Muslims pray for peace ahead of verdict on a disputed religious site in Ayodhya, inside a mosque premises in Ahmedabad, India, November 8, 2019. — Reuters HARIDWAR: A year after extremists forced Muslim neighbours from their homes in India, victims live in despair as their tormentors seek to drive the minority community from what they … Read more
A year after extremists forced Muslim neighbours from their homes in India, victims live in despair as their tormentors seek to drive Islam from what they consider a Hindu “holy land”. Mohammad Salim shudders when he remembers the campaign that erupted in May 2023 against his Muslim minority community in Purola, a seemingly sleepy town … Read more
Listen to article LONDON: Swedish prosecutors on Wednesday charged two people with inciting ethnic hatred during several Holy Quran copies-burning protests last year, which sparked widespread outrage in Muslim countries. Salwan Momika and Salwan Najem have been formally charged with “offences of agitation against an ethnic or national group” four separate times which they had committed in … Read more
A cleric holding the Holy Quran outside the Swedish embassy in Iraq, Baghdad on June 30, 2023. — AFP COPENHAGEN: Swedish prosecutors said on Wednesday they would put two men on trial for desecrating the Holy Quran in a series of incidents last year that prompted outrage in the Muslim world and raised fears of … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin was seen kissing the Holy Quran during his visit to a mosque in Chechnya this week in a video that has gone viral on social media. According to the Daily Express, the gold-encrusted Holy Quran was a gift for the 71-year-old Russian president from the “Prophet Jesus” mosque in Grozny, Chechnya, … Read more