Influential Muslim cleric Yusuf al-Qaradawi says the death sentences ruled against himself in absentia and against Mohamed Morsi, the deposed Egyptian president, violated Islamic legislation. The Egyptian Islamic theologian and chairman of the International Union of Muslim Scholars said that the death sentences handed on by the Egyptian court against[…]
With the chorus of international condemnation growing, the Muslim Judicial Council (MJC) has rejected the death sentence of former president Muhammad Morsi, calling it an “unjust verdict”. Morsi, the first democratically elected president of Egypt, and 106 Muslim Brotherhood members were handed down the death penalty in an Egyptian court[…]
A South African political analyst is not convinced that former Eqyptian President, Mohammed Morsi will be executed, saying it would be in the best interest of Abdel Fatah al-Sisi to be seen as compassionate and to pardon the Muslim Brotherhood leader. Morsi was sentenced to death on Saturday over a[…]
Another image of halal labelling gone wrong took social media by storm at the weekend. The item, a pack of Pick ‘n Pay russians and chips, was seen labelled with halal certification from the MJC Halal Trust (MJCHT) but upon further inspection, the ingredients stated that it included pork. But[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters want Danny Jordaan to resign from the SA Football Association following his new appointment as Nelson Mandela Bay mayor. “Jordaan must resign from the association since he has chosen active politics and life as an ANC politician,” national spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said in a statement on[…]
The Mustadafin Foundation launched its first teenage pregnancy awareness campaign its community centres in Tafelsig and Delft last week, which will run throughout the month. It is estimated that one in three girls in South Africa have given birth by the age of 20 and with the high rate of[…]
Job security in South Africa fell in the last year, driven down by a sharp drop in the employee confidence index, Solidarity’s labour market report showed on Tuesday. The Solidarity-ETM South African Labour Market Index fell to 43.5 in the first quarter (Q1) of 2015, from 44.6 in the last[…]
Crimean Tatars in Istanbul gathered outside the Russian Consulate in Turkey to honor those who died during 1944 forced deportation of the Crimean Tatars, after they were banned from marking the occasion with their traditional memorial demonstration. “Anyone who has a conscience will never forget the pain and cruelty caused[…]
The UN says nearly 25,000 people have fled from Ramadi since fighters from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) captured the Iraqi city from government forces over the past few days. Residents continue to flee, mainly towards the capital, Baghdad, as thousands of Shia militias were massing[…]
Former tennis star Bob Hewitt intends applying for leave to appeal his conviction on two counts of rape and one of sexual assault in the High Court in Pretoria on Tuesday, a day after he was sentenced to in effect six years in jail and a R100 000 fine. On[…]
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