"Will Be A Historic Day": Mohammad Habib, a Muslim Kar Sevak On Getting, ‘Akshata' of Ram Temple Inauguration
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Age Islam News Bureau
07
January 2024
Ayodhya Ram Temple
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• "Will Be A Historic Day": Mohammad Habib,
a Muslim Kar Sevak On Getting, ‘Akshata' of Ram Temple Inauguration
• Ram Temple Should Not Be a “Tool For Political
Propaganda”, Says Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
• Hamas, Palestinian Authority, and UNRWA Educate Gaza
Schoolchildren for Jihad
• Pro-Palestine Protesters Block Bridge Outside UK
Parliament
• Saudi Arabia: 30 Tonnes Of Perfume Used Daily At
Prophet’s Mosque
India
• Bihar Professor, Khursheed Alam, Under Fire For
Seeking ‘Separate Homeland’ For Muslims
• Man Held For Offering ‘Azan’ In 250-Year-Old
‘Mosque’ In UP
• Don't travel during Ayodhya Ram temple consecration:
AIUDF chief tells Muslims
• Explaining the role of Heritage Conservation
Committee in context of its authority in Sunehri Bagh Mosque demolition
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Mideast
• Islamic Jihad: US Complicit in Israeli Atrocities,
Not Fit to Mediate in Gaza Crisis
• Video Shows Moment Bomb Blast Ripped Through Busy
Iran Street
• Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran … How Far Could War In
The Middle East Spread?
• ‘Israelis turned Palestine into hell’: Sri Lankan
evacuees fear for family in Gaza
• Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 22,722:
Ministry
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Europe
• Labour Demands Rishi Sunak Come Clean Over Rwanda
Scheme Documents
• Police Investigate UK Post Office after IT Problem
Leads to Wrongful Theft Accusations
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Arab
World
• Saudi Play Explores Connection Between Artist And
Art
• Companies with 50 or more employees must provide
training for students, says Saudi ministry
• Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Global Academy to launch
Arabic Language Month in Indonesia
• Saudi authorities arrest 15 people in drug busts
across the country
• Saudi crown prince receives US senators, chairman of
intelligence committee
• Jeddah cooking carnival serves up a feast of Saudi
flavors
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South
Asia
• Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina Praises India On Voting
Day, Highlights New Delhi's Role In Liberation War
• Uyghur Muslims Question OIC’s Silence Over China’s
Campaign Against Islam In East Turkistan
• Bus explodes in Afghanistan, killing at least 2
civilians and wounding 14
• UN Signs three agreements with Islamic Development
Bank to address Afghan humanitarian crisis
• Turkish police detain 24 Afghan refugees
• UN says $52 million needed to support migrants in
Afghanistan
• Bangladesh chief election commissioner
KaziHabibulAwal assures people of free and fair election
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North
America
• Why The US Supreme Court Should Allow Muslim Man On No
Fly List To Sue FBI
• US temporarily grounds Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes after
mid-flight blowout
• Biden officials were unaware US defence secretary
was in hospital
• Trump downplays January 6 on the anniversary of the
Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters 'hostages'
• US top court agrees to hear Trump Colorado ballot
appeal
• Joe Biden launches campaign, equates ex-President to
Nazis
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Africa
• Boko Haram Members Kill Pastor, Others In Yobe
• Amid opposition, Vatican says blessings of same-sex
couples not endorsement of homosexuality
• Egypt: President El-Sisi joins Coptic Orthodox
Christians at Christmas Eve mass
• Somali president signs law “nullifying illegal”
Ethiopia-Somaliland deal
• Sudan’s army chief rejects negotiations with rival
RSF
• Somalia’s PM receives Saudi envoy in Mogadishu
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Pakistan
• Punjab Govt Supporting ECP For Free, Fair Polls, SC
Told
• PPP Files Additional Evidence In Zulfikar Bhutto
Reference
• SC approached to declare Senate resolution illegal
• Two more passengers in Pakistan test positive for
Covid
• 4 killed, 3 injured in firing on passenger coach in
KP’s Kurram: police
• JUI-F’s Fazlur Rehman to visit Kabul today: Afghan
spokesperson
• Court refuses to suspend warrants of Malik Riaz
• Mansehra admin bans political gatherings over
security reasons
• TLP’s manifesto has much more to offer
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Southeast
Asia
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Step Down, Says Sabah Umno Info Chief
• Thousands Turn Out for Funeral of Slain Newark Imam
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Legacies
• Gibran Plays Futsal, Meets Muslim Clerics during
Cirebon Rally
• Ipoh City Council to take stern action against
littering, says mayor
• AG files application for Isham Jalil to be jailed,
fined for contempt of court over interview on Najib’s SRC, 1MDB trials
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"Will Be A Historic Day": Mohammad Habib, a
Muslim Kar Sevak On Getting, ‘Akshata' of Ram Temple Inauguration
Ayodhya Ram Temple
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January 07, 2024
Lucknow: Mohammad Habib got emotional as some
unbroken, uncooked grains of rice and a letter came for him from miles away in
Ayodhya. Along with that came a photo of the Ram temple in the holy city.
"I became emotional as I got the 'akshata',"
the 70-year-old former 'karsevak', who has also held various posts in the
district unit of the BJP, told news agency PTI from Mirzapur.
The 'akshata', the letter (patram), and the Ram temple
photo have been sent from Ayodhya as the city prepares for the grand consecration
ceremony on January 22. He will watch the ceremony on his TV and will visit the
temple any day after January 22, as has been urged by Prime Minister Narendra
Modi.
He says he was a 'karsevak' and stayed in Ayodhya for
4-5 days from December 2, 1992, with "my group of people". The Babari
mosque was brought down on December 6, 1992, sparking a countrywide riot.
The protracted legal battle between Hindu and Muslim
sides settled on November 9, 2019, when a Supreme Court order paved the way for
the construction of a Ram temple by a government trust at the disputed site in
Ayodhya and ruled that an alternative five-acre plot must be found for a mosque
in the Hindu holy town.
The consecration ceremony at the temple has been
scheduled for January 22. "It will be a historic day for everyone,"
Mr Habib says. "We have got this date after a lot of 'tapasya' and a lot
of battles."
"I am an old-timer of the BJP. After almost 32
years, I have got the results, and old memories have revived. I along with my
group of people stayed in Ayodhya for 4-5 days from December 2, 1992
onwards," he said.
Mr Habib says he considers Lord Ram his ancestor.
"And remembering ancestors is Bhartiyata (Indianness)'." In
Mirzapur's neighbouring district of Varanasi, social worker Nazneen Ansari, who
runs her Muslim Mahila Foundation which works for the welfare of Muslim women,
is also happy. As is her associate Najma.
They have decided to bring Ram Jyoti (special diyas)
from Ayodhya and distribute them among 400-500 families -- both Hindus and
Muslims -- in Varanasi.
"We will bring the Jyoti of Lord Shri Ram and
give it to Hindu and Muslim families in Kashi, and will appeal to them to keep
it burning uninterrupted till January 22. This is because not a single person
here can say that Lord Ram is not our ancestor. Lord Ram resides in each and
every particle. We all know that we can change our religions, but we cannot
change our ancestors. Lord Ram will be consecrated in Ayodhya, what could be
more joyful than this," Najma told PTI.
