"Your Silence Emboldens Hate-Filled Voices And Threatens The Unity And Integrity Of Our Country ": Indian Institute of Management Students, Faculty Members To PM
09 January 2022
The open letter to PM Modi
had 183 signatories/ Photo:NDTV
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• "Your Silence Emboldens Hate-Filled Voices And
Threatens The Unity And Integrity Of Our Country ": Indian Institute of
Management Students, Faculty Members To PM
• Supreme Court Decision To Set Blasphemy Accused On
Bail Hailed By Civil Society Activists of Pakistan
• Iranian Officials Admit People Hate Tyrannical Rule
Of The Mullahs
• Arabic Music Institute To Be Established In Saudi
Arabia
• Ahmadis Rocked By Rape Allegations After Its
Spiritual Leader 'Told Alleged Victim To Keep Quiet'
India
• Muslims Who Join Communist Parties Need Not Be
Atheists: Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ul Ulema Leader
• India: Salar Jung Museum To Set Up Islamic Art
Gallery In Hyderabad
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Pakistan
• Opposition seeks judicial probe into govt ‘failure’
• Centre-funded projects in Sindh annoyed CM, says
Asad Umar
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Mideast
• Erdoğan Accuses Main Opposition CHP Of Attacking Islam,
Terror Links
• Americans' calculations have always proved wrong:
Supreme Leader
• Iran ups the nuclear ante in search of Vienna
negotiations advantage
• Imam Khamenei: Iranian People Turned Gen. Soleimani’s
Martyrdom Into Opportunity
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Arab world
• Arab Coalition to continue peace efforts despite
Houthi aggression: Spokesman
• Kurdish Leader, Masoud Barzani Receives The Top
Sunni Leaders In A Swift Visit To Erbil
• Thousands of labour, residency, border violators
arrested across KSA
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Europe
• Turkish Gov’t Carrying Out Project To Expand
Political Islam, Macron Says
• Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says she’s prepared to
override parts of Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland
• 16 amazing pictures of Islamic processions in
Lancashire from 1987-1999
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North America
• CAIR To Release New Islamophobia Report: $105M
Funnelled To 26 Anti-Muslim Groups
• Primary School Teacher Banned For Life For Funding
Islamist Terrorists
• New Picklebarn Aims To Make Mankato A 'Pickle Ball
Mecca'
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Africa
• Why Christians, Muslims Must Unite Against
Terrorists- Nigerian Bishop Adegbite
• New Year Celebration By Nigerian Christians Unjust
To Muslims - Muslim Rights Concern
• NSCIA Urged To Regulate Propagation Of Islam
• Kano Agog As Muslim Faithful Pray Against Insecurity
• No difference between bandits, Miyetti Allah,
declare them terrorists now – HURIWA tells Buhari
• Ortom an unreliable leader who hates Fulani with
passion —Miyetti Allah
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South Asia
• Turkmenistan Delegation Visiting Kabul To Assess
TAPI
• Taliban delegation visiting Iran, will discuss
politics and economy
• Taliban graduated 200 Special Forces completing
three-month training
• Vaccine doesn’t cut transmission, it lowers death
rate: Health minister
• University lecturer Faizullah Jalal arrested in
Kabul
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Southeast Asia
• Hadi, Seemingly Backing MACC’s Azam Baki, Claims
Trial By Media Make ‘Clean’ Officials Lame Ducks
• Amid stock trading storm, Azam Baki gets support
from three senior MACC officers who label allegations as ‘revenge politics’
• Putrajaya proposes to build four new courts in
Sarawak under 12MP, says minister
Compiled by New
Age Islam News Bureau
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"Your Silence Emboldens Hate-Filled Voices And
Threatens The Unity And Integrity Of Our Country ": Indian Institute of
Management Students, Faculty Members To PM
The open letter to PM Modi
had 183 signatories/ Photo:NDTV
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by Nehal Kidwai
January 08, 2022
New Delhi: In an open letter, a group of students and
faculty members from the Indian Institute of Management requested Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to speak up against hate speech and caste-based violence
in the country.
