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SHAFAQNA –Recently, newspapers across the world — including in the United States, Britain and Israel — have reported on the challenges that Muslims, and people perceived to be Muslim, have faced at airports and on planes. Just last week, three siblings were removed from a plane in London and questioned by police for an hour after passengers incorrectly claimed that one of them had made references to Allah on her phone and was, therefore, a member of the Islamic State. This suspicion toward all things Islamic or seemingly Islamic has given rise to the expression “flying while Muslim.” The challenge for Weste countries where Muslim immigrants have settled is that “flying while Muslim” threaten...

SHAFAQNA –Religions and Sects solidarity conference against the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) and terrorism was held with presence of Ahlul Bayt World Assembly’s member in Bangladesh. Ahlul Bayt Bangladesh religions and sects solidarity conference against ISIS and terrorism emphasized on Islamic unity and uprooting of extremism and terrorism. This conference was held with the presence of Sheikh Ibrahim Khali Razavi -chief of Bangladesh Ahlul Bayt Foundation- and a group of religious leaders and deputies along with Bangladesh interior minister and police chief in Rangpur city in Bangladesh.Chief of Bangladesh Ahlul Bayt Foundation along with nearly 100 thousandparticipants said: “Unfortunat...

SHAFAQNA –Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi strongly condemned terrorist blasts early this moing in two Turkish cities of Van and Elazig. “Enemies with their dirty hands have intensified their desperate efforts to create insecurity and instability in the region, especially in Islamic countries,” Ghasemi said, calling upon the watchful consciences in the inteational community, especially those in the region, to take a swift action to prevent and stop such savage slaughters. Undoubtedly, he stressed, these inhumane terrorist acts can never help terrorists reach objectives, but establish solidarity among more people in the region to fight these barbaric acts. “As we have repeate...

SHAFAQNA –Iran’s Foreign Ministry strongly condemned a Monday terrorist attack that left scores of civilians dead at a hospital in Pakistan’s southweste city of Quetta. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi on Tuesday expressed condolences to the Pakistani govement and nation on the fatal suicide bombing that killed at least 70 people and wounded more than 100 others, mainly lawyers and joualists. He also called for concerted action by the inteational community to put an end to such barbaric killings. Qassemi attributed a wave of violence and acts of terrorism in the region to the soft approach in dealing with extremism and Takfiri ter...

SHAFAQNA –Crimes committed by the so-called Islamic State in Iraq’s Sinjar in 2014 may be considered as war crimes, crimes against humanity and even genocide, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday in a statement on the second aiversary of Sinjar’s tragedy. The Secretary General strongly condemned “the heinous crimes that continue to be committed by ISIL against the diverse ethnic and religious communities of Iraq” and expressed deep conce “about the safety of the people who remain in ISIL’s captivity, in particular the thousands of Yezidi women and children.” He called upon “all those engaged in the fight against ISIL to make their release a prime objective in their...

SHAFAQNA-Iran said the United Nations (UN)’s decision to temporarily reverse the blacklisting of Saudi Arabia for killing Yemeni children amounts to a betrayal of the defenseless minors. Gholam-Ali Khoshroo, Iran’s ambassador and permanent representative to the UN, made the remark at a UN Security Council meeting to discuss children and armed conflict on Tuesday. Back in June, the UN blacklisted Saudi Arabia after concluding in a report that Riyadh had been responsible for 60 percent of the 785 deaths of children in the Saudi war on Yemen last year. A few days later, however, the world body aounced that Saudi Arabia would be taken off the list pending a joint review with Saudi Arabia. Khosh...

SHAFAQNA –Addressing a large and fervent congregation of the people on Tehran University campus on Friday, Ayatollah Seddiqi said, “The Saudis in an attack on a Yemeni village worsened its black record of killing the Yemeni civilians; they attacked the villages and massacred all their residents and cut their bodies into pieces after doing that.” He strongly blasted the Saudi regime for its continued massacre of the people of Yemen, and asked, “Which human rights body approves of the Saudi regime’s behavior?” The Saudi-led forces torched the houses of Yemeni civilians in al-Sarari village after looting their properties, killing 20 of them and abducting 40 others. The Saudi-led forces’ atroci...

