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MI5 Accused of Hiring Muslim Informants

UK’s intelligence agency is facing accusation of paying hundreds of Euros for Muslim informants to spy on their communities, in a strategy that threatens to produce “corrupted” and “fabricated” information. More

MI5 Accused of Hiring Muslim Informants

Muslim Minority

Muslim Woman Attacked On Dublin Bus

A Saudi Muslim PHD student has been attacked on a bus in Dublin by a man who said he hated Muslims before hitting her in shoulder, amid increasing hate-attacks targeting veiled women in the UK. More

Muslim Woman Attacked On Dublin Bus

World News

Yale University Gets Islamic Law Center

Yale University will get its first Islamic law and civilization center after receiving a $10 million gift from a Muslim banking and real estate magnate. More

Yale University Gets Islamic Law Center

Islamic World

Saudi Finalizing Ka`aba New Kiswah

In an effort to meet up with the hajj deadline, trained Saudis are working around the clock to finish the Ka`aba Kiswah (curtains) which would be replaced on Arafa day, expected to fall on September 22. More

Saudi Finalizing Ka`aba New Kiswah

World News

Malawi Muslims Fight Media Prejudice

In an attempt to reduce growing levels of prejudice and stigma towards Islam and Muslims in Malawi, the Muslim community in the country has rolled off an initiative to enable the media access information easily about the religion. More

Malawi Muslims Fight Media Prejudice

World News

Miami Islam Program Promotes Understanding

Believing in the power of education to combat prejudices and misunderstandings, an American professor at a Miami college is cooperating with a collation of Muslim organizations to show students similarities between the three Abrahamic faiths. More

Miami Islam Program Promotes Understanding

Islamic World

Saudi Launches First Multi-Language Hajj App

Saudi Arabia has launched the first ever multi-language mobile application for hajj to guide Muslims during the spiritual journey. More

Saudi Launches First Multi-Language Hajj App

World News

Airlines Suspends Muslim Over Alcohol Serving

An American Muslim rights group announced plans to file a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ExpressJet Airlines for the revocation of a reasonable religious accommodation of a Muslim flight attendant. More

Airlines Suspends Muslim Over Alcohol Serving

Islamic World

Facebook Muezzin Fired For Altering Adhan

An Egyptian imam in Delta city of Kafr Al Dawar has been fired following complaints that he tampered with the phrasing of the call to fajr prayer to reprimand Muslim Facebook browsers who does not perform prayers. More

Facebook Muezzin Fired For Altering Adhan

Muslim Minority

Swiss School Bans Hijab in Class

A Muslim student has been banned from entering her high school class in the Swiss canton of Bern and was sent to home for donning the Islamic headscarf or hijab. More

Swiss School Bans Hijab in Class

Muslim Minority

US Muslims Want Republican’s Apology

A leading US Muslim advocacy group has called on the Republican presidential hopeful Scott Walkers to apologize over his anti-Muslim remarks, in which he claimed that there are only a "handful of reasonable, moderate followers of Islam.” More

US Muslims Want Republican’s Apology

World News

Rickshaw Puller Saves Money for Hajj Dream

Living for years on the dream to travel to hajj, an elderly rickshaw puller has worked hard with firm determination to save money to perform his life dream of visiting holy Makkah for hajj. More

Rickshaw Puller Saves Money for Hajj Dream