"Your silence, Honourable Prime Minister,
emboldens the hate-filled voices and threatens the unity and integrity of our
country. We request you, Honourable Prime Minister, to stand firm against
forces that seek to divide us," the students and the faculty said in their
letter.
The letter comes in light of the recent Haridwar
Dharam sansad event where some Hindu religious leaders urged people to take up
arms against Muslims and called for genocide.
The signatories said that even though the Indian
Constitution provided the right to practice one's religion in dignity, there
was a sense of fear in the country.
"There is a sense of fear in our country now -
places of worship, including churches in recent days, are being vandalised, and
there have been calls to take arms against our Muslim brothers and sisters. All
of this is carried out with impunity and without any fear of due process,"
they wrote.
"Your silence, Honourable Prime Minister,
emboldens the hate-filled voices and threatens the unity and integrity of our
country. We request you, Honourable Prime Minister, to stand firm against
forces that seek to divide us," the students and the faculty said in their
letter.
The letter was signed by 183 signatories, including 13
faculty members, students and faculty members of IIM-Ahmedabad and
IIM-Bangalore.
At the Haridwar event, a Hindu religious leader - Sant
Kalicharan Maharaj - said that the aim of Islam was to capture the nation
through politics.
In the controversial speech, clips of which have gone
viral, Kalicharan Maharaj also urged people to elect a "staunch Hindu
leader" to "protect" Hinduism.
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Supreme Court Decision To Set Blasphemy Accused On
Bail Hailed By Civil Society Activists of Pakistan
Supreme Court of Pakistan.
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Staff Reporter
January 9, 2022
LAHORE: The civil society activists have hailed the
Supreme Court decision of granting bail to a man who had been in jail in an
alleged blasphemy case for the last four years.
Advocate Saiful Malook, the counsel for the accused,
said the Supreme Court judgement would act as a precedent to help other people
arrested under blasphemy charges because most of the time, the courts would
dismiss their bail.
He referenced the Code of Criminal Procedure, 1898
Section 497, which states that if an individual has not been formally charged
and the trial has not been concluded within two years and the delay is not due
to the accused, they should be granted bail.
Voice of Justice Chairman Joseph Jansen said the
majority of blasphemy cases rested on false accusations over property disputes/
personal vendetta/ religious prejudice rather than genuine instances of
blasphemy. He said sometimes the allegations would lead to mob violence against
the accused or the entire community.
He demanded that all those who incite or engage in
violence against others based on allegations of blasphemy should be brought to
justice and duly punished.
He said the accused persons would be facing
imprisonment for fabricated blasphemy charges and those in pending cases in
courts must also be granted bail to let them have access to a fair trial, which
includes the right to defence, the right to be tried by an independent and
impartial court and of the right to the presumption of innocence.
Bishop Johnson Robert observed that blasphemy laws do
not consider the principles of legality and the presumption of innocence, to
ascertain the intention of the accused persons as observed in the case of
Stephen Masih who is behind the bars for over two years over a fabricated
blasphemy accusation despite the reports of the medical board of the Punjab
Institute of Medical Health which stated that he suffers from Bipolar Affective
Disorder, and he is mentally unfit to stand trial.
He demanded that the honourable courts in Pakistan
should hear Stephen Masih’s case on an urgent basis and drop all charges
against him on account of false accusation, and his psychosocial disability and
health condition.
Alyas Samuel said that the misuse of blasphemy laws
have become so common which is exercised as a tool of revenge by making a
fabricated accusation against innocent people without bothering about its
consequence that the families of the accused have to face as observed in the
case of Shagufta Kiran who is facing imprisonment for being a part of a
WhatsApp group in which someone else created and shared an allegedly
objectionable post. She denies the allegation.
Asif Bastian said it is a practice that the accused
persons without committing any blasphemous offence are deprived of their
liberty and are made to spend several years in jail. While the complainants and
witnesses involved in levelling false allegations of blasphemy against the
accused enjoy impunity, the government needs to enforce the existing provisions
such as Section 182 of PPC to criminalise perjury, false and malicious
accusations.
