Posts tagged with "Islam"

Austria plans to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams Europe

Austria plans to shut down mosques, expel foreign-funded imams

June 8th, 2018 Austria's right-wing government plans to shut down seven mosques and expel up to 40 imams in what it said was "just the beginning" of a push against Islamist ideology and foreign funding of religious groups. The coalition government, an alliance of conservatives and the far right, came to power soon after Europe's migration crisis on...
Despite delays Paphos mosque open for Ramadan Cyprus

Despite delays Paphos mosque open for Ramadan

May 16th, 2018 The department of public works has announced that the small building that has long been used as the mosque in Paphos will be open for use during Ramadan which started on Wednesday. In a written statement, the public works department said it has managed to get the contractor restoring the mosque to complete construction work so that it...
Islam doesn't belong to Germany, new interior minister says Europe

Islam doesn't belong to Germany, new interior minister says

March 16th, 2018 New Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said Islam did not belong to Germany, in an interview published on Friday, setting him on a collision course with Chancellor Angela Merkel who has stressed the need to integrate Muslims. Seehofer also set out a range of hardline policies on immigration, as the new coalition prepares to see off the...
‘Students being woken up to pray at school in the north’ Cyprus

‘Students being woken up to pray at school in the north’

January 16th, 2018 A group of teachers at the Hala Sultan Theology College in the north have complained to the ‘education ministry’ saying students are being forcibly woken up during the night to pray and being subjected to “religious pressure” by ‘vocational teachers’ sent from Turkey, Kibris daily reported on Tuesday. The group allege the...
Pakistani women 'kill man accused of blasphemy' Asia

Pakistani women 'kill man accused of blasphemy'

April 20th, 2017 Three women dressed in burqas killed a man who had been accused of blasphemy in 2004 in a northeastern Pakistani town, police said on Thursday, the second brutal killing over alleged insults to Islam in a week. Blasphemy is a highly charged topic in Pakistan where there have been at least 66 murders over unproven allegations since...
Persecuted Egyptian Christians appeal for protection featured

Persecuted Egyptian Christians appeal for protection

December 4th, 2016 MAHER Elgohary, daughter Dina and friend, Rania, are Egyptian Christians who fled Egypt a month ago in fear of their lives and are now staying in temporary accommodation in Paphos. Their sole crime is their Coptic Christian faith and they are appealing to the president and the public to offer them protection from radical Muslims and...
Germany's finance minister presses for a "German Islam" World

Germany's finance minister presses for a "German Islam"

October 2nd, 2016 By Caroline Copley A veteran ally of Angela Merkel urged Muslims in Germany on Sunday to develop a "German Islam" based on liberalism and tolerance, saying the influx of people seeking refuge, many of them Muslims, is a challenge for mainstream society. Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, stepping out of his usual finance remit, urged...
Jordanian writer shot dead outside court before trial over cartoon (Updated) World

Jordanian writer shot dead outside court before trial over cartoon (Updated)

September 25th, 2016 A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, witnesses and state media said. The gunman was arrested at the scene, state news agency Petra said. A security source said he...
UN rights office urges French towns to repeal burkini bans World

UN rights office urges French towns to repeal burkini bans

August 30th, 2016 The United Nations human rights office has called on French beach resorts to lift their bans on the burkini, calling them a "stupid reaction" that did not improve security but fuelled religious intolerance. France's highest administrative court last Friday suspended one seaside town's ban on the full-body swimsuit sometimes worn by...
Police in Cannes stop Muslim women wearing banned burkinis World

Police in Cannes stop Muslim women wearing banned burkinis

August 17th, 2016 By Geert De Clercq Ten Muslim women wearing burkinis to the beach have been apprehended by police in the southern French city of Cannes in the three weeks since it imposed a temporary ban on the full body swimsuit, a local official said. Arguing that the burkini defies French laws on secularism, Cannes is one of three cities in...
The islamic renewal Opinion

The islamic renewal

July 26th, 2016 By Raheel Raza There is a battle underway for the soul of Islam, and that reform must defeat the ideology of violent Islamism. The past few months have seen a slew of terror attacks worldwide. From the shootings at a gay nightclub in Orlando to an attack on Istanbul airport, to hostage taking in Bangladesh, terrorists seem to have...
Top Saudi clerical body renews fatwa against Pokemon World

Top Saudi clerical body renews fatwa against Pokemon

July 20th, 2016 Saudi Arabia's top clerical body has renewed a 15-year-old edict that the Pokemon game franchise is un-Islamic, Saudi media said on Wednesday, although the fatwa made no mention of the successful new Pokemon GO mobile game. Nintendo's augmented reality app, in which players walk around real-life neighbourhoods to hunt and catch...
Almost two-thirds of Germans think Islam doesn't 'belong' to their country - poll World

Almost two-thirds of Germans think Islam doesn't 'belong' to their country - poll

