The new academic year, 1434-35, (2013-14) was begun in Darululoom Zahedan, Iran, by reading the first Hadith of the great Islamic book, Sahih al-Bukhari in the presence of students and teachers.

Khateeb of Sunnis in Zahedan, Iran, criticized the previous Iranian governments over failure to remove ethnic, religious and regional discriminations in public services and distribution of posts. He called on the new government to employ citizens impartially.

The Special Court for Scholars in Tabriz, northwest Iran, has sentenced a Sunni scholar, Mamousta Salam Golnawaz, to six years imprisonment defrocking him for lifetime on Monday, August 26, 2013.

New revelations that New York police department has designated mosques and Islamic organizations across the city as “terrorist organizations” has sent shock waves among Muslims, feeling betrayed by authorities after long years of cooperation to build trust.

A Uighur Muslim woman has been forced by Chinese authorities to evict her rented property in the northwestern region of Xinjiang for wearing a face veil, in a clear violation of her human rights.

The most influential Iranian Sunni scholar, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, alluded to the chemical massacre of hundreds of Syrians near Damascus calling it very shocking, painful and ‘an effort to ensure Israel’s protection for years’ in the latest Friday gathering in Zahedan, Iran, on 23rd August 2013.

      In a bid to offer Muslim children an Islamic education, an American Muslim teacher has issued a new series of Islamic books in English for children, filling an important void for the English-speaking Muslim minorities worldwide.

      Social networking site Facebook has launched the Islamic Hijri calendar as a new feature for birthdays.

Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, Friday Imam and Khateeb of Ahl-us-Sunnah in Zahedan, Iran, talked about the ongoing massacre of the Islamists in Egypt calling it a betrayal by the Egyptian army to the nation on Friday, 16 August, 2013.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni scholar, Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, strongly objurgated the genocide of the pro-Morsi Egyptian protesters by security forces in a statement issued by his office today, August 15, 2013.