Ashiknaz Khokhar said that the most people label the
blasphemy accused as guilty, and demand their beheading without proper
investigation or trial of the case, therefore the government needs to introduce
reforms to put in place adequate and effective procedural and institutional
safeguards at the investigative, prosecutorial and judicial levels including,
inter alia requiring evidence by accusers, ensuring proper investigation by
senior police officials, allowing authorities to dismiss unfounded accusations,
to ensure that the accused persons are not unjustly punished on the basis of
mere allegation.
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Iranian Officials Admit People Hate Tyrannical Rule Of
The Mullahs
Iranian people confront
mullahs in the streets
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By Mahin Horri
January 8, 2022
The people of Iran are fed up with four decades of
tyrannical rule by the mullahs. And Iranian officials are openly expressing
their fear of the public outrage toward the mullahs.
On Friday, in a meeting with regime loyalists, Ahmad
Khatami, a senior regime official and member of the Guardian Council,
acknowledged that the people hate the mullahs by saying, “Some are trying to
separate religion and politics.”
In the same session, Khatami, whose remarks were
published by official IRNA news agency, expressed concern about the activities
of the supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Khatami warned the mullahs and regime loyalists to avoid any actions that would
“encourage the MEK.”
Khatami is not the only official who has been warning
about the declining reputation of the mullahs. On January 4, in comments to the
state-run Hamdeli newspaper, Mohammad Taghi Fazel Meibodi, a member of the
Assembly of Teachers in Qom Seminary, said, “The people are blaming clerics for
the current situation.”
He also said, “Unfortunately, the people have a bad
view toward clerics. Many student clerics who go to the market to buy goods or
to go to stores try to do so without wearing clerical robes so that they are
not insulted.”
Meibodi added, “Today, clerics wear their religious
attire less in public appearances to avoid being uncomfortable. If a cleric
sits in a taxi, people will insult him. People blame the clerics for high
prices and all problems.”
In another article on January 4, Hamdeli warned about
the consequences of luxurious life of the mullahs. “The attention of clerics to
material life, the attraction of government and political positions, the
tendency of clerics of luxurious life and occupying important positions has
resulted in clerics seeking work opportunities in institutions and
organizations in industries, oil, sports, recreation, and even the meat
market.”
Mohammad Reza Zaeri, another mullah, wrote on
Instagram on January 7, “In the past 10 days, people have spitted on me, I’ve
been insulted, and right now, my Snap [Iranian ride-sharing app] driver made me
get off the car in the middle of the street! The people who should understand
and know, are they even aware of this level of hatred that we’ve been warning
about for years? No. Those who come and go with their personal drivers and
bodyguards aren’t held accountable. The driver emphasized three times that ‘I
don’t give rides to mullahs.’”
These officials and media are barely scratching the
surface with their remarks. The hatred of the people toward the ruling mullahs
is so intense that the videos of people confronting mullahs have become a
common scene on social media.
In one video that has been widely distributed on
social media, one person tells a mullah, “You are all filthy… this dog is
cleaner than [regime supreme leader Ali] Khamenei.”
Other manifestations of this hatred are the torching
of the posters and statues of regime leaders and icons such as the now-dead
terrorist commander Qassem Soleimani.
The flipside of the coin of the people’s hatred of the
mullahs’ regime is their gravitation toward the Iranian Resistance and the
Resistance Units. Every day, people from all ages and walks of life are
becoming attracted to the cause of the Iranian Resistance, which has been to
overthrow the mullahs’ regime and to replace it with a democratic state.
Therefore, while the remarks made by Khatami and
Meibodi, and Zaeri are notable, they are just the tip of the iceberg. The
people of Iran will make their feelings toward the mullahs’ regime very clear
in their protests and uprisings.
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Arabic Music Institute To Be Established In Saudi
Arabia
The oud is one of the oldest
and most important stringed instruments in the Arab world’s musical heritage.
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Mai Almarzoogi
January 09, 2022
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s Music Commission is establishing
an institute to train the country’s musical talent.
Bait Al-Oud seeks to be a learning center for
musicians so they can get the required training in playing traditional Arabic
instruments and be educated about the instruments’ role in developing the
region’s music culture.