SHAFAQNA –The Muslim Community in Malta this evening expressed “shock, sorrow and grave conce” at the recent series of terroristic acts in several countries including France, Germany and the United States. It said it was also shocked at the “heinous coward crime” of killing the French priest Fr Jacques Hamel. “Those horrible acts were falsely proclaimed in the name of Islam and Muslims, while Islam prohibits and condemns the killing of iocent people irrespective of their faith or alleged justifications for such criminal acts. “The aggression against the European people is an aggression against all Muslims who live in Europe and a serious threat to their harmonious peaceful existence in diff...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –No one here reports to police because they fear for their lives. . . . There are people who have been missing for more than nine months. Some are taken for a few weeks or days for questioning and then retued, so it is a situation that disturbs every Wajir resident. People fear and keep asking themselves who the next victim will be. -Wajir resident, October 22, 2015 On June 29, 2015, three men went to the home of 45-year-old Farah Ibrahim Korio, an ethnic Somali Kenyan and teacher of Islamic education in Wajir, northeaste Kenya. When they did not find him, they threatened to arrest his wife and five children if they did not disclose his whereabouts. The men had n...

SHAFAQNA –Could it be that France has just blown the whistle on Salafism, and finally anchored its counter-terrorism narrative against not Islam, but the devolution which has worked to hijack its Scriptures and redact its principles? France it seems has woken up from its political stupor – and not a moment too late. Faced with the abomination it allowed in – radicalism – the French govement had no other choice but to reassess its counter-terror position. Bearing in mind that France has rubbed shoulders with those powers which from the shadows continue to wield Terror as an asymmetrical weapon of colonialism, the French Republic is likely set for a grand political re-alignment. At this point ...

SHAFAQNA –Libya’s UN-backed govement on Wednesday criticised the presence of French troops in the chaos-wracked country, as President Francois Hollande confirmed France has soldiers there after three of them died. The presence of the troops in Libya was a “violation” of the nation’s sovereignty, the govement of national accord said on its Facebook page following Hollande’s aouncement that its soldiers had been in the country. The govement said it would welcome “any help given to us by friendly nations in the fight against Daesh”, which controls the key Libyan city of Sirte. But any assistance given “should be based on a request (by the Libyan unity govement) or in coordination” with it, the...

SHAFAQNA- A Muslim group in suburban Chicago has erected two billboards over the city’s highways that they hope will fight terrorism and combat Islamophobia. The Association of Pakistani Americans of Bolingbrook paid nearly $7,600 for the billboards, which went up Sunday over Interstate 290 and I-55 and will be displayed for 4 weeks, the Chicago Tribune reported. The signs read “Muslims to Muslims: See Something. Say Something. Save Iocent Lives.” The signs are meant to show average Americans that Muslims don’t condone terrorism, said Talat Rashid, the association’s founder. He said the billboards call on Muslims to alert authorities if they suspect anyone of such acts. Council of Islamic...

SHAFAQNA –After a court extended Bahrain Centre for Human Rights president Nabeel Rajab’s detention in coection with some tweets for another three weeks yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its condemnation of Bahrain’s constant obstruction of freedom of information and its repeated harassment of joualists and bloggers. Arrested at his home on 13 June, Rajab was transferred to a military hospital with cardiac problems on 28 June after two weeks in solitary confinement. According to Bahraini human rights NGOs, he was examined by a doctor and was then retued to West Riffa police station for further custody. He is facing up to 13 years in prison on charges of “spreading false ...

