NICE, France (AA) – Academics and activists have said that the incidents of Quran desecration remind them of Europe’s dark past of religious persecution. Rasmus Paludan, an extremist Islamophobic Swedish-Danish politician, staged an incident desecrating a copy of the Muslim holy book on Saturday outside the Turkish Embassy in Stock...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is holding an extraordinary meeting on Tuesday to discuss Israeli violations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque complex in occupied East Jerusalem. In a statement, the Jeddah-based organization said the meeting comes “after the continuous Israeli escalation in the occupied city of Al-Quds ...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A high-profile delegation from the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) visited Rohingya camps in the southeastern coastal district of Cox’s Bazar in Bangladesh on Tuesday to learn more about the situation of the Muslim minority that was forced to flee their native Myanmar due to military persecuti...
ISTANBUL (AA) – As Qatar makes history as the first Muslim country to host the FIFA World Cup, the language of Western media outlets about the tournament is being criticized as racist, Islamophobic, and orientalist. Western criticisms of Qatar are “not about human rights, and the inconsistency is very clear. It is the old orientali...
ISTANBUL (AA) – A resolution adopted at the meeting of the Standing Committee for Economic and Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) on Tuesday encouraged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) member states to devise strategies to strengthen their economic resilience to future shocks” like that of COVID-19 pandemic. Fuat Oktay, Türkiye...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The 38th ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in the fields of economy and commerce began in Istanbul on Saturday. The four-day meeting of the Committee for Economic And Commercial Cooperation (COMCEC) will discuss economic developments in the world, with special reference to OIC member cou...
ANKARA (AA) – White supremacist Brenton Tarrant, who killed 51 people in a terrorist attack at a mosque in New Zealand in 2019, has filed an appeal against his life sentence, local media reported on Tuesday. A court spokesman confirmed the appeal was filed on Nov. 3 and said no date has been set for […]
Awali, Bahrain (AFP): One of the world’s leading Islamic clerics on Friday called for dialogue between the faith’s two main currents to settle sectarian differences, in an address to religious leaders. Sheikh Ahmed al-Tayeb, the grand imam of Cairo’s prestigious Al-Azhar mosque, a centre of Sunni learning, made the rare appea...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – Saifullah Paracha, a Pakistani businessman, who was the oldest prisoner at the notorious US detention center Guantanamo Bay, returned to Pakistan on Saturday after more than 18 years, the Foreign Ministry confirmed. In 2003, US intelligence operatives arrested Paracha, now 73, in Thailand on charges of having links to ...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – At least two Pakistan Army troops were killed in a clash with suspected militants in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, the military said. The gun battle took place on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan district in northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, which borders Afghanistan and has long been a hotbed of militanc...
