Rapper, Toomaj Salehi, Who Became The Voice Of The Iranian Mahsa Amini Revolt Is In Danger Of Execution
08
January 2023
Demonstrators gather at the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to protest the arrest of Iranian rapper Toomaj
Salehi on Nov. 4, 2022.F Boillot / Shutterstock
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• Rapper, Toomaj Salehi, Who Became The Voice Of The
Iranian Mahsa Amini Revolt Is In Danger Of Execution
• Without Women Employees, Humanitarian Aid to
Afghanistan to be Halted: UN
• One Of Britain’s Youngest Imams Speaks Out Against
Islamophobia To O Raise Awareness For Islamophobia In The Media And In Society
• ‘Love Jihad’ Season In Maharashtra — Shinde-Fadnavis
Govt Is Raking Up Interfaith Marriages
• Outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ‘Major Thorn’ In
Ties Between Islamabad, Kabul
Mideast
• Charlie Hebdo: Iran Urges Muslim Action against
Western Sacrilegious Moves
• Iranian arrested in Germany on suspicion of Islamist
chemical attack plot
• Palestinian Islamic Jihad: 'Our double agents foiled
the assassination of a senior member'
• Iran condemns Zionist regime’s unfounded accusations
against Islamic Republic
• Scores of Israeli settlers break into Al-Asqa Mosque
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North America
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Of Islamic World
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Michel Houellebecq
• German police detain Iranian suspected of planning
'Islamist-motivated' attack
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in Malian detention
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India
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terrorists arrested in Howrah
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operation
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in PA
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visas: British envoy
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Rapper, Toomaj Salehi, Who Became The Voice Of The
Iranian Mahsa Amini Revolt Is In Danger Of Execution
Demonstrators gather at the
Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to protest the arrest of Iranian rapper Toomaj
Salehi on Nov. 4, 2022.F Boillot / Shutterstock
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By Sanam Mahoozi
Jan. 7, 2023
Hip-hop artist Toomaj Salehi rapped with blistering
conviction about the Islamic Revolution’s “failure,” filming himself at
protests and inspiring demonstrators to “battle” the country’s ruling clerical
establishment.
Now the popular performer could be hanged in public
after a court charged him with “corruption on earth” — a term that authorities
use to point to a broad range of offenses that threaten social and political
well-being and carries a possible death sentence.
Fear for his safety have also grown after Salehi’s
official Twitter account posted Friday that despite being in danger of losing
his eyesight, he was being repeatedly beaten.
The rapper was among the thousands who attended
demonstrations for Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish Iranian woman who was
detained in September by the country’s “morality police’’ after allegedly
breaking the country’s strict dress codes.
She died in a hospital three days later after falling into a coma.
The government has denied mistreating Amini, but the
protests over her death only grew in the weeks that followed as more young
people died and security forces brutally cracked down on demonstrators. Now, what started as an outburst of nationwide
anger at the treatment of women and girls has morphed into a demand for deep
and fundamental change.
“Unity is the secret to our victory, we are all Iran’s
family,” he said in the caption to an Instagram post uploaded Sept. 22, six
days after Amini’s death. In the accompanying video, he stands on a darkened
street and speaks directly to the camera while demonstrators around him chant.
In a music video titled “Fal” — meaning
fortune-telling in Persian — uploaded to YouTube in late October, he raps about
the “44 years” since the theocratic regime was installed after the Iranian
Revolution deposed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979.
He takes on the diverse group, from austere-looking
clerics known as mullahs to those dressed in “suit and tie that they have embezzled,”
as well as “lobbies of the government abroad.”
“Someone has lost their young children and someone has
lost their youth. Someone’s crime was having hair that flows free in the wind,”
Salehi sings. “Someone’s crime was
having a brave heart and a sharp tongue.”
On Oct. 30, the state news agency ISNA reported that
intelligence officers had arrested Salehi again as he was trying to flee the
country. NBC News could not confirm the exact events that led to his arrest or
check official accusations because independent reporting is tightly restricted
in Iran.
“Music can produce violence,” he said. “I have made
mistakes, I do apologize. I apologize to you and the society for any violence
that I have instigated.”
The public execution of Majidreza Rahnavard on Dec.
12, 2022, in Mashhad, Iran, the second capital punishment linked to nearly
three months of protests.Mizan News via AFP - Getty Images
Hadi Ghaemi, the executive director of the New
York-based Center for Human Rights in Iran, said he felt no confidence that the
country’s courts would find justice for those swept up for demonstrating —
including high-profile detainees like Salehi.
“These courtrooms are really not a place of justice
since they don’t involve any investigation, due process or the right of a
defendant to defend himself and have independent counsel,” the Iranian-born
Ghaemi said.
Salehi is now waiting to see whether a death sentence
passed in November will be upheld. After initially not being allowed legal
representation of his own choosing, he was permitted to get access to personal
lawyers, which was confirmed in a tweet by his counsel, Amir Raesian, on Dec.
29.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, or
HRANA, estimates the number of arrests
related to the protests to be more than 18,000 people. Iran’s judiciary
spokesperson has announced the number to be more than 1,000, according to the
official news agency IRNA.
Iran’s Mizan news agency, under the country’s
judiciary, reported Saturday that two people, Mohammad Mehdi Karami and Seyed
Mohammad Hosseini were executed early Saturday for allegedly killing a security
official, making it four men known to have been executed since the
demonstrations began.
In this Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, photo taken by an
individual not employed by the Associated Press and obtained by the AP outside
Iran, a police motorcycle and a trash bin are burning during a protest over the
death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old woman who had been detained by the nation's
morality police, in downtown Tehran, Iran. Spontaneous mass gatherings to
persistent scattered demonstrations have unfolded elsewhere in Iran, as
nationwide protests over the death of a young woman in the custody of the
morality police enter their fourth week.