The oud, which dates back more than 3,000 years, is
one of the oldest and most important stringed instruments in the Arab world’s
musical heritage and it has played a significant role through history.
The commission aims to develop the institute to be a
globally recognized center, spread awareness about Arabic musical instruments,
specifically the oud, and preserve the heritage of Arabic music.
“The oud is one of the most important musical stringed
instruments,” oud player Hasan Iskandrani told Arab News. “It has been called
the ‘sultan of instruments’ and is usually used by composers in shaping their
melodies.”
Traditional Arabic musical instruments such as the
oud, duf, rebab, and mizmar, which are used in many different celebrations in
the Kingdom, have played a major role in establishing the musical culture of
the country and its different forms of musical expression.
There are different types of oud - including Iraqi,
Syrian, Egyptian and Turkish — and it is played in different styles across the
region.
Alongside Al-Jowhar are Talal Salamah and Aseel Abu
Bakr Saleem who, to this day, are influencing an emerging new generation of
Saudi oud players.
The oud is distinctive for being fretless and
pear-shaped. It is traditionally made from lightwood, has a short neck, and is
normally built with 11 strings.
Being fretless, the oud is considered a versatile
instrument that gives musicians the freedom to produce more fluid notes without
having to retune.
And, unlike other string instruments which typically
have one large hole in the center, the oud can have up to three holes, which
gives it its distinctive and mesmerizing tune.
But, had it not been for some great musical maestros,
the legacy of the oud would have probably been lost. One cannot talk about the
instrument without mentioning the legends who made it what it is today.
The oud has passed through prominent musicians, from
the “King of Oud” Fared Al-Atrache, to Marcel Khalifeh in Lebanon, Munir Bashir
and Naseer Shamma in Iraq, and Mohamed Al-Qasabgi in Egypt.
There are many beliefs about where the instrument
originated from. It is believed that it evolved from the Persian barbat and was
used during the Kassite period and Babylon in Mesopotamia, which later made its
way to Europe through North Africa.
The institute, which will be run by an elite group of
musicians, also aims to be a regional hub for Saudis of all ages to learn and
develop techniques to play Arabic musical instruments.
“The Bait Al-Oud Institute will contribute to the
development of the various types of stringed instruments. In addition, it will
encourage the development of young music talent,” said Iskandrani. “Through the
institute, it will be a forum for great music legends and new emerging
musicians to share ideas, experiences, and culture for continuous development.”
The institute will also act as a platform for
musicians to share and perform their musical projects with audiences who enjoy
listening to oud performances.
Source: Arab News
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Ahmadis Rocked By Rape Allegations After Its Spiritual
Leader 'Told Alleged Victim To Keep Quiet'
Pictured: The
13,000-capacity Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden, South-West London, where the
sect is based
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By Abul Taher
8 January 2022
A Muslim sect which built Britain’s biggest mosque has
been rocked by rape allegations involving its members and claims that its spiritual
leader warned the alleged victim against involving police.
The 36-year-old complainant belongs to the Ahmadi
sect, which has 30,000 followers in Britain under the leadership of Mirza
Masroor Ahmad, who has been feted by senior politicians, including Boris
Johnson and Theresa May.
But Imam Ahmad – dubbed ‘the caliph of suburbia’ for
basing the sect at the 13,000-capacity Baitul Futuh mosque in Morden,
South-West London – has been accused of trying to suppress the allegations
after a recording of a 44-minute telephone call with the alleged victim was
posted on the internet.
In it, the cleric appears to suggest that the woman
drop allegations that she was raped and sexually assaulted by her father and
three other sect members at addresses in London, Surrey, Dorset and the
Pakistani city of Rabwah, the group’s spiritual headquarters.
During the call, made in July, Imam Ahmad, 71, urged
the woman not to report her claims to police and wrongly says she will need
four witnesses to prove a rape claim.
But she is told: ‘My advice to you is that you drop
this case, even if something happened… Even if it has, I am sure those involved
would have asked for forgiveness already.’
The woman later wrote on Twitter: ‘Instead of
silencing victims, allegations of abuse should be properly investigated, and
perpetrators punished, not protected.’ A spokesman for the imam said: ‘The
allegation has been and continues to be taken extremely seriously.
