Shaikh-ut-Tafseer Mawlana Muhammad Yousuf Rahimyarkhani reached Darululoom Zahedan on Wednesday, 14 May, 2014 to convey the condolence message of the JUI Pakistan.

Nigeria’s government has said it is ready to hold talks with Boko Haram to secure the release of more than 200 girls abducted from their school last month.

A far-right British group has invaded mosques in Bradford to hand out anti-Islam leaflets and British Army Bibles, sparking wide range of condemnations from city officials, police forces and faith leaders as working against the city’s interfaith harmony.

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.