Liverpool Football Club fans have embraced Mohamed Salah, an Egyptian player, with a new chant that celebrates the 25-year-old forward’s faith. Read more: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/02/liverpool-fans-embrace-mohamed-salah-muslim-chant-180216105515770.html
The first female Black Rod in the House of Lords in the 650-year history of the role has been approved by the Queen. Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5383185/Britains-female-Black-Rod-starts-House-Lords.html#ixzz56ykFR5XV
Poland‘s government has proposed a new law that would limit kosher slaughter, in a move that has provoked a global outcry from the Jewish community. Read more: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/poland-vote-law-limiting-kosher-200238108.html
By and large, PyeongChang has gone out of its way to welcome the world for the 2018 Winter Olympics. But not everyone in the South Korean host city is feeling the Olympic spirit. Read more: https://sports.yahoo.com/anti-muslim-protests-pyeongchang-get-winter-olympics-prayer-room-scrapped-141802474.html
The cabinet is set to approve in its next meeting the opening of an embassy of Saudi Arabia in Cyprus, it was reported on Monday. Read more: http://cyprus-mail.com/2018/02/12/saudi-arabia-set-open-embassy-nicosia/
Riyadh – Saudi women should not have to wear the abaya in public, a senior cleric said, in the latest sign of a far-reaching liberalisation drive. Read more: http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-women-need-not-wear-abaya-senior-cleric-1.2171517
Saudi Arabia is undergoing the most unprecedented changes in its history. Sky News was among the first foreign news media to film one major change being implemented: women being allowed to go to football matches. Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/saudi-arabia-change-the-women-who-are-allowed-to-watch-football-11247105
Jeremy Browne, a Liberal Democrat, said there needs to be a national debate about whether the state should step in to protect young women from having the veil “imposed” on them. Read more….http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/10311469/Britain-needs-national-debate-about-banning-Muslim-girls-from-wearing-veils-in-public.html
Donald Trump has broken White House tradition by not hosting a dinner to mark the end of Ramadan. The president is the first leader not to host a dinner for nearly two decades after the tradition was started by Bill Clinton and then continued by George W. Bush and Barack […]
Source: Russia Times Over 250,000 Islamic faithful came to the Moscow Cathedral Mosque for the morning prayer celebrating the Eid al-Fitr festival, police reported. Smaller public gatherings took place throughout […]
Turkey’s religious affairs agency has expressed distaste over a new mosque in Berlin where men and women mingle freely, saying it was incompatible with the principles of Islam. Read more…..https://www.thelocal.de/20170622/turkey-says-liberal-german-mosque-incompatible-with-islam
Mosul/Baghdad: “When I looked out of the window and saw the minaret was no longer there, I felt a part of me had died.” For Ahmad Saied, a 54-year-old Iraqi schoolteacher, and many others Mosul can never be the the leaning minaret that had graced his city for nearly 850 […]
Israel’s intelligence and transportation minister has called on Saudi Arabia’s King Salman to invite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to Riyadh to establish full diplomatic relations. Speaking at a conference in Herzliya on Thursday, Yisrael Katz also asked King Salman to send newly appointed crown prince Mohammed bin Salman to Tel […]
Once a year, for a whole month, Muslims around the world observe the holy month of Ramadan. Family, community work, prayer, reflection and, most importantly, fasting from sunrise to sunset, are the main elements of the month. For me, Islam is the highest thing in the world. It’s the pinnacle, […]
Manama: Saudi Arabia has denied reports that it had banned Qataris from performing Umrah as “untrue and lacked credibility.” Umrah is performed by Muslims at the Grand Mosque in Makkah in western Saudi Arabia. “There is no truth to the reports on social media platforms that Qataris have been […]
Source: Independent Muslims awake for Ramadan might have helped save lives after noticing the horrific blaze at Grenfell Tower. Read further
There are some solid reasons why Japan and the Japanese are very different from the rest of the world, or at least the world we are aware of so far. Japan was isolated, literally, for hundreds of years. No one knew what was happening on the islands, nor did the […]
TRADITIONALLY the fasting month of Ramadan is an occasion for family gatherings, cooking delicious food, testing different restaurants and, of course, a renewed zeal for worship. However, this Ramadan Saudi women in Riyadh are witnessing a host of new activities. These include family entertainment events, fashion shows, makeup workshops, beauty […]
Saudi Gazette report RAMADAN is a month of immense blessings and the community iftars at mosques and other public places is one of these blessings. For believers around the world, the month of fasting simply doesn’t mean abstinence from food and drink from dawn to dust, but it is a […]
German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Friday that the UK vote reflected popular discontent over Prime Minister Theresa May’s hard Brexit strategy, which he said should be reconsidered. Read more….https://www.thelocal.de/20170609/uk-elections-germans-praise-young-brits-for-voting-for-europe-amid-brexit-talks-warninghttps://www.thelocal.de/20170609/uk-elections-germans-praise-young-brits-for-voting-for-europe-amid-brexit-talks-warning