Khateeb of Sunni Muslims in Zahedan, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid, has asked the pertinent authorities to take action against particular individuals and media sources who humiliate ethnic and religious sects.
UK Muslims have welcomed a leading British college’s decision to lift a ban on Muslim face-veils after a petition calling for the dropping of the ban gathered thousands of signatures.
The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Mawlana Abdol-Hamid, has denounced strongly a Shia cleric over insulting Iranian Baloch women asking him and his satellite TV channel to apologize to the entire Baloch nation.
A powerful blast caused severe damage to a foreign ministry building in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Wednesday, witnesses said.
Commemorating the fifth anniversary of Germany’s Muslim hijab martyr, world Muslim women defended their right to choose to wear hijab on World Hijab Day marked on September 4.
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.