Top UN official for refugees warned that entire Muslim populations from western parts of Central African Republic have been cleansed by Christian militias, sending an emotional appeal to the UN Security Council to stop the deadly conflict, France 24 reported on Friday, March 7.

The outstanding Iranian Sunni leader, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi, has been banned from taking part in a conference to be held by the Muslim World League in Makkah Mukarramah.

Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) has said it has been expelled from Myanmar and that tens of thousands of lives are at risk in the country.

Shaikh-ul-Islam Mawlana Abdol-Hamid termed ‘indiscrimination and ignoring ground realities across the world’ the main reason of the problems in the contemporary era.

A former Islamist fighter who joined Libya’s government was among 11 people killed when a Libyan military plane crashed in Tunisia, officials say.

A French Muslims legal organisation is suing a French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo after it published inflammatory cartoons insulting Qur’an.

Decrying the abduction and creating violence in Sistan-Baluchistan, southeastern Iran, Shaikh Abdol-Hamid Isma’eelzahi termed such unjustified acts ‘big cruelty to the Sunni community of Iran’ in the Friday gathering of Sunnis in Zahedan on Feb. 14, 2014.

from area to another, Christian mobs have been targeting Muslim places of worship in central Africa, killing Muslims and looting their belongings, as violence rocked the restive country.

A Danish government’s move to ban ritual slaughter has angered both Muslim and Jewish faith communities, seeing the ban as a direct attack on their religious practices.

Criticizing the UK Muslim community for lagging in its activism and opposition to marital abuse, Muslim scholars and social workers insist that social stigma and fear of associating the phenomenon with Islam are still acting as powerful deterrents for anyone who wants to address the repressing issue.