Work On Ayodhya Masjid In Limbo Due To Administrative Hurdles, Despite Relentless Efforts By A Waqf Board-Appointed Panel
26
February 2023
The site allotted for the
construction of a mosque in Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh | Photo Credit:
R.V. Moorthy
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• Work On Ayodhya Masjid In Limbo Due To
Administrative Hurdles, Despite Relentless Efforts By A Waqf Board-Appointed
Panel
• “Say No To LGBTQ”: Muslims March Against
Homosexuality in Uganda
• Afghan Taliban Wants Pakistan To Bear The Cost Of
Disarming Tehreek-e-Taliban Militants
• Khojaly Genocide Became Great Scourge For Humanity -
Caucasian Muslims Office
• The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 29 Years Later: The
Victims Are Still Paying The Price
India
• Shashi Tharoor criticises Congress for its silence
on issues like Bilkis Bano, attacks on Muslims, Christians
• Can't Maharashtra's Muslims be like Sharad Pawar,
Uddhav Thackeray and Shinde, asks Owaisi
• PWD demolishes illegal extensions at ITO temple and
mosque
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Africa
• African Union Criticises Tunisia Over 'Racialised
Hate Speech' Against Migrants
• Jordan hosts Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at
averting escalation in violence
• Turkey’s Erdogan pours billions in weapons and aid
to Africa in power play for influence in ‘new Cold War’
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South Asia
• Commodity prices will not increase in Ramadan:
Rezaul
• Official: 'No Monopoly' on Govt Jobs in Afghanistan
• Pakistan Reopens Border Crossing With Afghanistan
That It Shut Over Shelter To Terrorists
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Europe
• Marco Pierre White’s Big Brother Star Son Converts
To Islam In Prison To Stay Off Heroin
• Westminster Accounts: Baroness Cox Forced To Declare
Financial Interests After Leak Reveals Links
To Anti-Islam Activists
• Divers recover two bodies from Firth of Clyde after
tugboat capsized
• Rishi Sunak criticised over plans for EU chief to
meet King Charles
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Mideast
• Israeli Forces Attack Palestinians Commemorating
Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre Anniversary
• Russia wants Quad-like grouping with Turkey, Iran,
Syria; says foreign ministers meet in work
• Iran Boasts Of New 'Paveh' Cruise Missile With A Range
Of 1,650 Km That Can Reach Israel
• Rumours Of Government Reshuffle Circulate As Iran
Faces Turmoil
• US, Israel discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Iran’s nuclear programme
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Southeast Asia
• Malaysia: Act May Be Amended To Strengthen Fight
Against Child Pornography
• Cops slammed after arresting schoolboys for
ridiculing SPM history paper in viral clip
• Budget 2023: Sarawak needs bigger allocation to
catch up with development in peninsula, says Chinese Association president
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Arab world
• Saudi Creatives Join Hands With Community Members To
Create A 25-Meter Art Installation In Jeddah
• Ramadan 2023 in UAE: Sharjah reveals massive Dh125
million ‘Joud’ aid campaign
• Art, fashion, music enthral visitors at Saudi Cup
• MWL chief receives Cardinal Christoph Schonbrunn in
Riyadh
• Kingdom arrests 16,105 illegals in one week
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North America
• Al-Farooq Mosque Opens New Doors, Celebrating
Growth, Support Of Nashville's Muslim Community
• US medical transport plane crashes in Nevada,
leaving five dead
• US papers drop 'Dilbert' cartoon after racist rant
by creator Scott Adams
• US comedian Kevin Hart exhilarated after MidEast
portion of world tour
• Muslim Students Association to host meal packing
event
• 'Powder keg' for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing
remembered
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Pakistan
• PTI Leaders In Multan ‘Shy Away’ From Arrests
• At Least 4 Killed, 14 Injured In Blast In
Balochistan’s Barkhan: Police
• Coalition seeks SC full court for suo motu case
• Two cops martyred in Khuzdar bomb attack
• ‘Jail Bharo’: Swati says he wasn’t there in Lahore
to court arrest
Compiled by New
Age Islam News Bureau
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Work On Ayodhya Masjid In Limbo Due To Administrative
Hurdles, Despite Relentless Efforts By A Waqf Board-Appointed Panel
The site allotted for the
construction of a mosque in Ayodhya district of Uttar Pradesh | Photo Credit:
R.V. Moorthy
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ISHITA MISHRA
February 25, 2023
Over three years after the ‘settlement’ of the Ram
Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid title dispute, the mosque awaits administrative clearances
before a brick can be laid. Parallelly, across the Sarayu river, on its main
bank, the construction of the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya will see visitors enter the
sanctum sanctorum by the end of the year.
In November 2019, the Constitution Bench of the Supreme
Court permitted the construction of a temple in Ayodhya, at the site where the
16th century Babri Masjid once stood, after being brought down by Hindu
fundamentalist groups. In the same order of over 1,000 pages, the top court had
asked the government — either the Centre or Uttar Pradesh (U.P.) — to allot a
“prominent and suitable” 5-acre plot in Ayodhya to the Sunni Central Waqf
Board, to construct a mosque. “This should be done simultaneously with the
transfer of the property to the proposed trust [for the temple],” the order had
said.
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“Say No To LGBTQ”: Muslims March Against Homosexuality
in Uganda
Religious leaders and
learners from primary and secondary schools march on the streets of Jinja City,
protesting against homosexuality on Friday.
PHOTO | TAUSI NAKATO
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By Tausi Nakato
February 26, 2023
Thousands of Muslim demonstrators took to the streets
of Jinja City, on Friday condemning homosexuality.
