Iran Abolishes Morality Police After Months-Long Anti-Hijab Protests; Parliament And The Judiciary Are Working On The Issue Of Hijab
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December 2022
Anti-hijab protests swept Iran after the death of
22-year-old Mahsa Amini who died after being in detention by morality police.
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• Iran Abolishes Morality Police After Months-Long
Anti-Hijab Protests; Parliament And The Judiciary Are Working On The Issue Of
Hijab
• Wall Of Human Hair Built In Downtown Vancouver In
Solidarity With Iranian Protesters
• Kerala Muslim Cleric Aims Gender Justice Campaign Saying
It Is Against The Fundamental Principles Of The Constitution And Islam
• Soundstorm Music Festival: Why The Birthplace Of Islam Is
Hosting One Of The World’s Biggest Raves
• Same-Sex Couples See High Stakes In Gay Rights
Supreme Court Case
Mideast
• Constitution guarantees republic, Islamic aspects of
the system: Raisi
• Next plot: Assassinating opponents in the name of
Iran!
• As Raisi Hails Iran's "Freedoms", State
Media Claims 200 Dead In Protests
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Europe
• Islamophobia 'relegated to Muslim issue', says
Bradford author
• Russian Empire Brought Blood Libel Charges Not Only
Against Jews but Against Finno-Ugric and Muslim Peoples
• Alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash
extradited to Victoria and charged
• Third teen charged over murders of two 16-year-old
boys
• Historic crown to be modified for King Charles's
coronation in May
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India
• Muslim Husband, Hindu Wife Booked Under Haryana's Anti-Conversion
Law
• Assam Jatiya Parishad Lodges Police Complaint
Against AIDUF Chief Badruddin Ajmal For Advising Hindus To Try ‘The Muslim
Formula’ And Marry Young
• Campaigning ends but Muslim voters cold to BJP
wooing in Khatauli, Rampur
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Arab world
• UN Report: Iraqi Christians Victims Of Islamic
State’s Crimes Against Humanity And War Crimes
• Finding answers in the field of humanities tops
Riyadh Philosophy Conference’s agenda
• Virtual Reality Zone hits centre stage at Red Sea
International Film Festival
• Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Souk welcomes storytellers
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North America
• CAIR Condemns Distribution Of Hate Propaganda In
Missouri, Connecticut
• CAIR, Maryland Muslim Prisoner Project Joined by
Community Partners to Seek Religious Accommodations for Incarcerated Muslims in
Prince George’s County Prison
• Seek Knowledge For Liberation, Banire Urges Muslims
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Pakistan
• Pakistan Confirming Veracity Of Reports About IS-K Claiming
Attack On Kabul Embassy
• Centre censured for withholding provincial shares
• PTI MPA Haji Fazal Elahi faces arrest over Peshawar
rally outside corps commander’s house
• SC throws out joint petition against perks of KP
teachers
• Imran says his offer for talks ‘misread’
• MQM’s London property case to resume in the new year
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South Asia
• Afghan, Foreign Investors Meet in Kabul for Future
Opportunities
• Attack on Pakistan Embassy in Afghan Capital Spurs
Reactions
• Pakistan’s First Consignment of Medical Assistance
Reaches Afghanistan
• Authorities in Afghanistan Denounce Attack on
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Office
• Air pollution costs Bangladesh up to 4.4% of GDP:
World Bank
• Bengal publishers likely to showcase publications in
Bangladesh soon
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Southeast Asia
• Amin Reiterates Govt Support For Banks' Conversion
To Islamic Banks
• Sarawak activist asks if DPM Zahid has time for
ministerial duties while on trial for 47 criminal charges
• Nothing political about Zahid’s appointment as DPM,
says Umno sec-gen
• Be more like DAP and put country first, Zahid tells
Muhyiddin
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Africa
• Thousands Of Islamists Rally Against UN Mission In
Sudan
• 2023: Muslim-Muslim ticket will be met with
electoral consequences – Cardinal Onaiyekan
• 11 injured as gunmen attack mosque in Delta
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Iran Abolishes Morality Police After Months-Long
Anti-Hijab Protests; Parliament And The Judiciary Are Working On The Issue Of
Hijab
Anti-hijab protests swept
Iran after the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who died after being in
detention by morality police.
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Agence France-Presse
Tehran, Dec 4, 2022
By Agence France-Presse: Iran has scrapped its
morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the arrest
of Mahsa Amini for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code,
local media said Sunday.
Women-led protests, labelled "riots" by the
authorities, have swept Iran since the 22-year-old Iranian of Kurdish origin
died on September 16, three days after her arrest by the morality police in
Tehran.
"Morality police have nothing to do with the
judiciary" and have been abolished, Attorney General Mohammad Jafar
Montazeri was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency.
His comment came at a religious conference where he
responded to a participant who asked "why the morality police were being
shut down", the report said.
The morality police -- known formally as the Gasht-e
Ershad or "Guidance Patrol" -- were established under hardline
president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, to "spread the culture of modesty and
hijab", the mandatory female head covering.
The unit began patrols in 2006.
The announcement of their abolition came a day after
Montazeri said that "both parliament and the judiciary are working (on the
issue)" of whether the law requiring women to cover their heads needs to
be changed.
President Ebrahim Raisi said in televised comments
Saturday that Iran's republican and Islamic foundations were constitutionally
entrenched "but there are methods of implementing the constitution that
can be flexible".
The hijab became mandatory four years after the 1979
revolution that overthrew the US-backed monarchy and established the Islamic
Republic of Iran.
Morality police officers initially issued warnings
before starting to crack down and arrest women 15 years ago.
The vice squads were usually made up of men in green
uniforms and women clad in black chadors, garments that cover their heads and
upper bodies.
