Wed 24 February 2021: Residents and officials in the small Spanish town of San Javier, Murcia have condemned a violent attack against a mosque that took place early Sunday morning. According to local media, at around 4 a.m. (0300GMT) on Sunday morning an explosion was felt by residents living near the place of worship. “I […]
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Wed 24 February 2021: French Muslim organizations on Tuesday strongly condemned vandalism of an under-construction mosque in Strasbourg with Islamophobic graffiti. The words, “No to Islam, go back to your village” were sprayed across the fence on the site of the Eyyub Sultan Mosque, which once completed will be Europe’s largest Muslim place of worship. […]
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Mon 22 February 2021: Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind on Friday launched an ambitious programme to modernise madrassa education system. Called ‘Jamiat Open School’, the programme is targeted at 50,000 madrassa students who will be equipped with modern education. It will work in the framework of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) all across the country. A twenty-day […]
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Sat 20 February 2021: Tension prevailed in a Gorakhpur village in Uttar Pradesh after a mosque was found vandalised on Friday morning, the police said. The incident took place on Thursday night in Lona Sonbarsa village in Jhangha police station area of the district and came to light on Friday morning when a villager, Usman […]
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Wed 17 February 2021: France’s lower house of parliament has approved a law to fight extremism and “Islamist separatism” that the government bills as a riposte to religious groups attempting to undermine France’s secular traditions. But critics say breaches religious freedom. President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party rallied around the legislation, with 347 National Assembly lawmakers […]
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Tue 16 February 2021: Islamic banking assets in Turkey will double over the next five years from around 7.2% of total banking assets as of December 2020, according to a forecast by global rating agency Moody’s. In a report released Monday, Moody’s said Turkish participation banks’ total assets increased by 54% last year, outpacing total […]
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Mon 15 February 2021: Protesters have staged a demonstration in Paris to voice their opposition against a proposed law that they say is discriminatory toward Muslims. The crowd gathered in the Trocadero Square against the bill dubbed Charter of Republican Values. Hanane Loukili, one of the protesters, told Anadolu Agency that she was one of […]
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Sat 13 February 2021: Indian Muslims since 1947 have faced a continuous onslaught on the community, which have increased in recent times, but the way forward has to be found by the community itself. It seems as if the Indian Muslims are under a collective siege from the external as well as internal forces and […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Sri Lanka will allow the burial of COVID-19 victims, the country’s premier said on Wednesday, following months of outcry over a ban. Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa gave the assurance on Wednesday in response to a question from a lawmaker in Parliament. Sri Lanka made compulsory the cremation of all people who […]
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Wed 10 February 2021: Muslim families in the United Kingdom whose loved ones have been cremated in Sri Lanka have submitted a complaint to the United Nations, branding the South Asian country’s controversial policy “unjust and discriminatory” and calling for its immediate suspension. Buddhist-majority Sri Lanka made cremation mandatory last March for people who die, […]
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