The protesters shouted slogans and held placards with
inscriptions against the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT)
community.
The placards had words such as “say no to LGBTQ”,
“homosexuality and lesbianism is sin”, “Gayism is evil”, “homosexuality is not
African culture” and “No room for LGBTQ”.
The protestors, who also included children from
different primary and secondary schools, and leaders from other religious
groups, also organised an anti-LGBT rally at Faisal Mosque at Mvule Crescent in
Jinja City on Friday.
The chairperson of the Union of Eastern Muslim
Scholars, Mr Shafie Songolo, said it is a human principle that our [body]
organs are similar in nature but their functions are totally different.
“The mouth and nose are open in nature but their
functions are totally different. You cannot breathe through your mouth because
God created a nose with hair inside that filters dust. Having different organs
does not mean they will help each other in performing a certain task,” he said.
The Jinja City Education Officer, Mr Haruna Mulopa,
urged school heads to monitor their students’ characters to avoid cases of
homosexuality.
“These LGBT groups target schools, especially poor
children, give them money and vehicles. Teachers, you must monitor those rich
students at your schools because some of them are funded to spread
homosexuality,’’ he said.
“If animals can’t practice homosexuality, why would a
human, who was created in God’s image, practice it? As a church, we condemn same-sex
relations because it is against the divine laws and nature,” Rev Naimanye, who
was represented by Rev Emmanuel Mugabi at the anti-LGBT walk, said.
The national chairperson of Uganda Muslim Supreme
Council (UMSC), Prof Muhammad Lubega Kisambira, urged parents to talk about
LGBT to their children so that it can be stopped.
“Although we grew up knowing that talking about sex to
our children is not right until they are adults, let us talk about
homosexuality with our children. Senior female and male teachers, play your
role. The funders target children in secondary, tertiary and university,” he
said.
The Jinja District Kadhi, Sheikh Ismail Basoga, urged
the government to ban all non-government organisations that are promoting
homosexuality in Uganda.
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Afghan Taliban Wants Pakistan To Bear The Cost Of
Disarming Tehreek-E-Taliban Militants
Representative Image: Afghan
Taliban
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Feb 25, 2023
The Taliban-led government in Afghanistan has for the
first time proposed to Pakistan that it should bear the cost of disarming and
rehabilitating the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) members and their families
numbering more than 30,000 from the Pak-Afghan border areas, according to a
media report. This was revealed during the National Apex Committee meeting
chaired by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif on Friday to formulate a strategy to
deal with the rising incidents of terror attacks in Pakistan ..
The Afghan Taliban has said it is willing to disarm
and relocate the outlawed Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP) militants and their families
across the border but wants Islamabad to bear the cost of the proposed
rehabilitation, the report said.
Friday's meeting comes after Defence Minister Khawaja
Asif and the Director General of the country's spy agency Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) Lt. General Nadeem Anjum met the top brass of the
Afghanistan Taliban regime in Kabul to share "irrefutable evidence"
with them about the presence of TTP in the neighbouring country.
The Afghan interim government's proposal includes
disarming the TTP members and relocation of their families from the Pak-Afghan
border, the report said.
However, the Afghan government has asked Pakistan to
fund the proposal and bear the cost of rehabilitation of the TTP members, it
said.
The meeting was informed that the Afghan Taliban made
a similar proposal to China to address its concerns about the East Turkestan
Islamic Movement (ETIM) in the restive Xinjiang province, the report said.
However, Pakistan is yet to respond to the Afghan
Taliban's idea as there is scepticism within the top brass that this proposal
might not be feasible, the report said.
Pakistan has been hit by a wave of terrorism, mostly
in the country's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, but also in Balochistan, the
Punjab town of Mianwali, which borders the restive Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province
and also in the Sindh province.
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Khojaly Genocide Became Great Scourge For Humanity -
Caucasian Muslims Office
Chairman of the Caucasian
Muslims Office Allahshukur Pashazade
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26 February 2023
BAKU, Azerbaijan, February 26. The Khojaly genocide
has become a great scourge for humanity, Chairman of the Caucasian Muslims
Office Allahshukur Pashazade told reporters, Trend reports.
Pashazade noted that the world community should
understand that Azerbaijan will never forget the murder of more than 600
civilians by Armenian fascists in one night.
"Regardless of religion, we honor this day
together with representatives of other religions. Together, we once again
appeal to the world community so that the Khojaly genocide does not happen
again. I believe that the world community will learn a lesson from this,"
he said.
On the night of February 25-26, 1992, Armenian
military formations, with the support of the 366th motorized rifle regiment
stationed in Khankendi, committed genocide against the population of the city
of Khojaly.
As a result of this bloody massacre, 613 people,
including 106 women, 63 children, and 70 older people were killed, 8 families
were completely wiped out, 25 children lost both parents, 130 children lost one
of their parents, 487 people were seriously injured, 1,275 people were taken
hostage, and the fate of 150 of them is still unknown.
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The Ibrahimi Mosque Massacre 29 Years Later: The
Victims Are Still Paying The Price
Palestinians marking the
29th anniversary for the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre attacked with gas bombs by
Israeli soldiers. (WAFA Images / Mashhour Wehwah)
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25/February/2023
HEBRON, Saturday, February 25, 2023 (WAFA) - Today
marks the 29th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre, which resulted in
the death of 29 Palestinian worshipers and the injury of 150 others. Yet, 29
years later, the victims are still paying the price for the massacre.