The role of the units evolved, but has always been
controversial even among candidates running for the presidency.
Clothing norms gradually changed, especially under
former moderate president Hassan Rouhani, when it became commonplace to see
women in tight jeans with loose, colourful headscarves.
But in July this year his successor, the
ultra-conservative Raisi, called for the mobilisation of "all state
institutions to enforce the headscarf law".
Raisi at the time charged that "the enemies of
Iran and Islam have targeted the cultural and religious values of society by
spreading corruption".
In spite of this, many women continued to bend the
rules, letting their headscarves slip onto their shoulders or wearing
tight-fitting pants, especially in major cities and towns.
Iran's regional rival Saudi Arabia also employed
morality police to enforce female dress codes and other rules of behaviour.
Since 2016 the force there has been sidelined in a push by the Sunni Muslim
kingdom to shake off its austere image.
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Wall Of Human Hair Built In Downtown Vancouver In
Solidarity With Iranian Protesters
Photo: Canada Today
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Tahmina Aziz
Dec. 4, 2022
Hundreds gathered just outside the Vancouver Art
Gallery on Saturday to show support for the ongoing anti-government movement in
Iran.
Dozens of those who attended Saturday snipped a lock
of their hair and displayed it on a wall that spelled out one of the movement's
slogans: "Women. Life. Freedom."
Tahmineh Sadeghi, one of the organizers of the weekly
protests, participated in the initiative, which was set up by the YWCA Metro
Vancouver.
“If this hair causes violence against women, I don't
need this hair," she said, adding that the gesture is a symbol of
rebelling against the Islamic Republic regime in Iran.
"It hurts me that there are people out there who
can’t do as they please. It does bother me, because I’ve been so free my whole
life," she said.
“We have the ability to cut our hair and really create
a powerful symbol of support. We are showing up to say that ‘We hear you. We
see you. We support you,'" said Amy Juschka of YWCA Metro Vancouver.
“I feel so encouraged. I feel like our voices are
getting heard, finally, in Vancouver," she said, adding that she appreciates
everyone who has attended the weekly protests, which have been going on for
about 11 weeks.
“We’re going to keep going until women and people in
Iran keep going. We want to be their voice because their internet has been shut
down in Iran right now. They hardly can send the news out there. So we have to
be their voice," said Sadeghi.
But human rights activists say the true number is much
higher. They estimate more than 500 people have been killed and more than
18,000 have been detained, including journalists, activists and musicians.
It's unclear how long the fight will continue.
Protesters said they refuse to back down and are willing to risk everything to
see change in the country.
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Kerala Muslim Cleric Aims Gender Justice Campaign
Saying It Is Against The Fundamental Principles Of The Constitution And Islam
As part of the campaign, women are told to take a
pledge for gender justice. (File)
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By: Express News Service
December 4, 2022
Samastha Kerala Jamait ul Ulema leader Nasar Faizy
Koodathai has come out against the ongoing gender justice campaign of Kerala
Kudumbashree Mission saying it is against the fundamental principles of the
Constitution and Islam. This would lead to protests, he added.
This comes after the prominent Muslim cleric had last
week warned against the Fifa World Cup craze among the youth and said
worshipping football stars was “un-Islamic”.
The Union Rural Development Ministry has been running
a gender justice campaign across the country for a month from November 22. In
Kerala, Kudumbashree Mission, a poverty eradication and women empowerment
mission of the state government, is the nodal agency for this campaign, which
included awareness against gender-based attacks and raising the voice against
such attempts.
As part of the campaign, women are told to take a
pledge for gender justice. The oath says, “The daughter and the son would be
given equal opportunity in education and progress; child marriage and domestic
violence would be opposed. The boys and girls in a family would be given equal
rights over the property of the family.”
Referring to the gender justice campaign, Koodathai
wrote in a Facebook post, “Civil laws such as marriage, divorce and property
rights are part of fundamental rights based on religious laws and beliefs. The
pledge of the Kudumbashree makes people say that both men and women have equal
rights over the property of their families.’’
Islam declared inheritance rights for women over the
property of their father, husband and son when it did not exist in the world,
he said. According to Quran, one man has the right to a share equal to that of
two women and this was no discrimination, he added.
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Soundstorm
Music Festival: Why The Birthplace Of Islam Is Hosting One Of The
World’s Biggest Raves
A general view during
Mdlbeast Soundstorm 2021 on December 19, 2021 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
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By Nadeen Ebrahim
December 3, 2022
Abu Dhabi, UAE CNN
— Electronic music, strobe
lights, glittered faces and hundreds of thousands of people in mixed-gender
gyrations are all part of a new kind of ritual in Saudi Arabia that didn’t
exist just three years ago.
In just five years since Saudi Arabia lifted its ban
on musical events, the kingdom’s concert scene has arguably outshined even that
of Dubai, long seen as the Gulf region’s premier entertainment hub.
The country that has been better known as the
birthplace of Islam than a rave capital has gone through a tremendous makeover
since Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS) took control of the
everyday running of the kingdom in 2017. Soundstorm is an eye-catching symbol
of that change.
For three days every winter, hundreds of thousands of
people from across Saudi Arabia and the region descend on a desert site outside
the capital Riyadh to listen to some of the top Western and Arab acts .
The rave is a manifestation of the ethos behind Saudi
Arabia’s socioeconomic transformation, according to Anna Jacobs, a senior
analyst at the Crisis Group think tank. “(It) is a particularly powerful
example because it seeks to bring together young people and women from across
Saudi Arabia and the world,” she said.
