Hanau shooting: Eight dead after two attacks in Germany
Eight people are dead following two shootings at shisha bars in the western German city of Hanau. At least five people were injured after gunmen opened fire at about 22:00 […]
‘My body, my choice’ – French Muslim women speak out about headscarves
Source: The Local Fr By Ingri Bergo Arguments over Muslim women wearing headscarves surface fairly regularly in France. As the Muslim community again hit the headlines we speak to the […]
Want to know more about Muslims and Islam? We’ve got an email course for you
Source: Pew Research Centre By Alan Cooperman With an estimated population of 1.8 billion, Muslims are the world’s second-largest religious group, after Christians. But our surveys have found that about half of Americans – as well as most Western Europeans – say they know little or nothing about Islam. Pew […]
Macron announces measures against ‘Islamic separatism’
Source: The Connexion French President Emmanuel Macron has announced a series of measures designed to combat “Islamic separatism” in France – including new rules on foreign imams and education. The […]
Appeal Court rules Islamic marriages invalid in UK
Source: BBC A court has reversed a judgment from two years ago which found that a couple who had an Islamic wedding ceremony could legally divorce. The High Court ruled […]
Pakistan Takes Cues From China to Clamp Down on Freedom of Expression
Pakistan puts press freedom at the core of the struggle for new world order. By Qrius Sweeping new regulations restricting social media in Pakistan put freedom of expression and […]
Gambia: Imam Fatty Says Yahya Jammeh Gave Them Powers to Ban Preachers
18 February 2020 FOROYAA Newspaper (Serrekunda) By Yankuba Jallow Imam Abdoulie Fatty, renowned as Imam Fatty said ex-President Yahya Jammeh gave them the power to ban people from organizing […]
German far right arrests reveal ‘shocking’ mosque attack plot
Source: Yahoo News Berlin (AFP) – Members of a German extreme right group arrested last week were believed to have been plotting “shocking” large-scale attacks on mosques similar to the […]
Swedish MP Warns of ‘Arabisation’ as Arabic Becomes Main Language in Some Preschools
As Arabic has become the main language at several preschools in Ronneby, Blekinge County, it’s led to communication problems between staff and children. Moderate Party MP Hanif Bali tweeted […]
Switzerland: Citizenship hurdle ‘risks stigmatising welfare aid’
Cantonal vote By Peter Siegenthaler Feb 11, 2020 – Many people would rather suffer in silence than risk the “shame” of asking for help. (Christof Schuerpf) Voters in canton Aargau […]
UK to close door to non-English speakers and unskilled workers
Lisa O’Carroll, Peter Walker and Libby Brooks Britain is to close its borders to unskilled workers and those who can’t speak English as part of a fundamental overhaul of immigration […]
Man who fled Syria war killed delivering pizza in US
ASSOCIATED PRESS BALTIMORE Published 18.02.2020 A family friend of a pizza delivery driver who was recently gunned down in Baltimore says he had fled war-torn Syria to seek a […]
Breaking News: Ahmadiyya Mosque in Kasur, Pakistan, forcibly taken over by authorities and handed to Sunni mob
JUST IN: An 84 year old Ahmadiyya Mosque in Kasur, Pakistan, has been forcibly taken over by authorities and handed to a Sunni mob trying to confiscate it for many […]
Smart tech paves way for ‘holistic Hajj’
The two-day forum will highlight the role of sustainable technologies in ‘Smart Makkah.’ (Photo/Supplied) Short Url https://arab.news/8w9tw DEEMA AL-KHUDAIR February 19, 2020 Saudi exhibition highlights major advances for growing numbers […]
Trump’s ‘currency manipulation’ con
Feb 18,2020 – JORDAN TIMES – ANNA O. KRUEGER WASHINGTON, DC — Would you believe the following story if you heard it? Imagine a small, rural town with one general […]
Israel plans new East Jerusalem settlement — watchdog
Watchdog says project first in city since more than 20 years By AFP – Feb 18,2020 – JORDAN TIMES OCCUPIED JERUSALEM — Israel has developed plans to build 9,000 settler […]
The Antarctic Peninsula is setting heat records. They won’t stand long.
Five hundred miles south of South America’s Cape Horn, a narrow strip of land and a smattering of islands form the tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, a forbidding realm of […]
More than 2,000 former prosecutors and other DOJ officials call on Attorney General Bill Barr to resign
By Laura Jarrett, CNN (CNN) More than 2,000 former Justice Department officials who served in Republican as well as Democratic administrations have signed a statement posted Sunday calling on Attorney […]
Hospital director dies in Wuhan as China designates dead nurses and doctors as ‘martyrs’
Epigraph: Every human life is precious and sacred and saving one is like saving the whole of humanity. (Al Quran 5:32/33) Hong Kong (CNN) The death toll from the novel […]
Could Switzerland help end the conflict in Yemen?
By Kathrin Ammann Feb 18, 2020 – 11:00 The war in Yemen has been raging for five years, at huge human cost. Some experts believe that neutral Switzerland, […]