On Friday, 25 February 1994, the 15th day of the holy
Muslim fast month of Ramadan, the Jewish terrorist settler, Baruch Goldstein,
broke into the Ibrahimi Mosque, also known as Cave of the Patriarchs because it
includes shrines and tombs of prophets, located in the southern West Bank city
of Hebron, as Muslims were performing the dawn prayers on a Ramadan day and
opened fire on the worshipers killing 29 on the spot before he was neutralized
by the worshippers.
The Israeli occupation soldiers present in the area
closed the gates of the mosque to prevent the worshipers from leaving, and they
also prevented those coming from outside from entering it to help the wounded.
But the 29 were not the only victims of that massacre.
That same day, the occupation soldiers opened fire at Palestinians
participating in the funerals of the dead, killing 21 more people.
With tension escalating in the occupied territories,
soldiers opened fire at protesters the next day killing 10 more and wounding
hundreds of others.
Following the massacre, the occupation forces closed
the Ibrahimi Mosque and Hebron’s old city for a full six months, claiming to
investigate the crime. They unilaterally formed the Shamgar Commission to
investigate the massacre and its causes, which came out at the time with
several recommendations, all against the victims and favoring the terrorist
settlers.
The recommendations included dividing the Ibrahimi
Mosque between Muslims and Jews, creating new facts on the ground that worsened
living conditions for the area’s Palestinian residents, tightened security
around the holy mosque, giving the occupation authorities full control over the
mosque in order to continue to turn into a Jewish shrine, and preventing the
call to prayer from its minarets many times during the year as well as closing
it for Muslim worshipping many times in the year while opening it fully for
only Jewish worship.
Shortly after, the occupation authorities placed
cameras and electronic gates at all entrances leading to the mosque area,
closed most of the roads leading to it to Muslims, with the exception of one
gate with strict military measures, closed the popular vegetable market
(al-Hisbeh), the al-Khalil and Shaheen khans, and al-Shuhada and al-Sahla
streets. With these measures, the old town was separated from its surroundings,
measures that are still in place today and are even harsher. Their impact on
the life of the thousands of Palestinians who live in that area is very visible
to anyone who goes there.
The terrorist Baruch Goldstein, whose real name was
Benjamin Goldstein, was 42 years old when he committed the massacre. He was one
of the founders of the Jewish terrorist Kach movement. Goldstein was born in
New York, into an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family and he got his education at the
Jewish yeshiva schools in Brooklyn and got a degree in medicine from the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. He came to Israel from the
United States in 1980 and lived in Kiryat Arba settlement, built on usurped
Hebron lands and houses the most extreme and racist settlers in Israel.
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India
Shashi Tharoor criticises Congress for its silence on
issues like Bilkis Bano, attacks on Muslims, Christians
Sounak Mukhopadhyay
26-02-2023
Congress leader Shashi Tharoor called on his party to
be clear in its ideological stance in favour of an inclusive India and to take
a stronger stance on issues such as cow vigilantism and attacks on minority
communities. He argued that failing to speak up in defence of India's diversity
and pluralism would constitute a surrender of the party's core responsibility.
Speaking at the party's 85th plenary session, Tharoor
emphasised the need for the Congress to stand up for its foundational
principles and not downplay certain positions for fear of alienating voters.
"We could have been more vocal on the Bilkis Bano
outrage, attacks on Christian churches, murder in the name of cow vigilantism,
bulldozer demolition of Muslim homes and similar issues," he said.
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Can't Maharashtra's Muslims be like Sharad Pawar,
Uddhav Thackeray and Shinde, asks Owaisi
Pankaj Upadhyay
Feb 25, 2023
By Pankaj Upadhyay: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on
Saturday held a public rally in the suburban area of Mumbra in Thane district,
Maharashtra, and indicated that he had no sympathy for former Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray after his party split and Shiv Sena’s name and symbol was
allotted to the Eknath Shinde faction.
“Why did Mumbra come into existence? Who were the ones
who forced old people to flee Mumbai and come here? I haven’t forgotten
anything. And then you ask me, do I have sympathy for Uddhav Thackeray? I have
not forgotten the days when people were put behind bars under TADA,” said
Owaisi.
AIMIM chief asked the public, “If NCP's Ajit Pawar and
Supriya Sule can become leaders, Uddhav Thackeray can become a leader solely on
the virtue of being his father's son, Eknath Shinde-Devendra Fadnavis can
become leaders, can't Maharashtra's Muslims be like Sharad Pawar, Uddhav
Thackeray and Shinde?”
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PWD demolishes illegal extensions at ITO temple and
mosque
By HT Correspondent
Feb 26, 2023
The PWD deployed three bulldozers and two trucks for
the drive that took place under heavy police presence. Barricades were placed
on the BSZ Marg carriageway towards Delhi Gate to stop movement of vehicles,
police officers said.
A PWD official said the Saturday’s drive boundary
walls and ceilings of a temple and a mosque located between Indian National
Science Academy and Bureau of Indian standards were taken down. “We are just
complying with the court directions,” the official said asking not to be named.
In an order on Thursday, the high court ordered the
demolition of the two structures for making the pedestrian pathway uniform, and
remarked that “both the places of worship are clearly abutting the path of the
pedestrians”. Justice Pratibha M Singh said under such circumstances where the
safety of the pedestrians is jeopardised, “A larger public interest will
overweigh the concerns raised by both places of worship, i.e the mandir and the
masjid.”
