Rampant Islamophobia Across India: Protesters In New Delhi Say ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ As Anti-Muslim Violence Peaks
17
April 2022
Protesters hold placards
during a demonstration against anti-Muslim violence and hate crimes in New
Delhi, India, on April 16, 2022. (Photo by AFP)
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• Rampant Islamophobia Across India: Protesters In New
Delhi Say ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ As Anti-Muslim Violence Peaks
• Islamist Academics and Activists Shill for Jailed
Jihadists During A Recent Webinar On “Ramadan Behind Bars”
• Unrest In Sweden Over Far-Right Anti-Islam Rally by
Stram Kurs To Burn A Qur’an, Continues
• Rwandan Government Bans Muslim Overnight Call To
Prayer Because Of Noise Pollution Laws
• Farewell Lunch For The Then Pakistan Ambassador Asad
Majeed Khan In Washington Triggered ‘Lettergate’ Dispute
India
• Communal Clash On Hanuman Jayanti In Delhi, 6
Policemen Among Injured; Major Communal Flare-Up After Northeast Delhi Riots
• Muslims Shower Flowers On Hanuman Jayanti Procession
In Bhopal
• UP: Cops Disable Loudspeakers At Mosque After BJP
Men's Threat
• Clashes During Hanuman Jayanti in Andhra After
Procession Nears Mosque; 20 Detained
• Tension In Karnataka's Hubballi After Cops Arrest
Youth For Posting Picture Of Saffron Flag Atop Mosque
• Palottukavu fest: Ban on Muslims from entering
temple precincts kicks up row
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North America
• Islamophobia In US Public Schools: Muslim Students
Face High Levels Of Islamophobic Bullying: CAIR Report
• Muslim US Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, Condemns
Zionists' Friday Attack On Al-Aqsa Mosque
• Hate crime charges against man accused of attacking
Muslim from Orlando
• US military retracts details of attack on its Syria
base, hinting insider attack
• ‘It’s Been Amazing’; Bay Area Muslims Celebrate
Ramadan Together For First Time Since Pandemic
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Europe
• Russia Declares Boris Johnson, Other Officials
‘Persona Non Grata’
• Russia-Ukraine war: 'Surrender or die' ultimatum to
last Ukrainian troops in besieged Mariupol
• Rwanda plan ‘against the judgment of God’,
Archbishop of Canterbury says
• Two people climb Marble Arch amid Extinction
Rebellion fossil fuel protests
• Convert Muslim paramedic on the difficulties of
fasting on the frontline while saving lives
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Africa
• Muslims ask Parliament to operationalise Kadhi
courts
• Islamic leader laments poor govt presence in Osogbo
• Morocco condemns Israeli raid on Jerusalem's Al Aqsa
mosque, says it will 'inflame hatred and extremism'
• Libya’s Foreign Ministry condemns storming of
Al-Aqsa Mosque by Israeli occupation forces
• Moroccans hold rally supporting Al-Aqsa Mosque
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Pakistan
• Pakistan slams Israeli attack on worshippers in
Al-Aqsa mosque
• Hamza Shehbaz elected Punjab CM amid unprecedented
brawl
• Islamabad DC transferred as new govt starts
shuffling bureaucrats
• PPP invites applications for award of party tickets
• LHC declares tax recovery through utility bills
illegal
• Pakistan Says Cross-Border Attacks From Afghanistan
Have Increased
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Mideast
• Israeli Forces Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque For Second Time
In 48 Hours
• Turkish envoy attracts attention with veiled
criticism of Iran in article for Israeli think tank
• Iran Guards Say They Have Seized Two Ships With
Smuggled Fuel In Gulf
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South Asia
• Thai Government Says Ramadan Bombings Won’t Derail
Peace Talks With Rebels
• Afghanistan arrests 15 seditionists in front of Iran
embassy in Kabul
• Taliban summons Pakistani ambassador over aerial
attacks
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Southeast Asia
• Malaysia Strongly Condemns Burning Of Holy Quran In
Sweden
• Indonesian academics get familiar with scientific,
cultural capacities of Imam Reza holy shrine
• Muslim preachers strongly denounce Israeli raid on
Al-Aqsa Mosque
• Umno naming Ismail Sabri as PM candidate not ploy to
hasten GE15, says Ahmad Maslan
• Tuan Ibrahim: Ministry to use black soldier fly
larvae in sustainable waste treatment
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Arab world
• Saudi Arabia Arrests 13,265 Illegals In One Week
• KSrelief provides more than 3 million liters of
water to Yemeni camps for displaced people
• Somali minister visits Naif Arab University for
Security Sciences
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Rampant Islamophobia Across India: Protesters In New
Delhi Say ‘Muslim Lives Matter’ As Anti-Muslim Violence Peaks
Protesters hold placards
during a demonstration against anti-Muslim violence and hate crimes in New
Delhi, India, on April 16, 2022. (Photo by AFP)
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April 17, 2022
Citizens of New Delhi have taken to the streets to
condemn rampant Islamophobia across India amid a rise in anti-Muslim violence
in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim clashes.
During a peace vigil organized by citizens against
hate crimes and violence targeting the Muslim minority in New Delhi on
Saturday, the protesters held placards that read “No to Islamophobia” and
“Muslim Lives Matter.”
Cases of violence against Muslims have been reported
in at least eight states in India in recent days during the Ram Navami
processions.