David Guetta, Post Malone and Bruno Mars are just a
few of the stars performing at this year’s event, which prides itself as being
“the loudest festival in the region,” aiming to “amplify the unseen” as it
supports local and international music in the Middle East. Tickets cost between
149 riyals (around $40) for a single day and 6,699 riyals (around $1,800 ) for
a three-day VIP treatment.
The festival reportedly welcomed 730,000 partygoers
last year. By contrast, Las Vegas’ Electric Daisy Carnival, considered North
America’s biggest dance music festival, had an attendance of over 400,000 this
year.
An event like Soundstorm was inconceivable in the
country just six years ago, when the notorious religious police would roam the
streets and censure Saudis for mixing with the opposite sex or flouting social
norms. But it is now part of a liberalization initiative spearheaded by MBS,
the kingdom’s de facto ruler. It accompanies a series of steps to relax social
rules, including lifting the ban on women’s driving and reining in the
religious police.
In 2016, Saudi Arabia established the General
Entertainment Authority in tandem with Vision 2030 – the crown prince’s plan to
diversify its economy beyond oil, which accounts for more than half of the
government’s revenue. Among its goals was to almost double household spending
on cultural and entertainment activities within the kingdom. Riyadh is now
seeing more than $64 billion in entertainment investment, reported Arab News,
with a significant proportion of that going to the live music industry.
Vision 2030 prides itself on offering “world-class
entertainment” and says that it has organized up to 3,800 entertainment events
in the country, attended by more than 80 million people.
“The whole principle about allowing festivals is to
provide youth with domestic entertainment and local tourism opportunities so
they don’t need to travel abroad in search of fun,” said Ali Shihabi, a Saudi
author and analyst.
Some conservatives may find the festival unacceptable,
Shihabi said, but given that youth make up the majority of the country’s
population, they remain the primary beneficiaries.
Around two-thirds of Saudi Arabia’s population is 34
years old or younger, according to the Saudi General Authority for Statistics.
Analysts say it’s the youth that MBS needs to placate, not the conservatives.
The festival is not, however, without international
criticism and accusations of whitewashing the kingdom’s human rights record.
Last year, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said that performers should either “speak
up” about Saudi Arabia’s human rights violations or not attend the festival at
all.
“Saudi Arabia has spent billions of dollars hosting
massive entertainment and cultural events in a deliberate (attempt) to
whitewash the country’s abysmal human rights record and the Soundstorm music
festival is no different,” Joey Shea, a researcher at HRW told CNN. “The
creation of the country’s local entertainment industry was accompanied by waves
of arbitrary arrests of dissidents, activists, human rights defenders and
ordinary Saudi citizens.”
Shihabi rejects the argument that the festival
whitewashes the country’s rights record, saying that it “has little to do with
any global image and is purely focused on servicing local needs.”
Some however argue that opening up countries to
international norms and values can allow for better discussion on human rights
shortcomings.
“I think there is a way for these major international
events – whether that be the World Cup in Qatar or music festivals in Saudi
Arabia – to help open public discourse to critical debate,” said Jacobs.
“They can help cultivate healthy criticism and
discussion around human rights issues in the region,” she added, “and as the
Gulf continues to solidify its position as the region’s center of gravity, I
think this is what we will see.”
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Same-Sex Couples See High Stakes In Gay Rights Supreme
Court Case
FILE - Web designer Lorie
Smith is shown in her office on Nov. 7, 2022, in the southwest part of
Littleton, Colo. T (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
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December 03, 2022
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court is being warned
about the potentially dire consequences of a case next week involving a
Christian graphic artist who objects to designing wedding websites for same-sex
couples.
Rule for the designer, and the justices will expose
not only same-sex couples but also Black people, immigrants, Jews, Muslims and
others to discrimination, liberal groups say.
Rule against her, and the justices will force artists
— from painters and photographers to writers and musicians — to do work that is
against their faith, conservative groups argue.
Both sides have described for the court what lawyers
sometimes call "a parade of horribles" that could result if the
ruling doesn't go their way.
The case marks the second time in five years that the
Supreme Court has confronted the issue of a business owner who says their
religion prevents them from creating works for a gay wedding. This time, most
experts expect that the court now dominated 6-3 by conservatives and
particularly sympathetic to religious plaintiffs will side with Lorie Smith,
the Denver-area designer in the case.
"I think it's disingenuous and false to say that
a win for Lorie in this case would take us back to those times where people ...
were denied access to essential goods and services based on who they
were," said ADF attorney Kellie Fiedorek, adding, "A win for Lorie
here would never permit such conduct, like some of the hypotheticals that
they're raising."
Smith's case follows that of Colorado baker Jack
Phillips, who objected to creating a wedding cake for a gay couple. The couple
sued, but the case ended with a limited decision. Phillips' lawyer, Kristen
Waggoner, is back before the high court Monday arguing for Smith.
Smith wants to begin offering wedding websites, but
she says her Christian faith prevents her from creating websites celebrating
same-sex marriages. That could get her in trouble with state law. Colorado,
like most other states, has a public accommodation law that says if Smith
offers wedding websites to the public, she must provide them to all customers.
Businesses that violate the law can be fined, among other things.
Smith, for her part, says Colorado's law violates the
U.S. Constitution's First Amendment by forcing her to express a message with
which she disagrees.
The Jewish Coalition for Religious Liberty put it
differently, telling the court that a Jewish baker could have to fulfill the
request of a neo-Nazi who wants a cake saying "Happy November 9th!" —
a reference to Kristallnacht, the night in 1938 when Nazis burned synagogues
and vandalized Jewish businesses throughout Germany and Austria.
Among Smith's opponents are the Biden administration
and 20 mostly Democratic-leaning states including California, New York and
Pennsylvania. The states told the court in one of 75 legal briefs filed by
outside groups in the case that accepting Smith's arguments would allow for
widespread discrimination.
