Extremism and ‘Takfir’ jeopardize the interests of Islam and Muslims around the world, the outstanding Sunni Islamic leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid told the audience of a congress in Iran on Sunday 17 August, 2014.

A Muslim man has been shot dead inside an Albanian mosque in north eastern Switzerland city of St. Gallen while another man has been arrested, Swiss police said.

Challenging the idea of being oppressed to don hijab, a growing number of young British Muslim women are choosing to wear the Islamic veil or hijab, despite figures showing rising violence against visibly identifiable Muslims.

A Hindu mob has attacked Muslim shop owners in Gurgaon village in the north Indian state of Haryana and ransacked their stores after accusing them of selling beef meat, forcing dozens of Muslim families to flee the Hindu-majority village.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, has urged on the Muslim leaders to reviews their ongoing stances as the current circumstances of the Muslim world show that it needs a new strategy.

India’s Supreme Court has rejected a petition seeking to ban Islamic courts on Monday, saying that they had no legal power to enforce their rulings over India’s 150 million Muslims.

After the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ruled in favor France’s prohibition of face veils on Tuesday, a number of European countries are preparing the launch debates on introducing a similar ban.

Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan termed the month of Ramadan ‘one of the best opportunities’ for Muslims, calling on them to do their best for obtaining more and more benefits of it.

Millions of Muslims will celebrate the beginning of the holy fasting month of Ramadan on Sunday, June 29, while some Muslim countries and minorities will observe the dawn-to-dusk month a day earlier.

Remarkable pictures from the Saudi Arabian funeral of a student murdered in the UK have emerged on social media, showing hundreds of grief-stricken mourners.