The protesters also shouted slogans against Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government days after Hindu-Muslim clashes
erupted during a religious festival.
Indian police imposed a curfew in one town and banned
gatherings of more than four people in parts of three states ruled by Modi’s
Hindu nationalist party after the Sunday clashes.
Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata
Party has been blamed for stoking tensions between majority Hindus and Muslims
in states that it rules.Citizens of New Delhi have taken to the streets to
condemn rampant Islamophobia across India amid a rise in anti-Muslim violence
in the aftermath of Hindu-Muslim clashes.
During a peace vigil organized by citizens against
hate crimes and violence targeting the Muslim minority in New Delhi on
Saturday, the protesters held placards that read “No to Islamophobia” and
“Muslim Lives Matter.”
Cases of violence against Muslims have been reported
in at least eight states in India in recent days during the Ram Navami
processions.
The protesters also shouted slogans against Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government days after Hindu-Muslim clashes
erupted during a religious festival.
Indian police imposed a curfew in one town and banned
gatherings of more than four people in parts of three states ruled by Modi’s
Hindu nationalist party after the Sunday clashes.
Modi’s right-wing Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata
Party has been blamed for stoking tensions between majority Hindus and Muslims
in states that it rules.
Nine people were arrested in India’s most populous
state of Uttar Pradesh on Friday on charges of torching the home of a Muslim
man who married a Hindu woman.
“We are extremely anguished at the manner in which
issues related to food, dress, faith, festivals, and language are being
deliberately used by sections of the ruling establishment to polarize our
society,” the leaders said.
Violence against Muslims and other minorities has
prevailed since the partition of the subcontinent in 1947, but the last decade
has seen a dramatic rise of right-wing Hindu domination.
Based on reports by human rights groups, the ruling
Bharatiya Janata Party has adopted various laws and policies that legitimize
prejudice against religious minorities in recent years, in particular Muslims.
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Islamist Academics and Activists Shill for Jailed
Jihadists During A Recent Webinar On “Ramadan Behind Bars”
Zahra Billoo of the Council
on American Islamic Relations speaks at the 2018 Women’s March in San
Francisco, California. (Pax Ahimsa Gethen/Wikimedia Commons)
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By Andrew Harrod
17-04-2022
“If you are supporting our prisoners, you are supporting
some of the best people on the planet,” stated Coalition for Civil Freedoms
(CCF) prisoner and family support coordinator Nada Dibas during a recent
webinar on “Ramadan Behind Bars.”
These “best people” — CCF’s clients — include
terrorists in American prisons. Yet to Dibas and panellists like the Islamist,
slavery-defending Georgetown University professor Jonathan Brown, they’re
victims of America’s Islamophobia.
Brown’s branch of the dhimmitude industry is a family
affair. Dibas noted that Brown, former director of Georgetown’s Saudi-founded
Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and now
Alwaleed professor of Islamic civilization, is a CCF board member. Brown, in
turn, observed that his sister-in-law, Leena Al-Arian, is CCF’s executive
director, an unsurprising family connection, since “CCF was actually founded in
our basement,” he said. Brown’s wife, Al Jazeera senior producer Laila
Al-Arian, is Leena’s sister.
At CCF’s 2010 founding, the patriarch of the Al-Arian
family, Brown’s father-in-law, Sami Al-Arian, lived with him while under house
arrest after his conviction for providing material support to Palestinian
Islamic Jihad terrorists. In 2015, the U.S. deported Al-Arian to Turkey after
he pleaded guilty to supporting a terrorist organization.
CCF’s radical connections extend beyond the Brown
family. Zahra Billoo, the Islamist executive director of the San Francisco
chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), of which a federal
judge found “ample evidence to establish” an association with Hamas, joined the
panel. Islamist CCF members include CAIR’s Florida chapter, the Islamic Circle
of North America, and the National Lawyers Guild, among others.
Given this radical crowd, Dibas’s claim that CCF supports
“over 240 political prisoners” who are “predominately Muslim” is clearly
propaganda. The federal government, she asserted, “targeted, criminally
prosecuted, and imprisoned [these people] due to their political views,
beliefs, cultural identity, or activism.” “We work with prisoners convicted of
terrorism,” she added, while “most people don’t want to get near” this issue.
CCF board member Ashley Young’s description of her
imprisoned brother, former Washington Metro system police officer Nicholas
Young, showed CCF’s absurd definition of “political prisoner.” As the Counter
Extremism Project has documented, in 2016 “he sent electronic gift cards worth
$245 to an undercover FBI agent posing as a Syrian-based” Islamic State fighter
under the pretext of funding recruiting “messaging accounts.” Earlier in 2010,
Nicholas Young’s “friendship with Zachary Chesser, a Virginia man who pled
guilty to attempting to provide material support to al-Shabab,” initially
aroused FBI interest.
The following year in 2011, Nicholas Young traveled to
Libya to fight for the overthrow of Muammar Gaddafi’s dictatorship, he told law
enforcement. Additionally, the Counter Extremism Project noted, Young disclosed
to FBI officers “that he tortured animals as a child, was a collector of Nazi
memorabilia, and dressed up as ‘Jihadi John’ for a party.” Nicholas Young also
expressed support for the January 2015 Charlie Hebdo massacre in Paris.