"A bakery whose owner opposed mixed-race relationships
could refuse to bake wedding cakes for interracial couples," the states
said. A "real estate agency whose owner opposed racial integration could
refuse to represent Black couples seeking to purchase a home in a predominantly
white neighborhood; or a portrait studio whose proprietor opposes interracial
adoption could refuse to take pictures of white parents with their Black
adopted children."
Those race-based examples could get particular
attention on a court with two Black justices, Clarence Thomas and Ketanji Brown
Jackson, who are married to white spouses and another justice, Amy Coney
Barrett, who has two adopted children who are Black. But the states gave an
example involving a person's national origin too. "A tattoo studio could
ink American flag tattoos on customers born in the United States while refusing
to sell identical tattoos to immigrants," they said.\
Alan B. Morrison, a constitutional law expert at
Georgetown University, underscored that Smith doesn't currently do wedding
websites, making the case particularly speculative and, he says, problematic.
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Mideast
Constitution guarantees republic, Islamic aspects of
the system: Raisi
December 4, 2022
TEHRAN – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has
underlined the need for implementing the constitution, saying it guarantees the
republic and Islamic aspects of the Iranian polity.
Speaking on Saturday morning at the national
conference of "Responsibility for the Implementation of the Constitution,"
Ayatollah Raisi described the constitution as the national covenant and the
embodiment of the glorious Islamic Revolution, which guarantees the republic
and Islamic aspects of the system, constitutional rights and legitimate
freedoms.
Noting that the constitution includes both the rights
of individual citizens and the duties of officials, he said, "The fact
that intellectuals and experts evaluate the quality of the implementation of
the principles of the constitution not only in academic and scientific circles,
but also to examine and monitor the social fields, it will be very informative
and useful."
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Next plot: Assassinating opponents in the name of
Iran!
December 4, 2022
On Thursday, the Washington Post ran a strange story
titled “Rise in Iranian assassination, kidnapping plots alarms Western
officials”.
“The Iranian government has stepped up its efforts to
kidnap and kill government officials, activists and journalists around the world,
including in the United States, according to government documents and
interviews with 15 officials in Washington, Europe and the Middle East, who
spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information,” the
newspaper alleged.
The newspaper said the report by the Washington Post,
which lacks any evidence, strengthens the suspicion that those opposed to the
Islamic Republic are seeking to assassinate some anti-Iran figures in their
countries and attribute them to the Islamic Republic, and thereby provide a new
excuse for further pressure on Iran.
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As Raisi Hails Iran's "Freedoms", State
Media Claims 200 Dead In Protests
December 04, 2022
Dubai: President Ebrahim Raisi on Saturday hailed
Iran's Islamic Republic as a guarantor of rights and freedoms, defending the
ruling system amid a crackdown on anti-government protests that the United
Nations says has cost more than 300 lives.
A top state security body meanwhile said that 200
people, including members of the security forces, had lost their lives in the
unrest, a figure significantly lower than that given by the world body and
rights groups.
The protests, in their third month, were ignited by
the death of 22-year-old Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of morality
police enforcing strict mandatory hijab rules.
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Europe
Islamophobia 'relegated to Muslim issue', says
Bradford author
04-12-2022
An annual campaign challenging Islamophobia is not
being taken seriously enough by wider society, a Bradford Muslim author has
said.
While Islamophobia Awareness Month had just marked its
10th year, Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan said it attracted limited interest beyond
Muslim communities.
According to its website, Islamophobia Awareness Month
(IAM), held every November since 2012, aimed to "showcase the positive
contributions of Muslims and raise awareness of Islamophobia in society".
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Russian Empire Brought Blood Libel Charges Not Only Against
Jews but Against Finno-Ugric and Muslim Peoples
December 3, 2022
Staunton, Dec. 3 – Almost everyone is familiar with
the notorious Beilis case in which the tsarist authorities charged a Jew with
carrying out the ritual murder of a Christian child, an absurd accusation that
the jury rejected but a case that is remembered exclusively as an example of
the anti-Semitism characteristic of the upper reaches of the Russian
government.
What far fewer people are aware of is that the Russian
Empire brought similar and equally absurd charges of ritual murder against
other subjects of its empire, including various Finno-Ugric and Muslim peoples,
as part and parcel of its imperial policy of denigrating its non-Russian and
non-Orthodox subjects.
To recall this in no way lessens the horrific
anti-Semitism that lay behind the Beilis case, but it is a reminder that that
action in addition was part of a broader imperial policy that also deserves to
be recalled and condemned, especially at a time when the Putin regime is
celebrating so many aspects of the imperial past.
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Alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash
extradited to Victoria and charged
By 9News Staff
Dec 4, 2022
A Melbourne man accused of being an Islamic State
terrorist has been extradited to Victoria and charged with six terrorism
offences.
Neil Prakash, 31, allegedly joined and supported
Islamic State in 2014, and is also accused of travelling to Syria and
undertaking hostile acts in 2016.
Northern Territory Local Court Chief Judge Elizabeth
Morris granted an extradition order on Friday to transfer Prakash from the NT
to Victoria.
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Third teen charged over murders of two 16-year-old
boys
By Nina Lloyd
3 Dec 2022
A third teenager has been charged over the murders of
two 16-year-old boys a mile apart in south-east London, the Metropolitan Police
said.
Kearne Solanke was stabbed in Titmuss Avenue,
Thamesmead, and Charlie Bartolo was found with stab wounds in Sewell Road,
Abbey Wood, on Saturday, November 26.
The Met had been called at about 5.10pm to reports
that people had been injured at both locations and both youths were pronounced
dead.
