Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Muslim

Prophet Muhammad's birthday — what is Mawlid and how do Muslims celebrate?

Some Muslim communities will be celebrating the festival of Mawlid this weekend to honour Prophet Muhammad. People may see colourful parades and even hear public prayers to mark the occasion

Daily Mirror

Four persons arrested for trespassing ASI-protected Mahmud Gawan madrasa in Bidar

In Bidar, a group from the Muslim community had staged a protest outside Town police station demanding legal action against the trespassers who, they alleged, attempted to instigate communal violence

The Hindu

Bloodlust TV: Aman Chopra celebrates public caning of Muslim men by Gujarat police

“One…two…three,” Aman Chopra began, exhorting the viewers of his primetime TV news show, Desh Nahi Jhukne Denge, on Tuesday evening to count with him. “Giniye aap,” he urged them. The News 18 anchor was counting the public beatings that policemen had administered to 10 reportedly Muslim men in Kheda, Gujarat.

Newslaundry

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

India police flogging Muslims ‘serious rights violation’: Amnesty

Human rights group says public flogging in BJP-ruled Gujarat shows the police’s ‘utter disrespect towards rule of law’.

Al Jazeera

UN vote to ignore human rights abuses in China leaves west in dead end

Result not to debate its own damning report shows many states are unwilling to take sides in power struggle between China and west

The Guardian - UK

UN rights body rejects Western bid to debate Xinjiang abuses

In a close diplomatic victory for China, the U.N.’s top human rights body has voted down a proposal from Britain, Turkey, the United States and other mostly Western countries to hold a debate on alleged rights abuses against Muslim Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in China’s western Xinjiang region

The Independent UK

Pope Bahrain trip blends Muslim outreach, Catholic ministry

The Vatican has released details of Pope Francis’ upcoming trip to Bahrain

The Independent UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Facebook aided genocide in 2017 and fails to stop hate speech around the world: reports

A new human rights report accuses Facebook of aiding the 2017 genocide against Muslims in Myanmar, while other reports allege the company continues to allow its platform to spread dangerous disinformation and hate speech in other countries.

Tribune News Service

Milad an-Nabi: The birth month of the Prophet Muhammad

The Prophet Muhammad, upon whom Muslims send peace, is remembered widely at this time

Evening Standard

Why most Muslims – but far from all – celebrate Mawlid, the Prophet Muhammad's birthday

Most Muslims celebrate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad on the 12th day of the third month of the Islamic calendar, Rabi’ al-awaal – which starts on the evening of Oct. 7 in 2022. Muslims view the celebration, called Mawlid al-Nabi or simply the Mawlid, like many other Islamic celebrations:…

The Conversation

Religion-based population balance can no longer be ignored: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat

Mr. Bhagwat was speaking at a programme to celebrate Vijayadasami in Nagpur

The Hindu

Islamic leaders question why police didn’t lay more serious charges after Brisbane mosque threat

Threatening voicemail message at Kuraby mosque described as ‘an act of psychological violence’ towards Muslim community

The Guardian - AU

Police charge man after alleged threat made to Kuraby Mosque on Brisbane's southside

The leaders of the mosque say they are concerned for the safety of their worshippers and the broader Muslim community after receiving the threat.

ABC News

Byzantine gold coins hidden in wall in 7th century uncovered by Israeli archaeologists

Experts say the hidden coins provide evidence for a dramatic moment in the history of the region — the Muslim conquest of parts of the Byzantine Empire.

ABC News

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Radio France Internationale

'Woman. Life. Freedom': Paris marches in solidarity with Iran protests

Thousands of people marched in Paris on Sunday to condemn Iran's Islamic leadership in a giant show of solidarity with the protests sparked by the death in custody of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini for allegedly failing to appropriately wear the obligatory Muslim veil.

Newslaundry

As ‘Garba jihad’ becomes news TV’s latest bogey, News Nation champions vigilante violence

The hypermasculine Muslim is back as the scheming villain in the Hindu Rashtra programming of Indian news TV. But the script, at the risk of sounding repetitive, has moved far beyond the mob lynching years to cast itself around “garba jihad”. The anchors are at it again: almost championing vigilante…

Reason

No Religious Exemption from Felon-in-Possession Gun Ban for Muslim Believer in Self-Defense

From U.S. v. Harper, decided Friday by Judge Leonard Strand (N.D. Iowa): [Harper is being prosecuted for] possession of a firearm by a felon and unlawful drug user in violation of 18 U.S.C. §§ 922(g)(1) and (3) and § 924(a)(2)…. Harper argues that [he is entitled to a religious exemption…

Newslaundry

Two Muslim men face trial for Al Qaeda links in UP. What’s the evidence?

In July 2021, the Uttar Pradesh police claimed to have arrested two “active members of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind”, the alleged affiliate of Al Qaeda in India. Minhaj Ahmad and Museeruddin were planning to “unleash terrorist activities before August 15 in different cities of the state, including Lucknow”, where they were held,…

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

Radio France Internationale

India outlaws Muslim political party PFI over alleged terrorist ties

India has banned the Muslim political organisation the Popular Front of India (PFI) along with eight of its affiliates over their alleged links to terrorist groups.

The Independent UK

A look at some of the world's major crowd disasters

Panic at an Indonesian soccer match after police fired tear gas to stop brawls left 129 dead, mostly trampled to death

The Hindu

Danish Azad Ansari: An emerging Muslim face in BJP

From student politics in the ABVP to being made Minister in the Yogi Adityanath government, Mr. Ansari has had much success in the party and looks like there is more to come

The Independent UK

Two prophets, century-old prayer duel inspire Zion mosque

This week, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Zion, Illinois, opened its doors to the city’s first mosque

The Independent UK

Two prophets and a century-old prayer duel birth Zion mosque

This week, the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Zion, Illinois, opened its doors to the city's first mosque

The Hindu

The timing of the government’s action against the Popular Front of India was a secret till the end, but it carried a sense of the inevitable. Vijaita Singh, Abdul Latheef Naha, K.S Sudhi and Devesh K. Pandey report on the chronology and the reaction

Newslaundry

RSS leader, travel agent, Bihar politician: Meet India’s media maulanas

As endless loops of verbal conflicts play out on TV screens, you might have noticed a few essential ingredients of a TRP-grabbing formula: a communal frame, a bigoted anchor, a Hindutva proponent, an irritable maulana, plenty of snide remarks and whataboutery.

1 … 123 124 125 126

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

United Nations

31,750 stories

Bharatiya Janata Party