Yet in Ashley Young’s telling, brother Nicholas Young
epitomized law enforcement’s use of entrapment and “completely manufactured”
charges to victimize the innocent. Al-Qaeda’s 9/11 attacks produced “mass
hysteria” and “keeping that fear alive” necessitated “politically motivated
charges against people,” she said. “When the FBI couldn’t find the terrorists
amongst us,” she added, “they started to invent them,” to which Dibas
ludicrously responded, “anyone and everyone can be a target.”
Having established an atmosphere of faux innocence,
Dibas introduced another panelist, the superficially friendly Ahmed Abdel
Sattar, by noting that he had just ended a 20-year prison sentence. As the New
York Post previously elaborated, Sattar “was an Islamist extremist who used his
home as a communications hub to further the schemes of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman,
the blind Muslim cleric who masterminded the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.”
Additionally, Sattar “and a co-conspirator in 2000 published a fatwa, or
Islamic ruling, in Rahman’s name, calling for the killing of Jewish civilians.”
Rather than scrutinizing these obvious lies, Brown —
more Islamist apologist than academic — gushed “it’s so inspiring” that Young
is “really devoted” to her brother. Brown gladly accepted the veracity of CCF’s
claims, just as he assumed the police brutality claims of the notoriously corrupt
Black Lives Matter movement. In 2010, he did not believe that “police officers
just randomly shoot black people for no reason,” he said, but BLM has since
convinced him otherwise.
Given BLM’s supposed revelations of criminal justice
corruption, “you really don’t have an excuse not to support CCF,” Brown said.
Particularly today, “it’s so cool to be woke” and “talk about how the system is
messed up,” he added, so supporting the likes of CCF means “you can use this to
get street cred.” Therefore, “if you have any guts, then give money” to CCF,
for otherwise “you are not a man, you are not a woman,” and “I am not
impressed,” he quipped, with the additional personal note, “I respond well to
shame.”
Brown pitched his support for CCF as a matter of
solidarity, for “if someone gets in trouble or gets canceled,” then “as a
matter of principle, I will not disassociate myself from that person.” “The
system works by making that person toxic,” and therefore “you can’t let that
happen,” he explained. The supreme irony, however, is that he works tirelessly
to cancel “Islamophobes” like this author.
Dibas, Billoo, Young, Sattar, Brown, and their ilk are
Islamist apologists masquerading as activists and scholars. Their opinions are
therefore easily discounted, if not always rapidly dispatched. This whole lot
and their supporting enterprises deserve anathematization, discrediting, and
defunding.
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Unrest In Sweden Over Far-Right Anti-Islam Rally by
Stram Kurs To Burn A Qur’an, Continues
A city bus burns on a street
in Malmo, Sweden, during demonstration by far-right anti-Islam protesters on
Saturday. Photograph: Johan Nilsson/AP
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17 Apr 2022
Southern Sweden saw another night of unrest on
Saturday over plans by an anti-Islam far-right political party to burn a Qur’an
among other things.
Police said up to 100 mostly young people threw
stones, set cars, tyres and dustbins on fire, and put up a barrier fence in the
town of Landskrona after authorities moved a demonstration scheduled there by
Danish party Stram Kurs to the nearby city of Malmö, about 45km (27 miles) to
the south.
Kim Hild, spokesperson for police in southern Sweden,
had said earlier on Saturday that police would not revoke permission for the
Landskrona demonstration organised by party Stram Kurs because the free-speech
threshold for doing that is very high in Sweden.
The right of the protesters “to demonstrate and speak
out weighs enormously, heavily and it takes an incredible amount for this to be
ignored,” Hild told Swedish news agency TT.
On Friday evening, violent clashes between
demonstrators and counter-protesters erupted in the central city of Orebro
ahead of Stram Kurs’ plan to burn a Qur’an there, leaving 12 police officers
injured and four police vehicles set on fire.
Video footage and photos from chaotic scenes in Orebro
showed burning police cars and protesters throwing stones and other objects at
police officers in riot gear.
At Saturday’s demonstration in a central park in
Malmö, Stram Kurs’ leader Rasmus Paludan addressed a few dozen people. A small
number of counter-protesters threw stones at demonstrators and police were
forced to use pepper spray to disperse them.
Paludan himself was reported to have been hit on his
leg by a stone, Swedish media said. No serious injuries were reported,
according to police.
Paludan, a Danish lawyer who also holds Swedish
citizenship, set up Stram Kurs, or Hard Line, in 2017. It runs on an
anti-immigration and anti-Islam agenda.
Source: The Guardian
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Rwandan Government Bans Muslim Overnight Call To
Prayer Because Of Noise Pollution Laws
OSG MEDIA
April 17, 2022
Rwanda’s Ministry of local government (MINALOC) has
stated that the recent decision to ban the overnight Muslim call to prayer
known as Adhan, was taken into consideration due to noise pollution raised by
the public.
The practice of attaching loudspeakers to the minarets
on mosques began in Asia in the 1930s and spread across the globe. Five calls
are made per day, to summon the faithful for their five daily prayers.
Rwandan authorities say that residents had complained
about the earliest call to prayer – which happens between 04:30 and 04:49 and
lasts about two or three minutes.
“We are not happy… during Ramadan, it is adhan which
tells us that it is time to start fasting, and not all Muslims in Rwanda have
alarm clocks,” says a resident, Nuhu Bihibindi.
