Hawza
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Liberty, equality, fraternity, except Muslims
Two Muslim women were stabbed by anti-Islamic groups in the French capital of Paris on Sunday. In the attack, which took place near the Eiffel Tower, a group repeatedly stabbed the two women with knives while shouting "dirty Arabs," French police sources reported.
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Jammu & Kashmir: Blow to press freedom as India closes free media
The abrupt closure of a decades-old local English-language daily in Indian-administered Kashmir has dealt yet another blow to press freedom in the region, with journalists saying the move is meant to silence credible voices of dissent.
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Trump’s Anti-Islam Rhetoric: Facts secondary to feelings!
US President Donald Trump has been well known for his anti-Muslim propaganda that has been aimed at stoking anger at Muslims and Muslim immigrants across the US and abroad.
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Turkey: German police raid on mosque is an ugly act
Ankara says German police raid on Mevlana Mosque in Berlin sets "new example of the prejudiced, discriminatory and disproportionate treatment" suffered by five million Muslims there.
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Car bomb kills Muslim mufti for Syria’s capital
A prominent Syrian Muslim leader in charge of the Damascus region was killed on Thursday when a bomb planted in his car exploded outside the capital, state news agency SANA said.
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The message of condolences on the death of Mohib Ali Roshanali Nasser
Hojjat al-Islam Mahdavipour, the representative of the Supreme Leader in India, sent a message of condolences on the death of Haji Mohib Ali Roshanali Nasser, the financial representative of Grand Ayatollah Sistani in Mumbai.
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Aldershot Muslim congregation left without mosque after being removed from prayer centre
A congregation of more than 100 Muslims in Aldershot has been left without anywhere to pray after being removed from a prayer centre without warning.
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Germany: Painting of Muslim mystic sold at auction
An important seventeenth-century painting of a prominent Muslim mystic was sold at auction in Germany to a Dutch-based scholar, the Turkish scholar said.
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Attacks on Muslims as murdered teacher is mourned
Two Muslim women in Paris have been stabbed repeatedly in a suspected racist attack as tensions run high less than a week after a teacher was beheaded.
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Mosques in Southern France placed under protection among threats
Mosques in two Southern French cities have been placed under the protection of security forces due to the spread of violent threats against Muslims across the country.
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Indian exclusionism towards Muslims and minorities
Indian secularism has been the quintessence of Indian Constitution, yet the denunciation of minorities in India has prompted doubts regarding democratic values in India.
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Dozens of Jewish settlers taint Al-Aqsa Mosque
Dozens of Jewish settlers escorted by police forces on Wednesday morning desecrated the Aqsa Mosque in Occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
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Book introduction:
Prohibiting takfir (Fatwas of Shi‘i Scholars)
The ‘ulama, the maraji‘ al-taqlid, and followers of the School of the Ahl al-Bayt (A) maintain that insulting revered Islamic figures and proclaiming the followers of other sects as infidels are impermissible.
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Two Muslim women stabbed under Eiffel Tower ‘by white women shouting “dirty Arabs”’
Police arrested two white female suspects who allegedly shouted ‘dirty Arabs!’ as they launched the attack. They are being held on suspicion of attempted murder, city prosecutors said. It follows rising tensions over the beheading of a teacher in the Paris suburbs last Friday by a radicalised terrorist infuriated that cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed were shown to children.
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Why Muslim votes matter the most in Florida — the largest US swing state
“Democratic Party’s ground game is much stronger, I think we’ve learned from the past and we’re not leaving anything to chance” co-founder of Muslim Delegates Nadia Ahmed says.
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Sheikh Ahmed el-Tayyeb: Linking terrorism to Islam symbol of ignorance
The grand imam of Egypt’s Al-Azhar Islamic Center criticized those who try to link terrorism to Islam.
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Palestinian worshipers at Al-Aqsa mosque expel Emirati delegation
The Palestinian worshipers at Al-Aqsa Mosque expelled an Emirati delegation visiting the Holy Shrine in coordination with the Zionist occupation authorities.
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Salma Lakhani: Alberta’s 19th lieutenant governor also ‘happens to be Muslim’
Salma Lakhani may be the first Muslim and South Asian lieutenant-governor in Canada, but that’s not what she wants to be known for.
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Wife whose husband was killed in Christchurch mosque shootings recalls watching him tackle the terrorist
The wife of a man who was killed in the Christchurch mosque attacks has recalled watching her husband tackle the shooter in the harrowing livestream he posted to Facebook.
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Islamic center in Africa to hold international poetry Shia Imam Hussein (A.S) competition
The Islamic Center for Africa in Johannesburg will hold an international poetry competition in Persian and English languages on the third Imam of Shia, Imam Hossein (AS), and issues related to his uprising 14 centuries ago.
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Ozone sterilization device installed at Prophet’s Mosque in Saudi Arabia
Head of the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques Sheikh Dr. Abdulrahman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Sudais inaugurated on Saturday the disinfection and sterilization device with ozone technology to sanitize the Two Holy Mosques.
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University announces launch of UK’s first Islamic finance undergraduate degree
Birmingham City University has announced the launch of the first Accounting and Islamic Finance undergraduate course in the UK.
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Muslim man denied citizenship in Germany after refusing to shake woman's hand
A 40-year-old Lebanese doctor, who has lived in Germany since 2002, applied for the country's citizenship through naturalization in 2012, thus agreeing to sign a declaration of loyalty to the German constitution and denouncing extremism.
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Congregational prayers resume at Grand Mosque in Mecca
Congregational prayers resumed Sunday at the Masjid al-Haram, or the Grand Mosque, in Mecca, Saudi Arabia after a 7-month hiatus due to the novel coronavirus outbreak.
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Mosques reopen in virus-hit Gaza Strip
Palestinian authorities reopened mosques in the Gaza Strip on Sunday after weeks of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic.
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On the occasion of the martyrdom anniversary of Imam al-Ridha (pbuh)
Imam Ridha's effect on spreading Islam was like a deep ocean
When Ali ibn Musa ar-Ridha (as) was martyred and his Imamate ended--the ideas and thoughts of the Holy Prophet's (swa) household and the matter of commitment to the Imams were established, in the world of Islam, so firmly that the oppressive and dictatorial Abbasid regime could not confront it. Ali ibn Musa ar-Ridha (as) managed to do this.