Nazneen Ansari says they have "seen a period of
hatred where it was scary to take the name of Ram temple. And, today we are
also seeing happiness across the country because of the construction of Ram
Mandir. I am feeling very happy because of that."
Mr Ansari says she started following Lord Ram
following blasts in the SankatMochan temple in Varanasi in 2006. The bomb
blasts at the temple and the cantonment railway station had left at least 20
people dead.
"I along with 70 Muslim women went to the
SankatMochan temple and recited Hanuman Chalisa," she said, adding she
will watch the consecration ceremony on TV.
But Iqbal Ansari of Ayodhya, who represented the
Muslim side in the Ram temple-Babri mosque dispute case, will be among the
audience who will be present at the consecration ceremony.
He has got an official invitation from the authorities
for the consecration ceremony. "Ayodhya has always symbolised Ganga-Jamuni
tehzeeb (a culture of peaceful coexistence). The harmony that exists in Ayodhya
is also in me. I welcomed the person who came to give the invitation card to
me," Ansari told PTI from Ayodhya.
"When the Supreme Court gave its judgment on
November 9, 2019, the Muslims of the entire country welcomed it. There were no
protests nor any agitation anywhere in the country. All these issues have ended
on November 9, 2019," the 55-year-old advocate told PTI.
Ansari, whose family has been living in Ayodhya for
the past 100 years, said whatever is happening in Ayodhya is historic, and
added that development is taking place in the temple town.
Ganga Singh, RSS' Sampark Pramukh Avadh Prant, who
delivered the invitation to Iqbal Ansari, told PTI, "He (Iqbal Ansari)
accepted the card with enthusiasm and respect. He said that he would come to
attend the praanpratishtha and also have a darshan of Ram Lalla." The
advocate's father Hashim Ansari, the oldest litigant in the land dispute case,
died at the age of 95 in 2016, after which Iqbal started pursuing the case in
court.
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Ram Temple Should Not Be a “Tool For Political
Propaganda”, Says Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
Bhagwan Ram Statue
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January 06, 2024
ZIYA US SALAM
Leading Muslim body, the Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, has
voiced concern over the scheduled Ram Mandir inauguration on January 22
becoming a “tool for political propaganda” and a “means of reaping electoral
dividends”.
Speaking to the media, Jamaat’s vice-president Salim
Engineer cautioned against attempts at polarisation in the name of the temple.
“The remark by the general secretary of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi TeerthKshetra
Trust comparing the upcoming inauguration of the temple with our Independence
Day is erroneous and mischievous. It tries to set an ‘us versus them’ narrative
and polarise the country along religious grounds. The Jamaat-e-Islami Hind
condemns such interpretations of the event,” Mr. Engineer stated.
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Hamas, Palestinian Authority, and UNRWA Educate Gaza
Schoolchildren for Jihad
Palestinian boys raise their
hands at a school in the Gaza Strip supported by the United Nations Relief and
Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in September 2011.
Credit: U.N. Photo/Shareef Sarhan.
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By Peter Berkowitz
07-01-2024
Gaza Strip schools fostered the depraved sensibility
that fuelled the Oct. 7 butchery perpetrated by Hamas jihadists in southern
Israel. While Hamas exercised dictatorial authority over the whole of jihadist
indoctrination in Gaza, the Palestinian Authority (PA) produced the textbooks
and lesson plans, and the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in
significant measure administered the schools. The defeat of jihadism in Gaza
will not be complete without a fundamental reorientation of its educational
system.
Given U.S. interests in Middle East stability in
general and the post-Israel-Hamas war reconstruction of Gaza in particular,
American policymakers must grasp the preaching of hatred, violence, and
Islamist supremacy woven into Gaza education. One obstacle is that many U.S.
diplomats – even more the younger career foreign service officers who staff
them – will have been indoctrinated at American universities in opinions and
ideas that bear an uncanny resemblance to certain ugly dogmas championed by the
jihadists.
IMPACT-se (Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural
Tolerance in School Education) provides indispensable English language
documentation of the training for terrorism inscribed in UNRWA Arabic language
textbooks and other Hamas educational materials. The training falsifies
history, encourages submission to government-sanctioned doctrines, and fosters
loathing of Jews, Israel, America, and the freedom and democracy central to the
West. Hamas’ savage rampage on Oct. 7 through Israel’s border communities was
not a hideous departure from central tenets of Gazan education but rather gave
faithful expression to them.
In “Al-Fateh – The Hamas Web Magazine for Children:
Indoctrination to Jihad, Annihilation and Self-Destruction,” IMPACT-se examined
145 of the Hamas publication’s issues, from September 2002 to April 2009.
Al-Fateh’s “consistent educational message to its young readers,” according to
IMPACT-se, “mirrors that of the Hamas movement’s ideology and includes scathing
hatred, disdain, delegitimization and demonization of the other – the West,
especially the US and Europe, the Jews, Israel and Zionism – as well as a call
for establishing an Islamic state in entire Palestine and the annihilation of
the State of Israel through violent liberation of the land in jihad.”
Al-Fateh – in Arabic, “The Conqueror” – portrays “Jews
as enemies of mankind and killers of prophets,” IMPACT-se shows. Rejecting
compromise, negotiations, and peace agreements – those in operation and the
pursuit of new ones – Al-Fateh advocates “total commitment to an armed and
violent jihad, especially of the suicidal kind.” Through “its pervasive
indoctrination of the younger generation into the cult of martyrdom,” Al-Fateh
contributed to forming “the next generation of suicide bombers to join the
violent jihad.”
Many Oct. 7 jihadists – who murdered Israeli parents
in front of their children and Israeli children in front of their parents;
humiliated, maimed, and raped Jewish women; mutilated corpses; and kidnapped
mostly civilians – and many Gaza Palestinians who cheered on the sadistic
killers grew up on Al-Fateh’s poisonous tenets. They learned from the Hamas
magazine that Israel and the United States, along with their friends and partners,
are evil and implacable adversaries: “the Jewish enemy kills our people in
beloved Palestine, while the United States, Britain and the other European
countries, and India help it.” They read that the United States is an
omnipresent and insidious menace: “America is the terror, my child … she is the
plague that destroys my liver … she is the viper that scatters poison inside
me.” And they were informed that Islam confronts a globe-spanning war: “Muslims
and their children everywhere are under a siege of injustice – in beloved
imprisoned Palestine, in wounded Afghanistan, in Kashmir, in Chechnya, and in
other parts of the world which are controlled by the most despicable of God’s
creatures: the Jews, and their agents in crusader America.”
In “Review of 2022 UNRWA-Produced Study Materials in
the Palestinian Territories,” IMPACT-se surveyed the curriculum overseen by
UNRWA in West Bank and Jerusalem schools as well as those in Gaza. Contrary to
the UN charter and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which affirm
basic rights and fundamental freedoms, UNRWA’s Palestinian schools promulgate
intolerance and Islamic supremacy. UNRWA education features “a systematic
insertion of violence, martyrdom, overt antisemitism, and jihad across all
grades and subjects, with the proliferation of extreme nationalism and Islamist
ideologies throughout the curriculum, including science and math textbooks;
rejection of the possibility of peace with Israel; and the complete omission of
any historical Jewish presence in the modern-day territories of Israel and the
PA.”