‘After his conversation with the complainant, His
Holiness [Ahmad] referred the matter to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Association UK for
immediate action. In turn, AMA UK promptly informed the Metropolitan Police,
whose investigation is ongoing. In light of the police involvement, we are
unable to comment further.’
The Metropolitan Police confirmed it was investigating
allegations of sexual assault between 1987 and 2012 and that a man had been
interviewed under caution.
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India
Muslims Who Join Communist Parties Need Not Be
Atheists: Samastha Kerala Jamiat Ul Ulema Leader
09th January 2022
By MP Prashan
KOZHIKODE: Giving heartburn to the IUML, which is
intensifying the campaign against the CPM, the Sunni organisation Samastha
Kerala Jamiat ul Ulema’s leader Abdussamad Pookkottoor has said the Muslims who
join the Communist parties won't be disowned by the community.
In an interview to a YouTube channel, Pookkottoor, who
is known as a strong IUML supporter, said all the members of the Communist
parties are not atheists. “There could be many reasons for a person to join a
Communist party and they need not necessarily share the atheist ideology of
Communism,” he said.
Source: New Indian Express
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India: Salar Jung Museum to set up Islamic art gallery
in Hyderabad
By Aftab H Kola
9 Jan 2022
Hyderabad’s famed Salar Jung Museum, which boasts the
largest one-man collection of antiques and art treasures in the world, is
setting up an exclusive gallery for Islamic art.
More than 2,500 rare Islamic artefacts currently
displayed in various parts of the museum as well as some that have never been
showcased in public will find a place in this gallery. At present, these
treasures of Islamic art are scattered over various galleries under Indian,
Middle Eastern, European and Far Eastern art collections.
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Pakistan
Opposition seeks judicial probe into govt ‘failure’
Zulqernain Tahir
January 9, 2022
ISLAMABAD/LAHORE: Holding the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s
(PTI) government responsible for the deaths of tourists in Murree, the
opposition on Saturday accused Prime Minister Imran Khan and his aides of
victim blaming and demanded a judicial inquiry into the incident.
Among those demanding a judicial probe was one of the
main allies of the government both in the Centre and Punjab — the PML-Q — to
fix responsibility for the deaths of tourists.
Source: Dawn
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Centre-funded projects in Sindh annoyed CM, says Asad
Umar
Imran Ayub
January 9, 2022
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Planning and Development
Asad Umar on Saturday claimed that Sindh Chief Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah had
once directly complained to him about the federal government-funded projects in
the province raising objections over Islamabad’s role in areas under his
administrative control.
However, the federal minister made it clear that the
Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) government never backed off due to such
complaints and it was in fact filling the gap created by the Pakistan Peoples
Party’s (PPP) provincial administration due to its incompetence and bad
governance.
Source: Dawn
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Mideast
Erdoğan accuses main opposition CHP of attacking
Islam, terror links
Jan 08 2022
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Saturday
accused the main opposition party of terror links and attacking Islam following
the party’s criticism of a pre-school religious studies programme by the
country’s top religious body.
"We will put in their place and call into account
those who attack our religion and the Religious Affairs Directorate,’’ T24 news
site cited Erdoğan as saying during a regional meeting of his ruling party in
central Karaman province.
Source: ahval news
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Americans' calculations have always proved wrong:
Supreme Leader
Jan 9, 2022
Delivering a speech via video link to the people of
Qom city on the occasion of their anti-Shah uprising on January 9, 1978, the
leader said that the great movement witnessed on the second anniversary of the
late General Soleimani's martyrdom this week was caused by nothing but the
divine power.
The calculation system of the foes is flawed and
ignorant, the Supreme Leader noted, adding that when the calculation of the
status quo was wrong, the consequent decisions would also be wrong and this
would lead to their failure.
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Iran ups the nuclear ante in search of Vienna
negotiations advantage
NADIA AL FAOUR
January 09, 2022
DUBAI: Tehran’s proxies have been ramping up their
activities on the battlefields of the Middle East in recent weeks. In Iraq,
Syria, and Yemen, forces loyal to the Iranian regime have been busy, escalating
attacks against US and Saudi targets.