May 12th, 2016 Almost two-thirds of Germans think Islam does not 'belong' to their country, a survey showed on Thursday, indicating changing attitudes following militant Islamist attacks in Europe and the arrival of more than a million, mostly Muslim, migrants last year. Former German president Christian Wulff sparked controversy in 2010 when he...
Enclaved teen’s conversion to Islam should not be politicised, Photiou says Cyprus

Enclaved teen’s conversion to Islam should not be politicised, Photiou says

May 4th, 2016 The decision of a 17-year-old enclaved boy from Rizokarpaso to convert to Islam should not be politicised the Commissioner for Humanitarian Affairs Photis Photiou said on Wednesday. Public opinion is divided over news that the teen decided to convert. There are around 500 people enclaved living in Rizokarpaso, 70 per cent of whom...
Sex, Arabs and political correctness CM Regular Columnist

Sex, Arabs and political correctness

March 12th, 2016 THE French left does political correctness and moral outrage much better than the American left, so the row over what Algerian novelist and journalist Kamal Daoud recently said about sex in the Arab world has been bigger and louder in France than in the United States. But it is equally stupid in both places. Kamal Daoud’s day job is...
Five years after the Arab Spring CM Regular Columnist

Five years after the Arab Spring

January 24th, 2016 By Gwynne Dyer Five years ago this month, the “Arab Spring” got underway with the non-violent overthrow of Tunisia’s long-ruling dictator, Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali. He dared not order the army to open fire on the demonstrators (because it might not obey), he was running out of money, and eventually he flew off to Saudi Arabia to...
Pakistan arrests imam after boy cuts hand off in blasphemy error World

Pakistan arrests imam after boy cuts hand off in blasphemy error

January 17th, 2016 Pakistani police have arrested the imam of a mosque for inciting violence after a 15-year old boy who was told by the cleric that he was a blasphemer went home and cut off his own hand. Shabbir Ahmed was delivering a sermon at a village in the east of Punjab province when he asked the gathering if anyone did not love the Prophet...
Extremism in Syria and beyond Guest Columnist

Extremism in Syria and beyond

January 1st, 2016 By Ozay Mehmet TO DESCRIBE Western involvement in the Middle East as an unmitigated disaster would be an understatement. But virtually no attention has been devoted to the role of regional responsibility and in-depth historical backdrop for the chaos in Iraq, Libya and Syria. Regime change was targeted in Saddam Hussein’s Iraq...
Cyprus' religious leaders condemn acts of violence and terrorism Cyprus

Cyprus' religious leaders condemn acts of violence and terrorism

November 25th, 2015 The five main religious leaders of Cyprus have released a joint statement condemning all forms of attacks, terrorism and violence in Cyprus, the region, and the world. The announcement was issued by Office of the Religious Track of the Cyprus Peace Process, and co-signed by Archbishop Chrysostomos II, Mufti Talip Atalay, Armenian...
The curse of ideology Guest Columnist

The curse of ideology

June 7th, 2015 By Farid Mirbagheri THE CONTEMPORARY era is marked by the curse of ideology. Our ideas, ideals and beliefs, and those of our forefathers, have all been ideologised in the service of wealth and power for those who have successfully instrumentalised values for temporal gains. Ideologies dismember and universalise belief systems,...
No place for terror in the teaching of Islam Opinion

No place for terror in the teaching of Islam

February 17th, 2015 By Shawki Allam, Grand Mufti of Egypt EVERY Muslim has been in utter shock since the senseless, appalling and cowardly attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris. This horrific attack is a complete violation of Islamic law and norms and the perpetrators are no way representatives of the Muslim people or the religion of Islam. God upholds...
Language of UK plea to imams to fight radicalism angers some Muslims World

Language of UK plea to imams to fight radicalism angers some Muslims

January 19th, 2015 By Andrew Osborn A prominent British Muslim has accused the government of copying the language of the far right after ministers wrote to imams urging them to explain to fellow Muslims how Islam is compatible with being British. In a letter to over 1,000 imams last Friday, Eric Pickles, the minister for local government and...
Merkel says Islam "belongs to Germany" ahead of Dresden rally World

Merkel says Islam "belongs to Germany" ahead of Dresden rally

January 12th, 2015 By Andreas Rinke German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday Islam "belongs to Germany", in a clear repudiation of anti-immigration protesters gathering in Dresden and other cities. A day after walking arm-in-arm with French President Francois Hollande at the front of a massive march in Paris to honour the victims of killings by...
Saudi cleric condemns snowmen as anti-Islamic World

Saudi cleric condemns snowmen as anti-Islamic

January 12th, 2015 A prominent Saudi Arabian cleric has whipped up controversy by issuing a religious ruling forbidding the building of snowmen, described them as anti-Islamic. Asked on a religious website if it was permissible for fathers to build snowmen for their children after a snowstorm in the country's north, Sheikh Mohammed Saleh al-Munajjid...
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