IMPACT-se released “UNRWA Education: Text Books and
Terror” in November 2023. In addition to detailing praise that UNRWA staff
members heaped on Hamas terrorists for the Oct. 7 slaughter and the role played
by UNRWA school graduates in the barbarities, the report examines UNRWA
educational materials that “either harness antisemitism or encourage martyrdom
or violent jihad.”
For example, UNRWA teachers develop students’ reading
comprehension through a story that celebrates suicide bombers and the
decapitation of Israeli soldiers. A map for fourth graders in UNRWA schools
erases Israel by placing a Palestinian flag over all the land between the
Jordan river and the Mediterranean Sea. A fifth-grade reading lesson, “Hooray
for the Heroes,” glorifies Palestinians “associated with war, violence,
religious extremism, and Terrorism” but “does not include scientists, doctors,
engineers, or athletes.” UNRWA schools teach sixth-grade students that “The
Zionists are the terrorists of the modern age, and they are fated to
disappear.”
In addition, documents IMPACT-se, UNRWA teachers
instruct students that in Israel’s 1948 War of Independence – five invading
Arab armies sought to annihilate the newborn Jewish state – Zionists were compelled
by Jewish religious belief to massacre Arabs. UNRWA school lessons disparage
peaceful lives while glorifying martyrdom in the fight against infidels (most
prominently Jews and Christians) as a noble act that Allah will reward in
heaven. Gazan students learn that jihad to liberate Palestine is a “private
obligation for every Muslim.” That obligation emphatically includes girls and
women: “Palestinian girls are encouraged to kill, be killed, and send their
children to die.”
Israel’s destruction of Hamas as a fighting force and
governing authority in Gaza will provide at best temporary reprieve if, after
major military operations end, the PA and UNRWA continue to propagate jihadism
through the schools. The United States would be in a better position to assist
in thwarting this abuse of UN institutions and Palestinian children if
America’s own educational system were not itself saturated with concepts that
bear an alarming resemblance to those of jihadist indoctrination.
Although the U.S. public only recently has taken
serious notice of the problem, American colleges and universities have for many
years promulgated as campus orthodoxy the multilayered accusation that the
country is divided into white oppressors and oppressed people of color, that
the American political system is racist to its core, and that social justice
requires redistributing wealth and power by discriminating based on race.
Institutions of higher education that have abandoned their mission, which is to
transmit knowledge and cultivate independent thinking, in favor of the
reproduction of hard-left ideology, cannot be expected to form diplomats
capable of grasping the harms caused by the UN-sponsored Palestinian education
for jihad or of possessing the judgment and motivation to implement the
urgently needed correctives.
For the Punjab Assembly, out of the 264 TLP
candidates, only one came second while the rest lost the elections. However the
party managed to get two MPA seats in Sindh out of 67 candidates who contested
the polls.
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Pro-Palestine Protesters Block Bridge Outside UK Parliament
People in London take part in
a protest in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza [Hollie Adams/Reuters]
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6 Jan 2024
Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators blocked access
to a bridge near the British parliament on Saturday, calling for a ceasefire in
Gaza in an act of civil disobedience.
London, like other Western cities, has seen regular
and sometimes large demonstrations calling for an end to Israel’s bombardment
of the besieged strip.
Police clashed with the protesters, who occupied
surrounding roads after they were prevented from marching across Westminster
Bridge, where they had planned to unfurl banners.
Police said they had imposed a legal order limiting
the location of the protests and that by 3pm (15:00 GMT) people had begun to
disperse. Those who refused to comply with an order to leave could be arrested,
police said.
Saturday’s action, the first major demonstration of
the new year, was smaller than previous mass marches but comes two days before
the UK Parliament returns to work after its Christmas break.
The protest was designed to push politicians to adopt
a harder stance towards Israel in its war on Gaza, which has killed more than
22,700 Palestinians in three months.
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Saudi Arabia: 30 Tonnes Of Perfume Used Daily At Prophet’s
Mosque
The devices, installed by
the Medina Development Authority, have also been launched in a seating area
near stores on the northern side of the mosque.
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January 07, 2024
Ramadan Al Sherbini
Cairo: Saudi authorities daily use 115 tonnes of rug
sterilisation substances and 30 tonnes of perfume at the Prophet’s Mosque,
Islam’s second holiest site in Medina, a major destination for the Muslim
faithful from around the world.
Fawzi Al Hujaili, Deputy chief of the General
Authority for Care of the Two Holy Mosques for Services, cited daily programmes
implemented at the Prophet’s Mosque for sterilisation and disinfection.
“The quantities used for scenting at the mosque reach
30 tonnes daily while those for sterilising rugs near 115 tonnes and 110 tonnes
for disinfecting the floors,” he told Saudi news TV Al Ekhbariya.
“The equipment used for disinfection, sterilisation
and floor washing exceeds 600 devices, each operating independently with
well-trained workers,” the official added.
After undertaking rites of Umrah or minor pilgrimage
at the Grand Mosque, Islam’s holiest site in Mecca, many pilgrims would flock
to the Prophet’s Mosque to pray and visit Al Rawda Al Sharifa where the tomb of
the Prophet Mohammad (Peace Be Upon Him) is located.
Around 5.2 million Muslims offered prayers at the
Prophet’s Mosque in one week, according to official figures released late last
month. Saudi Arabia expects around 10 million Muslims from abroad to perform
Umrah during the current season that began more than six months ago.
Last April, Saudi authorities unveiled a gilded brass
barrier surrounding the Sacred Chamber at the Prophet’s Mosque. The barrier
replaced a wooden barrier to preserve the visual identity and architectural
pattern of the Mosque, officials said at the time.
The barrier has posts fixed to the bottom base by
internal props, guaranteeing its immovability under pressure.
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India
Bihar Professor, Khursheed Alam, Under Fire For
Seeking ‘Separate Homeland’ For Muslims
Jan 7, 2024
PATNA: Police on Saturday started an investigation
after receiving a complaint against Khursheed Alam, an assistant professor
posted at Narayan College, Siwan, who had allegedly called for a "separate
homeland for Muslims" through his social media posts. Siwan's Narayan
College is affiliated to Jai Prakash University, Chhapra.
Alam's posts had triggered protests by the students
and prompted the university administration to serve a show-cause notice on him.
The assistant professor ultimately resigned from his post. As his posts drew
protests, Alam was also quick to tender an apology. "I have never tried or
intended to hurt anybody's sentiment through my posts. If these posts have hurt
anyone, I seriously apologize for it," the professor posted on a social
media platform on Saturday. He also deleted all his controversial posts.
Alam, who headed the department of political science
at the Narayan College, had earlier come up with two posts on a social media
platform.
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Man held for offering ‘azan’ in 250-year-old ‘mosque’
in UP
Jan 7, 2024
Shamli: A man was arrested and sent to jail on
Saturday for allegedly offering 'azan' at a 250-year-old dilapidated structure
spread across nearly 4 bighas in UP's Shamli, considered by many as a
Mughal-era mosque.
Shamli SP, Abhishek (who goes by his first name),
said, "The accused, identified as Umar Qureshi, is a resident of
Jalalabad. He was booked under IPC section 505 (2) (promoting enmity) and IT
Act following a complaint by Neeraj Kumar, a representative of a village head
in Gausgarh."
A local police officer said Qureshi, in his early 20s,
went to the unused site on Friday and tried to perform prayers, thereby
violating a 1940 British order. He also filmed and circulated a video of it on
social media.