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Africa
African Union Criticises Tunisia Over 'Racialised Hate
Speech' Against Migrants
Feb. 25, 2023
TUNIS - The African Union (AU) has criticised Tunisia
and urged it to avoid "racialised hate speech" after President Kais
Saied ordered the expulsion of undocumented migrants and said immigration was a
plot aimed at changing his country's demographic make-up .
Tunisia's Foreign Ministry said on Saturday it was
surprised by the AU statement issued late on Friday, and rejected what it
called "baseless accusations" that it said misunderstood the
government's position.
The AU voiced what it said was "deep shock and
concern at the form and substance of the statement" issued by Tunisian
authorities and reminded Tunisia of its obligation within the 55-member state
AU to treat migrants with dignity.
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Jordan hosts Israeli-Palestinian talks aimed at
averting escalation in violence
26/02/2023
They said the one-day meeting in the Red Sea port of
Aqaba, to be attended by U.S. President Joe Biden’s adviser on the Middle East,
Brett McGurk, will bring top Israeli and Palestinian security chiefs together
for the first time in many years, along with representatives of key regional
parties.
The discussions are part of Jordan's stepped-up
diplomatic engagement with Washington and regional partner Egypt to restore
calm in Israel and the Palestinian territories in Gaza and the West Bank and
trust between the two sides, the officials said, speaking on condition of
anonymity.
The meeting is aimed at giving Palestinians hope for a
political future, a senior Jordanian official told Reuters. If its objectives
are achieved, "it will be reflected on the ground," he said.
The meeting offers a chance to halt a surge in
Israeli-Palestinian clashes in recent months that has sparked Arab anger and
international concern about a slide back to a wider Israeli-Palestinian
conflict.
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Turkey’s Erdogan pours billions in weapons and aid to
Africa in power play for influence in ‘new Cold War’
By Charlie Mitchell
February 26, 2023
The simplest route from Kenya to Senegal, East Africa
to West, is today via Istanbul. Drive towards Nairobi’s airport and you will
pass Turkish Airlines billboards and Turkish-trained police officers. Disembark
in Dakar and a colossal stadium, built by Turkey, soon appears on the airport
road. No car? Take the Turkish-built airport train.
This is all brand new. In 2002, Turkish Airlines did
not even serve sub-Saharan Africa and Turkey had fewer than a dozen African
embassies. Today it has 43.
Experts say the war in Ukraine has ushered in a new
scramble for Africa, or even a “new Cold War”, with Russia, China, the US,
Britain and France all competing for influence. Quietly in the background,
however, Turkey has been beefing up its role on the world’s fastest growing
continent.
Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, presents
Turkey as an “Afro-Eurasian” state, a model for the Muslim world and an
alternative to the West. But what began with humanitarian assistance and
economic development has morphed into a tangled Africa policy encompassing
business, aid, diplomacy, culture, security and military might capable of
challenging even the most established powers.
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South Asia
Commodity prices will not increase in Ramadan: Rezaul
25 Feb 2023
DHAKA, Feb 25, 2023 (BSS) - Fisheries and Livestock
Minister SM Rezaul Karim today said that the prices of commodities such as
fish, meat, milk and egg will not increase during the upcoming holy month of
Ramadan.
"The government will arrange mobile sale-centres
during the Ramadan. The prices of fish, meat, milk and egg will not
increase," he said while talking to journalists after inaugurating a
two-day livestock exhibition at the old trade fair ground here marking the Livestock
Services Week.
The government is working relentlessly to keep the
prices of the commodities stable and tolerable during the Ramadan, he said,
adding that it will take help from the farms of the private sector for setting
up mobile sale-centers.
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Official: 'No Monopoly' on Govt Jobs in Afghanistan
By Nazir Shinwari
26-02-2023
The acting minister of communications and information
technology, Najibullah Haqqani, disputed claims that the government has a
monopoly, saying that nearly 800,000 people, including former employees of the
previous administration, are working in the current government.
Addressing a Religious-Scientific Seminar for
Lecturers of Central Private Universities, Haqqani said that one of the factors
contributing to the nation's current crisis is the gap between universities and
madrasas (religious schools), and he called for a solution to this issue.
"If we look at the current situation in this
government, some say it's monopoly, some say it's weak, and some say it's
one-sided, but we have around 800,000 people in the government," Haqqani
added.
Source: Tolo News
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Pakistan Reopens Border Crossing With Afghanistan That
It Shut Over Shelter To Terrorists
25 FEB 2023
Pakistan on Saturday reopened a border crossing with
Afghanistan that it closed earlier over a tussle with the Afghan Taliban over
terrorism.
The Taliban is in charge of Afghanistan since its
toppled the West-backed Kabul government in August 2021. Since then, there has
been tension between Afghan Taliban and Pakistan over cross-border violence and
terrorism.
Earlier, Pakistan closed the Torkham border for
vehicular traffic for the last six days amidst bilateral tensions. It was
opened on Saturday, allowing the movement of over 7,000 trucks stranded.
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Europe
Marco Pierre White’s Big Brother Star Son Converts To
Islam In Prison To Stay Off Heroin
Rachael O'Connor
25 Feb 2023
The celebrity chef’s son, Marco Pierre White Jr, has
struggled with drug addiction since he was just 13, and has been in and out of
rehab a total of 17 times.
He has now vowed to never touch drugs again after
converting to Islam while in prison for offences including shoplifting, heroin
possession and racially abusing a supermarket security guard.
Now newly-freed from prison, the 28-year-old, who
previously appeared on Celebrity Big Brother, is being supported by his famous
dad and is working to follow in his footsteps to become a chef himself.
