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A mob of a dozen people killed on Saturday two Rohingya community leaders in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar, which houses over a million refugees, police said. According to the Armed Police Battalion, the elite police unit tasked with security in the…

In wake of the decision issued by the European Court of Justice last Thursday, banning the headscarf in workplaces, the International Union of Muslim Scholars considered such decisions to be causes for creating terrorism and religious racism, media outlets reported.…

 Australia’s first Islamic bank has been granted a license, allowing Muslims to access mortgages without paying interest – a practice forbidden in their faith. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) granted the country’s first Islamic bank a restricted license. Islamic…

Yesterday was World Food Day, commemorating the founding of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) in 1945. Amid a global food crisis, this year’s theme “leave no one behind,” marked a call to action for governments, UN agencies,…

Amnesty International confirmed that intolerance and unfair discrimination against Muslims is a form of racism. The organization said that amid the escalation of Islamophobia in Europe, hyperbolized by politicians who use anti-Muslim rhetoric, parliamentarians from 46 countries will vote in…

A researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research, François Burga, warned against the escalation of the phenomenon of Islamophobia to dangerous levels in France in particular and Europe in general, pointing out that it has become a state…

Two Shia clerics in the US state of Michigan played a central role in organizing protests against the inclusion of inappropriate content and the promotion of homosexuality in school curricula for primary and secondary school students, according to US media…

The representative of the Supreme Religious Authority in Majunga, Madagascar, Sheikh Muhammad Radhi Wasram, said that many events and activities were held during the commemoration of the birth anniversary of Prophet Muhammad and his grandson, Imam Jafar al-Sadiq, peace be…

The Muslim call to prayer has sounded for the first time from one of Germany’s biggest mosques in Cologne, but at limited volume – as part of a project agreed with authorities in the city that has one of the…

About 1.4 million children under the age of five are suffering from malnutrition in South Sudan, caught in the grip of widespread flooding and intercommunal conflict, the British Charity ‘Save the Children’ said yesterday, Friday. It said the world’s youngest…