The cop said, "Though the structure, partly in
ruins, still exists today, a section of the majority community associates it
with Manahar rajas. Others claim it is a mosque."
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Don't travel during Ayodhya Ram temple consecration:
AIUDF chief tells Muslims
January 07, 2024
With the Ayodhya Ram Temple consecration ceremony
slated for January 22, AIUDF chief and MP Badruddin Ajmal on Saturday urged Muslims
to avoid travelling from January 20 to 25 to avoid "any untoward
incident".
The MP from Assam's Dhubri has urged the followers of
Islam to 'stay at home and pray to Allah' during the period, terming the BJP
"their biggest enemy".
Addressing a meeting in Barpeta, Ajmal said, "The
Ram idol will be installed and during that period, lakhs and lakhs of people
will be going there in cars, trains, buses, special trains, flights. The BJP
has big plans. I urge our Muslim brothers not to travel from January 20 to
24-25," the parliamentarian said.
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Explaining the role of Heritage Conservation Committee
in context of its authority in Sunehri Bagh Mosque demolition
January 07, 2024
SATVIKA MAHAJAN
In the heart of Delhi lies the Sunehri Bagh Mosque.
Built on a roundabout, the 150-year-old mosque is awaiting its fate which lies
in the hands of Delhi’s Heritage Conservation Committee (HCC). The governing
body is responsible for overlooking the protection of heritage buildings,
heritage precincts and natural feature areas in the national capital.
The committee is headed by the Additional Secretary or
Special Secretary, Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs, Government of India
and comprises of a total 14 members, both official and non-official with a
three-year term.
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Mideast
Islamic Jihad: US Complicit in Israeli Atrocities, Not
Fit to Mediate in Gaza Crisis
2024-January-7
Anwar Abuta, a senior leader of the movement, on
Saturday night underlined the need for the immediate cessation of Israeli
aerial and ground strikes against Gaza, describing the withdrawal of Israeli
troopers as one of the required provisions for the start of negotiations on
exchange of Palestinian prisoners and Israeli captives, presstv reported.
He denounced as “unacceptable” any talks about the
post-war situation in Gaza and governance issues, stressing that the Israeli
assassination of Senior Hamas Official Saleh Al-Arouri and a number of
resistance commanders in Lebanon brought mediations about a possible prisoner
swap to a standstill.
“We welcome any initiative aimed at stopping the
Israeli aggression against our nation. Complete cessation of Israeli attacks
and pullout of Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip are the prerequisites for any
prisoner exchange negotiations to rekindle,” Abuta pointed out.
“The policy of assassinating resistance commanders
conclusively demonstrates the scale of the crisis that Israel is experiencing.
The resistance front, however, will be unfazed by such acts of terror, and
targeted killings will not manage to prevent it from fulfilling its duties,”
the Islamic Jihad leader said.
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Video Shows Moment Bomb Blast Ripped Through Busy Iran
Street
by Samiran Mishra
January 07, 2024
New Delhi: Twin bomb blasts on Wednesday killed at
least 91 people in southern Iran, many of whom were part of a crowd
commemorating former Revolutionary Guards chief Qasem Soleimani four years
after he died in a US strike.
This attack unfolded during a memorial ceremony near
the tomb of Qasem Soleimani, former chief of Iran's Revolutionary Guards who
was killed in a US drone strike in Iraq in January 2020.
A video of the attack has surfaced online, reportedly
showing the moment one of the bombs went off. The video opens on a busy street,
with a bus slowly making a turn. Right then a massive blast takes place in the
background filling the area with dust and smoke.
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Israel, Gaza, Lebanon, Iran … how far could war in the
Middle East spread?
Peter Beaumont
7 Jan 2024
Mohammad Atout, a Palestinian resident of the Burj
al-Barajneh refugee camp in Beirut, was eating with his children on Tuesday
evening when the news broke across the Lebanese capital that Saleh al-Arouri,
deputy head of Hamas’s political bureau, had been assassinated.
“Someone told me there had been an attack [in Beirut].
Moments later the television said it was Arouri. Then people came out in the
streets. It hit them very hard. He was an important leader for us.”
In the coffee shop he owns, which opens on to a street
decorated with Palestinian banners, his customers have been watching Al Jazeera
footage of the war in Gaza.
“We never thought that the Israelis would dare to do
this in Beirut,” Atout says. He believes the reason for Arouri’s killing was
Israel’s failure to find and kill Hamas’s leaders inside Gaza, including the
head of the movement, Yahya Sinwar.
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‘Israelis turned Palestine into hell’: Sri Lankan
evacuees fear for family in Gaza
MOHAMMED RASOOLDEEN
January 06, 2024
When Fathima Rikaza left Gaza in November, it was to
bring her children to safety and wait to return to her Palestinian husband’s
homeland. She can only pray now that they will see their father again.
Rikaza married Abdul Lateef 14 years ago, when he came
to Sri Lanka to study English. After living eight years in her native Colombo,
they moved with their children to Gaza to visit his family.
“Every minute anything could happen. We have kept an
emergency backpack ready. It contained two dresses and a praying mat. And even
at night we slept fully dressed, to run away anytime.”
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Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 22,722:
Ministry
Jan 06 2024
Gaza, Jan 6 (IANS): The Palestinian death toll from
the ongoing Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip rose to 22,722, the Gaza-based
Health Ministry said on Saturday.
The Ministry said in a press statement that the Israeli
army killed 122 Palestinians and wounded 256 others during the past 24 hours,
Xinhua news agency reported.
Israeli Army spokesperson AvichayAdraee on Saturday
said their forces raided an area in Gaza City from which fire was fired during
the past few days.
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Europe
Labour demands Rishi Sunak come clean over Rwanda
scheme documents
By Mikey Smith
6 Jan 2024
Labour demanded Rishi Sunak come clean over documents
it’s claimed show he had reservations about the Rwanda scheme.
The BBC said it had seen No 10 papers from March 2022,
a month before the plan was announced by then Prime Minister Boris Johnson,
which showed that Mr Sunak was not convinced of the plan's effectiveness. But
since becoming PM in October 2022, Mr Sunak has made the Rwanda plan one of his
top priorities despite a string of delays due to legal challenges.
The documents suggest Mr Sunak felt "hotels are
cheaper" than reception centres to house migrants and that he was also
concerned about the cost of sending asylum seekers to Africa and wanted to limit
the numbers. The BBC said the documents revealed the "chancellor wants to
pursue smaller volumes initially" with 500 flown to Rwanda in the first
year of the scheme, instead of the proposed 1,500.
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Police Investigate UK Post Office after IT Problem
Leads to Wrongful Theft Accusations
January 07, 2024
LONDON — U.K. police have opened a fraud investigation
into Britain's Post Office over a miscarriage of justice that saw hundreds of
postmasters wrongfully accused of stealing money when a faulty computer system
was to blame.
The Metropolitan Police force said late Friday that it
is investigating "potential fraud offences arising out of these
prosecutions," relating to money the Post Office received "as a
result of prosecutions or civil actions" against accused postal workers.
Police also are investigating potential offenses of
perjury and perverting the course of justice over investigations and
prosecutions carried out by the Post Office.
Between 1999 and 2015, more than 700 post office
branch managers were accused of theft or fraud because computers wrongly showed
that money was missing. Many were financially ruined after being forced to pay
large sums to the company, and some were convicted and sent to prison. Several
killed themselves.
