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Iraq Keeps Up Search after Bodies Pulled from Collapsed Shrine

Iraqi rescue workers Sunday were desperately searching for survivors trapped under rubble after a landslide hit a Shiite Muslim shrine, killing at least four people. "We have found four bodies, including of a woman" at the site near Karbala, central Iraq, civil defense official Abdelrahman Jawdat told AFP.

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Alarm over Texas law forcing schools to display ‘In God We Trust’ signs

Civil rights advocates say it ‘imposes religion’ as new law requires public campuses to display donated items bearing that phrase

The Guardian - US

GCC, MWL Condemn Terrorist Attack in Mogadishu

The Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) Dr. Nayef Falah Mubarak Al-Hajraf has condemned a deadly terrorist attack that targeted a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Al-Hajraf said GCC Member States reject all forms of violence, extremism and terrorism, and offered condolences and sympathy to the families of…

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Ex-minister abandons hope of Tory Islamophobia probe promised by Boris Johnson

Tory MP Nusrat Ghani said a Tory whip had told her that her Muslim faith made colleagues uncomfortable - but says "it’s clear nothing is going to happen”

Daily Mirror

Model nikahnama with triple talaq ban still a work in progress

Despite SC’s ban on practice five years ago, AIMPLB is yet to find consensus on adding clause to new wedding contract for Muslims

The Hindu

MWL Secretary General Condoles Algeria over Forest Fires Victims

Secretary General of Muslim World League (MWL) and Chairman of the Organization of Muslim Scholars, Sheikh Dr. Muhammad bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa expressed his condolences to Algeria over the victims and people injured by forest fires that swept the country. He expressed full solidarity with the government and people of Algeria,…

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Gujarat riot victim 'numb' after rapists freed from prison

India’s Gujarat has set free 11 men convicted of the gang rape of a Muslim woman and the murder of her relatives during the state's 2002 riots.

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Discussion should be on gender justice: Basheer

He refuses to respond to Muneer’s statement on POCSO and gender neutrality

The Hindu

Uproar in Kashmir as India allows voting rights to non-locals

Any Indian citizen living temporarily in the disputed Muslim-majority federal territory can be enlisted as a voter.

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Muslim woman raped by Hindu mob shocked by release of 11 jailed men

Gujarat frees men serving life sentences for rape, and for murder of three-year-old daughter and other relatives

The Guardian - UK

Why no CM is in BJP’s new Parliamentary Board

NEW DELHI: BJP president JP Nadda reconstituted the party’s highest decision-making body Parliamentary Board and the Central Election Committee (CEC) on Wednesday. While the exclusion of Union transport minister Nitin Gadkari and Madhya Pradesh chief minister (CM) Shivraj Singh Chouhan and non-inclusion of Uttar Pradesh CM Yogi Adityanath caught most…

The Times of India

Indian gang-rape victim 'numb' after attackers freed

NEW DELHI: A Muslim woman who was gang-raped as 14 people were murdered during one of post-independence India’s worst religious riots has said she is “numb” after her attackers were released early from prison.

Bangkok Post

Indian woman condemns release of her convicted rapists

A Muslim woman who was gang raped while pregnant during India’s devastating 2002 religious riots has appealed to the government to rescind its decision to free 11 men who had been jailed for life for committing the crime, after they were released on suspended sentences

The Independent UK

Suspect in New Mexico Muslim killings detained pending trial

An Afghan refugee charged in the shooting deaths of two Muslim men and suspected in the killing of two others will remain behind bars pending trial

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The Conversation

Salman Rushdie: where to start with this pioneering and controversial author

On the eve of India’s 75th anniversary of independence (August 15), the 75-year-old Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times on stage in New York. Thankfully, the author survived the attack. But you might be wondering how a writer came to be the target of such violence.

The Conversation

What is a fatwa? A religious studies professor explains

When news broke on August 12, 2022, that the writer Salman Rushdie had been attacked, many people immediately recalled the fatwa, or edict, calling on all Muslims to take his life, issued in 1989 by the Grand Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, Iran’s Supreme Leader at the time. Khomeini accused Rushdie’s 1988…

Reuters

In New Mexico, Muslims reject sectarian label for killings

National Muslim groups have linked the killings of four Muslim men in New Mexico over the past year to sectarianism, but Muslims who knew the victims and suspected gunman point to revenge and personal feuds as possible motives.

The Independent UK

Bella Hadid says she regrets not being allowed to grow up in ‘Muslim culture’ after parents divorced

The model says she would have ‘loved to grow up in a Muslim culture’

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India denies it will provide homes to Rohingya in capital

Hours after a federal minister says refugees will be given apartments in New Delhi, home ministry denies media reports.

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Thailand's restive south hit by wave of arson and bombings

A wave of arson and bombing attacks overnight hit Thailand’s southernmost provinces, which for almost two decades have been the scene of an active Muslim separatist insurgency

Bangkok Post

Rohingya refugees in India's capital to be given flats, security

NEW DELHI: Rohingya refugees from Myanmar in India's capital will be allotted apartments and provided with police protection, a government minister said on Wednesday, signalling a change in the stance towards members of the Muslim minority.

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More Muslim children joining in Australian rules football through SANFL Bachar Houli Cup

What started as the brainchild of two teachers — who were keen to see more Muslim children be introduced to Australian rules football — has expanded into a nine-a-side competition across four schools this week.

Reuters

India backtracks on support for Rohingya refugees, will deport them

India's home ministry said on Wednesday that Rohingya refugees in the capital New Delhi would be held at a detention centre and then deported, contradicting a minister's earlier statement promising flats and security to members of the Muslim minority.

The Times of India

Jodhpur: Hindus, Muslims join hands to celebrate I-Day with 256-ft tricolour

JODHPUR: In a joint initiative by a temple trust and some Muslim organisations, Hindus and Muslims together held a Tiranga rally on the Independence Day in Jodhpur holding a 256-foot-long tricolour over their heads.

Bangkok Post

11 convicted of 2002 gang-rape in India go free

AHMEDABAD: Eleven Hindu men jailed for life for the gang-rape of a pregnant Muslim woman during Hindu-Muslim riots in 2002 have been freed on remission, officials said on Tuesday, drawing condemnation from the victim's husband, lawyers and politicians.

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