Month: August 2020

On Saturday, the ruler of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and the Emirates’ leader, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decree formally ending UAE's boycott of Israel, state-run WAM news agency reported. This decree comes after the historic August 13th US-brokered deal that states the normalization of diplomatic ties between the UAE and Israel. According to WAM, the decree permits Israelis and Israeli firms to conduct business in the UAE, as well as purchase and trade Israeli goods. “The decree of the new law comes within the UAE’s efforts to expand diplomatic and commercial cooperation with Israel,” WAM stated. The decree is “a roadmap toward launching joint cooperation, leading to bilateral relations by stimulating economic growth and promoting technological innovat...

On Friday, tens of thousands of people assembled in Washington, DC, United States (US) , to stand against racism, police brutality, and to commemorate the civil rights anniversary march of 1963 where Martin Luther King Jr made his historic "I Have a Dream" speech. In the famous address, King had highlighted the “horrors of police brutality” and spoken about his dream of living in a country where his children “will not be judged by the colour of their skin but by the content of their character". This year in the US, the civil rights march comes after a summer filled with wide-scaled protests against continuous racial injustice over police killings of African-Americans. This year the fresh ‘Black Lives Matter’ protests emerged after killing of George Floyd, who like many other vict...

Acting leader of Muslim Brotherhood, Mahmoud Ezzat, was arrested during a raid by the Egyptian police in his apartment in Cairo, Egyptian authorities reported on Friday. The arrest comes as a part of a long-running crackdown against the Muslim Brotherhood, which is Egypt’s oldest, most organised, and now an outlawed Sunni Muslim organization. Ezzat, seen as a hardliner within the Muslim Brotherhood, was an influential former deputy to Brotherhood leader Mohamed Badie. He secured the acting leader position after Badie’s arrest in August 2013. Since 2013, Ezzat has been suspected of supervising numerous assassinations or attempted assassinations and a bombing. He has already been sentenced to life imprisonment and two death sentences in absentia. According to the Egyptian Inter...

In the southern Swedish town of Malmo, protests broke when a copy of the Quran was burnt by right-wing extremists early Friday. At least 300 protesters had gathered to show their dissent. A police spokesperson said that protesters hurled objects at them and also set car tires on fire, “We don’t have this under control but we are working actively to take control.buy diflucan online gaetzpharmacy.com/diflucan.html no prescription ” He also added that the protests surged in the same place where the Quran was burnt. In Malmo, it’s not the first time that an anti-Islamic activity has taken place. Last week, three men kicked a copy of the Quran in Malmo's public square. Anti-Islam protests surged in the region after the leader of Danish far-right political party Hard Line, Rasmus P...

Three Jamat-ud-Dawa leaders have been sentenced to prison by a court in Pakistan for financing the 26/11 terror attack in Mumbai, India. Malik Zafar Iqbal and Abdul Salam, will be serving 16-1/2 years, concurrently on 4 charges, while as Hafiz Abdul Rahman Makki will serve 1-1/2 years. These men are close associates of Hafiz Saeed, the founder of Lashker-e-Taiba (LeT). Jamat-ud-Dawa funds the militant wing LeT. Pakistan is facing the threat of being blacklisted for failing to curb terror financing by the FATF, Financial Action Task Force. These prison sentences come ahead of Pakistan’s September deadline to avoid the FATF blacklist. Blacklisting by the FATF would mean being shunned by international financial institutions. It’s pertinent to mention here that in 26/11 M...

Kwazulu-Natal High Court has ruled the call to prayer at a mosque in Durban, South Africa, was 'too loud' after a resident, Chandra Ellaurie, a Hindu, who lives opposite the mosque, brought a case arguing the payer call "deprived him of the enjoyment of his property rights".  The court ordered the call to prayer from the Madrasah Talemuddeen Islamic Institute in Isipingo Beach to be toned down. Kwazulu-Natal High Court Durban’s Judge, Sidwell Mngadi, issued a court judgement stating the mosque makes sure its prayer call is not audible within Ellaurie's house. "The proximity of the applicant's property to that of the Madrasah and the overwhelming evidence of the making of the call to prayer ... create probabilities that favour the applicant's version that the call to prayer inter...