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Historic crown to be modified for King Charles's
coronation in May
Dec 4, 2022
By Reuters: The historic St Edward's Crown, which has
been the centrepiece of the coronation of monarchs in England for more than 350
years, has been removed from the Tower of London to be modified for the
coronation of King Charles III next May, Buckingham Palace said.
The crown, which usually forms part of the Crown
Jewels on display at the Tower, has been used since the coronation of King
Charles II in 1661 after the monarchy was restored following the 10-year
republic of Oliver Cromwell.
The St Edward's Crown replaced a medieval version,
thought to have dated back to the 11th Century reign of Edward the Confessor
which was melted down in 1649.
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India
Muslim husband, Hindu wife booked under Haryana's
anti-conversion law
Dec 03, 2022
Nine people, including a 22-year-old Hindu woman and
her Muslim husband, have been booked under the state's anti-conversion law,
police here said on Saturday.
The woman's father, who filed the complaint, alleged
that his daughter had recently married a Muslim man and was forcibly to
converted to Islam.
Dheeraj Shukla, a resident of SGM Nagar, in his
complaint said that his elder daughter Sanskriti Shukla works in a private bank
and has married a Muslim man.
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Assam Jatiya Parishad Lodges Police Complaint Against
AIDUF Chief Badruddin Ajmal For Advising Hindus To Try ‘The Muslim Formula’ And
Marry Young
03 DEC 2022
After Chief of All India United Democratic Front
(AIDUF), Badruddin Ajmal, said Hindus should adopt "the Muslim
formula" by getting their boys married at 20-22 and girls at 18-20 years
of age, the Assam Jatiya Parishad (AJP) lodged police complaints on Saturday
against Ajmal for targeting women and the Hindu community.
AJP vice-president Dulu Ahmed filed the complaint at
Hatigaon police station here and in Hailakandi by the party's chief convenor
there. Ahmed demanded immediate action against Ajmal, a Lok Sabha MP, for his
comments as it has led to “widespread reactions in the society and could ignite
communal violence”. The police confirmed receiving the complaint and said
investigation has been started in the matter.
AiDUF chief Ajmal, on Friday, had said: "Muslim
men marry at the age of 20-22, and Muslim women marry at 18 after the
permissible age by the government. On the other hand, they [Hindus] keep one,
two or three illegal wives before marriage, they don't give birth to babies,
enjoy themselves and save money." When asked about the rise in the Muslim
population—a frequent subject of right-wing invectives—the AIDUF chief said,
"After the age of 40 they get married under parental pressure... So, how
can one expect that they will bear children after 40? If you sow in fertile
land, only then you can bear good crops. There will then be growth."
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Campaigning ends but Muslim voters cold to BJP wooing
in Khatauli, Rampur
ByS Raju
Dec 04, 2022
Canvassing ended for by-elections in Khatauli and
Rampur constituencies on Saturday and voters cast their votes on Monday to
elect their new representatives for the state Assembly. The result will be
declared on December 8.
RLD chief Jayant Choudhary was camping in Khatauli
constituency to ensure victory of RLS-SP and ASP alliance candidate Madan
Bhaiya against BJP’s Rajkumari Saini. Rajkumari is the wife of the party’s
disqualified MLA, Vikram Saini, after he was convicted by a court in the
Muzaffarnagar riots case.
In Rampur, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Bhim
Army chief Chandrashekher Azad addressed an election rally in support of the
alliance candidate Aasim Raza who is a confidante of the SP leader and former
minister Azam Khan.
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Arab world
UN report: Iraqi Christians victims of Islamic State’s
crimes against humanity and war crimes
12/03/2022
Today's other news: North Korea publicly executes two
minors for distributing South Korean films; Indonesia is set to approve a law
that punishes extramarital sex with prison for both Indonesians and foreigners;
China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Russia on the US "blacklist" for
violations of religious freedom; the number of child brides is up in
Afghanistan since the Taliban seized power.
In 2014, after conquering a third of the country, the
Islamic State group committed crimes against humanity and war crimes against
Iraqi Christians, this according to a report presented to the UN Security
Council. The document describes in detail forced displacement and conversions,
persecution, seizures of property, slavery, sexual violence, and destruction of
cultural and religious sites.
North Korean authorities publicly executed by firing
squad three young men, two for distributing South Korean films, and a third one
for killing his stepmother. People in Hyesan were forced to watch the execution
after being told that the alleged crimes committed by the offenders, aged 16
and 17, were of equal seriousness.
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Finding answers in the field of humanities tops Riyadh
Philosophy Conference’s agenda
HEBSHI ALSHAMMARI
December 03, 2022
RIYADH: The Riyadh International Philosophy Conference
brought together philosophers, scholars, historians, politicians, and artists
from around the world to help drive research in the field of humanities, the CEO
of the Literature, Publishing and Translation Commission told Arab News.
“As a result, we may state that the things that are
contradictory to realities and possibilities of time are at the center of
philosophy’s activity.”
He added: “The conference comes at a time when such
cultural activities are needed to fill a vacuum that has always been
unoccupied. It is also needed to reinvigorate dialogue.”
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Virtual Reality Zone hits center stage at Red Sea
International Film Festival
AMEERA ABID
December 03, 2022
JEDDAH: The Virtual Reality Zone came into its own at
the Red Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah on Saturday, showcasing 10
different projects, six of which were directed by women, ranging from video
games to stories and art galleries.
“Unlike movies, where you know that it has a beginning,
middle, and an end on a flat screen, in VR you may be doing something with one
person, two, or 100.”
She added: “We make sure that we have something for
everyone, so there are things for younger people, families and people who have
different tastes.”
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Saudi Arabia’s Red Sea Souk welcomes storytellers
AMEERA ABID
December 04, 2022
JEDDAH: The Red Sea Souk returned for the second Red
Sea International Film Festival in Jeddah on Saturday.
