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Malaysia allocates RM10 million to print and distribute 2 million copies of Noble Quran

Malaysia allocates RM10 million to print and distribute 2 million copies of Noble Quran

Malaysia has allocated RM10 million from Budget 2023 to print and distribute two million translated copies of the Quran. This initiative by the Yayasan Restu non-profit organization has been met with what was described as Islamophobic criticism by those who…
Canada votes to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees amid Chinese pressure

Canada votes to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees amid Chinese pressure

Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China, but are now facing pressure to return. The vote on Wednesday builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment…
American writer: The Chinese extermination campaign against the Uyghurs continues in light of global silence

American writer: The Chinese extermination campaign against the Uyghurs continues in light of global silence

Foreign Affairs magazine published an article by James Milorad, professor of history at the College of Foreign Services at Georgetown University, in which he referred to China’s continuation of its campaign of repression in Xinjiang against the Muslim Uyghur minority…
Indonesia, Malaysia explore cooperation in halal product assurance

Indonesia, Malaysia explore cooperation in halal product assurance

Indonesia’s Halal Product Assurance Agency (BPJPH) and Malaysia’s Department of Islamic Development (JAKIM) are exploring cooperation in strengthening halal product assurance to bolster the halal product ecosystem. “We are currently finalizing the cooperation agreement between BPJPH and JAKIM,” BPJPH head…
Bangladesh: Rampant police abuse of Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh: Rampant police abuse of Rohingya refugees

Bangladesh’s Armed Police Battalion (APBn) is committing extortion, arbitrary arrests, and harassment of Rohingya refugees already facing violence from criminal gangs and armed groups, Human Rights Watch said today. The Armed Police Battalion took over security in the Rohingya camps…
Pakistan is facing a growing food crisis, worsened by recent devastating floods

Pakistan is facing a growing food crisis, worsened by recent devastating floods

Last Saturday in Mirpur Khas, a city in Pakistan’s Sindh province, hundreds of people lined up for hours outside a park to buy subsidized wheat flour, offered for 65 rupees a kilogram instead of the current, inflated rate of about…
World’s key element in solar panels manufactured in Xinjiang under forced labor

World’s key element in solar panels manufactured in Xinjiang under forced labor

According to the International Energy Agency’s (IEA) report last July, China’s share in all key global manufacturing stages of the world’s solar panels exceeds 80%. However, 40% of the world’s polycrystalline silicon (among the key elements) is produced in Xinjiang.…
Myanmar jails more than 100 Rohingya for travelling ‘without documents’

Myanmar jails more than 100 Rohingya for travelling ‘without documents’

Myanmar authorities have sentenced 112 Rohingya, including a dozen children, to between two and five years in prison for attempting to travel to Malaysia “without legal documents”, state media reported Tuesday. The group were arrested last month in the southern…
Free Muslim Organization calls on the UAE to include the biography of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in school curricula

Free Muslim Organization calls on the UAE to include the biography of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in school curricula

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) urged the government of the United Arab Emirates to include in its school curricula the biography of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in order to acquaint the younger generations with the greatness of…
Afghanistan: Security destabilized and Taliban’s ban on women continues amid int’l condemnation

Afghanistan: Security destabilized and Taliban’s ban on women continues amid int’l condemnation

On the Educational level, last week, the ban on girls’ higher education and women employees of NGOs triggered widespread reactions, with the acting minister of interior saying work is underway on a reasonable and permanent solution. “Banning Afghan women working…
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