A Muslim girl in France became one the first to be excluded from school after a ban on wearing an abaya, a full-length robe worn by many Muslim women. The girl from the French city of Leon came to school dressed in a kimono, a long loose-fitting robe with wide sleeves, leading to[…]
By Daanyaal Matthews The Muslim Judicial Council has requested that the South African Government grant Muslims reprieve from loadshedding on the day of Eid. This request follows rising criticism across the nation in response to Eskom’s tendency to alleviate loadshedding entirely on certain public holidays that correspond with Christian religious[…]
Israel on Sunday closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers for two days due to Jewish holidays, according to the mosque director, Anadolu reports. “Israeli forces closed the Ibrahimi Mosque and prevented the entry of Muslim worshipers, while Israeli settlers were allowed,” Ghassan Al-Rajabi told Anadolu.[…]
The Zimbabwean government has condemned the Israeli violations against Al-Aqsa Mosque and called on Israeli police to unconditionally withdraw its forces from the Muslim holy site. In a statement reported by Wafa News Agency on Friday, the Zimbabwean Foreign Ministry described the Israeli aggression against worshippers at Al-Aqsa Mosque as a “flagrant violation”. At[…]
By: Aneeqa du Plessis The Mother City is slowly running out of burial space, especially for Muslims. The Islamic Society in Gordon’s Bay approached the city last month, urging them to make more land available for their burials. But the city argues it has provided sufficient burial land in the[…]
LOCAL Over 140 burial plots were allocated to the muslim community at the Rusthof Cemetery in Strand on Wednesday. Members of the MJCSA and local Islamic societies were among those who attended an official opening ceremony, and ensured the designated graves faced qibla. It grants relief to nearby suburbs, given[…]
INTERNATIONAL Muslim preacher Abdullah al-Faisal is standing trial in New York for allegedly trying to recruit for the Islamic State (IS) militant group. Faisal, who was born Trevor William Forrest, often goes by Shaikh Faisal. He is ranked by terrorism experts as one of “the most influential among English-language extremist[…]
INTERNATIONAL A group of Muslim and Jewish firefighters in Washington have asked a judge to hold the city in contempt for a policy that bans beards, saying it unfairly targets the two minority faiths of Islam and Judaism. The firefighters – Steven Chasin, Calvert Potter, Jasper Sterling and Hassan Umrani[…]
INTERNATIONAL Former Tunisian President, Monsef Marzouki, said that Qatar’s success in organising the World Cup is a great incentive for Arabs, Muslims and all countries of the world and confirmation that they can perform miracles if there is political and popular will. He criticised the “hypocrisy” of Western countries and[…]
INTERNATIONAL Ibtihaj Muhammad, an American Olympic medalist in fencing, is being sued by a teacher for defamation after a social media post she made about the teacher allegedly pulling on a girl’s hijab went viral. The incident took place in October 2021, when the seven-year-old girl told her mom that[…]
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