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Maybank Islamic Bhd will be launching its inaugural global thought leadership conference that will enable a global platform and collaboration on the integration of sustainability and Islamic finance within the halal economy.Held in partnership with IslamicMarkets Ltd, the Global Connect…

Angry campaigns spread on social media in India, after announcing the death of a young Muslim man due to torture in a police station.The hashtag #JusticeForZeeshanMalik has topped the social media platforms in India, to demand an investigation into the…

A court in India on Friday sentenced to death 38 people for a series of bomb blasts in 2008 that left more than 50 dead in Gujarat state, which has a history of violent clashes between Hindus and Muslims.It was…

The Eurasia Net website, which specializes in Central Asian news, dealt with the issue of families from Kyrgyzstan who are detained by the hundreds in camps for the displaced in Syria, and whose government has stopped seeking to retrieve them,…

Activists on social networking sites in India circulated video clips showing Muslim students and workers in a school in the southern state of Karnataka, forced to remove the hijab before entering the school.The clips show a woman who appears to…

A group of veiled women in Kashmir protested in support of Muslim students, after a government decision to ban the wearing of the veil.Media from Kashmir reported that a number of veiled women from Srinagar offered flowers, in support of…

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced that about 600,000 Myanmar Muslims in Rakhine State, including about 148,000 displaced people in camps, villages and displacement sites, are still extremely vulnerable and need humanitarian support.UNHCR spokesperson Mateus Soltmarsh said…

Muslim students in Indian universities denounced the decision of their colleges to expel veiled women, considering it a humiliating decision that will force them to choose between religion and education.A 21-year-old Muslim student, who lives in the Udupi neighborhood in…

There has been much talk about extremism and the sharp rise of Wahhabism in India in recent years, with the aim of destabilizing the country’s Shias by launching terrorist attacks.One India newspaper reported yesterday, that India is witnessing a frightening…

The Spanish newspaper “El Mundo” published a report in which it talked about the campaign launched by the Hindus to ban the veil in schools, coinciding with the electoral season in seven Indian states.In its report, the newspaper said that…