Tue 02 March 2021: Saudi Arabia has announced that Muslims wanting to visit Makkah for the annual Hajj pilgrimage will need to provide proof that they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19, Saudi Okaz newspaper reports. “Vaccination would be the main condition for participation,” Health Minister Tawfiq Al Rabiah is reported to have said. His ministry did not […]
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Mon 01 March 2021: At least five people were injured on Monday when Iraqi security forces wielding clubs broke up a street protest in Baghdad’s central Tahrir Square, security and hospital sources said, reports Reuters. Pope Francis plans a March 5-8 visit to Iraq despite deteriorating security in some parts of the country which has seen the […]
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Fri 26 February 2021: The All India Muslim Personal Law Board (AIMPLB) will hold an online interactive series to explain its stand on various court cases pertaining to the personal law to the people. The idea was first mooted by AIMPLB member Dr. Asma Zehra in 2017 but was approved in a recent executive council […]
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Thu 25 February 2021: Ibn Al-Haytham (known in the west as Alhazen) which is considered to be the greatest Muslim doctor and one of the greatest researches of optics for all times. Al Haytham is born in city Basra and immigrated to Egypt during reign of Caliph Al Hakim. He is quoted as excellent astronomer, […]
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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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