ISTANBUL (AA) – Sometime in 2006, Maria De Cartena decided that she wanted to wear a hijab, the Islamic headscarf. But every morning, staff at her high school in Lyon, France, would force the then-13-year-old to remove it. They would stand at the entrance to make sure she does not step onto the premises with […]
GENEVA (AA) – UN rights chief Volker Turk has said the recent attacks against the Noble Quran, the Muslim holy book, will be discussed in the UN Human Rights Council on October 6. Turk made these comments at the 54th Human Rights Council’s opening session in Geneva, which began with a moment of silence to […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – An unidentified person threw a copy of the Quran to the ground and kicked it outside the Turkish House in New York on Friday morning. The Quran was desecrated at 10:46 a.m. local time (1446 GMT), Anadolu has learned. Turkish House security personnel immediately intervened and removed the person from the premises, […]
– Secretary-General Taha asks New Delhi to stop ‘gross human rights abuses’ in region ANKARA (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Wednesday called upon India to reverse all “illegal and unilateral measures” taken on or after Aug. 5, 2019, and “to stop the gross, systematic and widespread human rights abuses in the [&he...
-Activists say, they have documented over 10 recent cases of Uyghurs being detained after they returned to Xinjiang. OSLO, Norway – Uyghurs who pursued studies abroad, especially in Turkiye are reporting that they are being targeted back in China, leading to widespread worry. Norway-based Uyghur rights advocate Abduweli Ayup revealed th...
ANKARA, Turkey – Almost 82% of Arab youth consider Turkey an ally, only 12% see it as an adversary, and less than 1% as an enemy country. According to the results of the 15th annual survey of Arab youth, 80% of Arab youth also consider China an ally. While 72% of respondents see the U.S. […]
Cairo, Egypt – AFP Egypt’s president on Monday welcomed the Palestinian and Jordanian leaders, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s spokesman said, with a source adding they discussed speculations over Saudi Arabia moving to normalise ties with Israel. Sisi met with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in the n...
MADINA, Saudi Arabia — More than 7.5 million pilgrims visited the Prophet’s Mosque in Madina in Saudi Arabia after the conclusion of the annual Hajj pilgrimage. According to Saudi authorities, pilgrims were offered a variety of services, including guidance, translation, assistance for wheelchair users, and distribution of Zamzam wa...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has voiced outright “disappointment” with the response by Sweden and Denmark to acts of desecration of the Holy Quran. Secretary-general Hissein Brahim Taha called on both countries to prevent the desecration of the Quran and “expressed his disappointme...
ANKARA – The incident of burning Muslim holy book Quran outside a mosque in Sweden threatens to escalate into a trade war. Many influential Muslim groups in the Middle East and North Africa have called for a boycott of Swedish products. Last week, the Al-Azhar Mosque in Cairo, the oldest Sunni institution in the Muslim […]
