International
Pope Francis condemns atrocities on Rohingya Muslims in Myan...
( Italy )
Rome:ope Francis strongly criticised atrocities, including mass killings and gang rapes, committed against Rohingya Muslims. Condemning the torture and killings committed by Myanmar’s security forces that – according to a UN report – possibly amount to ethnic cleansing, Francis said in a statement on Wednesday that Rohingya Muslims were targeted “simply because they want to live their culture and their Muslim faith”. In a UN report made public last week, 204 Rohingya...
Israel’s minister for Military Affairs:All Palestinians sh...
( Occupied Palestine )
Tel Aviv:Israel’s firebrand minister for military affairs Avigdor Lieberman has said that all Palestinians should leave the entity and live in the territories administered by the Palestinian Authority. Speaking to Israel’s Channel 2 on Saturday, Lieberman said the Palestinians living in Israeli cities and towns should be made to go and live in the occupied West Bank under the authority of President Mahmoud Abbas. “With my blessing: You are Palestinians, you should go to Abu Mazen. You’ll...
President Rouhani warns Donald Trump to avoid threatening Ir...
( Iran )
Tehran:Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the massive rallies held all across the country on Friday are a show of support for the Islamic establishment and a firm response to the recent threats posed to Iran by US President Donald Trump, and warned the new White House leaders to watch their language when speaking about Iran. ABNA News reports that while Speaking to reporters on the sidelines of February 10th rallies marking the 38th anniversary of the victory of the Islamic Revolution in...
Daughter of Italian Parliamentarian Converts to Islam...
( Italy )
Rome:Italians are in shock after the daughter of a parliamentarian announced her conversion to Islam and changed her name to Ayesha. Manuela Franco Barbato is a 22 years old student at the Università L’orientale de Napoli. She is the daughter of Franco Barbato, a former parliamentarian representing the ‘Italy of Values’ party.
Her dad told a newspaper “This conversion is not just bad, but terrible because this religion is too harsh, too radical, too rigid. It is a fundamentalist...
Million people ready to sacrifice themselves for Islam: Ayat...
( Iran )
Tehran:Ayatollah Hussein Nouri Hamedani, a Shia source of emulation, received a group of Iranian police forces in his office in Qom, Iran on Tuesday. At the beginning of the meeting, senior Shia cleric congratulated the crowd on 10 days of Dawn marking the 38th anniversary of Iran’s Islamic Revolution. Ayatollah Nouri then pointed out the enemies’ attempts to isolate Muslim scholars and to undermine people’s religious beliefs and faith adding, “By looking at historic books one realizes that...
England: 7-Year old girl memorizes holy Quran completely...
( UK )
London:Maariya from Luton, England has completed memorizing the entire Qur’an.She started aged 5 when she memorized Surah Yasin in a charity challenge in order to raise money for Syria. Shortly after, she completed memorizing the last Juzz of the Qur’an at a local school. Her mother noticed that she was a fast-learner and wanted Maariya to become a hafidhah (Someone who memorizes a part or all of the holy Quran) . To her dissapointment, there were no complete hifdh classes available so she decided...
Ayatollah Makarem urges Muslim nations to create strong medi...
( Iran )
Qom:In a meeting with an Iranian official in Imam Al-Sajjad (as) seminary school in the city of Qom, Grand Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi, a senior Shia cleric, said, ” We are living in a world which is dominated by media networks; the media play the main role in today’s world and we need to give this issue serious consideration. Every penny spent on creating effective media is worth it since Islam’s enemies are controlling a strong network of media worldwide and we must not...
“Muslims were founders of western sciences” Iranian Sunn...
( Iran )
Tehran:Prominent Iranian Sunni scholar hailed Muslims as forerunners of western sciences and stressed Islamic unity as the sole way for transcendence of science and using natural and human resources in the world of Islam. Molavi Nazir Ahmad, Iranian Sunni Member of the Assembly of Expert in the Parliament, attended a meeting on Islamic proximity calling solidarity among different denominations a way for scientific ascendance and praised Muslims as founders of present western sciences, reported TNA He...
Top Iraqi cleric warns of US embassy move to Al Quds...
( Iraq )
Baghdad:Iraqi Shia cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, warned against possible relocation of US embassy in Al-Quds calling that a “declaration of war on Islam”.
“Transferring the US embassy to Jerusalem [al-Quds] would be a public and more-explicit-than-ever declaration of war against Islam,” Sadr said in a statement.
Touching on US President Donald Trump’s pledges to recognize Jerusalem al-Quds as the capital of the occupied territories, Sadr called for the “formation of a special division...
Saudis invade Yemen to prove bondage to US:Ansarullah leader...
( Yemen )
Sana:The leader of Yemen’s Houthi Ansarullah movement, Abdul-Malik Badreddin al-Houthi, says Saudi invasion of Yemeni nation aims proving the Arab kingdom’s bondage to the United States.
Addressing a group of Yemenis in the capital, Sana’a, on Friday, Houthi stressed the need for popular mobilization in the face of Saudi Arabia’s acts of aggression, and warned against any capitulation and surrender to enemies, Arabic-language al-Masirah television network reported.
He described the...