Ms. Mukamabano says the government could have told
mosques to simply turn down the volume, “just like they tell bars to limit the
volume on their music”.
But Sheikh Souleiman Mbarushimana, an advisor to
Rwanda’s mufti, or Islamic scholar, says Muslim leaders had already discussed
the matter with the government and agreed upon the decision.
“Muslims say their right to faith was violated… but
the authorities have told us [the morning call to prayer] is banned for the
common good,” Mr Mbarushimana says.
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Farewell Lunch For The Then Pakistan Ambassador Asad
Majeed Khan In Washington Triggered ‘Lettergate’ Dispute
Prime Minister Imran Khan
shows a letter, purportedly containing evidence of a foreign plot against the
government, at a rally in Islamabad on March 27. — DawnNewsTV
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Anwar Iqbal
April 17, 2022
WASHINGTON: The conversation that set off the
so-called ‘Lettergate’ scandal took place on March 7 at a farewell lunch for
the then Pakistan ambassador Asad Majeed Khan at his residence, which is also
known as Pakistan House.
Diplomatic and official sources, who spoke to Dawn,
said that although it was lunch, a note-taker also attended the meeting. The
cable that Ambassador Khan later sent to Islamabad was based on the notes taken
by the note-taker, who was also from the Pakistan Embassy.
US officials who attended the lunch included US
Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asian Affairs Donald Lu and
Deputy Assistant Secretary Lesslie C Viguerie. The Pakistani side comprised
Deputy Chief of Mission Syed Naveed Bokhari and the defence attaché.
Since the March 7 lunch-meeting was held less than two
weeks after the Russian aggression against Ukraine, the invasion dominated the
conversation. The sources said the US side expressed its ‘disappointment’ with
Pakistan’s decision to send its prime minister, Imran Khan, to Moscow the day
Russia invaded Ukraine.
“They pointed out how the invasion had angered the
entire American nation and explained why they thought Mr Khan should have
postponed his visit,” one of the sources said.
Another source said Mr Lu hinted that “Washington
believes the final decision to go ahead with the visit despite the invasion was
that of Imran Khan” although some Pakistani officials had suggested postponing
it.
Ambassador Khan, according to these sources, argued
that it was a collective decision and that Pakistan had been trying for a
Moscow visit for years. And when the invitation came, they could not turn it
down or postpone it.
The Americans, however, argued that Islamabad should
have also “considered Washington’s sensitiveness” on this issue before going
ahead with the visit.
The sources said the conversation then drifted to the
current political environment in Pakistan, and Mr Lu pointed out that
Washington was keenly watching the situation and the outcome of the no-trust
move against the then prime minister would impact US-Pakistan relations as
well.
One source claimed Mr Lu’s arguments were “alarming
and far from routine”, but he did not threaten a regime-change. The source also
claimed that no one attending the meeting felt that the Americans were hatching
a conspiracy to topple the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf government. “No, there’s no
conspiracy. Nobody got that impression,” the source added. “But they did say
the outcome will impact bilateral ties, which can be interpreted either way.”
The sources said the Americans never concealed “their
disappointment” with Pakistan over Mr Khan’s Moscow visit. They claimed that
Army Chief Gen Qamar Bajwa had planned to visit Washington in April, but
postponed it after learning how the Americans felt about Ukraine.
“I never thought it was a US conspiracy, but it
triggered certain reactions that impacted the domestic political situation in
Pakistan,” another source said. “What Mr Lu said reflected what the Biden administration
feels and thinks. It was very unusual. Not one bit routine.”
The source claimed that the defence attaché’s presence
in the lunch-meeting, and his earlier engagement with US officials on the
Ukraine issue, explained why Gen Bajwa’s comments on Ukraine “marked a
significant departure” from Imran Khan’s policies on this issue.
Former prime minister Khan argued that Pakistan made a
mistake by joining the West during the Cold War, it should remain neutral in
the Russia-Ukraine conflict and refused to condemn Moscow’s invasion.
Addressing a seminar in Islamabad on April 2, Gen
Bajwa had slammed Russia’s military attack on Ukraine, calling for immediate
cessation of what he described as a “huge tragedy” inflicted on a smaller
country.
On Thursday, the military’s media wing — ISPR — also
dismissed Imran Khan’s allegations of a US conspiracy, although it acknowledged
that Washington had used language in the lunch-meeting that amounted to
interference in Pakistani affairs.
The ISPR chief pointed out the National Security
Council’s meeting on this issue expressed “grave concern” at the communication
from Washington, but did not use the word ‘conspiracy’.
On April 8, in his last address to the nation as prime
minister, Mr. Khan reiterated his allegations that a senior US diplomat
threatened a regime-change in Pakistan.
In another statement, Mr Khan also named the official
— Donald Lu — who allegedly made that threat during a meeting with Ambassador
Khan.
On April 10, while commenting on Mr. Khan’s claim, a
US State Department spokesperson Jalina Porter said: “Let me just say very
bluntly there is absolutely no truth to these allegations.”
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India
Communal Clash On Hanuman Jayanti In Delhi, 6
Policemen Among Injured; Major Communal Flare-Up After Northeast Delhi Riots
By Mahender Singh Manral
April 17, 2022
Communal clashes broke out in Northwest Delhi’s
Jahangirpuri following a Shobha Yatra organised to mark Hanuman Jayanti on
Saturday, police said. According to officers, stones were thrown in the area,
and the situation remained tense until late night.