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World
Saudi play explores connection between artist and art
January 06, 2024
RIYADH: The Literature, Publishing and Translation
Commission organized the presentation of a play called “The Bigger Painting” as
part of the Writers and Readers Festival in KhamisMushayt, Asir region.
The play presents a girl who has a passion for drawing
and ponders the relationship between art and the artist, and how the two
influence each other.
The play is written and directed by Ali Al-Zahrani and
stars Mohammed Ali, Bandar Al-Hazmi, Saraa Al-Otaibi, Ghaida Salam and Khaled
Al-Harithi.
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Companies with 50 or more employees must provide
training for students, says Saudi ministry
ARAB NEWS
January 07, 2024
RIYADH: Saudi Minister of Human Resources and Social
Development Ahmed Al-Rajhi issued a ministerial order on Saturday obliging
private-sector businesses with 50 or more employees to provide cooperative
training for students.
The decision was based on an academic plan approved by
educational institutions and the demands of the labor market, officials said.
The aim is to improve the quality and efficiency of training programs in the
private sector, create more opportunities for development and growth, and
ensure students receive relevant training that helps them secure jobs after
graduation by improving their performance and practical skills.
Trainees and the organizations providing the training
will sign a fixed-term contract that provides full details of what will be
provided, and the organization will present the student with a certificate at
the end of the training period.
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Global Academy to launch
Arabic Language Month in Indonesia
ARAB NEWS
January 07, 2024
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s King Salman Global Academy for
Arabic Language will launch Arabic Language Month in Indonesia on Sunday.
The four-week event, which runs until Feb. 2, includes
a program of activities in the cities of Jakarta and Malang developed in
partnership with educational organizations. They have been designed to enhance
the teaching of the Arabic language, improve teachers’ performance, and raise
the profile of the language through events at Indonesian universities that have
Arabic language departments and programs, the Saudi Press Agency reported.
Abdullah Al-Washmi, the secretary-general of the
academy, said it is committed to promoting the Arabic language locally and
internationally, and that the month-long program aims to showcase the academy’s
language-teaching work to non-native speakers, highlight the Kingdom’s
contributions to Arabic, and enhance teaching standards to improve learning
outcomes.
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Saudi authorities arrest 15 people in drug busts
across the country
ARAB NEWS
January 06, 2024
RIYADH: Three Pakistanis were arrested in Jeddah for
selling 3.9 kilograms of methamphetamine, Saudi Arabia’s General Directorate of
Narcotics Control said on Saturday.
An Indian resident was also arrested for distributing
the substance, also known as Shabu, in the Eastern Province, and a Yemeni national
and a Saudi citizen were arrested in Samtah Governorate in Jazan for selling
amphetamine.
In Jazan’s Al-Arda district, border guard ground
patrols arrested four Yemenis for attempting to smuggle 80 kilograms of qat.
Border guards in Asir region’s Al-Rabwa area arrested five Ethiopians for
smuggling 70 kilograms of qat.
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Saudi crown prince receives US senators, chairman of
intelligence committee
SPA
January 06, 2024
ALULA: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
on Saturday received several US officials at the winter camp in AlUla.
The crown prince met with US Senator and Chairman of
the Senate Intelligence Committee Mark Warner, Maine Senator Angus King, Texas
Senator John Cornyn, New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, Georgia Senator Jon
Ossoff, and Arizona Senator Mark Kelly.
During the reception, they reviewed bilateral friendly
relations and aspects of cooperation and discussed several issues of common
interest.
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Jeddah cooking carnival serves up a feast of Saudi
flavors
SALEH FAREED
January 06, 2024
JEDDAH: Leading Saudi chefs are showing off their kitchen
skills at the fourth Carnival Altahy (Cooking Carnival) at Al-Muhammadiya
Community Center in Jeddah.
Supervised by the Professional Chefs Forum, the
carnival provides a platform for Saudi chefs and families to display their
culinary skills and traditional dishes.
Abdulaziz bin Mohieddin Khoja, the former Saudi
ambassador and minister of culture and information, attended the carnival's
opening ceremony on Thursday.
The five-day event, with live cooking demonstrations
and culinary competitions, will entertain food and restaurant lovers of all
ages.
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South
Asia
Bangladesh: Sheikh Hasina praises India on voting day,
highlights New Delhi's role in Liberation War
Jan 7, 2024
DHAKA: As Bangladesh goes to the polls today,
Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina extended her wishes for India and said
that Bangladesh is lucky to have a trusted friend like India. She also
highlighted India's support during the Liberation War in 1971.
In her message to India, Bangladesh Prime Minister
Sheikh Hasina said, ''We are very lucky...India is our trusted friend. During
our Liberation War, they supported us...After 1975, when we lost our whole
family...they gave us shelter. So our best wishes to the people of India."
PM Hasina recounted the horrors of her family's
massacre in 1975, in which her whole family was killed and she lived in exile
in India for years. she later returned to Bangladesh and took over the Awami
League.
After casting her vote in the ongoing general
elections, Hasina emphasised the importance of democracy for the development of
the country on Sunday and said that her government in past years has
established people's democratic rights.
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Uyghur Muslims question OIC’s silence over China’s
campaign against Islam in East Turkistan
January 6, 2024
Washington: The duplicity of the Organization of Islamic
Cooperation (OIC) has been called out by the East Turkistan Government-in-Exile
(ETGE) which condemned the grouping of 57 Islamic nations for working to build
relations with China despite the latter’s ongoing genocidal campaign against
Uyghur Muslims.
The ETGE reminded the OIC about how China is involved
in crushing Muslims and Islam in occupied East Turkistan and asked why the
Muslim world is silent over these developments.
The ETGE said it “vehemently condemns” the recent
meeting of OIC Secretary-General HisseinBrahim Taha with IlzatAhmatjan,
Permanent Member of the Chinese Communist Party Committee in Occupied East
Turkistan at the OIC General Secretariat in Jeddah.
“This meeting, which discussed further cooperation and
the strengthening of relations between the OIC and the People’s Republic of
China, comes amid China’s ongoing campaign of colonization, genocide, and
occupation in the predominantly Muslim nation of East Turkistan,” it said in a
statement.
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Bus explodes in Afghanistan, killing at least 2
civilians and wounding 14
Jan 06 2024
A minibus exploded in a mostly Shiite Muslim
neighbourhood in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, killing at least two civilians
and wounding 14 others, a Taliban official said Saturday, the first attack in
the country in 2024.
Police spokesman Khalid Zadran said the explosion took
place in the western part of the city, in the DashtiBarchi area. The cause
remained unknown, but police launched an investigation, he said.
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the
attack, but the Islamic State group's affiliate in the region has in the past
targeted Shiite schools, hospitals, and mosques in the same area.
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UN Signs three agreements with Islamic Development Bank
to address Afghan humanitarian crisis
By idel Rahmati
January 6, 2024
The organization stated on Saturday, January 6th,
through a press release, that the total value of these agreements amounts to
ten million dollars.
The UNHCR High Commissioner for Refugees has outlined
the goals of this project as enhancing access to education, healthcare
services, and livelihood opportunities in Afghanistan.
According to the agreements, the UNHCR, in
collaboration with the support for educational programs in Afghanistan,
emphasizes its commitment to guaranteeing education for over 30,000 school-aged
children by implementing projects such as constructing sixteen schools for boys
and girls.
