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Israeli bombing is indiscriminate, targets both Muslims and Christians, says Palestinian president

The Israeli bombing is indiscriminate and targets both Muslims and Christians, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Sunday while drawing parallels between Israel’s intensified attacks on the Gaza Strip and the 1948 Nakba, Anadolu Agency reports. “Christ’s birthplace, Bethlehem (Palestinian city in the West Bank), is experiencing unprecedented sadness,” President Abbas said, noting that the current Israeli aggression reminds him of the 1948 Nakba. The “Nakba” or “Catastrophe” is the event in which […]

25 December 2023

International

Potential ‘crimes against humanity’ in China’s Xinjiang, UN says

INTERNATIONAL China’s detention of Uighurs and other mostly Muslim ethnic minorities in the northwestern region of Xinjiang may amount to “crimes against humanity”, the United Nations human rights office said in a long-delayed report that was finally published late on Wednesday. The 45-page report (PDF) called on Beijing to immediately release “all individuals arbitrarily deprived of their liberty”, clarify the whereabouts of those whose families have been unable to locate them and […]

1 September 2022

International

Muslims overwhelmingly shown negatively in Western media, US political scientists find

Muslims are overwhelmingly portrayed in a negative light in American and Western media, two political scientists have discovered through the analysis of hundreds of thousands of articles. In a report published by the Associated Press's (AP) outlet The Conversation, Erik Bleich and A. Maurits van der Veen, political scientists and professors at the universities of Middlebury and William & Mary, stated their findings that media outlets and organisations in the Western world, especially […]

29 May 2022

International

Palestinians in Latin America condemn Israeli desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque

Palestinians across Latin America have condemned the desecration of Al-Aqsa Mosque by illegal Jewish settlers as well as "continuous Israeli crimes and violations" against the people of occupied Palestine, Quds Press reported on Tuesday. "It is the duty of the Palestinian communities in Latin America and the Caribbean to condemn the carnage being perpetrated by Israel against the Palestinians every day," said Rafael Masri, the head of the Confederation of Palestinian Communities […]

20 April 2022

Opinions

Macron’s ‘crusade’ against Islam reveals a dangerous double standard

Alittle magazine on the fringes of the French media mainstream continues to polarise public debate not just in France, but across the Muslim world. Their pitiable cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad have provided fodder to populists on both sides of the divide - first and foremost, French President Emmanuel Macron and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The former used the heinous terrorist killing of a French schoolteacher to double down […]

9 November 2020

News

‘Hands off our Prophet’, urge local Muslims as row over France continues

By Tasneem Adams Ulema from the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) and members of the Muslim community picketed outside the French consul general in the Cape Town CBD on Friday, to protest rising Islamophobia in France. Members of the ulema recited the salawat and held placards expressing their love for the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh), whose birth is celebrated this month. French President Emmanuel Macron has angered Muslims globally after he refused […]

30 October 2020

International News

French Muslims express ‘anger, sadness’ after Nice attack

French Muslims reacted with horror at Thursday’s killing of three citizens in the seaside town of Nice, saying the crime is representative of neither their faith nor values. The attack, which took place inside a church, is the third of its kind in a little over a month and comes amid heightened tensions between Muslim countries and France. Several calls to boycott French goods were made last week after President […]

30 October 2020

International News

India’s police ‘complicit’ in anti-Muslim riots, alleges Amnesty

Police in Delhi were "complicit and an active participant" in the February violence in which 53 people, mostly Muslims, were killed, according to an investigation by Amnesty International India. "The Delhi police personnel were complicit and an active participant in the violence that took place in Delhi in February 2020, yet in the last six months not a single investigation has been opened into the human rights violations committed by […]

28 August 2020

News

Tears and relief as Christchurch terrorist handed down life sentence

Emotions were intensified in New Zealand today as a life sentence was handed down to 29-year-old terrorist Brenton Tarrant – who massacred 51 musallees at the Al Noor and Linwood Masajid in Christchurch during Jumuah prayers on 15 March 2019. In a landmark ruling, Judge Cameron Mander said the white supremacist would be given a life sentence without the possibility of parole on Thursday – the first of its kind […]

27 August 2020

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