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Epic Paris terror trial reaches half-way stage with more questions than answers

Despite the ravages provoked by Covid-19, which have already led to three weeks of suspensions, the Paris terror trial has reached the end of its second major stage: the examination of the activities and religious attitudes of the accused up to the summer of 2015, before the detailed planning of…

Radio France Internationale

Podcast: training French Imams, funding women's startups, journalist of the Revolution

Imams-in-training learn about the roots of their religion, and the specific context of an 'Islam of France'. Breaking the glass ceiling as women entrepreneurs push for more startup funding. And the journalist who called on Parisians to rise up for democracy during the French Revolution.

Radio France Internationale

MWL Chief Meets Religious Leaders in Thailand

Secretary-General of the Muslim World League (MWL) Sheikh Mohammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa and an accompanying delegation visited the Kingdom of Thailand upon an official invitation from the Thai government. Religious leaders in Southeast Asia have praised the “fruitful” visit to Thailand by the MWL delegation. During the visit, Fatoni University…

Asharq Al-Awsat

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Pushing far-right agenda, French news networks shape election debate

In a presidential campaign dominated by talk of far-right pundit Eric Zemmour, some of France's leading news networks stand accused of fostering his Elysée Palace run and plugging his hardline agenda on crime, immigration and Islam.

France 24

Historian Rashid bin Asakir to Asharq Al-Awsat: Religious Dimension in Establishment of 1st Saudi State Is Overstated

Readers of books that chronicle the history of the Arabian Peninsula, specifically its center (Najd or Al-Yamamah), from the early Islamic ages until the past four centuries, notice a reference to, or even an emphasis on the spread of ignorance, heresy and polytheism among the population.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Saudi Arabia for first time marks its founding, downplaying conservative roots

Saudi Arabia held celebrations on Tuesday to commemorate for the first time its foundation nearly 300 years ago, choosing a date that downplays the central role played by clerics from the ultra-conservative Wahhabi school of Islam.

Reuters

UP police says Umar Gautam tried to change India’s ‘population demography’. Where’s the evidence?

Days before the first phase of polling for the Uttar Pradesh assembly, the Bharatiya Janata Party presented its election manifesto, the Lok Kalyan Sankalp Patra. In it, the party promised to amend the state’s anti-conversion law to introduce a minimum imprisonment of 10 years and a fine of Rs 1…

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Malcolm X on racism, capitalism and Islam

On the 57th anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination, we look at some of the activist’s most memorable quotes.

Al Jazeera

Islamic State: death of leader is big step towards becoming a different kind of terrorist organisation

A “proto-state”, a “socio-political movement, the ”beast“ – all names given to a single group that, at its height, seemed to embody the west’s worst nightmare.

The Conversation

Paris Perspective #25: Exile, Islam and the shifting sands of migration - Brigitte Adès

The past decade has witnessed a tsunami of refugees fleeing conflict, making the journey towards Europe in search of a better life. Reaching its peak in 2015, the welcome refugees received was mixed, as fears of Islamist infiltration permeated the anti-migrant debate. The result was a the rise of populist…

Radio France Internationale

Egypt investigates journalist who questioned miracle attributed to Prophet Mohammed

Ibrahim Issa says ‘Isra and Miraj’, a night journey taken by the Prophet, is a ‘completely delusional story’

The Independent UK

A nexus fostering Muslim authoritarianism

The Islam-state relationship must be redesigned to promote intellectual and economic creativity

The Hindu

The Trojan Horse Affair: how Serial podcast got it so wrong

A major series blaming Islamophobia for the 2014 Birmingham schools controversy is one-sided and risks opening old wounds

The Guardian - UK

Afghan-Australian 'Kardashians' threatened by the Taliban to pull reality TV show

The Australian star of an Afghan reality TV show — that has been likened to Keeping up with the Kardashians — says he's been threatened by the Taliban to pull the show as the hardline Islamist regime cracks down on Afghanistan's media.

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Hijab not an essential religious practice of Islam: Karnataka govt to HC

BENGALURU: The Karnataka government on Friday contended before the high court that the hijab is not an essential religious practice of Islam.

The Conversation

Trojan Horse Affair: podcast reignites questions about the place of religion in English and Welsh schools

A recent podcast series on the 2013-14 Trojan Horse affair – an alleged but unproven plot to implement a strict Islamic ethos in some schools in Birmingham – has drawn attention to the place that religion occupies in state-funded education in England and Wales.

Asharq Al-Awsat

Maldives President Awards MWL Chief ‘Order of Honor of the Republic’

President of the Maldives Ibrahim Mohamed Solih met at the presidential palace on Monday with a Muslim World League (MWL) delegation, led by its Secretary-General Dr. Mohammad al-Issa. The visiting delegation arrived in Male in response to an official invitation by the president. During the meeting, Solih awarded Issa the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

OIC Chief: Consultations to Unfreeze Afghan Funds

Secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) Hissein Brahim Taha has revealed that the 57-member body and the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) are negotiating with international parties to unfreeze Afghan assets. This push is meant to help resolve Afghanistan’s economic crisis. Meanwhile, Taha said the OIC is urging the…

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The Conversation

Two reasons behind the dwindling roles of Indonesia's two largest Muslim organisations in urban communities

The world’s most populous Muslim nation, Indonesia, has two large Islamic organisations, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) and Muhammadiyah. They have more than 100 million followers between them.

The Independent UK

Adrift after enslavement, Yazidi teen says she can't go home

Many Yazidi women who were abducted and enslaved by the Islamic State group as children have come of age during wartime

France 24

School hijab ban targets India’s Muslims as Hindu hardliners eye key vote

A ban on Islamic veils in schools in a southern Indian state has sparked protests and counter-protests between Muslim and Hindu, raising religious identity issues that have long served the ruling Hindu nationalist party’s electoral agenda as the country’s most populous state holds a critical election.

Bristol Post

Christian worker to sue North Bristol NHS Trust in row over 'conservative beliefs'

Brian Walker is opposed to 'the growing influence of Islam' and same-sex marriage, according to a tribunal judgment

Daily Record

Ramadan 2022: When does this year's holy month begin and end?

Ramadan is a hugely important part of the Islamic calendar.

The Guardian - UK

Two suspected British Islamic State recruits seized by Taliban at border

Exclusive: first reported case of attempted international recruitment to IS since US left Afghanistan

Salon

Islamophobia and the insurrection

For two decades, the FBI ignored white supremacist radicals while spying 24/7 on largely innocuous Muslim Americans

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