Decrying extremism in the society, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid urged during his Friday sermon extremists of all groups and sects should be marginalized and sobriety must rule on.

Amid an incredibly positive reaction from the Muslim community, British TV Channel 4’s Ramadan season, especially the Muslim call to prayer, has received the highest number of complaints in 2013, reflecting an increasing Islamophobic atmosphere in tolerant UK.

Saudi Arabia’s grand mufti, the top religious authority in the birthplace of Islam, has condemned Nigeria’s Boko Haram as a group “set up to smear the image of Islam” and condemned its kidnapping of over 200 schoolgirls.

A Boko Haram attack has killed hundreds in Nigeria’s northeast, multiple sources have said, as police offered $300,000 for information leading to the rescue of more than 200 schoolgirls held hostage by the armed group.

Seeing the cancellation of Islamic subjects as playing into the hands of stereotyping, a Muslim students group in the University of Pittsburg has launched a campaign to bring back the classes that offer students better insights about Islam.

Nigeria’s President has appealed for international help to find, and ensure the release of, 276 schoolgirls abducted by suspected Boko Haram fighters, amid criticism over government inaction.

The eminent Islamic scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid alluded to some incidents which have taken place recently in Sistan-Baluchistan and termed them ‘fruitless’ attempts to destroy peace of the province.

Suspected tribal militants in India shot dead 11 Muslims, including two women, in attacks in the northeastern tea-growing state of Assam where tension is running high during an election, officials said on Friday.

Mamousta Hesamuddin Mojtahedi, Khateeb and Friday Imam of Sunnis in Sanandaj, Iranian Kurdistan, passed away on Saturday, April 26, 2014 in Tehran.

Fulfilling an old dream for Cuban Muslims, the government has approved plans for the country’s first mosque with a courtesy of the Turkish government, following a visit by a delegation from Turkey’s Religious Affairs Foundation to the Caribbean island.