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The office of the Religious Authority Grand Ayatollah, Ali al-Sistani condemned arresting the foreign  students of the religious institutions in Najaf. A statement by Sistani’s office received by IraqiNews.com cited “The security forcesarrested some of the Pakistani students in Najaf under the justification of violating the terms of the residential permits.” “The Religious Authority calls for stopping the ...

A set of controversial billboards funded by the informational website Ask-A-Muslim.com is causing a stir in Columbus, Oh. The signs have slogans like “Jesus is Muslim” and “Muslims love Jesus too.” Dave Daubenmire of the Pass the Salt Ministry feels the billboards are misleading and disrespectful, especially as they have gone up ...

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 ...

A Kitchener woman said she felt humiliated when her family was detained for hours at a U.S. border crossing and then denied entry into the United States. Mehdiya Hudda, 22, planned a short shopping trip in Lewiston, N.Y., near Niagara Falls, with her mother and husband on April 26, returning ...

Authorities in western China’s restive, Muslim-majority Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region are offering rewards to locals who inform on their neighbors for “wearing beards,” government-controlled media reported this week. Islamic liturgy recommends that Muslim men wear beards. In recent months, local officials have tightened religious restrictions on Xinjiang’s ethnic Uighurs, in ...

The United Nations Joint Programme on AIDS (UNAIDS) estimates that since the start of the global HIV pandemic around 29.4 million people have been infected with HIV. Although many Muslim countries claim that they have not been affected by HIV, this is not true. HIV infections have been reported in ...

In what seemed to be a random act of kindness, a Muslim man gave his shoes to a needy man before walking home barefoot. (Photo courtesy: Facebook) Acts of kindness come in different shapes and sizes and a Muslim man in Canada has had photos of his act go viral ...

A satellite TV station based in suburban England is being investigated after allegations it broadcast a cleric’s “hate sermons” and “vile rants” to audiences across the Middle East. The UK’s independent television regulator says it has launched an investigation into Fadak TV, which was founded by Sheikh Yasser al-Habib. The ...

Arnoud van Doorn helped distribute the anti-Islam film that was created in Holland a few years back. This motivated him to learn a little more about Islam and after a few years he converted. Then, just yesterday, his son Iskander Amien De Vrie converted to Islam in Dubai at an ...

The making of the Happy British Muslims video is not as worrying as some are making it out to be. But what is extremely worrying is lack of depth demonstrated by a large part of the Islamic community’s reaction to the video, the extent of which is deeply disturbing, writes João ...