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Westminster Accounts: Baroness Cox forced to declare
financial interests after leak reveals links to anti-Islam activists
Rob Powell
25 February 2023
A controversial member of the House of Lords has been
forced to declare financial interests following a huge leak of documents that
also revealed her links to prominent anti-Islam activists.
Baroness Cox said her failure to register support from
the not-for-profit company Equal and Free Limited - which was used to pay for
her parliamentary researcher - was an "oversight".
Minutes of meetings obtained by the anti-racism
campaign group Hope not Hate and shared with Sky News reveal that Equal and
Free Limited has received funding from an American organisation run by two
evangelical philanthropists.
Based in Los Angeles, Fieldstead and Company handles
the donations of Howard Ahmanson Jr and his wife Roberta Ahmanson, and focuses
support on "religious liberty issues" as well as art, culture and
humanitarian relief work.
In a 2011 interview with Christianity Today, Mrs
Ahmanson said: "We are probably the single largest supporter of the
intelligent design movement, and have been since the beginning."
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Divers recover two bodies from Firth of Clyde after
tugboat capsized
By Christina O'Neill
06-02-2023
They were removed from the water on Saturday – almost
24 hours after the boat sank in the Firth of Clyde near Greenock, sparking a
major search and rescue operation.
Police Scotland, the coastguard and RNLI had all been
called out to the scene after the boat went under the water at the Custom House
Quay.
On Friday evening, a coastguard spokesman told how its
rescue teams from both Helensburgh and Greenock had been scrambled, along with
a lifeboat from Helensburgh RNLI and the coastguard helicopter from Prestwick.
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Rishi Sunak criticised over plans for EU chief to meet
King Charles
Matthew Davies
Feb 25, 2023
UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has had his political
judgement criticised, after a meeting between King Charles III and the leader
of the EU was cancelled.
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen had
been expected to travel to the UK on Saturday, as rumours grew that a deal to
fix the Northern Ireland Protocol was close.
The Northern Ireland Protocol is a trading arrangement
that was negotiated before Britain left the EU. The UK government wants to make
changes to the pact.
There were talks about calling a potential protocol
pact the "Windsor Agreement" following such a meeting with King
Charles, the broadcaster said.
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Mideast
Israeli forces attack Palestinians commemorating Ibrahimi
Mosque massacre anniversary
The New Arab Staff
25 February, 2023
Israeli forces violently attacked a crowd of
Palestinians marking the 29th anniversary of the Ibrahimi Mosque massacre on
Friday.
Scores of Palestinians were injured across different
parts of the occupied West Bank, particularly in Hebron - the site of the 1994
atrocity - according to the Palestinian Wafa agency.
Israeli soldiers cracked down on the rally in Hebron
by throwing gas cannisters, grenades and firing live ammunition in a bid to
break up the demonstrations.
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Russia wants Quad-like grouping with Turkey, Iran,
Syria; says foreign ministers meet in work
Anurakti Sharma
Feb 26, 2023
Moscow: According to official media on Sunday, the
foreign ministers of Russia, Turkey, Syria, and Iran are planning a meeting.
Mikhail Bogdanov, Russia's deputy foreign minister, made the announcement.
"On the agenda now is the organisation of a
meeting of the heads of foreign affairs in a quadripartite format,"
Bogdanov was quoted by the Tass news agency as stating in an interview.
This might mark a development in Syria and Turkey's
mending of relations. The S-400 was purchased by Turkey from Russia, and the
two countries have been engaged in energy negotiations, but for Russia, a
change in Turkey's views towards Syria would be a game-changer.
Source: Times Now News
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Iran Boasts Of New 'Paveh' Cruise Missile With A Range
Of 1,650 Km That Can Reach Israel
By sagar kar
26-02-2023
On Friday, a senior Iranian general, Amirali Hajizadeh,
revealed a new cruise missile with a range of 1,650 km (1,025 miles) that has
been added to Iran's missile arsenal. The missile, named Paveh, could
potentially reach Israel, as per a report from the Times of Israel. During an
interview with state television, Hajizadeh also reiterated Iran's desire to
kill former US President Donald Trump. “God willing, we are looking to kill
Trump. Pompeo … and military commanders who issued the order (to kill
Soleimani) should be killed,” Hajizadeh said in the interview.
The television broadcasted the first footage of the
missile, showing it launch, fly low over terrain, and hit a target. Hajizadeh
did not provide any additional details about the missile other than its range.
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps aerospace force has previously claimed
to have cruise missiles with ranges of up to 1,000 km (620 miles) and missiles
that can reach up to 2,000 km (1,250 miles), which could target Israel and US
military bases in the region.
Cruise missiles are highly accurate, self-propelled
weapons that are designed to fly at low altitudes and follow a predetermined
flight path to their target. They are used primarily for striking ground
targets, such as enemy installations, military units, or infrastructure. Unlike
ballistic missiles, which are powered by rockets and follow an arching
trajectory into space before coming down on their target, cruise missiles fly
at a relatively low altitude and are propelled by jet engines or turbofans.
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Rumors Of Government Reshuffle Circulate As Iran Faces
Turmoil
26-02-2023
Reports from Iran indicate that political power within
the Raisi administration is likely to change hands between two leading hardline
conservative groups.
The reports quote rumors circulating on the popular
messaging application Telegram as saying that Mostazafan Foundation Chief
Parviz Fattah, a member of the ultraconservative Paydari Party is likely to
replace Vice President Mohammad Mokhber who has been under attack for the
rapidly falling national currency in the past week.