One spark for this intensification may be the second
anniversary of the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who
set in motion much of the chaos still ravaging the region. But some analysts
believe the prime reason is the Iran-US nuclear talks that have resumed in
Vienna.
Source: Arab News
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Imam Khamenei: Iranian people turned Gen. Soleimani’s
martyrdom into opportunity
January 9, 2022
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali
Khamenei says the enemies viewed the martyrdom of legendary anti-terror
commander Lt. Gen. Qassem Soleimani as a threat to Iran, but the Iranian people
turned it into an opportunity with their religious zeal.
“The wrong calculations of the United States are still
going on, and the example of this is the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani,” the
Leader said in a speech on the anniversary of the popular uprising in the holy
city of Qom against the former US-backed Pahlavi regime in 1978.
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Arab world
Arab Coalition to continue peace efforts despite
Houthi aggression: Spokesman
MOHAMMED AL-SULAMI
January 08, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s campaign to resolve the Yemeni
crisis and reach a political solution will continue despite growing Houthi
aggression, the spokesman for the Coalition to Support Legitimacy in Yemen has
said.
Brig. Gen. Turki Al-Maliki’s comments came during a
press conference held on Saturday in Riyadh amid a surge in fighting in Yemen
as a result of Houthi setbacks.
Source: Arab News
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Kurdish Leader, Masoud Barzani Receives The Top Sunni
Leaders In A Swift Visit To Erbil
Masoud Barzani
2022-01-08
The Kurdish leader, Masoud Barzani, on Saturday
received a high-level delegation from Azm(Will) and Takaddom (Progress) parties
in the Saladin resort near Erbil.
The delegation was headed by the Speaker of the
outgoing Iraqi parliament Mohammad al-Halboosi, along with Khamis al-Khanjar,
and Ahmed al-Jubouri.
Source: Shafaq News
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Thousands of labor, residency, border violators
arrested across KSA
SPA
January 09, 2022
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested nearly 14,000
people in one week for breaching residency, work and border security
regulations, an official report has revealed.
From Dec. 30, 2021 to Jan. 15, 2022, a total of 7,118
people were arrested for violations of residency rules, while 5,015 were held
over illegal border crossing attempts, and a further 1,576 for labor-related
issues.
Source: Arab News
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Europe
Turkish gov’t carrying out project to expand political
Islam, Macron says
By Turkish Minute
January 8, 2022
French President Emmanuel Macron has said that Turkish
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s government is carrying out a project to expand
political Islam, which doesn’t comply with European values, local media
reported on Friday, citing an interview by French daily Le Parisien.
When asked about Turkey’s membership in the European
Union, Macron said the politics pursued by Erdoğan were aggressive and didn’t
comply with European values.
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Foreign Secretary Liz Truss says she’s prepared to
override parts of Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland
By Ruchira Sharma
January 9, 2022
Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has warned she is prepared
to trigger Article 16, which would unilaterally override parts of the
post-Brexit agreement on Northern Ireland, if negotiations fail.
Source: Inews.co
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16 amazing pictures of Islamic processions in
Lancashire from 1987-1999
By Shuiab Khan
08-01-2022
Thousands have turned out to attend Islamic
processions across Lancashire for decades.
It was the eighties when the processions became larger
events in Blackburn, Burnley and Accrington.
Here are some amazing images from that period and the
nineties when more and more people took part in the processions.
Source: Lancashire Telegraph
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North America
CAIR to release new Islamophobia report: $105M
funneled to 26 anti-Muslim groups
January 8, 2022
On Tuesday, January 11, the Council on
American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and
advocacy organization, plans to release its latest Islamophobia report. Titled
“Islamophobia in the Mainstream,” the report identifies 35 major charitable
institutions and foundations that funneled almost $106 million to 26
anti-Muslim groups between 2017-2019.
CAIR’s new “Islamophobia in the Mainstream” report
shows mainstream funding for Islamophobic organizations has dropped in recent years,
but such organizations continue to receive large sums of money through private
family foundations and mainstream donor-advised funds that are ultimately used
to spread bigotry against Muslims.