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Turkish police detain 24 Afghan refugees
By Fidel Rahmati
January 6, 2024
Turkish media reported on Saturday, January 4th, that
24 individuals from Afghanistan who intended to enter Turkey were detained by
Turkish police in Ağrı.
According to reports, these individuals were detained
by the Turkish police at the exact moment they were trying to enter Turkey
using a motor vehicle from the Iran-Turkey border.
Turkish media reports also mention that among the
detainees, two individuals were arrested by the Turkish police on charges of
human trafficking.
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UN says $52 million needed to support migrants in
Afghanistan
By Fidel Rahmati
January 6, 2024
This agency stated in a report released on Friday that
due to the intersection of insecurity, instability, environmental hazards, and
ongoing economic inflation, the needs are still increasing.
According to the United Nations High Commissioner for
Refugees, from November 2023 to July 2024, $43.48 million is required to
address the situation of migrants in Afghanistan, with $8.43 million of it
allocated for migrants in Pakistan.
The statistics from this organization indicate a
decrease in the number of Afghan migrants returning from Pakistan, with an
average of 1,500 individuals returning to their country daily.
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Bangladesh chief election commissioner KaziHabibulAwal
assures people of free and fair election
Devadeep Purohit
07.01.24
Bangladesh chief election commissioner KaziHabibulAwal
has assured people that all possible arrangements have been made for free and
fair conduct of Sunday’s general election and urged voters to come out and
vote.
“We are hopeful that the election will be free and
fair.... We are deploying around 800,000 armed law enforcers, including from
the armed forces, for the over 262,000 polling booths to ensure peaceful
conduct of the polls,” Awal said at a briefing on Saturday afternoon. “We urge
voters to come out to vote....”
Awal, however, also sounded a word of caution
referring to the main Opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party’s plea to voters
to stay away from the booths.
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North
America
Why the US Supreme Court should allow Muslim man on No
Fly List to sue FBI
GADEIR ABBAS
07-01-2024
This week, on behalf of an innocent American Muslim
unjustly targeted by our government’s secret list of Muslims, I will argue
YonasFikre’s case at the US Supreme Court. The case is about the Federal Bureau
of Investigations (FBI)'s decision to put our peaceful, law-abiding client on a
list—the No Fly List—that has for years prevented him from flying home to the
United States from abroad after what was supposed to be a short business trip.
Years after the Council on American-Islamic Relations
(CAIR) filed a lawsuit, the government removed Fikre from the list without
explanation and has repeatedly asked the courts to end the case.
We’re fighting to continue the case because the legal
issues are so important—for the rights of our client, yes, but also for all of
our rights everywhere.
The No Fly List is a secret list that the US
government makes and distributes to prevent the people listed from boarding a
flight that travels through US airspace. There are hundreds of thousands of
names on this No Fly List and, based on our close study of a leaked copy of the
list, we estimate that about 98 percent of the listed names are Muslim names.
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US temporarily grounds Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes after
mid-flight blowout
6 January 2024
U.S. regulators have ordered the temporary grounding
of 171 Boeing 737 MAX 9 aircraft following a cabin panel blowout late Friday
that forced a brand-new airplane operated by Alaska Airlines to make an emergency
landing.
“The FAA is requiring immediate inspections of certain
Boeing 737 MAX 9 planes before they can return to flight,” FAA Administrator
Mike Whitaker said on Saturday. “Safety will continue to drive our
decision-making as we assist the NTSB’s investigation into Alaska Airlines
Flight 1282.”
The piece of fuselage tore off the left side of the
jet as it climbed out of Portland, Oregon, en route for Ontario in California
on Friday, forcing pilots to turn back and land safely with 171 passengers and six
crew on board.
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Biden officials were unaware US defence secretary was
in hospital
07 JAN, 2024
Senior Biden administration leaders, top Pentagon
officials and members of Congress were unaware for days that US defence
secretary Lloyd Austin had been in hospital since Monday, US officials said, as
questions swirled about his condition and the secrecy surrounding it.
The Pentagon did not inform the White House National
Security Council or top adviser Jake Sullivan of Mr Austin’s hospital admission
at Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda, Maryland, until
Thursday, according to two administration officials.
The Pentagon’s failure to disclose Mr Austin’s
hospital admission for days reflects a stunning lack of transparency about his
illness, how serious it was and when he may be released.
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Trump downplays January 6 on the anniversary of the
Capitol siege and calls jailed rioters 'hostages'
Jan 7, 2024
NEWTON: Former President Donald Trump, campaigning in
Iowa Saturday, marked the third anniversary of the January 6, 2021 assault on
the US Capitol by casting the migrant surge on the southern border as the
"real" insurrection.
Just over a week before the Republican nomination
process begins with Iowa's kickoff caucuses, Trump continued to claim that
countries have been emptying jails and mental institutions to fuel a record
number of migrant crossings. There is no evidence that this is the case.
"When you talk about insurrection, what they're
doing, that's the real deal. That's the real deal. Not patriotically and
peacefully - peacefully and patriotically," Trump said, quoting from his
speech on January 6, before a violent mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol
as part of a desperate bid to keep him in power after his 2020 election loss.
Trump's remarks came a day after Biden delivered a
speech near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, where he cast Trump as a grave threat
to democracy and called January 6 a day when "we nearly lost America -
lost it all."
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US top court agrees to hear Trump Colorado ballot
appeal
Jan 7, 2024
The US Supreme Court agreed to consider whether
Colorado can bar Donald Trump from the presidential ballot, taking up a
landmark constitutional and political clash stemming from his attempt to
overturn the 2020 election.
The justices will hear the case on an expedited basis,
with arguments on Feb 8. They will review a Colorado Supreme Court decision
that said Trump engaged in insurrection - and forfeited his right to run for
president again - by trying to nullify Joe Biden's election victory and
inciting the deadly Jan 6, 2021, Capitol assault.
The clash over the Constitution's insurrection clause
promises to be a pivot point in Trump's bid to reclaim the White House. A broad
Supreme Court decision in the ex-president's favour would end efforts around
the country to remove him from the ballot. A ruling against Trump would raise
new questions about the viability of his candidacy.
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Joe Biden launches campaign, equates ex-President to
Nazis
Jan 7, 2024
US president Joe Biden launched his harshest attack
yet on Donald Trump as he kickstarted his 2024 re-election campaign Friday,
accusing the Republican of echoing Nazi Germany and posing a threat to
democracy.
The 81-year-old Democrat branded his likely challenger
a "loser" and "sick" in a speech on the eve of the third
anniversary of the deadly January 6 Capitol attack by pro-Trump supporters.
"He's willing to sacrifice our democracy, put himself in power,"
Biden told supporters, alternating between whispers and furious shouts as he
laid into the man he beat in 2020.
Not only had the twice-impeached former president
instigated the Capitol attack, but the tycoon and his followers were still
embracing "political violence" ahead of the 2024 vote, said Biden.
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Africa
Boko Haram Members Kill Pastor, Others In Yobe
by HussainiJirgi
07-01-2024
Yobe State chairman of Christian Association of
Nigeria (CAN) Bishop YohannaAudu, has confirmed the killing of a pastor of
Church of Christ In Nations (COCIN) and five other persons when some suspected
members of Boko Haram terrorists invaded Kwari Area, Asheikri Ward of Gaidam
local government area.