In a closed-door session of the parliament Saturday
morning, Mokhber reportedly refused provide a convincing answer for the rial’s
fall and told the lawmakers: "That is how it is. Take it or leave
it!"
Conservative news website Nameh News, which reported
the possibility of a change at the top level of the Raisi administration on
Saturday, said that Vice President for Economic Affairs Mohsen Rezaei is also
likely to be replaced by Zahedi Vafa, another Paydari member.
Source: Iran Intl
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US, Israel discuss Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Iran’s nuclear programme
By Newsroom Odisha N
Feb 26, 2023
Jerusalem:
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant spoke to US Secretary of Defense
Lloyd Austin by phone over a series of regional issues, according to a
statement by the Israeli Defense Ministry.
The phone conversation on late Friday “focused on
security developments in the Middle East”, including the latest developments in
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Iran’s nuclear programme, Xinhua news
ageny reported, citing the statement.
Earlier this week, Israeli forces killed 11
Palestinians in a military raid on the West Bank city of Nablus, aggravating
the already high tensions between Israelis and Palestinians.
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Southeast Asia
Malaysia: Act May Be Amended To Strengthen Fight
Against Child Pornography
26 Feb 2023
PETALING JAYA, Feb 26 — The Communications and Digital
Ministry is studying whether the Communications and Multimedia Act 1998 (CMA)
should be amended to bring it in line with efforts to set up a special police
team to combat child pornography.
Minister Fahmi Fadzil said the Cabinet felt that there
was a need to revisit certain laws in an effort to provide better protection to
children and women against pornographic activities and sexual violence.
“This is something which we will make a full
announcement on once we have begun a series of engagements across different
ministries.
“For example, the Communications and Multimedia Act,
whether there are parts of the law that need to be amended in order to save and
protect women and children, while not necessarily curbing whatever commitments
the government has made to IT companies before,” he told reporters after
opening the Selangor PKR information convention at a hotel near here today.
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Cops slammed after arresting schoolboys for ridiculing
SPM history paper in viral clip
By Zarrah Morden
26 Feb 2023
KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 26 — Human rights group Lawyers for
Liberty (LFL) today slammed the arrest of two schoolboys for “ridiculing the
SPM history paper”.
Director Zaid Malek criticised the continued existence
of Section 233(1)(a) of the Communications and Multimedia Act (CMA) to restrict
free speech in a statement this morning.
“Even if there were unsavoury comments that were
uttered, it does not warrant intervention of the police force,” he said, adding
that the teenagers had already apologised for the video.
He criticised Pakatan Harapan (PH) — which is part of
the coalition government — for allowing CMA to continue to exist after its
calls for reform, especially since the Act had been used against its own
members.
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Budget 2023: Sarawak needs bigger allocation to catch
up with development in peninsula, says Chinese Association president
26 Feb 2023
KUCHING, Feb 26 — Sarawak could have been given a much
bigger allocation under the Budget 2023 to catch up with the infrastructure
development in Peninsular Malaysia, said Datuk Richard Wee.
The Sarawak Federation of Chinese Associations
president said the state is in a dire need of a bigger allocation for rural
development and the development of other fundamental utilities.
He noted that Sabah and Sarawak had been allocated
much for the upgrading of dilapidated schools, but he felt that this alone would
not suffice.
“At a glance, it seems that Budget 2023 is quite
comprehensive and has covered most areas and sectors especially the Micro,
Small and Medium Enterprises with financial scheme and reduced taxation to
provide the necessary assistance for their recovery.
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Arab world
Saudi creatives join hands with community members to
create a 25-meter art installation in Jeddah
SULAFA ALKHUNAIZI
February 25, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi artist Mohammed Al-Faraj was one of the
80 artists chosen by Hayy Jameel to create a 25-meter art installation in
Jeddah.
“The Face of the City,” which was revealed
mid-January, will remain on view in front of the Hayy Jameel building for the
remainder of the year.
The second edition of the center’s annual program, the
Hayy Jameel Facade Commission, gives the chosen artist the chance to create
artwork that will be showcased for a year.
“When I heard the news about Hayy Jameel’s proposal
competition, I felt this impulse to immediately apply,” the 29-year-old artist
from Al-Ahsa told Arab News.
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Ramadan 2023 in UAE: Sharjah reveals massive Dh125
million ‘Joud’ aid campaign
February 25, 2023
Aghaddir Ali
Sharjah: The Sharjah Charitable Society has unveiled
its plans for ‘Joud’, the Ramadan campaign for this year to raise Dh125 million
for various assistance programmes.
The details were announced during a press conference
held at the Sheraton Hotel in Sharjah recently in the presence of Sheikh Saqr
bin Muhammad Al Qasimi, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sharjah Charity
Society, and chairman of the High Committee for the Ramadan Campaign, and
Abdullah Sultan bin Khadem, the executive director.
Sheikh Saqr said: “With the announcement of the launch
of our Ramadan campaign, Joud, we are pleased to extend our gratitude to His
Highness Dr Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed Al Qasimi, Member of the Supreme Council
and Ruler of Sharjah, and to Sheikh Sultan bin Mohammed bin Sultan Al Qasimi,
Crown Prince and Deputy Ruler of Sharjah and Her Highness Sheikha Jawaher bint
Muhammad Al Qasimi, wife of His Highness the Ruler of Sharjah, for their
support and sponsorship of charity projects.”
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Art, fashion, music enthral visitors at Saudi Cup
HUSSAM AL-MAYMAN
February 26, 2023
RIYADH: The Saudi Cup kicked off with jockeys from
around the world competing for a total prize pool of $35.3 million.
