Rohingya refugee children gather in “No Man’s Land” behind Myanmar’s border lined with barbed wire fences in Maungdaw district, Rakhine state bounded by Bangladesh, on April 25, 2018. (Photo by AFP) International legal experts say Myanmar has violated its obligations to the United Nations child rights convention as the unprecedented ...
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Hundreds of supporters and members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) have staged a peaceful rally in the country’s capital of Abuja and called for the release of their leader, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky. The participants in the Friday protest chanted slogans against Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari and demanded justice ...
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The United Nations rights chief has called on Israel to release the some 440 Palestinian children it is holding in so-called administrative detention. “Israel should immediately charge, or release, all of them,” said Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein on Monday, while noting that the Tel Aviv regime’s administrative detention system is ...
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My Journey to Allah Sr.Heather I am a new Muslimah. I took shahada on August 15, 2002. I am so glad I did. Life is much better with Islam. I had been searching all my life for a way to Allah. I was raised Christian. I explored many different faiths ...
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Ishaq bin Mohammad bin Sabah was the commander of Kufa. His wife bore him a daughter. For this reason the commander was very sad and depressed. He stopped eating and drinking. When Bahlool heard about this he went to the Amir and said, “O the commander, why this sorrow and ...
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Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei hailed the unity of the Iranian Shiite and Sunni Muslims and said they have sided each other in most difficult conditions. (Tasnim) — In a February 5 meeting with the organizers of a conference to commemorate the martyrs of the southeastern ...
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