Source: CAIR
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Primary school teacher banned for life for funding
Islamist terrorists
9 January 2022
Miriam Sebbagh, 52, who taught children at Hunwick
Primary School in Crook, County Durham, was sending Islamic terrorists thousands
of pounds, a Teaching Regulation Agency disciplinary panel found.
Police discovered £4,670 in a safe at her address
which was intended to fund terror attacks. The money was subsequently forfeited
under the Anti-Terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 and Ms Sebbagh was also
ordered to pay costs of £12,654.
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New Picklebarn aims to make Mankato a 'pickleball
mecca'
By John Reinan
JANUARY 8, 2022
MANKATO — Sidney and Mitch Elofson were top-flight
tennis players in St. Peter, Minn., where they grew up, and at Gustavus
Adolphus College, where they went to college.
But they're making a multimillion-dollar bet on
another sport: pickleball, a sort of cross between tennis and ping-pong that's
taking the nation by storm. More than 4.2 million Americans play the paddle
sport, a jump of more than 20% in just the past year. Locally, the Mankato Area
Pickleball Association has more than 250 members, less than a decade after the
group was started by about a dozen people.
Source: Medieva Lists
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Africa
Why Christians, Muslims Must Unite Against Terrorists-
Nigerian Bishop Adegbite
By Adeola Ogunlade
Jan 9, 2022
As the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN)
celebrates its 40th anniversary, Lagos State Chairman of the CAN, Bishop
Stephen Adegbite met with selected journalists and bared his mind on the state
of the nation, US delisting Nigeria from religious violators, lingering
insecurity and sundry issues. Adeola Ogunlade was there.
Source: The Nation Onlineng
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New Year Celebration By Nigerian Christians Unjust To
Muslims - Muslim Rights Concern
BY SAHARAREPORTERS
JAN 08, 2022
The Muslim Rights Concern has urged the Nigerian
Government to declare the first of Muharram Hijrah, which is the first day in
the Islamic calendar, as a public holiday to favour Muslims.
According to Akintola, the New Year celebrations
according to the Gregorian calendar was “unfair, unjust and undemocratic” to
Muslims in Nigeria.
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NSCIA Urged To Regulate Propagation Of Islam
By Mumini AbdulKareem
09 Jan 2022
The Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs
(NSCIA) has been advised to regulate propagation of Islam in the country.
Prof Lateef Oladimeji gave the counsel while
delivering the maiden inaugural lecture of Al-Hikmah University, Ilorin, at the
weekend.
Source: daily trust
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Kano Agog As Muslim Faithful Pray Against Insecurity
By Clement A. Oloyede
09 Jan 2022
Muslim faithful in their thousands Saturday gathered
in Kano to pray for divine intervention to end insecurity and other challenges
confronting Nigeria.
The prayer sessions, which was led by the leader of
the Tijjaniyya sect from Algeria, Maulana Sheikh Ali Bil-Arabi, a grandson of
the late founder of the sect, Sheikh Ahmad Tijjani, was held in a fully packed
Sani Abacha Stadium at Kofar Mata area.
Source: daily trust
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No difference between bandits, Miyetti Allah, declare
them terrorists now – HURIWA tells Buhari
By Ochogwu
January 8, 2022
Following the spate of killings and kidnapping across
the country, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, has
called on President Muhammadu Buhari to urgently declare the Miyetti Allah
Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN, as a terrorist group.
In a statement issued on Saturday by its national
coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, the rights group said there is no
difference between the MACBAN and bandits who were recently designated as a
terrorist group.
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Ortom an unreliable leader who hates Fulani with
passion —Miyetti Allah
By Dachen Isaac
January 8, 2022
The Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of
Nigeria (MACBAN), has reacted to a request by Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue
State, urging President Muhammadu Buhari to declare the association a terrorist
organisation.
Ortom had, in a statement issued by his Chief Press
Secretary (CPS) Nathaniel Ikyur, on Thursday, urged the Federal Government to
declare the Miyetti Allah and the Fulani Nationality Movement (FUNAM), as
terrorist organisations.
