Muslims celebrate lifting of Lagos hijab ban
Source: Religion News Service By Fredrick Nzwili NAIROBI, Kenya (RNS) Muslims in Nigeria are celebrating a court ruling that lifted a ban on girls in public school wearing the hijab […]
Florida Muslim group vows to fight removal of Islamic center as voting site
Source: The Guardian By Richard Luscombe in Miami ‘We thought it’d be great to invite the community at large to visit us,’ the Islamic Center of Boca Raton’s president said. Photograph: […]
China to shut churches in G20 host city on safety grounds – reports
Source: The Guardian Tom Phillips in Beijing The Global Times, a Communist party-run tabloid, said Xiaoshan, a district in south-east Hangzhou where the G20 meeting will be held, had outlawed […]
The nation that hates to be late
Source: BBC By Eric Weiner Although many countries are saddled with stereotypes, in Switzerland’s case they’re dead on. The alpine nation really is highly efficient. And meticulously punctual. Clean, too. […]
Munich gunman ‘obsessed with mass shootings’
Source: BBC The 18-year-old gunman who killed nine people in Munich was obsessed with mass shootings but had no known links to the Islamic State group, German police say. Written […]
ISIS Claims Kabul Bombing, 80 Dead
Source. The Daily Beast At least 80 people were killed and another 231 wounded Saturday after an explosion tore through a protest in Kabul by minority Shiite Hazaras, Reuters reported. “Opportunist terrorists” took advantage of the protest to kill and wound “a number of our countrymen, including security and defense […]
Munich gunman inspired by rightwing Breivik
Epigraph: Every human life is sacred and precious; killing one is like triggering a genocide. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Source. The Local Europe reacted in shock to the third attack on […]
Ahmadi (Muslim) man gives call to prayer at White House
Tribune: Although the Ahmadi community is one of the most persecuted minorities in Pakistan, they enjoy religious freedom and full rights in the United States. Qasim Rashid, a human rights attorney and […]
Obama: Trump’s doom-and-gloom doesn’t match reality
Source: CNN Washington (CNN)The deeply pessimistic outlook that Donald Trump offered at this week’s Republican National Convention doesn’t match reality, President Barack Obama insisted on Friday. Noting he didn’t watch […]
Munich shooting: 10 killed in shopping centre attack
A man suspected of carrying out a deadly shooting attack in the German city of Munich killed himself, and likely acted alone, police have said. At least 10 people, including the possible suspect, were killed in Friday’s attack on the Olympia shopping centre, a police spokesman said early on Saturday. […]