Speaking with LEADERSHIP today in Damaturu, Bishop
YohannaAudu described the attacks on the COCIN church and the killing of a
pastor and other members as barbaric, anti-religious and unfortunate.
According to him, the insurgents invaded the house of
the pastor and killed him alongside other members before setting the church
(COCIN) ablaze.
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Amid opposition, Vatican says blessings of same-sex
couples not endorsement of homosexuality
07-01-2024
After pushback by some bishops in Africa, Poland and
elsewhere, the Vatican on Thursday defended the recent move by Pope Francis to
allow blessings for same-sex couples, insisting there is nothing “heretical”
involved.
In a five-page statement, the Holy See’s office to
safeguard doctrinal orthodoxy expressed understanding that some bishops’
conferences need more time for “pastoral reflection” on the pontiff’s formal
approval for such blessings.
But “there is no room to distance ourselves
doctrinally” from the Declaration about the blessings “or to consider it
heretical, contrary to the Tradition of the Church or blasphemous," said
the statement by the office, formally called the Dicastery for the Doctrine of
the Faith.
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Egypt: President El-Sisi joins Coptic Orthodox
Christians at Christmas Eve mass
07-01-2024
Egypt's newly reelected president attended Saturday
(Jan. 06) the Christmas eve mass at the Cathedral of Nativity of Christ, east
of Cairo.
It was feast day for the country's largest religious
minority, the Coptic Orthodox Christians.
The celebration was overshadowed by the war raging in
the Gaza Strip, on Egypt’s eastern borders.
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Somali president signs law “nullifying illegal”
Ethiopia-Somaliland deal
07-01-2024
On Saturday (Jan. 06), Somali president Hassan Sheikh
Mohamud signed a law nullifying the memorandum of understanding signed between
the Government of Ethiopia & Somaliland.
The symbolic move comes as Ethiopia and a breakaway
Somali region announced a deal on January 1st.
As part of the deal, Somaliland plans to lease a 20-km
stretch of land along its coastline to Ethiopia to establish a naval base,
Ethiopian Prime minister Abiy Ahmed said at the signing.
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Sudan’s army chief rejects negotiations with rival RSF
07-01-2024
The Commander in Chief of the Sudanese armed forces
Gen Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said Friday (Jan. 05) he wouldn't accepte to
negotiate with the Rapid Support Forces.
Speaking to soldiers in the Red Sea state (eastern
Sudan) the head of the Sudanese armed forces asserted that the RSF perpetrated
crimes "in West Darfur and across Sudan".
This comes as the warring generals agreed last month
to a face-to-face meeting and to start talks over a possible cease-fire,
according to the East African regional bloc IGAD.
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Somalia’s PM receives Saudi envoy in Mogadishu
ARAB NEWS
January 06, 2024
MOGADISHU: Saudi Arabia’s Ambassador to Somalia Ahmed
bin Mohammed Al-Mawlid on Saturday was received by Somalia’s Prime Minister
Hamza Abdi Barre in Mogadishu.
During the meeting, Barre and Al-Mawlid discussed
bilateral relations between their countries and opportunities for investment in
Somalia, the prime minister’s office reported on X.
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Pakistan
Punjab govt supporting ECP for free, fair polls, SC
told
January 7, 2024
The reply was furnished in response to the court’s Jan
3 order for the chief secretary and the inspector general of police to furnish
a report on whether the directives issued by the provincial election commission
to them were complied with, and if not, then explain the reason for not doing
so.
The directives were issued on a contempt of court
petition moved by the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf against the ECP and other
government authorities for the alleged violation of the apex court’s Dec 22
orders, as well as lack of level playing field for the party during the
election process.
According to the reply, the Punjab government prepared
district-wise handbooks containing all details regarding election; besides, all
returning officers (RO) have been directed to provide level playing field to
all the contesting candidates and political parties for the conduct of the
general elections.
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PPP files additional evidence in Zulfikar Bhutto
reference
Nasir Iqbal
January 7, 2024
ISLAMABAD: As a nine-judge larger bench of the Supreme
Court is set to commence proceedings on Monday (Jan 8) to address a long-pending
presidential reference seeking to revisit the controversial 1979 death sentence
awarded to former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, the PPP has submitted an
additional document consisting of transcripts and video recordings of various
interviews.
Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez
Isa, the larger bench will include Justice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Syed
Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Yahya Afridi, Justice Aminud Din Khan, Justice Jamal
Khan Mandokhel, Justice Muhammad Ali Mazhar, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi,
and Justice Musarrat Hilali.
The additional documents were filed through senior
counsel Farooq H. Naek in compliance with the earlier directions given on Dec
12, 2023, which contain certain documents and video recordings, etc.
The documents consist of passages from books
“KuchYadain Aur Taasurat” by Justice (retired) Naseem Hassan Shah; “Mubalaga Na
Mubalaga” by Mian Muhammad Arshad, former district and session judge Punjab;
“Adliya Ke Urooj Aur Zawal Ki Kahani” by Sohail Waraich; “Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
and Pakistan” by Rafi Raza; USB and CD, transcript of a video containing an
interview of Dr Naseem Hassan Shah by Iftikhar Ahmed; transcript of a video of
Dorab Patel; another transcript of a video interview of the official in charge of
Rawalpindi jail retired colonel Rafiuddin; transcript of a video interview of
sub-martial law administrator Khawaja Rahat Latif and many others.
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SC approached to declare Senate resolution illegal
Nasir Iqbal
January 7, 2024
ISLAMABAD: The passage of a controversial Senate
resolution a day ago seeking election delay prompted a flurry of activity on
Saturday, with an individual petitioning the Supreme Court to declare the
motion illegal and act against its backers, and a senator filing a
counter-resolution for timely polls.
Meanwhile, the proponents and critics of the Jan 5
resolution also defended their positions, citing reasons why the upcoming
elections should or should not be held on the scheduled date, i.e. Feb 8,
2024.
In his petition filed on Saturday, Advocate Ishtiaq
Ahmed Mirza urged the Supreme Court to initiate contempt of court and treason
proceedings against the proponents of the Senate resolution, which called for
the postponement of elections due to security and weather concerns.
He urged the apex court to direct the Election
Commission of Pakistan (ECP) to adhere to the previously announced election
schedule instead of being prejudiced by the Senate’s resolution.
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Two more passengers in Pakistan test positive for
Covid
Faiza Ilyas
January 7, 2024
KARACHI: Two more passengers tested positive for Covid
on Saturday, raising the total number of detected passengers to four within
three days.
“Their Rapid Antigen Test was positive. This means
that both are infected with Covid,” a health department official said, adding
that their samples for detailed analysis had been sent to a Dow University of
Health Sciences’ laboratory.
Both were, however, allowed to leave for their hometowns
in Dera Ghazi Khan in Punjab and Sanghar in Sindh after being advised to
quarantine themselves at their residences.
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4 killed, 3 injured in firing on passenger coach in
KP’s Kurram: police
Javid Hussain
January 7, 2024
Four people were killed and three others were wounded
in firing on a passenger coach and a vehicle near Sadda Bazaar in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa’s Kurram district on Sunday, police said.
District Police Officer (DPO) Muhammad Imran told
Dawn.com that the vehicles were targeted by gunmen with automated weapons.
He said two security personnel were also among the
deceased. Efforts were under way to find and arrest the culprits, the DPO
added.