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South Asia
Turkmenistan delegation visiting Kabul to assess TAPI
By Najibullah Lalzoy
09 Jan 2022
A Turkmen delegation headed by the Deputy Foreign
Minister of Turkmenistan arrived in Kabul on Saturday, January 8, 2022, and is
supposed to meet with Taliban officials over the development of TAPI.
The Head of commerce chamber of Herat province has
said that the head of TAPI is also part of the Turkmen delegation to
Afghanistan.
Source: khaama Press
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Taliban delegation visiting Iran, will discuss politics
and economy
By Najibullah Lalzoy
09 Jan 2022
An Afghan delegation headed by acting Foreign Minister
Amir khan Motaqi is visiting Iran and is supposed to discuss problems of Afghan
refugees in the country, economic and political issues.
It is the first time that a high-level delegation of
the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is visiting Iran after they recaptured power
on August 15 last year.
Source: khaama Press
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Taliban graduated 200 Special Forces completing
three-month training
By Sadaf Shinwari
09 Jan 2022
Interior Ministry of the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan in a statement on Saturday, January 8, 2022, said that a battalion
of 200 Special Forces graduated after completing the three-month course in
Kabul.
The statement reads that the Forces are equipped with
Night Vision scopes and Laser mounted weapons and are given rigorous physical,
mental and ideological training.
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Vaccine doesn’t cut transmission, it lowers death
rate: Health minister
Star Digital Report
Sun Jan 9, 2022
Health Minister Zahid Malique today said vaccine does
not prevent the spread of Covid-19 but it certainly reduces the death rate.
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University lecturer Faizullah Jalal arrested in Kabul
By Najibullah Lalzoy
08 Jan 2022
Family members and close relatives of a university
lecturer and political commentator Faizullah Jalal confirmed that he was
arrested from his home and taken to an unknown place on Saturday, January 8,
2022.
Son and daughter of Jalal Tweeting from their father’s
Twitter account have asked people and humanitarian agencies to help release
their father.
Source: khaama Press
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Southeast Asia
Hadi, seemingly backing MACC’s Azam Baki, claims trial
by media make ‘clean’ officials lame ducks
BY SYED JAYMAL ZAHIID
09 Jan 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — PAS president Datuk Seri Abdul
Hadi Awang hit out at the media today, accusing them of playing judge and
executioner in the stock trading controversy implicating the Malaysian
Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) chief Tan Sri Azam Baki.
Abdul Hadi took to Facebook to lament the way the
press had covered the fiasco, taking aim at the concept of press freedom that
he suggested was responsible for putting the MACC chief commissioner in the
imbroglio that has called the latter’s credibility into question.
The PAS president, who himself has been severely
criticised for having done little as special envoy to the Middle East with a
ministerial pay-grade as well as member of Parliament, claimed that government
officials accused of power abuse and corruption have often been found guilty
even if the courts have yet to do so, which he attributed to press freedom as
advocated by the West.
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Amid stock trading storm, Azam Baki gets support from
three senior MACC officers who label allegations as ‘revenge politics’
BY YISWAREE PALANSAMY
09 Jan 2022
KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 9 — Three senior officers from the
Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) today issued a statement offering
their full support to their chief Tan Sri Azam Baki who is currently embroiled
in controversy over stocks acquired back in 2015.
The statement was signed by Datuk Seri Ahmad Khusairi
Yahaya, Datuk Seri Norazlan Mohd Razali and Datuk Junipah Wahid who are the
deputy chief commissioners in charge of operations, prevention and management
and professionalism respectively, and follows ongoing investigations by the
Securities Commission (SC) against Azam over possible conflict of interest
after he admitted to proxy stock trading.
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Putrajaya proposes to build four new courts in Sarawak
under 12MP, says minister
09 Jan 2022
KUCHING, Jan 9 — Minister in the Prime Minister’s
Department (Parliament and Law) Datuk Seri Wan Junaidi Tuanku Jaafar said the
federal government is proposing to build four new courts in Sarawak.
“The new courts will be located in Kapit, Limbang,
Mukah and Sri Aman and are being evaluated by the Economic Planning Unit of the
Prime Minister’s Department,” he said when met at the Kuching Court Complex
today.
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