China’s Hanification of East Turkestan: Failing? -By Habib Siddiqui
On Saturday, Mar. 1, more than 10 assailants slashed scores of people with knives at the Kunming train station in Yunnan province in southern China in what state media said … Continue reading
Sri Lanka: Muslims suffer amid Tiger-army fighting
By Fahad Ansari Crescent MaY 2009 This month, the world may witness the final chapter in the 25-year-old conflict between the Sri Lankan army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil … Continue reading
Uighur Muslims Condemn China Knife Attack
Uighur Muslims have vehemently condemned Saturday’s attacks on a Chinese train station which left dozens killed and injured, amid accusations that point fingers at the persecuted Uighur Muslims in … Continue reading
Aussies Buy Indonesia’s Halal Certificates
Indonesia’s top Muslim body has come under criticism after facing accusations of getting bribes from Australian halal certification companies, a charge vehemently denied by Indonesian scholars. “It’s common knowledge in … Continue reading
Ethnic Profiling, Nigeria’s Looming Crisis
Concerned by the recent arrests targeting northern Nigerians, analysts and Muslim leaders have warned that the security agencies moves in Nigeria’s south were threatening radicalizing more northern young Muslims who … Continue reading
Uganda Muslims Laud Anti-Gay Bill
Uganda Muslims have welcomed the decision of President Yoweri Museveni to back an anti-gay bill that imposes life sentences for some homosexual acts, risking ties between western donors and … Continue reading
Filipino Poor Muslims Aid Typhoon Survivors
Defying their poverty and dire need, Muslims in Marawi City in Mindanao have been campaigning to raise funds and aid to the Yolanda typhoon stricken areas in the Visayas. It … Continue reading
Angola Bans Islam, Destroys Mosques
According to several Angolan newspapers, Angola has become the first country in the world to ban Islam and Muslims, taking first measures by destroying mosques in the country. “The process … Continue reading
India’s Narendra Modi uses a rich heritage as political camouflage
AHMEDABAD, India — When the renowned French architect Le Corbusier came to this city in western India in 1951, he was so awestruck by the Sarkhej Roza, an Islamic monument on … Continue reading
“Democratization in Myanmar hampered by anti-Muslim discrimination”
JTW Interview, Prof. Dr. Selçuk Çolakoğlu Dr. Selçuk Çolakoğlu, Director of USAK Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, sat down for an interview about the grave conditions surrounding the Muslim population in … Continue reading
Myanmar’s infant mortality woes
MAE SOT (NORTHWESTERN THAILAND), 15 November 2013 (IRIN) – A donor-funded clinic in northwestern Thailand is helping save the lives of underweight babies born to impoverished Burmese mothers who have … Continue reading
Police cruelly beaten up an 8 years old child in oo shin kya village Under Maung Daw
A youth from Oo shin kya village report that the police group about whom I mentioned in my earlier report “police harassment in Maung daw northern Aarkan”, was mercilessly beaten … Continue reading
Turkey Allows Hijab In Bar Association
Marking another victory for hijab in Turkey, a supreme court has reversed a headscarf ban for female lawyers, granting them the right to register at the Turkey Bar Association (TBB) … Continue reading
Refugees in Bulgaria face death threats
This is not the safe heaven Ali was expecting. Chased from his hometown of Aleppo by the horrors of the Syrian civil war, he and his extended family of 17 … Continue reading
The Arab Influence on the Italian Renaissance
Beetle Juice, anyone? Since much of it happened by way of southern Italy, I think I can justify sneaking it in, here. This is an early-15th-century Persian copy of the … Continue reading
Martyrdom bombing kills and wounds over 40 Russians in Muslim Idel Ural
The bombing took place in the Russian-occupied Muslim city of Sari Chin (Russian name, Volgograd, or Stalingrad) in Idel Ural, which was officially recognized as an oppressed independent country in a US … Continue reading
Muslim pupils, 14, banned from the classroom at Catholic school for refusing to shave off their beards after claiming their religion forbids it
Students have been in ‘isolation’ at Lancashire school for almost a month The school has said the pupils, both 14, are breaching the dress code Families say the boys are … Continue reading
Quran Translation Banned By Russian Court; Top Islamic Cleric Ravil Gainutdin Protests ‘Outrageous’ Order
MOSCOW — Russia’s top Islamic cleric has protested a provincial court order to declare a translation of the Quran as extremist and to destroy it. Ravil Gainutdin, the head of … Continue reading
Life and death in Aleppo (PHOTOS)
Friday, September 7th, 2012 ALEPPO, Syria — Earlier this week, I was filming a feature on life on the frontlines of Aleppo, Syria. I was camping out with the men … Continue reading
#SaveMaryam Campaign | Why ?
Up to 2 million people are walking away from Islam in Indonesia every year. Detachment and disillusionment has left them feeling that Islam is out of touch with the lives … Continue reading
Muslims Killing in Burma and Social Media Manipulating Images
In now a days people are posting pictures with captions like Muslims killing in Burma, Muslims slaughter by Buddhists in Burma.. I have search reality of few pics and found following: A picture shared … Continue reading
Massacres of Arakan’s Muslims between the reality and the imagination .. the full report !
What a misery and what a suffering and what a tragedy suffered by Muslims in Burma ..?! what a war and what a genocide practiced against our Muslim there ..?! … Continue reading
More than 200 Asylum-Seeking Uyghurs Detained in Thailand
More than 200 Uyghurs are being held at an immigration center near Thailand’s southern city of Hat Yai’s international airport after they were detained in a secret camp in a … Continue reading
Chicago Muslims Welcome Arrests of Vandal
A leading Chicago Muslim organization has welcomed the arrest of a woman who vandalized 21 houses of worship throughout Lake County during the span of one week, the attacks which … Continue reading
70 Muslims Killed in Central African Republic Town
Witnesses in Central African Republic say Christian militiamen killed at least 70 people in the country’s remote southwest, at one point ordering a group of Muslims to lie on … Continue reading
Burma’s Evil Rohingya Enslavement Revealed by Leaked Documents
Rohingya News Agency –(Phuketwan): Leaked government documents reveal severe violations of human rights of Rohingya Muslims in Burma (Myanmar), including restrictions on the freedom of movement, marriage, childbirth, and other aspects … Continue reading