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SHAFAQNA IN COLLABORATION WITH FORT RUSS –The most important information event of Friday was Vladimir Putin’s interview with Bloomberg, in which the Russian president touched on key issues on the global information agenda. I am sure that dozens of publications are going over this interview and discussing every question and answer in it, but I want to propose to you, dear friends, to look at this from a different angle. The point is that John Micklethwait, the editor-in-chief of Bloomberg who interviewed the Russian president, is not merely a joualist, but one of many joualists who has participated for many years in meetings of the Bilderberg Club as a full member of this shadow interest gr...

SHAFAQNA –The first time he tried to escape a tough existence in his village in weste Myanmar in 2004, Junaid Zafar was thrown in jail for five years. Like many other Rohingya Muslims, Zafar was seeking to flee poverty and persecution in Buddhist-majority Myanmar and he did not wait long after being released from jail to try again. This time, his parents sold off possessions to raise about $1,000 to pay people smugglers to take him to Malaysia. Zafar, the eldest of three siblings, finally made it in 2011.But like thousands of other Rohingya in Malaysia, he now finds himself living in a precarious limbo, having to work illegally due to official restrictions, and with resettlement to another ...

SHAFAQNA –The first halal hotel in Bangkok is attracting Muslim visitors with the management hoping to tap deeper into a growing market. Nearly 30 million foreign tourists came to Thailand last year but only about 658,000 were from the Middle East, according to industry data. The four-star Al Meroz hotel in Bangkok, which opened in November, hopes to play its part in changing that, and to cash in. “There are 1.6 billion Muslims in the world. It’s a huge market,” said the hotel’s general manager, Sanya Saengboon. “Just one percent of that market is enough for us to thrive.” The , which boasts mosque-like architecture, has two prayer rooms and three halal dining halls. Rooms cost from 4,000 b...

SHAFAQNA –I’ve changed my profile picture on social media many times since terror came in horrific waves, drowning the world in sorrow over the last year. But I could only use the official Facebook profile filter to show solidarity for Paris since a filter wasn’t available for Aleppo, Lahore, Istanbul, or many other attacks. I am a Syrian Muslim living in Dubai; I lost my home in Damascus at the begiing of the Syrian war in 2011. It saddens me when I read on Facebook that someone on the other side of the world thinks that because of who I am and where I live, I’m used to bombs and terror and therefore not as worthy of sympathy. Maybe that’s because the West is a place where war has been a f...

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 –With growing conces over national security, and the increased threat of those wishing to divide us, there has been recent public discussion about the future of our immigration program, and whether the values and customs of some migrant groups have a place in the Australian way of life. Negative attitudes towards Muslims in Australia seem to be based on a fear of the unknown, and this perceived difference in values and culture. Attributes we typically identify as integral to the Australian way of life – like our freedom and democracy – are commonly perceived as being at odds with Islam. It raises an interesting question – can Australian Muslims maintain their customs and traditions...

SHAFAQNA –Muslims from across Norway gathered on the island of Utøya to pray for victims of the Norway attacks. Six years ago in 2011 34-year-old Anders Breivik shot and killed 69 people on the very same island. The Island is owned by Norway’s Labour party and most of Breivik’s victims were members of the Labour party’s youth wing. On August 19, 2016, the country’s oldest Muslim Youth association hosted their aual youth retreat in union with the Labour party’s youth wing. During the retreat, the Muslim youth held a special prayer service in remembrance of the Norway attack victims and pledged to be law abiding and loyal Norwegians. The three days event was attended by representatives of the...

SHAFAQNA –If they know what is good for them, German Muslims should be stoutly, if silently, supporting the partial burqa ban aounced by Chancellor Angela Merkel’s govement. And French Muslims should be agreeing, even if only sotto voce, with Jean-Pierre Chevènement’s call for “discretion” in public spaces “at this difficult time”. Chevènement, a former Interior minister, has been appointed head of the Foundation of French Islam. The organisation, created to better integrate France’s Muslim population, is to oversee aspects of mosque operations, including domestic financing and imam training. It is likely to be an influential body. There is a simple reason to support Merkel’s partial burqa ...

SHAFAQNA-A restaurant manager humiliates two Muslim women and refuses to serve them in Tremblay-en-France in the suburb of Parison Saturdaynight, telling them “terrorists are Muslims and all Muslims are terrorists.” One of the victims videotaped the shocking incident and shared it on social media. The video went viral and stirred the outrage of thousands of users. The video does not record the incident from the begiing; it starts in the middle of a violent verbal attack from the manager. When one of the veiled women said, “we do not want to be served by racists.” The manager came toward to her table and replied angrily, “Racists do not make bombs and do not kill people, racists like me.” T...