SHAFAQNA-Grand Ayatollah Sistani aounces Wednesday as Eid al-Fitr in Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and its Arabic neighboring countries, India, Pakistan, Indonesia, Australia and Africaand Thursday as Eid al-Fitr in Europe and countries located in north of Asia. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articlePeterborough Charities in England Given Food Parcels for Ramadan Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –An inteational Holocaust cartoon exhibition kicked off in the weste Iranian city of Hamedan on Friday. The expo, which was launched on the occasion of the Inteational Quds Day, features 35 cartoons, Seyed Yunes Ashrafi, a cultural official in the city said. He said works by artists from Iran, Venezuela, Morocco, Belgium, Turkey, Indonesia, France and Colombia are on display at the exhibition. The works are the selected cartoons of the second Inteational Holocaust cartoon festival, he noted. A selection of 150 cartoons from 50 different countries was showcased at the festival back in May. Iran’s House of Cartoon and the Sarcheshmeh Cultural Complex organized the second edition of t...

SHAFAQNA –Seyed Aftab Haider on 20 June 2016 delivered at a special program for the Birth of Imam Hassan ibn Ali (a.s) at the Ahlul Bait (a.s) Islamic Centre, Ottery for the night of 15 Ramadaan 1437. He condemns Bahraini regime’s move to strip Sheikh Isa Qassim of citizenship. Following is part of his lecture: The Bahraini govement did something amazing today by aouncing that they have stripped the citizenship of most senior leader of the Shia community in Bahrain – Ayatullah Sheikh Isa Qassem. Have you heard of something as ludicrous as this in mode times? Maybe this can be done to people who were bo in another country and became naturalized in another place. But this man is bo and bred i...

SHAFAQNA –The United Nations have acknowledged, in a report called “They came to destroy”, that fighters from the Islamic State armed group are committing genocide against Yazidis in Syria and Iraq. In 2014, IS jihadists massacred Yazidis in Sinjar. Tens of thousands were forced to flee. Thousands of girls and women were taken captive to be used as sex slaves. Despite only being an estimated 700,000 Yazidis in the world, they have, at different times over centuries, been victims of oppression because of their religion. They are neither Muslims, nor Arabs and their faith is unique. That is the main reason why IS despise and target them. “The islamic State armed group have made up an excuse t...

SHAFAQNA –Bahrain’s main opposition movement, the al-Wefaq National Islamic Society, has censured the Al Khalifah regime’s suspension of its activities, saying that the move is illegal. On Wednesday, al-Wefaq Deputy Secretary General Sheikh Hussain al-Daihi said that the suspension shows Manama’s inability to separate the people from the bloc. He also called on the inteational community to take action to end the regime’s crackdown on dissent. Meanwhile, various human rights organizations have condemned the ban, labeling it is part of a new crackdown on dissent. On Tuesday, the Bahraini Justice Ministry aounced in a statement that the kingdom had suspended all activities by the al-Wefaq in t...

SHAFAQNA –The Council on American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Orlando nightclub mass shooting that left at least 50 people dead and 53 others injured on Sunday, calling it a hate crime. The gunman, identified by US media as an alleged Daesh sympathizer named Omar Mateen, a US citizen of Afghan descent from Port St. Lucie, Florida, took hostages at the club and barricaded himself in the complex but was later killed by specially trained SWAT units. Daesh later on claimed responsibility for the attack, according to media outlets affiliated with the terror group. “Our hearts, thoughts, and prayers are with the victims and their families… This is a hate crime, plain and simple. We...

SHAFAQNA – Following is a letter Professor Muhammad Marandi, one of Iran most prominent academics, and intellectuals peed to the United Nations. Professor Marandi was gracious enough to share his words with Shafaqna. It is in times such as ours that we ought to listen to our intellectuals, scholars, and clerics – as only they, can offer perspective. 14 June 2016 United Nations Secretary General His Excellency Ban Ki-Moon, Excellency, A year after my May 18, 2015 letter to you protestingthe United Nations’ silence on Saudi Arabia’s atrocities against Yemen’s civilian population, we witnessed a very small but positive move when the UN finally blacklisted the Saudi regime for its killing of c...