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Makkah Businesses See Hajj Boom Ending Pandemic Slump

"Business is back", exclaims Abdullah Mekhlafi at the shop where he sells prayer mats in Islam's holiest city, which is preparing for the biggest influx of hajj pilgrims since the coronavirus pandemic began. Two years of drastic restrictions on the number of pilgrims who could perform the hajj emptied shops…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 5, 2022

Fear and anger in India’s Udaipur where Hindu tailor was killed

City is on the edge nearly a week after a Hindu tailor is allegedly beheaded by two Muslim men over prophet remarks row.

Al Jazeera · Jul 5, 2022

Indonesia school helps students recite Koran in sign language

Concerned about how Indonesian students with hearing impairments often miss out on religious education, cleric Abdul Kahfi founded an Islamic boarding school to help them study and recite scripture from the Koran using sign language.

Reuters · Jul 5, 2022

Egypt: Sisi Inaugurates Huge Transportation Projects

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated Adly Mansour Central Interchange Station, the largest such station in the Middle East and Africa. The inauguration of the new projects coincided with the country's celebration of the ninth anniversary of ousting the banned Muslim Brotherhood. In 2013, Sisi, Minister of Defense at the…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 4, 2022

Kannada play stopped mid-way by Hindutva activists in Karnataka

The play by Jayant Kaikini is based on Fiddler on the roof and features Muslim characters, and was being staged in Shivamogga district

The Hindu · Jul 4, 2022

Rann Kali, the war memorial built by BSF at the request of Christian and Muslim soldiers

The memorial has now become a pilgrimage point for locals

The Hindu · Jul 3, 2022

PM Modi tells BJP to reach out to the deprived among Muslims, other minorities

Mr. Modi made the intervention when BJP Uttar Pradesh unit chief Swatantra Dev Singh was speaking about the party’s victory in Rampur and Azamgarh.

The Hindu · Jul 3, 2022

MWL Conference Paves Way for Establishing Southeast Asian Ulama Council

The first conference of Asian religious scholars organized in Malaysia by the Muslim World League (MWL) called for promoting values of tolerance and respect to help achieve global peace and security.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 3, 2022

It’s not just the far right that should worry us. It’s their ideas seeping into the mainstream

Marine Le Pen might have lost the presidential election, but the RN leader’s influence runs deep in France

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022

Met Police warned of 'crime and disorder' wave from Muslims in wake of Grenfell fire

Campaigners claim a memo by the Metropolitan Police produced at the inquiry into the fire – which killed 72 people in June 2017 – is Islamophobic

Daily Mirror · Jul 2, 2022