An Indonesian court sentenced a Muslim cleric to five months in prison for blasphemy against Christians. Muhammad Yahya Waloni is a Muslim convert from Christianity. On Jan. 11, a South Jakarta District Court convicted Waloni of posting hate speech online that could cause interreligious divisions. Waloni called the Holy Bible a work of fictio...
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 […...
In international news, U.N. Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Dr. Fernand de Varennes took to Twitter over the social medial harassment of Indian Muslim women. Varennes asked that the culprits be prosecuted. His remarks came amid recent shock and furor over the “Bulli Bai” App. It targets prominent Muslim women by putting up their images ...
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...
Kazakhstan’s President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev issued a rare criticism of his long-ruling predecessor Tuesday. Tokayev said he expected Russian-led forces to leave the Central Asian country in the next 10 days. The oil-rich country’s descent into chaos has laid bare infighting at the top. Tokayev’s mentor, 81-year-old Nursultan Nazar...
The administration of US President Joe Biden on Tuesday said it will contribute roughly $308 million in humanitarian aid to Afghanistan. But the newly announced aid falls far short of the war-torn country’s immediate needs. Millions of Afghans are on the brink of starvation and at risk of freezing to death in the aftermath of […]
Mali’s military ruler said on Monday he is open to talks with West Africa’s economic bloc ECOWAS about returning the nation to civilian rule. President Assimi Goita asked the group to reconsider sanctions imposed on Mali over his refusal to hold elections next month. Goita said in a statement broadcast on state television “we’re asking [&helli...
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...
Aviation regulators briefly halted flights from U.S. airports on the West Coast as a precaution Monday, after North Korea launched a high-speed missile test. The ground stop paused departures from an unspecified number of airports for less than 15 minutes. North Korea’s hypersonic missile flew at nearly 10 times the speed of sound into waters ...
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 ...
