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In 2006, at the height of the hysteria over the face veil, the Guardian‘s Jonathan Freedland imagined what it must be like to be a Muslim in Britain. “I wouldn’t just feel frightened,” he wrote. “I would be looking for my passport.” On Sunday, as the European election results began to ...

Narendra Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and its allies have won India’s general election by the biggest margin in 30 years. Modi will be sworn in as the new prime minister of India on May 21. Indian stocks surged to a record in India, with the BSE having risen as ...

The senior Iraqi Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Sistani, denied political leanings towards any specific candidate in the upcoming parliamentary elections in the Arab country, spokesman for the Sadr bloc has said. Speaking to the Tasnim News Agency on Sunday, Sheikh Salah al-Ubaidi, the spokesperson for al-Sadr political movement, ...

Dr. Hassen Al-Sader, Director of Al-Shaheed Al-Sadr Office in London Everywhere around the Muslim nation, especially in the Middle East, and probably starting from Iraq: sectarianism has been eating its way through the nation. Shedding blood, increasing tension, fragmenting society and even breaking the family unit, sectarianism has done a big ...

Egyptian army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday he had quit the military to run for president and vowed to rid the country of “terrorism” almost nine months after he toppled its elected leader. Sisi, who was also defense minister, faces no serious competition in the election — likely before ...