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JUI-F’s Fazlur Rehman to visit Kabul today: Afghan
spokesperson
Tahir Khan
January 7, 2024
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur
Rehman will visit Kabul today, Afghan Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid
said.
In a post on social media platform X, Mujahid said
Fazl will lead a delegation to the Afghan capital. The same was also confirmed
by JUI-F spokesperson Aslam Ghauri in a media talk.
The Afghan interim government had extended an
invitation to the JUI-F chief last month to visit the country. The trip will be
Rehman’s first visit to Afghanistan since the Taliban takeover in 2021.
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Court refuses to suspend warrants of Malik Riaz
Malik Asad
January 7, 2024
ISLAMABAD: An accountability court on Saturday refused
to suspend the arrest warrants of property tycoon Malik Riaz in the
multi-million pound corruption reference.
Last month, the court issued warrants for the property
tycoon; his son Ali Ahmed Riaz; aides to former prime minister Zulfi Bukhari
and Mirza Shahzad Akbar; Farhat Shahzadi aka Farah Khan; and a lawyer Ziaul
Mustafa Nasim.
Mr Riaz had filed an application to suspend the arrest
warrants enabling him to appear before the court, but the court dismissed the
plea on Saturday.
The accountability court has also scheduled to
initiate the process of seizing the properties of Mr Riaz and his son as they
were absconding in the said case.
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Mansehra admin bans political gatherings over security
reasons
Nisar Ahmad Kha
January 7, 2024
MANSEHRA: The district administration on Saturday
banned election-related political gatherings for two months citing the delicate
law and order situation and threats to the lives of candidates as reasons.
“The district police officer has reported security
environment and threats by terrorists to candidates during the election
campaign and seeks an immediate imposition of a ban on public gatherings and
meetings,” read a circular issued by deputy commissioner Bilal Shahid Rao.
However, the circular, a copy of which is seen by
Dawn, added that public gatherings and corner meetings could be allowed only if
the police issued non-objection certificates for them after reviewing the law
and order situation in the area where those events were scheduled to take
place.
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TLP’s manifesto has much more to offer
Kalbe Ali
January 7, 2024
ISLAMABAD: Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) has
launched its 25-point manifesto for the upcoming elections, assuring that the
rights of religious minorities would be protected as per the Constitution.
While the TLP participated in the 2018 elections as a
flag bearer for upholding the respect and stature of Prophet Muhammad (peace be
upon him) as well as Islam, its participation in the 2024 elections appears to
be start of a new political journey.
Apart from launching the politically motivated
election manifesto 2024, the party leader, Hafiz Saad Hussain Rizvi, recently
introduced a new party flag that did not have the image of the shrine of
Prophet Muhammad (Roza-i-Rasool).
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Asia
Outsiders have no right to demand for Bung Moktar to
step down, says Sabah Umno info chief
06 Jan 2024
KOTA KINABALU, Jan 6 — The issue of whether Sabah Umno
will cooperate with other parties including PartiWarisan (Warisan) in the next
State Election (PRN) will only be determined by Sabah Umno which has its own
autonomous powers.
Sabah Umno Information Chief Datuk Suhaimi Nasir said,
outsiders have no right to ask Sabah Umno Chief Datuk Seri Panglima Bung
MoktarRadin to step down if they cooperate with other parties including
Warisan.
“We will also see friends who have loyalty, sincerity
in carrying out their responsibilities as partners to fight for the benefit of
the people of Sabah,” he said in a statement on Saturday.
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Thousands Turn Out for Funeral of Slain Newark Imam
By Matt Kadosh
January 6, 2024
NEWARK, NJ — Community members on Saturday, Jan. 6,
buried a spiritual leader and family man who was slain outside his mosque
earlier this week.
Thousands of people turned out for the funeral of Imam
Hassan Sharif. The 52-year-old resident imam of Masjid Muhammad-Newark was shot
dead around the time of morning prayers on Wednesday, Jan. 3.
“I cannot describe how it makes us feel knowing how
many lives he touched,” Tanasia Ransom, daughter of Sharif, told reporters.
“And to the killer, we’ll find you, they’ll find you, I’m sure.”
The outpouring of support for the late imam came with
his killer at large and with a heightened sense of anxiety among members of the
Muslim community.
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List of 10 Islamic Kingdoms in Indonesia and Their
Legacies
7 January 2024
TEMPO.CO, Jakarta - Islam is one of the religions that
influenced the course of Indonesian history. This can be seen from a number of
Islamic kingdoms that once existed in the archipelago. What are the Islamic
kingdoms in Indonesia?
The development of Islam in Indonesia cannot be
separated from the existence of Islamic kingdoms. Not only as an institution
that gave birth to many Muslim descendants, the kingdom was also instrumental
in bequeathing other historical objects and cultural heritage.
The Islamic kingdoms in the archipelago spread from
Java to the Maluku islands. These kingdoms have their own uniqueness, starting
from the way of teachings, culture and heritage are spread. Summarized from
various sources, the following is a list of Islamic kingdoms in Indonesia.
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Gibran Plays Futsal, Meets Muslim Clerics during Cirebon
Rally
CandraKurnia
January 6, 2024
Cirebon. During his weekend visit to Cirebon in West
Java, vice presidential candidate Gibran RakabumingRaka participated in a
unique futsal match alongside players donning sarongs, symbolically adorned
with the number 2 - representing the ballot number of presidential candidate
PrabowoSubianto and Gibran.
The relaxed yet spirited game took place at the
Tuparev futsal pitch in Kedawungsubdistrict, reflecting Gibran's approach to
engaging with the community beyond traditional speeches and handshakes.
Alongside the sporting activity, Gibran began his
bustling day in Cirebon with a morning run alongside his supporters. Later, he
engaged in dialogues with prominent Muslim clerics Habib Thohir bin Yahya and
AdibRofiuddinIzza. He further explored the town's renowned handmade batik
industry and met with local entrepreneurs to grasp firsthand insights into the
challenges they face.
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Ipoh City Council to take stern action against littering,
says mayor
07 Jan 2024
IPOH, Jan 7 — The Ipoh City Council (MBI) will impose
a RM1,000 compound without any appeal on those involved in littering under the
Road, Drainage, and Buildings Enactment 1974, said Ipoh Mayor Datuk
RumaiziBaharin.
Rumaizi condemned the actions of some Ipoh residents
who are fond of dumping rubbish recklessly, describing them as lacking
compassion and concern for the city of Ipoh to the extent of behaving in such a
manner.
He added that the irresponsible actions of some city
dwellers have tarnished the image of Ipoh residents, thereby thwarting MBI’s
efforts to foster the “Ipoh Bestari Sejahtera” culture, which is the slogan of
the local authority.
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AG files application for Isham Jalil to be jailed,
fined for contempt of court over interview on Najib’s SRC, 1MDB trials
06 Jan 2024
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 6 — The Attorney General (AG) has
applied for leave from the High Court here to initiate committal proceedings
against former Umno Supreme Council (MT) member Isham Jalil for contempt of
court.
In the ex-parte application filed last December 28,
the AG also requested the court to imprison or impose a fine on Isham, whose
real name is HizatulIsham Abdul Jalil for the offence.
It was over an interview titled “Townhall for Justice:
KeadilanSebenarnyaUntukSiapa”, during which Isham reportedly commented on the
trial and appeal of former Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak in the SRC
International and 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB) cases.
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