The four-day souk will be packed with pitching
sessions, meetings, screenings, industry talks and networking events.
Last year’s souk had more than 3,500 accredited
industry professionals and organizers, with executives from 46 countries. This
year is expected to have an even bigger number of people making it happen.
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North America
CAIR CONDEMNS DISTRIBUTION OF HATE PROPAGANDA IN
MISSOURI, CONNECTICUT
DECEMBER 03,2022
WASHINGTON, D.C., 12/2/2022) - The Missouri and
Connecticut chapters of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-MO,
CAIR-CT), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization,
today condemned the distribution of white supremacist and antisemitic hate
propaganda in those states.
Residents in Southbury, Conn., discovered white
supremacist material in sandwich bags in their driveways and on porches last
month.
“We condemn this attempt to spread racist hate in our
communities and urge political and religious leaders to speak out strongly
against the growing bigotry we are unfortunately seeing nationwide,” said
CAIR-Connecticut Chair Farhan Memon.
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CAIR, Maryland Muslim Prisoner Project Joined by
Community Partners to Seek Religious Accommodations for Incarcerated Muslims in
Prince George’s County Prison
Ibrahim Hooper
December 3, 2022
(BALTIMORE, MD, 12/3/22) – On Friday, December 2,
2022, CAIR’s Maryland office and the Maryland Muslim Prisoner Project were
joined by Prince George’s County Muslim Council and Justice for All at Jumah
prayer followed by a news conference outside the Prince George’s County
Department of Corrections to demand religious accommodations for Muslim inmates
to congregate for Friday prayer, be served halal meals and to wear hijab.
“No one should ever have the SWAT team called on them
for exercising their constitutionally protected right to peacefully assemble
for prayer,” said CAIR’s Maryland Director Zainab Chaudry. “Incarcerated
Muslims are especially vulnerable to having their rights trampled over, and
prisons have an obligation to make sure that they can practice their faith free
from discrimination and intimidation. We call on administrators at Prince
George’s Corrections to green light these basic accommodations and uphold their
legal obligation to protect their rights.”
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Seek knowledge for liberation, Banire urges muslims
By Opeyemi Babalola
04 December 2022
Legal luminary, Muiz Banire, yesterday, encouraged
Muslim faithful to get committed in seeking knowledge, saying it is the light
and liberation from ignorance.
Banire, who chaired the first International symposium
organised by the Lagos Academy for Training and Research, otherwise known as
MAJMA’ LAGOS, with the theme, ‘Emerging Concerns over Arabic Language, Economic
Development and Islamic Jurisprudence,’ challenged the Muslims to embrace the
learning of the Arabic language, adding that, it is the only way they can
clearly understand the religion and make them a practicing Muslims.
Meanwhile, the academy will graduate its pioneer set
in Lagos today after 14 years of its establishment as an empowerment-focussed
training outfit committed to professional training on Arabic-English-Arabic
translation and interpretation.
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Pakistan
Pakistan confirming veracity of reports about IS-K
claiming attack on Kabul embassy
Tahir Khan
December 4, 2022
The Foreign Office (FO) said on Sunday that it was
“verifying the veracity of reports” regarding the militant Islamic State group
claiming responsibility for the attack on Pakistan’s embassy in Kabul two days
earlier.
On Friday, the embassy in Kabul came under attack with
Chargé d’Affaires (CdA) to Afghanistan Ubaidur Rehman Nizamani targeted.
Nizamani was unscathed but his guard was critically wounded.
The Islamic State group’s Khorasan chapter (IS-K) on
Sunday claimed responsibility for the attack, confirming that it was targeting
the Pakistani envoy.
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Centre censured for withholding provincial shares
Ahmad Fraz Khan
December 4, 2022
LAHORE: The governments of Punjab and Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa came down hard on the federal government on Saturday over the
“ongoing financial crisis”, alleging that the Centre had withheld provincial
shares at a time when they were conducting flood relief operations.
Since coming to power in April, the coalition
government had not transferred Rs120 billion to the KP government alone, KP
Finance Minister Taimur Khan Jhagra told reporters at a press conference in
Lahore. He was accompanied by Punjab Finance Minister Mohsin Leghari and Punjab
government spokesperson Musarrat Jamshed Cheema.
Of this withheld amount, Rs30bn was meant for the
newly merged tribal areas, stifling development projects, Mr Jhagra said,
insisting that cutting off these areas from the mainstream could have
far-reaching security-related consequences that would not be limited to just
Peshawar and KP.
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PTI MPA Haji Fazal Elahi faces arrest over Peshawar
rally outside corps commander’s house
Bureau Report
December 4, 2022
PESHAWAR: The Peshawar police have informed the deputy
speaker of the provincial assembly about their plans to arrest MPA of the
ruling Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Haji Fazal Elahi for protesting outside
the residence of Peshawar’s corps commander after the Nov 3 gun attack on
former prime minister Imran Khan.
Mr Elahi and several other PTI leaders were booked for
staging the protest against the ‘assassination attempt’ that wounded Mr Imran
in the leg during a rally in Punjab province’s Wazirabad city.
The East Cantonment police station had registered an
FIR under sections 341, 353 and 437 of the Pakistan Penal Code for “wrongful
restraint, assault to deter public servant from discharge of his duty and
committing mischief by causing damage to property.”
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SC throws out joint petition against perks of KP
teachers
Nasir Iqbal
December 4, 2022
ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Saturday regretted the
treatment meted out to teachers by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) government by
discontinuing their conveyance allowance during summer and winter vacations and
observed that it did not find any irregularity or perversity in the judgments
passed by the service tribunal.
