Pakistan backs Tablighi Jamaat after Saudi ban
WION Web Team New Delhi Published: Dec 24, 2021, 10:51 PM(IST) File photo: Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan. Photograph:( AFP ) STORY HIGHLIGHTS The Punjab assembly in Pakistan where PM Imran […]
Saudi Arabia bans Tablighi Jamaat, terms it ‘danger to society’
Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Islamic Affairs has asked the preachers of mosques to warn people about the group. News Desk| Published: 11th December 2021 Riyadh: The government of Saudi Arabia has […]
The Coronavirus Is Empowering Islamophobes — but Exposing the Idiocy of Islamophobia
By Mehdi Hasan If anti-Semitism is the world’s oldest hatred, perhaps Islamophobia is the world’s weirdest. How else to explain the fact that a pandemic of global and historic proportions, […]
The hullabaloo about tableeghi jama’at (TJ) By Amjed Jaaved
Published 2 weeks ago on April 3, 2020 By Amjed Jaaved In the backdrop of COVID19 surge worldwide, two congregations of the TJ, one (1, 50,000) in Pakistan and another (3,000) in India rippled shock-waves. The both, allegedly, violated official instructions. Hundreds of foreign attendees came to Nizam mosque as […]
Religious extremists are making the coronavirus pandemic even worse
Whether in the Iranian shrine city of Qom or the Bible Belt of the United States, the zealots are even claiming they hold the cure to the pandemic, writes Borzou […]
Muslim school in UK bans pupils from meeting ‘outsiders’
A Muslim boarding school in the UK has been found allegedly threatening its pupils against speaking to “outsiders”. An investigation by ‘Sky News’ found that the Institute of Islamic Education in Dewsbury, northern England, threatens to expel students if they mix with other children. However, in its most recent inspection report […]