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Published time: 3 Aug, 2017 13:10 Social media users have accused the BBC of “blatant propaganda” after the state broadcaster published a YouTube video featuring burqa-clad women addressing common questions about the full-face veil. [embedded content] After the video, entitled ‘Things Not To Say To Someone Who Wears a Burqa’, was published on the BBC […]
IN 2008 Ethiopia’s conservative central bank experimented: it authorised interest-free banking. Interest is prohibited under sharia law, so the move was lauded as a step towards expanding financial services for the country’s large and often poor Muslim minority. But momentum soon stalled. An attempt to launch a fully-fledged Islamic bank foundered. Today most of Ethiopia’s […]
An Islamic preacher who called Jews “agents of Satan” and quoted Nazi Joseph Goebbels to compare Jews to “fleas” was allowed into Britain to speak at a pro-Palestine event over the weekend. Ebrahim Bham, from South Africa, has also delivered lectures where he described equality between the sexes as “absurd” and defended violent jihad as […]
Published time: 22 Jun, 2017 10:43 Shutting down Islamic kindergartens where children have little or no command of German would be an efficient way to ensure the integration of migrants, Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz said. The comment was made at a public event set up by Kurier newspaper. “Of course, we don’t need them. […]
Jes Aznar/Getty Images A group of militants that are pro-Islamic State have stormed a town and taken a school in the southern Philippines. A local police report says 300 armed men had stormed a school and were holding students captive. They are members of the Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters (BIFF), according to Reuters. Chief Inspector […]
AFP Ahmad al-Rubaye After years of waiting and wanting to strike Iran, the Islamic State claims to have finally done so. According to recent news reports, four militants went on a shooting spree in Iran’s parliament, while other operatives detonated a bomb inside the mausoleum of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, […]
Published time: 6 Jun, 2017 17:19 Edited time: 6 Jun, 2017 17:41 The US Navy says it has conducted strikes against Islamic State targets from an aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The ‘George H.W. Bush’ Carrier Strike Group “resumed strike missions in support of Operation Inherent Resolve,” the Navy said in a news […]
FOR all the sophistication of some of its financial centres, and despite the ubiquity of smartphones, the Middle East has been a late adopter of financial technology, or fintech. Of more than $ 50bn in fintech investment globally since 2010, according to Accenture, a consultancy, only 1% has gone to the Middle East and north […]
Donald Trump‘s daughter Ivanka Trump, 35, and his wife Melania Trump, 47, were both present as he made a speech to leaders from 55 Muslim countries in Saudi Arabia this afternoon. The pair both looked serious as their leading man took to the stage and spoke about the role the Middle East plays in a […]
Bandar Algaloud/Courtesy of Saudi Royal Court/Handout via REUTERS RIYADH (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump, struggling to shake a brewing scandal at home, will attempt a reset on Sunday with the Islamic world after frequently attacking Muslims on the campaign trail last year and trying to ban many from the United States. Trump’s afternoon speech […]
