By Inam ul Rehman Having an advantage of hindsight to assess things is a blessing. The agitation of 2016 came up with various outcomes, but some offshoots were already taking roots, and a few of them fructified after the year ended. To assess 2016, I will go for a nonlinear narrative to sum up how […]
Four militants, including the chief of militant outfit ‘Islamic State’ in Jammu and Kashmir, were killed in a gunfight with government forces in Srigufwara area of south Kashmir’s Anantnag district on Friday, police said. The slain, according to an official, were identified as ISJK chief Dawood Salafi alias Burhan from HMT Srinagar, Majid Manzoor Dar […]
Two cleric brothers were brutally assaulted when they were returning home after offering Traweeh prayers on Sunday night in Ranchi, reports said. A group of 20-25 people confronted the brothers in Agru village around 10 PM, hurled communal abuses at them and allegedly asked them to chant Jai Shri Ram. When they refused to chant, […]
Denmark joined a list of European countries on Thursday banning garments covering the face, including Islamic full-face veils in public places. The law, which was passed with 75 votes against 30, states, “Anyone who wears a garment that hides the face in public will be punished with a fine,” reports said. The Danish government had […]
A JNU-approved agenda note to set up a National Security Studies Centre, where “Islamic terrorism” is one of the proposed courses, says “if you want peace, prepare for war”, The Telegraph reported. The campus is now witnessing a war of words among a section of teachers since the JNU Academic Council approved the proposal listing […]
The Punjab Assembly in Pakistan on Friday passed a bill making it mandatory for children from grade 1 to 5 to recite the Holy Qur’an in schools across the province, and for those in grade 6 and above to read it along with a translation, reports said. The move “will be a source of the […]
The Jawaharlal Nehru University Students Union has termed the approval of a course what it terms as ‘Islamic Terrorism’ at the varsity a “communal” move and added that “this grotesque propaganda of Islamophobia in the name of academic courses is problematic,” the Indian Express reported. According to the report, the University has given an approval to […]
Narrator Desk Srinagar: The Mataf, the open white circumambulation area around the Holy Kaaba in the Grand Mosque in Makkah, will be allocated exclusively for people performing Umrah during Ramadan, reports said Monday. The order by the King aims to help the men and women perform their Umrah with greater ease since the area becomes […]
A senior Saudi religious scholar has rejected a proposal to mention the sect, race or ideology of citizens and residents on their identity cards, reports said. “Since the establishment of the Islamic state in the seventh century, all Muslim countries have had people from various religious, sectarian and ideological backgrounds,” Shaikh Abdullah Bin Mohammad Al […]
Mathilde Loujayne was studying at a high school in Muscat when September 11 attacks happened in the US. In a matter of hours, that terrorist act got identified with Islam and a lot of negativity began to spread about the religion. Mathilde couldn’t come to terms with what she saw on TV and social media. […]