“The future development and wellbeing of every country
is highly dependent on good educationists, being a vivid source of learning,
achievements and enlightenment for the benefit of their students,” observed
Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar but regretted that the discriminatory treatment
with teachers was totally ill-founded, prejudicial and inequitable.
Headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata
Bandial, a three-judge Supreme Court bench had taken up a joint appeal moved by
KP chief secretary and provincial secretary of elementary and secondary
education and higher education, archives and libraries department.
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Imran says his offer for talks ‘misread’
Mansoor Malik
December 4, 2022
LAHORE: In what appeared to be an attempt to clear the
air after his offer for talks to the coalition government on snap polls
supposedly backfired, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan on
Saturday insisted his offer was ‘misunderstood’, as he made it in the larger
interests of the country.
He then implored “the handlers” of the federal
government to realise the country was fast heading towards a default and urged
them to act to save the 220 million people from a perpetual loss.
However, Mr Khan while speaking during an interview
with Bol News late in the night, gave a new dimension to his stance. The PTI
chief said he may delay the dissolution of Punjab and KP assemblies if
political players agreed to come to the table and decide that general elections
would be called maximum by the end of next March.
Since March will be the month of Ramazan, Mr Khan’s
new suggestion implies that PDM government should immediately announce the
elections date, dissolve all assemblies and call for general elections. But he
said the elections can be held in the fasting month too.
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MQM’s London property case to resume in the new year
A Correspondent
December 4, 2022
LONDON: The court battle between MQM-London and
MQM-Pakistan over seven properties in the British capital will recommence in
January 2023, as the witness testimonies could not be completed until the time
stipulated by the judge.
Insolvency and Companies Court (ICC) Judge Clive Jones
had granted a five-day hearing for the case last week, but the prosecution was
unable to cross-examine all witnesses from the defendant side within this time.
The testimonies of MQM Supremo Altaf Hussain and MQM-London member Sufyan
Yousuf are yet to be heard by the court, and are expected to take place in the
new year.
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South Asia
Afghan, Foreign Investors Meet in Kabul for Future
Opportunities
By Arif Ahmadi
December 3, 2022
Kabul, Afghanistan – Afghan and foreign investors held
a joint meeting in capital city Kabul to improve business ties and discuss
opportunities for investment in Afghanistan.
This marks the first meeting since the takeover last
August, which came weeks after local businesses held exhibition to showcase
domestic products in Kabul.
“We share our problems with each other, and every side
shares the problems with officials. We hope the meeting will have a good
outcome,” said Sultan Mohammad Safi, the deputy head of the Afghanistan Chamber
of Commerce and Investment, as TOLOnews quoted.
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Attack on Pakistan Embassy in Afghan Capital Spurs
Reactions
By Saqalain Eqbal
December 3, 2022
The attack on the Pakistani embassy in Kabul was
deemed a terrorist attack and strongly denounced by the United Nations Security
Council members on Friday.
The members of the Security Council stated that all
parties demand the security of diplomatic premises, consulates, and foreign
personnel of UN member states.
The fundamental principle of the inviolability of
diplomatic and consular premises was emphasized, along with the receiving
states’ obligations under the 1961 Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations
and the 1963 Vienna Convention on Consular Relations to take all necessary
measures to ensure diplomatic and consular premises, according to a statement
from the council members.
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Pakistan’s First Consignment of Medical Assistance
Reaches Afghanistan
By Saqalain Eqbal
December 3, 2022
In a string of tweets on the official handle of the Afghan
Ministry of Public Health on Friday, December 2, the first batch of the series
of consigned medicines has reached Afghanistan.
According to the tweet from the ministry, Pakistan has
begun consigning medicines worth close to two hundred million in Pakistani
currency.
Three specialized hospitals that Pakistan established
in Afghanistan will receive these medicine shipments, according to the
announcement.
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Authorities in Afghanistan Denounce Attack on
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s Office
By Saqalain Eqbal
December 3, 2022
Two armed assailants on Friday, December 2, attacked
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s office, the headquarters of Hizb-e-Islami (Islamic
Political Party) located in Kabul police district 6.
The attack on the Iman Mosque of Hizb-e-Islami office
of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar in the Darulaman area of Kabul resulted in the
fatalities of two guards and two assailants.
Gulbuddin Hekmatyar survived the assassination
attempt; however, the clash between the assailants and guards resulted in 4
deaths, 2 from each side.
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Air pollution costs Bangladesh up to 4.4% of GDP:
World Bank
Dec 04, 2022
Bangladesh’s economic losses from ambient air
pollution are estimated to be as much as 4.4% of the country’s gross domestic
product, the World Bank said.
Air pollution was estimated to have caused between
78,145 and 88,229 deaths, and between 1 billion and 1.1 billion days lived with
illness in Bangladesh in 2019, according to the report published Sunday. It
assessed the short-term impact on physical and mental health due to exposure to
outdoor air pollution using data from 12,250 individuals in Dhaka and Sylhet.
Bangladesh was ranked as the most polluted country in
the world, and Dhaka as the second most polluted city each year between 2018
and 2021. Air pollution was deemed the second largest risk factor leading to
deaths and disability in Bangladesh in 2019, with four out of the top five
causes of total deaths being directly associated with its exposure.
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Bengal publishers likely to showcase publications in
Bangladesh soon
Dec 03 2022
Kolkata, Dec 3 (IANS): Publishers of Bengali
literature from West Bengal might get an opportunity to showcase and market
their publications in Bangladesh soon.
Just as the Bangladesh Book fair is organised in
Kolkata annually for the last ten years, similarly, there might be a Kolkata
Book Fair or West Bengal Book Fair in Dhaka in the same lines.