The Saudi Cup took place on Friday and Saturday at the
King Abdulaziz Racetrack in Riyadh, with the event hosted by the Jockey Club of
Saudi Arabia and organized by the Horse Racing Club.
It showcased the Kingdom’s culture through
entertainment, folklore performances, and activities for all, including an
outdoor area for children.
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MWL chief receives Cardinal Christoph Schonbrunn in
Riyadh
ARAB NEWS
February 25, 2023
RIYADH: Secretary-General of the Muslim World League
Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa on Saturday received Cardinal Christoph
Schonbrunn, archbishop of Vienna, who arrived with his accompanying delegation
to Riyadh at the invitation of MWL.
During the meeting, the two sides discussed issues of
common interest, especially efforts to build bridges between nations and
peoples, and the importance of
cooperation and communication between religious leaders in confronting
calls for clash of civilizations.
The meeting discussed the Makkah Document and its
global impact on relations between religions and cultures, and its active role
in addressing international crises.
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Kingdom arrests 16,105 illegals in one week
ARAB NEWS
February 25, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 16,105 people in
one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations,
according to an official report.
From Feb. 16 to 22, a total of 9,551 people were
arrested for violations of residency rules, while 3,977 were held over illegal
border crossing attempts, and a further 2,577 for labor-related issues.
The report showed that among the 393 people arrested
for trying to enter the Kingdom illegally, 36 percent were Yemeni, 52 percent
Ethiopian, and 12 percent were of other nationalities.
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North America
Al-Farooq mosque opens new doors, celebrating growth,
support of Nashville's Muslim community
Liam Adams
26-02-2023
Al-Farooq Islamic Center of Nashville opened new doors
on Saturday, marking progress, not only for the mosque, but for the broader,
Nashville Muslim community.
Al-Farooq moved into its new 40,000-square-foot space
on Thompson Lane after purchasing and renovating an old Boys and Girls Club,
celebrating the relocation at a ribbon cutting event. It was a jubilant moment
for a community that amid its internationally prestigious reputation, has also
experience hardship.
“Serving is what really matters and that is what we
hope to establish and nurture and allow to grow and not only to benefit
ourselves, but to be a benefit for this wider community,” Salaad Nur, a leader
with Al-Farooq, said at the ribbon cutting event Saturday.
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North America
Al-Farooq mosque opens new doors, celebrating growth,
support of Nashville's Muslim community
Liam Adams
26-02-2023
Al-Farooq Islamic Center of Nashville opened new doors
on Saturday, marking progress, not only for the mosque, but for the broader,
Nashville Muslim community.
Al-Farooq moved into its new 40,000-square-foot space
on Thompson Lane after purchasing and renovating an old Boys and Girls Club,
celebrating the relocation at a ribbon cutting event. It was a jubilant moment
for a community that amid its internationally prestigious reputation, has also
experience hardship.
“Serving is what really matters and that is what we
hope to establish and nurture and allow to grow and not only to benefit
ourselves, but to be a benefit for this wider community,” Salaad Nur, a leader
with Al-Farooq, said at the ribbon cutting event Saturday.
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US medical transport plane crashes in Nevada, leaving
five dead
26 Feb 2023
WASHINGTON, Feb 26 — A medical transport plane crashed
in the western US state of Nevada, killing all five on board, its operator said
yesterday.
The plane went off radar Friday night outside the arid
town of Stagecoach, near Nevada’s border with California, Remsa Health said in
a statement.
“We are heartbroken to report that we have now
received confirmation from Central Lyon County Fire Department that none of the
five people on board survived,” the statement said.
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US papers drop 'Dilbert' cartoon after racist rant by
creator Scott Adams
26-02-2023
The cartoon "Dilbert" has been dropped from
numerous US newspapers in response to a racist rant by its creator on YouTube.
Scott Adams called Black Americans a "hate
group" and suggested white Americans "get the hell away from Black
people" in response to a conservative organisation's poll purporting to
show that many African Americans do not think it's OK to be white.
"If nearly half of all Blacks are not OK with
white people ... that's a hate group," Adams said on his YouTube channel
on Wednesday. "And I don't want to have anything to do with them."
The comments ignited a furore on social media, along
with calls for the conservative cartoonist's work to be dropped from
publishers' rosters.
His once-popular comic strip, which lampoons corporate
culture and was launched in 1989, will no longer be carried by the Los Angeles
Times, the Washington Post, the USA Today-affiliated group of newspapers and
others, the newspapers announced in statements on Friday and Saturday.
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US comedian Kevin Hart exhilarated after MidEast
portion of world tour
ARAB NEWS
February 26, 2023
DUBAI: American comedian and actor Kevin Hart has
taken to Instagram to celebrate the completion of the Middle Eastern portion of
his “Reality Check” world tour, calling it “unbelievable.”
“You guys welcomed me with open arms… I saw and felt
so much love from all of you!!!!! I have developed amazing relationships over
here and I couldn’t be happier….Major thank you to all of my friends &
partners for helping me achieve the goal at hand….it’s to simply bring us all
closer together by making the (world) laugh. Laughter can and will bring us all
together," he posted on Instagram.
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Muslim Students Association to host meal packing event
By Anna Goldizen
Feb 25, 2023
WVU’s Muslim Students Association is hosting a meal
packing event Sunday to help those in need, both locally and across the globe.
The event will be held from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the
Towers Blue and Gold Room. MSA partnered with Islamic Relief USA, a nonprofit
humanitarian organization, to arrange the event.
