NEW DELHI: Pakistan president Asif Ali Zardari personal offerings to the tombs of a dead Indian saint and an exiled Indian emperor have been officially ‘pinched’ from public funds from the Pakistan government treasury. A Pakistan government spokesperson has said the $1 million donation to one of India’s most famous sufi shrines, that of Khwaja [...]
NEW DELHI: ‘Kali Ma’ a beer launched by an American company has begun fizzing even before being sold in India. The Indian Parliament on Wednesday heard an animated discussion by its parliamentarians who now want the government ask the United States Ambassador to apologize for using the name of a Hindu goddess ‘Kali Ma’ or [...]
CAIRO: The Egyptian Catholic Church issued a statement on Tuesday confirming that it stands neutral and objective, and does not prefer a certain presidential candidate in the upcoming presidential race, stressing that it “respects the freedom of its followers and their right to choose who they see as the most viable.” The Council of Catholic [...]
CAIRO: Raafat Saleeb, a leader of the Copts of the United States of America and resident of Los Angeles, issued a press release on Tuesday, on behalf of the Egyptian Copts in America, emphasizing that after considering the presidential candidates` electoral programs, and “their political, economic and background amd practical experience, they found that all [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: At this small mosque on the outskirts of Kuala Lumpur the message is tolerance and understanding. In a country where religious conservatism has grown in recent years, Sheikh Yussif hopes that through dialogue, Malaysians can come together for a better future. “We all want the same things in Malaysia, a better life, a [...]
SANA’A: Early last month reports came out that Yemen’s finance ministry had release large sums of money for the construction of a mosque within the grounds of al-Iman University, which incidentally happens to belong to controversial Sheikh Abdel Mageed al-Zindani. The prominent cleric and tribal leader has figured on several of America’s most wanted terror [...]
CAIRO: The liberal Free Egyptians Party warned of the “serious and grave” repercussions of the “exploitation of mosques” in the propaganda of the election campaigns of presidential candidates in Egypt. The party called in a statement on Monday, on both the government and the Higher Presidential Elections Commission, to take “all legal measures to immediately [...]
“We are not at war with Islam” — President Obama It was only last month that Pentagon officials repeatedly implored Pastor Terry Jones not to burn copies of the Quran fearing that Jones’s inflammatory action could arouse Muslim sentiments and endanger the lives of US soldiers serving in Afghanistan and elsewhere. Yet, a month later [...]
LUMBINI and KATHMANDU, Nepal: Crossing the rickety steel wire bridge, Sheikh Islam puts his arm forward, showing the expanse of the valley that unfolds here in the Kathmandu Valley just south of Bandipur, a few hours from Nepal’s capital city. “We are Muslim, but we are Nepali as well,” the sheikh, the local community leader [...]
CAIRO: In an unsurprising statement, the Muslim Brotherhood’s Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) candidate Mohamed Morsy said he would ensure the new constitution for Egypt would be based on Islamic law and the Qur’an. Ironically, Egypt’s former constitution and legal frameworks were also based on Islamic law, but analysts tell Bikyamasr.com that the FJP’s version [...]
CAIRO: The Union of Coptic Organizations in Europe, and more than 20 other Coptic groups in the United States, declared their total rejection to support any presidential candidate with a religious reference. The groups also expressed their rejection to any possible Islamic rule in Egypt by the Muslim Brotherhood or the Salafists. They said that [...]
JAKARTA: Lady Gaga is under threat again in Asia. And again it is Indonesia’s Islamic groups who are fighting against a concert scheduled by the American pop star for June 3. The ultra-conservative Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) has threatened to mobilize some 30,000 protesters to demonstrate against the star if the performance in the capital, [...]
KUALA LUMPUR: With reports that Malaysian citizens took part in the Berih 3.0 protests in Mecca and Medina in Saudi Arabia, the Malaysian government is concerned that the ultra-conservative Gulf country could ban the Southeast Asian citizens from participating in the Hajj and Umrah pilgrimages to the Islamic holy sites. The government here in Kuala [...]
It’s not about religion, or at least it shouldn’t be. As British Muslims and Jews deride recent calls for an end to halal slaughter – the slitting of the throat of an animal before being slaughtered – let us look at why ending this practice would be good for the animals, and the globe. It [...]
Mumbai: An Indian court advised married women to emulate the virtuous and obedient mythological goddess Sita, while hearing a divorce petition where the husband had filed for divorce because his wife was not willing to relocate with him. In India’s mythological epic Ramayana written by Sage Valmiki, Goddess Sita, wife of Indian deity Ram, follows [...]
New Delhi: India’s Haj pilgrims will no longer be able to avail government subsidy for their pilgrimage, as the country’s top court ordered that the subsidy be phased out over the next ten years. Over 100,000 Indian Muslims perform Haj by visiting the holiest Muslim site of Mecca, in Saudi Arabia. Justices Altamas Kabir and [...]
NEW DELHI: Two ‘tantriks’ (practitioners of black magic) from a famous Indian temple town of Haridwar, duped a 29-year-old woman from the central Indian town of Nagpur of $ 1200, promising to cure all her marital problems with black magic. The practice of ‘black magic’ as a cure for medical as well as psychological problems [...]
NEW DELHI: A United States (US) NGO has lent a helping hand for Muslims, a religious minority in India, for education in Andhra Pradesh, a state on the eastern coast. A US-based NGO has already built 60 schools and has plans in place to put up 40 more in most remote villages of the state. [...]
British Muslims are battling over animal rights and calls for an end to halal slaughter in the country. It comes on the heels of a push to end the Jewish and Muslim traditional means of slitting an animals throat in order to allow the blood to flow completely out of the animals body. Professor Bill [...]
NEW DELHI: Environment is set to get a boost from the most unlikely of places in the south Indian state of Kerala – Christian burial places. Kerala’s mainstream churches, impeded by hurdles to acquire land, including high real estate prices for the conventional cemeteries, have begun shifting to reusable graves and tombs that are environment-friendly. [...]
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