Gulf News: The Shawwal moon-sighting committee in the UAE has announced Thursday is the last day of Ramadan. Saudi Royal Court and Bahrain announce Eid Al Fitr on Friday, June 15. Click here to read more (external link).
Press TV June 10, 2018 An American professor emeritus says he believes the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States were carried out by what he thinks is the American deep state and were then used as a pretext to target Muslims in general. “Neither the Taliban nor [al-Qaeda terrorist group leader] Osama bin
Rikar Hussein VOA News June 2, 2018 The government in China is further tightening its grip on minority groups in the Uighur Autonomous Region of Xinjiang during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan as it continues to use its deradicalization campaign to suppress local residents, Uighur leaders and human rights activists warn. China started a
Press TV May 23, 2018 Muslim inmates at a jail in the US state of Alaska are being “starved” and given pork products during Ramadan, a new lawsuit claims. For one thing, Muslim prisoners are given food with substantially lower calories compared to other inmates, said the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in the federal
Press TV May 23, 2018 One of the only Qurans ever made from silk fabric has been completed in Afghanistan — a feat its creators hope will help preserve the country’s centuries-old tradition of calligraphy. Each of the Islamic holy book’s 610 pages was produced by hand in a painstaking process that took a team
Khaleej Times: The holy month of Ramadan will begin on Thursday, May 17, it was announced today. The announcement was made after the Saudi moon-sighting committee met on Tuesday evening and were not able to sight the Ramadan crescent, Al Arabiya reported. Click here to read more (external link).
1TV: “As a member of the Islamic world, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan considers transfer of the US Embassy from Israel to Jerusalem, Palestine a source of concern for the Afghan people and the Islamic world,” Afghanistan’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement. Click here to read more (external link). Related Palestine marks Nakba Day after
Press TV April 24, 2018 Zionists are behind the notorious multi-billion-dollar Islamophobia industry, according to Dr. Kevin Barrett, a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance. Dr. Barrett made the remarks in an interview with Press TV on Tuesday while commenting on a report which has revealed that US President Donald Trump’s new national security adviser, John
Reuters: Afghanistan’s central bank has granted a license to the Islamic Bank of Afghanistan (IBA), the first lender in the country to apply the interest-free principles of Islamic finance in all its operations… The IBA was previously known as Bakhtar Bank and operated under a conventional banking license since it was acquired by Azizi Bank in
Press TV March 17, 2018 The rhetoric adopted by US President Donald Trump against minorities, especially Muslims, has encouraged violence against followers of that religion, says a human rights activist and researcher in Washington. “Speaking with violence, acting with violence against minorities is okay” in America, because Trump has made it acceptable,” said Ilhan Cagri,