Muslims attend the Ramadan tarawih prayer at Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta, Indonesia. Photograph: Beawiharta/ReutersThe long read The world’s largest Muslim-majority country was long considered a tolerant place. But thanks to […]
Radical Barelvi groups are now resorting to violence to underline their sect – once famous for its pluralism – as the truest version of Islam. By Kunwar Khuldune Shahid October 04, […]
World Ghulam Rasool Dehlvi Sep 09, 2016 The world’s premier pan-Arab daily newspaper, Asharq Al-Awsat, reported that an international Islamic conference was organised in Grozny, a city in Chechnya with more than 100 top Muslim clerics from all around the world. The agenda was to take an uncompromising stand against […]
Source: Rudaw ERBIL, Kurdistan Region — The head of the executive body of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) Politburo says that Islam has to be saved from Salafism to […]
Robin Augustin | June 4, 2018 A spokesman for the community says there is a danger when ulama influenced by Wahhabism call the shots among the religious bureaucrats. Ahmadiyya Muslim […]
MAY 5, 2017 The Koran distribution campaign “Lies!” (Read!) originated in Germany.(Keystone) Zurich cantonal authorities say they have concrete indications that actions by the Salafist group ‘True Religion’ are aimed […]
Reuters International FEB 22, 2017 – ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss police raided several houses and searched a mosque in the southern canton of Ticino on Wednesday as part of an investigation into suspected Islamist activity, federal prosecutors said. More than 100 officers took part in the operation and arrested one […]
Wahhabis have a history of vandalising and destroying Islamic heritage. In Saudi Arabia they destroyed and damaged houses and mosques associated with the Prophet Mohammad and his family. The history goes back to 18th and 19th century and their raids on Shi’a holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, killing and […]
By TAMIM ELYAN | REUTERS ARABNEWS ALEXANDRIA, Egypt: At Al-Taqwa mosque in Egypt’s second biggest city, a preacher defends his ultra-orthodox Salafi group’s decision to endorse Abdel Moneim Abol Fotouh, an Islamist who casts himself as a moderate, in this month’s presidential election. “Don’t consider his media statements only. He […]
By ALI BLUWI | ARAB NEWS RIYADH: Crown Prince Naif, deputy premier and interior minister, will attend a symposium on “Salafism, a Shariah approach and a national demand” which will […]