This is the first major communal flare-up in the
national capital since the February 2020 Northeast Delhi riots, which left 53
people dead and many more injured.
Source: Indian Express
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Muslims shower flowers on Hanuman Jayanti procession
in Bhopal
April 17, 2022
Showcasing brotherhood between communities, people from
the Muslim community showered flower petals on devotees during the Hanuman
Jayanti procession in Bhopal on Saturday.
A group of people from the community gathered to
welcome the procession and shower flower petals on the people participating in
the procession with the idol of Lord Hanuman.
Source: The Statesman
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UP: Cops disable loudspeakers at mosque after BJP
men's threat
Apr 17, 2022
AGRA: Loudspeakers installed at a mosque in Mathura's Govardhan
area were disabled by police after BJP workers threatened to chant the Hanuman
Chalisa and perform a 'havan' to mark Hanuman Jayanti in front of the place of
worship on Saturday.
Anwar Hussain, a local, said policemen had come to the
mosque on Friday night and directed those inside to disable the loudspeakers.
"Though we have permission from the district administration to use
loudspeakers, we agreed to disable them as we want to maintain harmony in the
area," he said.
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Clashes During Hanuman Jayanti in Andhra After
Procession Nears Mosque; 20 Detained
APRIL 17, 2022
As the violence in Delhi’s northwest Jahangirpur made
news on Saturday, Andhra too witnessed a similar incident after clashes broke
out in Holagunda on Saturday when members of the right-wing body Vishva Hindu
Parishad (VHP) took out a rally on the occasion of Hanuman Jayanti.
Stone pelting took place when the procession neared a
mosque and the VHP members started playing loud music and chanting slogans.
Twenty people were detained by police after the incident.
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Tension in Karnataka's Hubballi after cops arrest
youth for posting picture of saffron flag atop mosque
17th April 2022
By Amit S Upadhye
HUBBALLI: Tension prevailed in parts of Old Hubballi
after hundreds of protesters gathered demanding action against an arrested
youth late Saturday night.
The protests began after a derogatory post by the
accused Abhishek Hiremath went viral on Saturday night. Upon complaining, the
police picked up the youth from his residence in Anand Nagar and brought him to
the Old Hubballi police station.
Source: New Indian Express
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Palottukavu fest: Ban on Muslims from entering temple
precincts kicks up row
17th April 2022
By M A Rajeev Kumar
KANNUR: Close on the heels of denial of permission to
Vinod Panikkar, of Karivellur, to perform poorakkali as his son had married a
Muslim woman, yet another incident has kicked up a controversy at
Kunhimangalam, near Payyannur, as a board was put up at the precincts of
Malliyottu Palottukavu stating that entry of Muslims is prohibited during
festival season. The festival at the kavu began on April 14 and will conclude
on April 19.
Though, here also DYFI, the youth organisation of CPM,
has come out against the retrogressive action of temple authorities through a
statement, like what they did at Karivellur, local residents say that their
protest will have no impact on the outcome of the incident and the board will
remain there till the end of the festival.
Source: New Indian Express
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North America
Islamophobia In US Public Schools: Muslim Students
Face High Levels Of Islamophobic Bullying: CAIR Report
Darren Lyn
17.04.2022
Islamophobia in US public schools is a prevalent and
ongoing problem, according to a recent report by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR).
Interviews with 700 Muslim students in schools in the
state of California found high levels of Islamophobic bullying, harassment, and
discrimination by peers and adults, including teachers.
“Muslim students of all ages have been ostracized and
mistreated in the past because of their faith and perceived, yet clearly false,
association with 9/11 and other acts of terrorism,” said Amr Shabaik, the civil
rights managing attorney for CAIR’s California chapter, which conducted the
study.
Source: AA.Com
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Muslim US Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, Condemns
Zionists' Friday Attack On Al-Aqsa Mosque
Source: Mehr
April 17, 2022
Muslim US Congresswoman Ilhan Omar condemned the
Israeli regime's Friday attack on the Al Aqsa mosque and called on ending such
brutalities.
"Horrific. Ramadan is meant to be a time of peace
and reflection. It is simply cruel and wrong to attack a people in their place
of worship, a place that is meant to be sacred," Omar wrote in a message
on her Twitter account on Saturday, sharing a video of the recent Zionists'
crimes in the Al Aqsa mosque.
Source: En.Abna24
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Hate crime charges against man accused of attacking
Muslim from Orlando
April 17, 2022
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) of
Florida is requesting that the Orange County State Attorney's office seek hate
crime enhancement on charges already filed.
This comes after an Orlando Muslim was attacked
earlier this month in what the organization calls a racially-motivated assault
and battery.
Source: En.Abna24
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US military retracts details of attack on its Syria
base, hinting insider attack
April 17, 2022
The US military has retracted its earlier claims that
a base it occupies in eastern Syria was targeted by artillery or another type
of projectile, now admitting that the blasts earlier this month that injured
several soldiers resulted from an inside job.
It is now believed the April 7 attack was carried out
by the “deliberate placement of explosive charges” by one or more individuals
at an ammunition holding area and shower facility on the base, AP reported on
Friday citing a statement issued Thursday by the so-called Operation Inherent
Resolve command that oversees illegal US military operations in Syria and Iraq.
