A German court on Thursday sentenced a former Syrian colonel to life in prison for crimes against humanity.The “historic” verdict marked the end of the first global trial over state-sponsored torture in Syria. Anwar Raslan was found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention center in Damascus in 2011 and […...
More than a dozen national Jewish organizations are calling for an additional one billion dollars in funding for Israel. That’s in addition to the more than $3.8 billion Israel already receives from U.S. taxpayers. Israel has received more U.S. funding than any other nation — on average, 7,000 times more per capita. The groups want […]...
Israeli authorities blocked the appointment of new Palestinian security guards at the Al-Aqsa compound in occupied East Jerusalem’s Old City. Authorities threatened Palestine’s Jerusalem Islamic Waqf with arrest if they refused to comply. The religious trust administers the Al-Aqsa compound and needs new guards. There have been no new guards a...
Sukuk issuance surged Tuesday by 36% year-on-year to hit $252.3 billion in 2021, according to Fitch Ratings. A sukuk is an Islamic financial certificate, similar to a bond in Western finance, that complies with Islamic religious law, or sharia. Central banks, governments, and multilateral institutions dominated sukuk issuances, the global rati...
Hashir Faruqi, a British Muslim intellectual, passed away in London on January 11.The 92-year-old journalist was born in January 1930. He was a student leader of the Pakistan movement and migrated to the country after its establishment in 1947. Faruqi founded the influential English-language Muslim news magazine Impact International in London ...
Ahmed Guessoum, Imam of the Cannes mosque in France, denounces the planned closure of the mosque on the French Riviera. This was after France’s interior minister ordered its doors to be shut because of anti-Semitic remarks made there. Imam Guessoum says that the person being accused today is the former director who does not live [&helli...
The United States on Wednesday urged an investigation after an 80-year-old Palestinian-American was found dead in the occupied West Bank, following arrest by Israel. The mayor of the village of Jiljiliya, north of Ramallah, told AFP that Omar Abdulmajeed Asad’s body was still in handcuffs after his death. In Washington, US State Departme...
