Thu 29 April 2021: In line with Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030, the kingdom has introduced the ancient Indian epics of Ramayana and Mahabharata into the school curriculum. A tweet which has gone viral by Nouf Al-Marwaai, the first Saudi yoga instructor and founder of the Arab Yoga Foundation, included a screenshot of her son’s social studies exam […]
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Sat 24 April 2021: The Sri Lankan police have arrested a Muslim leader and member of parliament in connection with the 2019 Easter Sunday attacks that killed 279 people as pressure to speed up the investigation mounted. Detectives took Rishad Bathiudeen, leader of the All Ceylon Makkal Party, into custody on Saturday under the Prevention […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: An independent United States’ commission has called for India, Russia, Vietnam and Syria to be added to a State Department blacklist on religious freedom. The US Commission on International Religious Freedom, an independent government panel that gives recommendations to presidential administrations and Congress, said the four countries should be designated as […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: Malaysia has issued $800 million worth of 10-year trust certificates, billed as the world’s first sovereign U.S. dollar sustainability sukuk as the proceeds will be used exclusively for green projects, the finance ministry said on Thursday. In addition, the Southeast Asian nation also issued $500 million 30-year trust certificates, the ministry […]
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Thu 22 April 2021: The NO BAN Act would prevent any future US president from imposing travel bans on the basis of religion. The US House of Representatives has passed a bill that would limit the ability of any United States president to impose a travel ban on the basis of religion, a move that […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: A court in the Canadian province of Quebec has struck down parts of a law that bars some public sector employees from wearing religious symbols such as the hijab on the job – but upheld most of the contentious legislation. In a lengthy decision issued on Tuesday morning, Quebec Superior Court […]
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Tue 20 April 2021: After violent protests across the country, Pakistan government will ask parliament to vote on whether to expel the French envoy over offensive caricatures of Islam’s Prophet Muhammad published in France last year, the interior minister said. The Tehreek-e-Labaik Pakistan (TLP) group has waged an anti-France campaign ever since Macron vehemently supported […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim advocacy organization, expressed solidarity with the Sikh community after four members of that faith were murdered in a mass shooting at an office of FedEx, an American delivery services company, in Indianapolis, Indiana. “We offer sincere condolences and prayers at this time […]
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Sun 18 April 2021: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday asked the governments of Western countries to “penalise those deliberately spreading their message of hate against Muslims” by disrespecting Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in the same way that they had “outlawed any negative comment against the Holocaust”. Expressing concern over a rising wave of Islamophobia, particularly […]
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Sat 17 April 2021: The Ottoman heritage Ferhadiye Mosque in Bosnia and Herzegovina’s capital in Sarajevo has regained its recital for Ramadan after a break of 30 years. The 16th century historic mosque had a three-decade break from its Ramadan tradition because of the war between 1992 and 1995. However, the mosque regained its recital […]
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