A specific assurance has come in this regard from the
education minister of Bangladesh, Dipu Moni, who was in Kolkata on the occasion
of the inauguration of the 10th Bangladesh Book Fair at College Square in
central Kolkata.
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Southeast Asia
Amin reiterates govt support for banks' conversion to
Islamic banks
04-12-2022
Makassar, South Sulawesi (ANTARA) - Vice President
Ma'ruf Amin on Saturday reiterated the government's commitment to advancing the
Islamic economy through the National Committee of Islamic Economics and Finance
(KNEKS) by supporting the conversion of conventional banks to Islamic banks.
Amin, as the executive head of the national committee,
also commended the planned conversion of Makassar-based Sulselbar Regional
Development Bank (BPD) into an Islamic bank to encourage the growth of Islamic
financial institutions in provinces.
"Today, the South Sulawesi Regional Committee of
Islamic Economy and Finance has been established. I also wish to commend the
planned conversion of Sulselbar BPD as Sulselbar Sharia Bank," the vice
president said at a gathering of the academic community at the Muslim
University of Indonesia (UMI) here on Saturday.
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Sarawak activist asks if DPM Zahid has time for
ministerial duties while on trial for 47 criminal charges
By Sulok Tawie
04 Dec 2022
KUCHING, Dec 4 — Sarawak-based human rights activist
Peter John Jaban today questioned if Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri Ahmad
Zahid Hamidi has the time to fully discharge his ministerial duties while he is
on trial facing 47 court charges.
He said Ahmad Zahid, who was sworn in yesterday, will
have to concentrate on establishing his innocence and free himself of the
charges.
"He should weigh carefully whether he has the
time and the energy to prepare for his court case and still carry out his
duties as the deputy prime minister,” Jaban said when responding to the
appointment of Ahmad Zahid by Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
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Nothing political about Zahid’s appointment as DPM,
says Umno sec-gen
04 Dec 2022
ROMPIN, Dec 4 — The appointment of Umno president
Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Zahid Hamidi as deputy prime minister was not made based on
political interests but in consideration of his position in the party
hierarchy.
Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Ahmad Maslan said
the appointment of Ahmad Zahid to the country’s second-highest office was also
aimed at stabilising the unity government which was formed after no party won a
simple majority of 112 seats in the Dewan Rakyat.
“There has never been a Cabinet that has not been
criticised. How often do we see something that is 100 per cent perfect? There
must be disagreements here and there.
”If we give it (the position) to someone other than the
president (Ahmad Zahid), that stability is somewhat in question. Firstly, the
strength of Umno and secondly the unity government itself.
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Be more like DAP and put country first, Zahid tells
Muhyiddin
By Zarrah Morden
04 Dec 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 4 — Deputy Prime Minister Datuk Seri
Ahmad Zahid Hamidi today blasted Perikatan Nasional (PN) chairman Tan Sri
Muhyiddin Yassin for criticising the newly formed Cabinet, defending DAP and
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim.
Using Muhyiddin's given name of Mahiaddin, Ahmad Zahid
said on Facebook that the former prime minister should follow the example set
by DAP and prioritise the country over parties and individuals.
"Mahiaddin and his allies should be ashamed of
being seen as too power-hungry until they're willing to dispute the Malay
Rulers.
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Africa
Thousands of Islamists rally against UN mission in
Sudan
03 December, 2022
Thousands of Islamists in Sudan rallied Saturday
against efforts by the United Nations to solve the political crisis sparked by
last year's coup, AFP journalists said.
The demonstrations, the latest by Islamist factions in
recent weeks, came one day after military leaders and a key civilian bloc
announced plans to sign an initial deal.
Political turmoil has gripped Sudan since army chief
Abdel Fattah al-Burhan led an October 2021 military takeover, derailing a
fragile transition to civilian rule installed after the 2019 ouster of
long-time Islamist autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
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2023: Muslim-Muslim ticket will be met with electoral
consequences – Cardinal Onaiyekan
4th December 2022
Among other issues, the former president of the
Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) said that Nigerians are looking for a
new kind of government in 2023, saying that he does not believe it is
impossible.
Yes, I am not strongly against it. I made it very
clear. Maybe it is good to have an opportunity to explain what I said. I said
for me, the issue is not religious, that for me, the APC, in their wisdom, have
come to the decision that the easiest way for them to win the election is to
field a Muslim-Muslim ticket, which means that decision is not even a religious
decision, it is a political decision. Since it is a political decision, they
should be prepared to pay for the political consequences of that decision. For
me then, a political decision that ends up in a Muslim-Muslim ticket tells
volumes as regards what kind of government to expect from such a group of
politicians who take this kind of political decision.
I thought I have been clear enough that the APC, it
has taken it as a political decision, they want to win the election and they
believe the easiest way for them to win the election is to field a
Muslim-Muslim ticket. They know that there are non-Moslems around. Even the man
they have selected to push the whole thing is a Catholic man – to push for
them. If it was a matter for promotion of Islam; that would have been a
decision taken from the Mosque and it would have been a Moslem thing. They have
not done so. It has a religious connotation, of course, but that is because our
religious identity is part and parcel of the factors that any politician should
take into consideration. And if you don’t take my religious identity into
consideration in your political discussion, don’t blame me if I say I cannot
vote for you.
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11 injured as gunmen attack mosque in Delta
By Chiamaka Okafor
December 3, 2022
At least 11 people were injured on Friday when gunmen
attacked a mosque in Ughelli, Delta State.
Residents told the News Agency of Nigeria that the
attack happened at about 6:47 a.m. on Friday morning while Muslim faithfuls
held their morning prayers at the Central Mosque, located along Okoroda street
in Ughelli.
Residents said they were awakened by gunshots and
screams from the mosque but were too scared to come out.
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