Source: The Guardian A satellite image of Kyaukpyu on 9 March. Click to see image showing scale of destruction. Photograph: Human Rights Watch Burma‘s president has admitted an unprecedented wave of ethnic violence has targeted his country’s Rohingya Muslim population, destroying whole villages and large parts of towns. Thein Sein’s […]
Source: The National SITTWE, MYANMAR // Fears are growing for thousands of Rohingya Muslims after a week of violence in western Myanmar. Satellite images show “near total destruction” of a once-thriving Rohingya coastal community in Kyaukpyu, scene of battles between Rohingya and ethnic Rakhine Buddhists. More than 811 buildings and […]
JEDDAH: ARAB NEWS Sunday 28 October 2012 Coupons for nearly one million sacrificial animals have been sold among pilgrims during this Haj season under the sacrificial meat utilization project, said […]
MINA: SIRAJ WAHAB ARABNEWS Sunday 28 October 2012 .Pilgrims symbolically stoned the devil for a second day yesterday. Chanting “God is Greatest,” pilgrims threw seven small pea-sized pebbles at each […]
Dawn: PESHAWAR: Governor Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Syed Masood Kausar on Saturday alleged that the Punjab government had covert links with “terrorists”, DawnNews reported. Speaking at a fund distribution for the displaced people of Bara, the governor said that the Punjab government had been encouraging the “terrorists” hiding in the madrassas and […]
Source: Independent, UK Medina: Saudis take a bulldozer to Islam’s history Three of the world’s oldest mosques are about to be destroyed as Saudi Arabia embarks on a multi-billion-pound expansion of […]
The Jakarta Globe: The Islamic Defenders Front has been allowed to take the law into its own hands far too often. On the eve of Idul Adha, dozens of members […]
The Muslim Times’ Editor for Pakistan Credit: Xpress Tribune By AFP Published: October 27, 2012 WASHINGTION: Al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri has urged Egyptians to restart their revolution to press for Islamic law and called on Muslims to kidnap Westerners, the SITE Intelligence Group said Friday. In a video released on […]
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A panicking cow killed a Palestinian man who was trying to slaughter the beast on Saturday during the Muslim celebration of Eid al-Adha, a Gaza health official said. Muslims around the world slaughter sheep, cows and goats during the four-day holiday that began Friday […]
Source: Reuters (Reuters) – Boatloads of Muslims struggled to reach refugee camps and sought safety on islands and in coastal villages on Saturday as Myanmar tried to put out the fires of a week of sectarian unrest that has shaken its fragile democratic transition. Dozens of rickety wooden vessels packed […]
Source: VOA Daniel Schearf October 26, 2012 BANGKOK — The death toll from sectarian clashes in Burma’s coastal Rakhine state has doubled to 112 with over 70 reported injured, including children. The official figures surpass the bloodshed in fighting this summer and were released after President Thein Sein vowed to […]
Businessinsider.com: With Britain questioning the legality of a strike on Iran, denying the U.S. access to pivotal airbases, and the U.S. presidential election just days away, we wanted to re-examine how extensive an endeavor […]
by Muath Freij JORDAN TIMES MAFRAQ — Although Ibrahim Nuaimi has yet to fulfil his dream of opening an argileh shop in his hometown of Daraa, Syria, he has made […]
RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO ARABNEWS Saturday 27 October 2012 The Imam of a Riyadh mosque has called on every responsible person to behave properly and treat whoever is under his […]
The Jakarta Globe: Bandung. The Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) on Thursday night inflicted damage on a mosque run by Ahmadiyah devotees in Astana Anyar, Bandung. Dozens of FPI members passed […]
By Lynne Nahhas, Abdel Hadi al-Habtoor DAILY STAR LEBANON MINA, Saudi Arabia: Hundreds of thousands of Muslim pilgrims began to stone a pillar representing Satan in the Saudi holy city […]
SIRAJ WAHAB | ARAB NEWS STAFF Friday 26 October 2012 MINA: In an atmosphere filled with spirituality and serenity, nearly 3 million pilgrims yesterday performed the most important rite of […]
Over 50,000 Muslims pray at Al-Aqsa for Eid (AFP) JERUSALEM — More than 50,000 Muslim worshippers flooded Al-Aqsa mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City for prayers on Friday, the first […]
Dawn: SITTWE: A government spokesman in Myanmar’s western state of Rakhine says the death toll in recent communal violence is now more than 100. Rakhine state spokesman Win Myaing said […]
Hajj 2012: Syrians Raise Rebel Flag During Pilgrimage Huffington Post MOUNT ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia, Oct 25 (Reuters) – Syrian pilgrims raised rebel flags as the haj reached its climax near Mecca on Thursday, despite a call from Saudi Arabia’s top cleric for the annual Islamic pilgrimage to be free from nationalist … See […]