SHAFAQNA-Female police officers in Turkey will now be able to wear a headscarf as part of their uniform, according to a new ruling published on Saturday. Turkey’s Official Gazette carries a new rule which will allow policewomen to wear a headscarf under their caps or beret on condition it be the same color as the uniform and without a patte. Back in 2013, then Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan introduced the lifting of headscarf bans in Turkey’s civil service as part of a broader democratization package. Elsewhere, Police Scotland recently aounced that the hijab would become an optional part of its uniform to encourage more female Muslims to consider policing as a career option. Muslim w...

[embedded content] SHAFAQNA –Dr. Riaz Karim from the Mona Relief Organization speaks to George Galloway on Sputnik about Yemen humanitarian crisis and the silence of nation #TheSoundOfYourSilence #SaveALifeInYemen https://www.gofundme.com/savealifeinyemen SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleRights activists propose pilgrimage ban on Saudi Arabia Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA –One of France’s highest courts suspended the burkini ban in the town of Villeneuve-Loubet on Thursday, holding that the ban violated civil liberties including freedom of religion and movement. The ruling sets a precedent that could be used to challenge bans in other municipalities. On Tuesday, an image of French authorities forcing a Muslim woman to disrobe on the beach sparked outrage on social media. It was the second such incident in France that day—earlier, a beachgoer in a head scarf and tunic was fined because her attire was not “an outfit respecting good morals and secularism.” The response was swift on Twitter, where people noted the double irony that such actions are only...

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 –The NYPD’s Inspector General came down hard on the city’s police force Tuesday over conces they are not following court-mandated rules for surveilling political groups. But the NYPD was more interested in highlighting the rosier parts of the report in an all-positive response. The Inspector General conducted an investigation into the NYPD’s following of the Handschu Guidelines, a 1985 ruling outlining political activity as being protected by the Constitution as freedom of speech. Ninety-five percent of the investigations studied applied to surveillance of Muslims, according to the report. The report doesn’t even include the Muslim surveillance unit disbanded in 2014 when Mayor Bil...

SHAFAQNA-An interview with Fatima Isabel Feandesa catholic Christian from Portugal who converted to Islam: Hi Fatima. How long have you been Muslim? What was your name before? Please give us a short biography of yourself. I’ve been Muslim for two years and I was Catholic before like my family. I added Fatima before my name because I converted in lady Fatima’s birthday , now I’m Fatima Isabel. I’m 36 years old and come from Portugal. I divorced with 3 daughters, actually I’m the only Muslim in my family. How did you convert to Islam? I had a dream four years ago. Then two years later, I had a strong feeling while I was passing through a Shia’ mosque. I felt that someone was calling me from t...

SHAFAQNA –Once a month on a Sunday afteoon, a dozen Muslim women meet at the Moroccan Deli-Cacy on Lygon St and take up positions on tables and benches. The women sip tea, nibble on biscuits and wait for their dates, who line up out the door to meet their matches. But it’s not romance they want to share — it’s enlightenment. The event aims to ‘start a conversation between Muslims and non-Muslims’. Restaurateur Hana Assafiri said her Speed Date a Muslim event was an instant hit when she launched it earlier this year, thanks to its simple premise: come and ask a Muslim woman anything you like. She was motivated by the sense that something in the national mood had shifted and Muslims were bein...

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...

young woman wearing burkini sitting by the beach SHAFAQNA –Since several French mayors decided to ban from their beaches the “burkini”, or full-body bathing suit, wo by some conservative Muslim women, a lot of criticism of French restrictions on women’s liberties has resurfaced. Just as with the passage of a law forbidding face coverings in public, effectively baing the burka (complete covering of the body, including the eyes) or niqab (covering all but the eyes) in public spaces, commentators have scoed the ban as men behaving badly and forcing women to conform to their ideals. Kathleen Parker, writing in the Washington Post, complained that “liberté ought to mean wearing a burkini on the ...

SHAFAQNA – The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi Zanjani answered a question about the temporary or permanent marriage of a Muslim man or woman with Baha’is. Question: What is the ruling about the temporary or permanent marriage of Muslim man or woman with Baha’is? The Grand Ayatollah Shobairi: It is void (Baatel). Source: PERSIAN SHAFAQNA Let's block ads! بخوانید...

SHAFAQNA- Two muslim women win bronze medal of the same class of taekwondo competitions at theRio Olympics. Iran’sKimia Alizadeh Zenoorin has won thebronze medal in the 57kg classoftaekwondo competitions, becomingthe first Iranian woman to win an Olympic medal. Egypt’s Hedaya Malak won the bronze medal in the women’s taekwondo -57kg event as well. Fade Jones from the UK won the gold medal after she triumphed over Gomez 16-7 in the same weight category. SHARE Facebook Twitter Previous articleMuslim Olympians compete to fight Islamophobia in Rio 2016 Let's block ads! بخوانید...