Its reference to the “deliberate placement” of
explosive charges on the military base, however, suggested the possibility of
infiltration and a lapse of base security or even an insider attack, marking a
new development in the resistance against the intruding US forces in Syria.
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‘It’s Been Amazing’; Bay Area Muslims Celebrate
Ramadan Together For First Time Since Pandemic
By Shawn Chitnis
April 16, 2022
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) — Members of the Islamic Center
of San Francisco arrived Saturday for afternoon prayers halfway into the holy
month of Ramadan, grateful for recent gatherings at the mosque to celebrate
together for the first time in large groups since the pandemic.
“We’re back to kind of normal, we’re starting to see
the community heal, said Zuhaib Siddique. “We’re seeing people who maybe didn’t
have a place to go.”
Source: Sanfrancisco
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Europe
Russia Declares Boris Johnson, Other Officials
‘Persona Non Grata’
By THEWILL
16,April 2022
April 16, (THEWILL) – Russia has declared UK Prime
Minister, Boris Johnson and other senior ministers, ‘persona non grata’, over
the UK’s “hostile” stance on the war in Ukraine.
British Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, Defence
Secretary, Ben Wallace and 10 other senior politicians, who are mostly members
of the Cabinet, have also been barred from Russia.
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Russia-Ukraine war: 'Surrender or die' ultimatum to
last Ukrainian troops in besieged Mariupol
17 Apr, 2022
Russia has issued an ominous ultimatum to the last
Ukrainian troops in the besieged port city of Mariupol: "Surrender at dawn
or die".
Russian Defence Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov
said Ukrainian forces had been driven out of most of the city and only a few
remained in the huge steel mill.
"The entire urban area of Mariupol has been
completely cleared ... remnants of the Ukrainian group are currently completely
blockaded on the territory of the Azovstal metallurgical plant," the
Russian defence ministry said.
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Rwanda plan ‘against the judgment of God’, Archbishop
of Canterbury says
by Henry Goodwin
2022-04-17
Boris Johnson’s plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda
does not “stand the judgment of God,” the Archbishop of Canterbury has said.
In a withering Easter sermon, the head of the Church
of England – Justin Welby – said that the principle of deporting asylum seekers
4,000 miles away is akin to “subcontracting our responsibilities” and the
“opposite of the nature of God”.
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Two people climb Marble Arch amid Extinction Rebellion
fossil fuel protests
Carl Bennett
16 April 2022
Two people have scaled a London landmark to hang a
banner as protests against fossil fuels continued for a seventh day.
A man and a woman climbed up two pillars on Marble
Arch in central London to hoist a green banner, which was about 10 metres wide
and read “End fossil fuels now”, shortly before 6pm on Saturday.
The action was part of demonstrations carried out by
campaign group Extinction Rebellion, after protesters had gathered in Hyde Park
before parading through the capital’s streets.
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Convert Muslim paramedic on the difficulties of
fasting on the frontline while saving lives
By Anisah Vasta
17 APR 2022
A Muslim convert has spoken of the challenge in
balancing her faith and the gruelling shifts she undergoes as a frontline
paramedic. Lifesaver Sarah Haddada converted to Islam in 2019 though has been
fasting for Ramadan since 2016.
A paramedic of 10 years experience, she is well versed
in the challenges of juggling her faith and her work. That balance comes into
even starker focus during Ramadan. And over recent years, as the NHS has
battled the Covid-19 pandemic, the Holy Month can mean that balancing act
becomes even harder to manage.
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Africa
Muslims ask Parliament to operationalise Kadhi courts
By Shabibah Nakirigya
April 17, 2022
The Muslim fraternity in Uganda has asked Parliament
to ensure that Kadhi courts are fully operational.
The request was put before the Speaker of Parliament,
Ms Anita Among, and her deputy—Mr Thomas Tayebwa—after they hosted the Muslim
fraternity to an Iftar dinner at Parliament on Thursday.
Source: Monitor
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Islamic leader laments poor govt presence in Osogbo
By Our Reporter
Apr 17, 2022
Asiwaju Musulumi of Yorubaland, Alhaji Khamis Olatunde
Badmus has bemoaned the lack of Federal Government presence in Osogboland, Osun
State in the areas of capital projects and establishment of federal
institutions.
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Morocco condemns Israeli raid on Jerusalem's Al Aqsa
mosque, says it will 'inflame hatred and extremism'
17 April 2022
Morocco has condemned Israeli actions against
Palestinian worshippers in Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound this week, while
Israeli-organised dance festivals in the Sinai have sparked outrage in Egypt.
Morocco has expressed its "firm condemnation of
the incursion by Israeli occupation forces into the Al-Aqsa mosque, their
closure of its gates and their aggression against unarmed worshippers in the
mosque compound", a foreign ministry statement said.
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Libya’s Foreign Ministry condemns storming of Al-Aqsa
Mosque by Israeli occupation forces
By: AbdulkaderAssad
April 16, 2022
The Libyan Foreign Ministry has strongly condemned
storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Palestine by the Israeli occupation forces,
leaving behind injuries and arresting
dozens.
