Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday said Ankara would not allow the Fetullah Terrorist Organisation (FETO) to make South Africa its base. At the inauguration of a new Turkish Embassy building in South Africa's capital Pretoria, Erdogan warned the country of the threat of FETO as South Africa is one of the countries where the group is most active. “In our eyes, there is no difference between terrorist organisations,” […]
What was meant to have been a joyous and fulfilling end of Ramadan has turned into one of sadness and tragedy, as the Muslim community in Cape Town reels after a devastating and senseless attack at the Malmesbury masjid. On Thursday morning, two musallees at the mosque, 74 year old Ismail Bassa and Ziyaad Hidji, were stabbed to death by an unknown attacker, while they were spending their last moments […]
As Donald Trump hosted his first iftar at the White House as US president, several major American Muslim organisations protested outside with a “Not my Iftar” pop-up event after saying they had not been invited. Trump did not host an iftar dinner, the traditional meal to break the fast during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, in his first year in office, in a break with past presidents. The Wednesday […]
Some of Cape Town's leading Muslim thinkers and scholars will on Sunday engage in a dialogue on the much anticipated Cape Accord– a public statement calling for tolerance and unity in South Africa and the Muslim world. The Cape Accord embraces the spirit of the Amman Message signed in 2005 by more than 500 leading Muslim scholars worldwide, which aimed to capture Islam's core values of compassion, mutual respect, tolerance, […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has hailed the Muslim community for its contribution to South Africa. Speaking at the annual Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) Iftaar in Rylands in Cape Town on Wednesday evening, Ramaphosa appealed to the Muslim community to work together and has undertaken to address some of the issues that affect Muslims of country, including laws on marriage, the protection of communities such as Bo-Kaap from gentrification and concerns of […]
Three men charged with plotting to bomb an apartment complex in western Kansas, where Muslim immigrants from Somalia lived and had a mosque, wanted to kill as many as possible and send a message they were not welcome in the United States, a federal prosecutor said at their trial on Tuesday. Prosecutors charged Curtis Allen, Gavin Wright and Patrick Eugene Stein each with conspiring to use a weapon of mass […]
Islamic organisations have urged Muslims to register to vote this weekend ahead of the 2019 national elections. Despite its best efforts to collect the addresses of voters, the electoral commission does not have addresses for 2.8 million voters. The registration drive takes place on Saturday 10th and Sunday 11 March at open centres across the country. The Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) says the political landscape nationally and internationally compels Muslims […]
Muslims are expected to become the second-largest religious group in the United States after Christians by 2040, according to a new report. There were 3.45 millions Muslims living in the US in 2017 representing about 1.1 percent of the total population, a study by Pew Research Center found. At present, the number of Jewish people outnumber Muslims as the second-largest religious group but that is expected to change by 2040 […]
Imam Rashid Omar from the Claremont Main Road Mosque believe believes 2017 has been an outstanding one for Muslim-Christian relations at the local level. In June, Anglican Archbishop Thabo Makgoba delivered the keynote address at the Claremont Main Road Mosque’s Annual General Meeting and called for greater interfaith solidarity in the struggle for social justice in South Africa. In September Archbishop Emeritus, Desmond Mphilo Tutu issued a heartfelt letter to […]
VOC became the first Muslim radio station in South Africa when a special events license was granted to the station in Ramadan/January 1995. Subsequent temporary broadcast licenses were granted, permitting the station to broadcast for 24 hours.