MSA is aiming to pack with roughly 100 volunteers.
Meals will then be distributed through Islamic Relief to people around the
world who are facing poverty or food insecurity.
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'Powder keg' for 9/11: 1993 trade center bombing
remembered
By JENNIFER PELTZ
February 26, 2023
NEW YORK -- Lolita Jackson was at her 72nd-floor desk
in the World Trade Center, feeling like she worked at the top of the world.
Then came the boom, and smoke started curling in from an elevator shaft.
Unsure what was happening, she joined thousands of
other office workers on a harrowing trek down dark, smoky stairs, emerging into
the scene of a terror attack.
It wasn't Sept. 11, 2001. This was Feb. 26, 1993, when
a deadly bombing killed six people, one of them pregnant, and injured more than
1,000 — becoming a harbinger of terror at the twin towers.
Jackson hopes that Sunday's 30th anniversary serves as
a reminder that even though decades have passed since the seismic acts of
terrorism in the United States' most populous city, no one, anywhere, can say
the threat of mass violence is over.
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Pakistan
PTI leaders in Multan ‘shy away’ from arrests
Ahmad Fraz Khan
February 26, 2023
LAHORE / RAWALPINDI: After holding a photo session
inside prison vans and raising slogans against the government, leaders and
supporters of the PTI in Multan dispersed and went back home without courting
arrest.
After demonstrations in Lahore, Peshawar, and
Rawalpindi, the ‘Jail Bharo Tehreek’ announced by PTI chief Imran Khan earlier
this week was launched in the southern part of Punjab on the fourth day of the
movement.
Some leaders and workers gathered at Nawan Sheher
Chowk to ‘court arrest’ but they left after sloganeering even though the police
had brought three prison vans for the volunteers. However, the PTI supporters
used the opportunity only to take photos inside these vans.
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At least 4 killed, 14 injured in blast in
Balochistan’s Barkhan: police
Ghalib Nihad
February 26, 2023
At least four people were killed and 14 wounded in an
explosion inside the Rakhni market in Balochistan’s Barkhan on Sunday morning,
police and health officials said.
Barkhan District Health Officer Dr Abdul Hameed
confirmed the death toll to Dawn.com, adding that the injured persons had been
moved to the Rakhni Hospital.
According to Barkhan Deputy Commissioner Abdullah
Khoso, the blast occurred when an improvised explosive device (IED), planted on
a motorcycle, exploded.
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Coalition seeks SC full court for suo motu case
Nasir Iqbal
February 26, 2023
ISLAMABAD: Three parties from the ruling coalition on
Saturday petitioned the Supreme Court for the formation of a full court —
comprising all judges except Justice Ijaz-ul-Ahsan and Justice Sayyed Mazahar
Ali Akbar Naqvi — to conduct suo motu proceedings on the delay in the
announcement of a date for elections to the Punjab and KP assemblies.
The joint petition, filed by senior counsel Farooq H.
Naek, Mansoor Usman Awan and Kamran Murtaza on behalf of the PPPP, PML-N and
JUI-F, respectively, says the prayer has been made “in the best interest of justice
and to strengthen the people’s confidence in the Supreme Court”.
It is imperative that the full court — minus the two
judges, who have already disclosed their minds in the matter — be constituted
to hear the case in the interest of justice and fairness, contends the
petition, which has been moved under Order 33 Rule 6 of the Supreme Court Rules
1980.
The petition argued that when the case was taken up by
the nine-judge bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan (CJP) Umar Ata Bandial
on Feb 23, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhel read out a note and raised objections
to the effect that since the two-member bench consisting of Justice Ahsan and
Justice Naqvi had already rendered a definite opinion on the issue as recorded
in the court’s Feb 16 order, it would amount to a violation of Article 10A if
they remain part of the larger bench.
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Two cops martyred in Khuzdar bomb attack
Abdul Wahid Shahwani
February 26, 2023
KHUZDAR: Two police officers lost their lives and
another two were critically injured when a magnetic bomb attached to their
vehicle exploded in Khuzdar on Saturday.
Police officials said the bomb exploded when the
vehicle was on patrol near Jhalawan Complex.
“It was a magnetic bomb that had been attached to the
police vehicle by unidentified people and detonated with a remote control,”
Fahad Khosa, Khuzdar’s senior superintendent of police, told Dawn.
The driver of the vehicle lost his life on the spot
while three cops were injured, one of whom later died in the hospital.
Deputy Inspector General of Police Kalat Range,
Pervaiz Khan Umrani, and Khuzdar Deputy Commissioner Ilyas Kibzai rushed to the
site along with police and Frontier Corps officials soon after the blast.
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‘Jail Bharo’: Swati says he wasn’t there in Lahore to
court arrest
A Correspondent
February 26, 2023
BAHAWALPUR: In compliance with the orders of the
Lahore High Court (LHC) Bahawalpur Bench, a medical board examined two jailed
PTI leaders Senator Muhammad Azam Khan Swati and Muhammad Madni Khan at the
Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) on Saturday.
Talking to the media at the BVH, Senator Azam Swati
said he did not court his arrest in Lahore. He said he had only reached the
venue to extend his moral and political support to the PTI leaders who courted
arrest.
BVH Medical Superintendent Dr Aamir Bokhari told Dawn
an eight-member medical board was constituted on the orders of the LHC
Bahawalpur Bench which examined Senator Azam Swati and Muhammad Khan Madni at
the kidney centre and conducted their various medical and laboratory tests.
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