The Foreign Ministry said in a statement that these
serious and repeated attacks by the occupation forces, especially during the
nights of the holy month of Ramadan show the criminal practices adopted by the
Israeli occupation and its relentless pursuit to undermine the rights of the
Palestinian people and their disrespect for Islamic holy places.
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Moroccans hold rally supporting Al-Aqsa Mosque
April 17, 2022
Moroccans demonstrated in support of Palestine and the
Al-Aqsa Mosque in front of the parliament in the capital, Rabat, on Saturday.
Israeli militants and settlers have repeatedly
attacked various areas of Palestine in recent days, including the Al-Aqsa
Mosque, martyring at least 17 Palestinians and wounding hundreds more.
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Pakistan
Pakistan slams Israeli attack on worshippers in
Al-Aqsa mosque
By News Desk
April 17, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Friday strongly condemned the
Israeli forces' aggression at the Al-Aqsa Mosque, saying that is an egregious violation
of human rights laws durin g the holy month of Ramazan.
On Friday, the Israeli riot police stormed into
Jerusalem's Al-Aqsa mosque compound and left 152 Palestinians injured.
Source: The News
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Hamza Shehbaz elected Punjab CM amid unprecedented
brawl
Mansoor Malik
April 17, 2022
LAHORE: The Punjab Assembly on Saturday descended into
chaos, which quickly turned into outright violence, leaving many injured,
including Chaudhry Parvez Elahi, but eventually managed to elect Hamza Shehbaz
as the 21st leader of the House after law enforcement agencies took control of
the assembly hall.
Mr Shehbaz bagged 197 votes, including from 24
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) dissidents, two independents and the lone Rah-i-Haq
Party MPA. The PTI-PML-Q candidate, Parvez Elahi, did not get any vote, as
lawmakers from both ruling parties boycotted the session.
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Islamabad DC transferred as new govt starts shuffling
bureaucrats
Malik Asad
April 17, 2022
ISLAMABAD: Change of regime is bringing in new faces
in the capital administration as the deputy commissioner and additional deputy
commissioner revenue (ADCR) were transferred on Saturday.
Irfan Nawaz, a BS-19 officer of Pakistan Administrative
Service (PAS), has been appointed as the new deputy commissioner Islamabad. Mr
Nawaz was earlier working under the provincial government of Balochistan.
Source: Dawn
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PPP invites applications for award of party tickets
Staff Reporter
April 17, 2022
LAHORE: The PPP has invited applications from
candidates for the party tickets for national and provincial assemblies in the
country for the forthcoming general election.
PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari has also asked the
central executive members, party ticket-holders and divisional presidents of
Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab to submit their suggestions regarding the
forthcoming local government polls in these provinces.
Source: Dawn
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LHC declares tax recovery through utility bills
illegal
Wajih Ahmad Sheikh
April 17, 2022
LAHORE: The Lahore High Court has ruled that the
recovery of tax arrears through utility bills is unlawful, terming this
practice highly deprecated.
“The special procedure, ibid, is silent about recovery
of a tax which is not charged by a distribution company against supply of
natural gas,” Justice Shahid Jamil Khan observes in a decision on petitions of
several industries.
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Pakistan Says Cross-Border Attacks From Afghanistan
Have Increased
Sun, April 17, 2022
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan said on Sunday said
incidents of its security forces being targeted in cross-border attacks from
Afghanistan had risen significantly, and called on Taliban authorities to act
against militants, a day after purported air strikes by Pakistan.
Taliban authorities on Saturday summoned Pakistan's
ambassador in Kabul on Saturday to protest against the strikes. A local Taliban
official and residents said the strikes were carried out by Pakistani aircraft
inside Afghan airspace.
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Mideast
Israeli forces storm al-Aqsa Mosque for second time in
48 hours
By MEE staff
17 April 2022
Israeli forces stormed al-Aqsa Mosque early on Sunday
assaulting and blockading Muslim worshippers inside prayer halls while clearing
the way for Israeli settlers to enter the Jerusalem holy site.
Around 7:00 am local time, hundreds of special forces
entered the mosque's courtyards and began striking Palestinians observing
Ramadan with batons in a bid to force them out. There were also reports of stun
grenades being deployed.
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Turkish envoy attracts attention with veiled criticism
of Iran in article for Israeli think tank
MENEKSE TOKYAY
April 16, 2022
ANKARA: An article by Turkey’s Ambassador to
Washington for Tel Aviv University’s Dayan Center for Strategic Studies journal
Turkeyscope, has raised questions about the state of Turkey’s relations with
Iran.
Apart from seeking cooperation between Turkey and
Israel in fields of security and energy, Hasan Murat Mercan noted that the two
states are under threat from similar regional malign actors, without mentioning
Iran.
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Iran Guards Say They Have Seized Two Ships With
Smuggled Fuel In Gulf
By Reuters
17-Apr-22
Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday they had
seized two vessels along the country's coast on the Gulf and the nearby Gulf of
Oman for allegedly smuggling fuel.
Iran, which has some of the world's cheapest fuel
prices due to heavy subsidies and the fall of its currency, has been fighting
rampant fuel smuggling by land to neighbouring states and by sea to Gulf Arab
countries. It has frequently seized boats it says are being used for smuggling
oil in the Gulf.
