Thu 24 December 2020: Experts say that concerns about religious permissibility, speed of development as well as conspiracy theories need to be contextualised and taken seriously. Hundreds of hospitals in the US began their mass vaccination campaign last week after the Pfizer/BioNTech shot was greenlighted by authorities. The UK also started its rollout of the same shot earlier this […]
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Wed 23 December 2020: Saudi Arabia’s Islamic affairs minister confirmed that many imams were fired in recent weeks after failing to follow a ministry directive to warn citizens against the Muslim Brotherhood and its ideology. Saudi minister of Islamic Affairs, Call and Guidance Abdullatif bin Abdulaziz al-Sheikh told Al Arabiya on Tuesday that the ministry […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: Turkey and Indonesia should work together to support the Muslim community against Islamophobia and discrimination, according to Turkey’s foreign minister on Tuesday. “We should support the [Muslim] community by working together with Indonesia and fight against these,” Mevlut Cavusoglu told a press conference alongside Indonesian counterpart Retno Marsudi in Jakarta. Cavusoglu […]
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Tue 22 December 2020: The World Halal Summit, the world’s largest halal event that aims to bring to light the latest developments and updates related to the over $4 trillion-halal market, with international academicians and fiqh experts started Monday with the participation of industry players and investors from all over the globe. Speaking during the […]
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Mon 21 December 2020: Despite Poland being over 90 percent Catholic, a survey published on Thursday suggested that approximately 41 percent of Poles view the Church favorably. This is a decrease of 8 percent from September, according to The Straits Times Europe and a survey by the CBOS institute, quoted by the Polish news agency PAP. Meanwhile, 47 […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: Followers of Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi perform Sema dance on 747th anniversary without audience due to pandemic Turkey’s whirling dervishes, followers of the 13th-century Islamic scholar, poet, and Sufi mystic, Mevlana Jalaluddin al-Rumi, performed their Sema dance on Thursday to mark the 747th anniversary of his passing without any audience this year […]
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Fri 18 December 2020: A special envoy of Pope Francis met Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday in Minsk to express the pontiff’s concerns about the country. Monsignor Claudio Gugerotti, former Vatican ambassador to Belarus, was to convey “the concern and worries of the Holy Father for the current situation,” Vatican spokesperson Matteo Bruni said […]
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Thu 17 December 2020: Gov’t replaces contentious phrase with ‘religiously-motivated extremism’ in revised terrorism draft law Austria’s coalition government on Wednesday revised its controversial “anti-terror” law, using the phrase “religiously motivated extremism” instead of “political Islam.” Following a cabinet meeting, Interior Minister Karl Nehammer, Justice Minister Alma Zadic and Integration Minister Susanne Raab announced a […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: Muslim groups in South Africa have written to their government asking for an intervention to stop Sri Lanka from forcibly cremating Muslims dying of the novel coronavirus. A letter seen by Anadolu Agency addressed to Naledi Pandor, minister of international relations and cooperation, requests her to help intervene in the matter. […]
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Wed 16 December 2020: A Group of 30 lawmakers urged Facebook Tuesday to remove anti-Muslim content on the social media platform, saying it is “dangerous” and “deadly.” Led by Democratic congresswoman Debbie Dingell, the lawmakers said Facebook has failed to take action “in response to the abuse of your platform to dehumanize Muslims and stoke […]
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