation Deed as a mosque, it’s functioning accordingly is only an act of […]
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