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South Asia
Thai government says Ramadan bombings won’t derail
peace talks with rebels
By:Reuters
Apr 17, 2022
BANGKOK (Reuters) – Ramadan bombings in Thailand’s
Muslim-majority deep south will not derail peace talks with separatist rebels,
the government said on Sunday after a sidelined insurgent group claimed
responsibility for the attacks.
Two explosions on Friday, which killed a civilian and
injured three policemen, were carried out by “G5”, a militant group of the
Patani United Liberation Organisation (PULO), its president, Kasturi Mahkota,
told Reuters.
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Afghanistan arrests 15 seditionists in front of Iran
embassy in Kabul
April 17, 2022
Forces of the Afghan ruling government have arrested
15 people gathering in front of the Iranian embassy in Kabul, according to
Afghan media.
Tolo News said that 15 people aimed to initiate a
gathering in front of the Iranian embassy when the Taliban forces immediately
stepped in and arrested them.
Source: IRNA
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Taliban summons Pakistani ambassador over aerial
attacks
April 17, 2022
The Taliban Foreign Ministry in Afghanistan said that
it had summoned the Pakistani ambassador to Kabul to lodge a protest against
airstrikes on parts of Khost and Kunar provinces in eastern and southeastern
Afghanistan.
The Taliban interim government's foreign ministry
announced in a statement on Saturday that it had summoned the Pakistani
ambassador to Kabul in connection with the country's attacks on Afghanistan's
border areas.
Pakistan says that the recent attack by the Pakistani
Taliban on Pakistani army forces in North Waziristan, which killed seven
people, was launched from Afghan soil.
Source: Mehr
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Southeast Asia
Malaysia strongly condemns burning of Holy Quran in
Sweden
17 Apr 2022 0
PUTRAJAYA, April 17 — Malaysia strongly condemns the
provocative action by Rasmus Paludan, leader of the Stram Kurs, for burning a
copy of the Holy Quran in Linkoping, Sweden.
The Foreign Ministry (Wisma Putra) in a statement
today said the action has gone beyond moral limits and norms of the right to
freedom of speech and expression.
Source: Malay Mail
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Indonesian academics get familiar with scientific,
cultural capacities of Imam Reza holy shrine
April 17, 2022
A group of Indonesian university professors have held
talks with the deputy for international affairs of Imam Reza holy shrine to get
familiar with outstanding capacities of the shrine.
Faculty members from Indonesian universities paid a
visit to Deputy Office for International Affairs and sat with Hoj. Seyyed
Mohammad Zolfaghari to discuss scientific and cultural matters.
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Muslim preachers strongly denounce Israeli raid on
Al-Aqsa Mosque
17-04-2022
(We) strongly denounce the raid by Israeli colonial
forces on Aqsa Mosque, which is the holy site and the first qibla for Muslims
Jakarta (ANTARA) - The Indonesian Muslim Preachers
Association (IKADI) has strongly denounced Israeli forces' raid on Al-Aqsa
Mosque which left more than 150 Palestinians injured and hundreds of others
detained following Friday prayers.
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Umno naming Ismail Sabri as PM candidate not ploy to
hasten GE15, says Ahmad Maslan
17 Apr 2022
PONTIAN, April 17 — Amanah’s claim that Umno nominated
Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob as its Prime Minister candidate for the 15th
General Election (GE15) as a ploy to speed up GE15 is not true, said Umno
secretary-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan.
Ahmad said Umno had no hidden agenda and that each
party had the right to nominate any of their leaders as their respective Prime
Minister candidates.
Source: Malay Mail
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Tuan Ibrahim: Ministry to use black soldier fly larvae
in sustainable waste treatment
17 Apr 2022
TANAH MERAH, April 17 — The Sustainable Waste
Management Project using the Black Soldier Fly (BSF) larvae will be able to resolve
the management of daily organic waste, including at landfills in a sustainable
manner.
Environment and Water Minister Datuk Seri Tuan Ibrahim
Tuan Man said the project is funded by the Low-Carbon Cities Catalyst Grant
(GeRAK) under his ministry through the Malaysian Green Technology and Climate
Change Corporation (MGTC).
“The BSF or Hermetia illucens, a species of fly found
in tropical climates around the world, is used to process various daily organic
waste as well as to protect the environment and reduce pollution.
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Arab world
Saudi Arabia arrests 13,265 illegals in one week
SPA
April 17, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 13,265 people in
one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations,
according to an official report.
From April 7 to 13, a total of 8,490 people were
arrested for violations of residency rules, while 3,147 were held over illegal
border crossing attempts, and a further 1,628 for labor-related issues.
Source: Arab News
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KSrelief provides more than 3 million liters of water
to Yemeni camps for displaced people
ARAB NEWS
April 17, 2022
RIYADH: King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center
(KSrelief) has outlined the continuation of its work in Yemen supplying water
and environmental sanitation projects.
The work is being carried out in the directorates of
Midi, Haradh, Hiran and Abs in Hajjah governorate, as well as the Al-Azhor camp
in Razih directorate in Saada governorate of the country.
Source: Arab News
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Somali minister visits Naif Arab University for
Security Sciences
SPA
April 17, 2022
RIYADH: Somali Minister of Internal Security Abdullahi
Mohamed Nur has paid a visit to Naif Arab University for Security Sciences in
Riyadh.
The Somali minister and an accompanying delegation
were received by NAUSS President Dr. Abdulmajeed bin Abdullah Al-Bunyan and
several officials.
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