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People have escaped from the Nigerian town of Mubi in the north-eastern state of Adamawa as Boko Haram Takfiri militants are getting closer to it.   Mubi used to house thousands of refugees trying to avoid fighting. According to Boko…

Banks in the U.S. have been sending letters to their American Muslim customers telling them that their accounts will soon be closed.    There has been no explanation as to why certain Muslims have been targeted. The Los Angeles Times…

Australian Muslims have expressed their concern over new anti-terror measures in the country, fearing that they may increase hostility and prejudice towards them.   Religious Muslim leaders said raising the country’s threat level from medium to high will just make…

Armenia has rejected a request to open up a mosque for the performance of Friday prayers.   The request of reopening Goy Mosque was turned down by the Armenian authorities, despite lobbying attempts made through some embassies. Muslim groups plans…

Human Rights Watch has called on the Bahraini regime to release 13 dissidents serving long prison terms in the country.   The deputy director of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa division said that these men are in…

Emboldened by the rightist Hindu Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Hindu groups have been railing against other faiths in India, vowing to work on converting the whole Muslim and Christian communities within the next decade.   Hindu activist said that the…

Following the directives of the Eminent Grand Ayatollah Sayed Sadiq Husseini Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, in spreading the Islamic culture and erecting mosques, Islamic and cultural institutions, a group of believers in the city of Majingha in Madagascar…

Catering to the needs of the fast growing Muslim students, a new center for Islamic studies will be launched by the University of Florida later this month to serve as an Islamic hub in the US fourth most populous state.…

The scientific seminary of Tanzania has distributed hundreds of Nahjul Balagha copies to the parliament in a move that is regarded as the first of its kind.   The head of the Islamic movement in Tanzania, Sheikh Hameed Jalala said…

The brutal murder of a woman in the UK capital has highlighted the increasing level of Islamophobia that has crept into British society after a backlash against Muslims followed the incident, even though the murderer was not a Muslim.  …