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Construction of what will become the next world’s tallest building is set to begin next week in Saudi Arabia. Once finished, the Kingdom Tower will stand a staggering 1km (3280 feet) high – four times taller than The Shard and over 500 feet taller than the Burj Khalifa in Dubai, the current ...

Shia prisoners in Quetta jail have been shifted to the barrack where notorious takfiri terrorists of banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba/proscribed ASWJ, have been imprisoned. Correspondent reported here that these terrorists massacred Shia Muslims and claimed responsibility for the genocide against Shia’s. These terrorists had a record of killing Shia ...

“Muslim feminists” have made liberalism a universal premise for their thinking whilst selectively using Shariah principles to justify unIslamic ideas, writes Ali Harfouch. If there is one thing we can learn from the ways in which colonial-relations manifest themselves it is the process of colonisation and subversion is not necessarily a ...

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 ...

A man who beheaded his teenage girlfriend with a kitchen knife has been found guilty of her murder. Pizza delivery driver Aras Hussein decapitated 18-year-old student Reema Ramzan at his flat in Sheffield in June before stabbing himself in the chest. The 21-year-old was jailed for life at Sheffield Crown ...

LONDON: Members of the racist English Defence League (EDL) staged a protest outside Regent’s Park Mosque here during Jummah prayers, attempting to spark confrontation between the worshippers and the EDL but the Metropolitan police intervened to stop the break out of violence. Dozens of EDL members arrived outside London’s historic ...

A planned declaration in Bandung to denounce the Shiite community turned into a fiery call for jihad, or holy war, against the much-maligned minority group. Thousands of people showed up for the event on Sunday hosted by the Anti-Shia Alliance, a gathering of hard-line Sunni Muslim organizations. Ahmad bin Zein ...

One has only to read William Simpson’s biography of Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz to understand why the Saudi King, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, has accepted his resignation as head of Saudi Arabia’s intelligence services, writes Abdelbari Atwan. William Simpson is a personal friend of Prince Bandar and studied with him ...

“The country, in which the great lady of creation is a model, should be itself a paragon for other countries,” said Head of the World Forum for Proximity of the Islamic Schools of Thoughts, Ayatollah Mohsen Araki, reported Taqrib News Agency (TNA). Speaking in a ceremony which was held on ...

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 ...