The artist’s charges that carry a death sentence were
handed down “for making music, for rapping about freedom, human rights and
injustice,” she told NBC News via email in December
For weeks, European politicians have taken on the
political sponsorships of prisoners in Iran, acting as advocates by talking to
the media and writing to the European Union and the U.N. to put pressure on the
Iranian government.
“He expressed the feelings that many of the people who
are protesting on the streets of Iran have toward the regime of the Islamic
Republic,” said Rhie, who was elected to the Bundestag, Germany’s federal
parliament, in September 2021 and stays abreast of Salehi’s case by keeping in
touch with people in Iran. “By standing in solidarity with the revolution, and
by going out on the streets himself, he made himself a target.”
“This is Toomaj Salehi,” he wrote, reposting a Salehi
video supportive of the protesters. “Listen to Toomaj. His voice is louder than
ever!”
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Without Women Employees, Humanitarian Aid to
Afghanistan to be Halted: UN
Martin Griffiths, Under
Secretary-General of the United Nations for Humanitarian Affairs (File Photo)
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By Nizamuddin Rezahi
January 7, 2023
Martin Griffiths stated that humanitarian aid
organizations operating under the umbrella of the United Nations definitely
need the crucial support of women employees to continue delivering their
life-saving services to the Afghan populace.
He emphasized that if the restrictions on female
employees are not lifted, there is a high chance that the UN’s aid programs
will get halted, considering the challenging situation in Afghanistan, which
will lead to another catastrophic humanitarian crisis in the country.
“Without the presence of women, we can’t deliver our
much-need humanitarian support to the most marginalized groups, including women
and girls in the Afghan society,” Martin Griffiths said.
He further added the United Nations and the
International Community cannot rely on the promises of the Islamic Emirate of
Afghanistan authorities for they have failed to fulfill their promises
regarding the rights of women and girls.
In his remarks, he rejected the misuse of the aid
programs by the Taliban officials and said the humanitarian aid was distributed
to predetermined locations across the country.
Following the ban on women employees working for
national and international non-governmental organizations, a considerable
number of aid organizations have ceased their operations in Afghanistan.
Prior to this, aid organizations had warned about the
interruption of the flow of humanitarian aid to Afghanistan – where 12
countries including the European Union and the UN called the Islamic Emirate
authorities to lift the restrictions on women working with NGOs.
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One Of Britain’s Youngest Imams Speaks Out Against
Islamophobia To O Raise Awareness For Islamophobia In The Media And In Society
Imam Qari Asim MBE, Deputy
Chair of the Anti-Muslim Hatred Working Group
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Elaine McCallig
08-01-2023
One of Britain’s youngest imams has spoken out to
raise awareness for Islamophobia in the media and in society.
Adeel Shah, 27, said that although the UK is generally
an accepting, multicultural society, there is an unconscious bias prevalent in
the media.
Adeel is one of an estimated 30,000 Ahmadi Muslims
based in the UK, and he began studying to become an imam at 17. Adeel studied
comparative religions for seven years before working in southwest London.
He said that there is a double standard in that there
is a tendency to be quick to label a crime perpetrated by a “so-called Muslim”
as “terrorism”.
But if it’s perpetrated by someone of another belief
there is more of a focus on the individual’s mental health, citing the Plymouth
shooting as a tragic recent example.
“I say so-called Muslim because nothing in Islam
accepts, motivates, or even allows terror or terrorism,” he said. “The word
Islam means peace. You can’t have peace with terrorism.
“The precedent that the media sets is that when you
think about terror or terrorism - automatically, intrinsically, subconsciously
- people think about Muslims.
“There is a verse in the Quran which says there is no
compulsion in religion, and there’s another verse that says that if you kill a
single soul it’s as if you’ve killed all of humanity; whereas if you save a
single soul, it’s as if you saved all of humanity.”
“The underlying main point is that every religion has
people who misconstrue, misunderstand, and misrepresent the religion. If
someone was to blame the KKK or the IRA or the Lord's Resistance Army on
Christianity, I’d be the first one to stand up and say ‘no that is totally
wrong’.”
According to Home Office statistics released last
year, in the year ending March 2021 a little under half (45 per cent) of
religious hate crime offences in England and Wales were targeted against
Muslims, or those perceived to be Muslim, with 2,703 offences taking place. The
year before, it was 50 per cent (3,089 offences).
After Conservative MP Sir David Amess was killed in
October of last year, Adeel and his friend travelled to the late MP’s
constituency to pay their respects, show their solidarity with the community,
and to meet with the reverend of the church Sir David attended.
But while in Leigh-on-Sea, Adeel and his friend were
warned there could be a spike in hate crime, and to “watch their backs”. At
that point, the perpetrator hadn’t been named.
“We’re living in a multicultural society, we’re living
in a place which is accepting of different races, and backgrounds, and
ethnicities.
“You don’t want to be walking out where you need to be
told ‘oh, be mindful of your back’ because you’re a Muslim, because you fit the
description of someone who apparently there’s hate towards, and it really took
me aback and that really made me upset.”
Following the 2017 Westminster Bridge terror attack in
London, Adeel along with 400 to 500 other Muslims visited the bridge wearing
blue t-shirts that read: “I am a Muslim, ask me anything?”.
Adeel said one interaction from the day sticks out in
his mind. While holding a sign with the Ahmadiyya slogan, “love for all, hatred
for none”, he was approached by an older man who disapprovingly asked what he
was doing there.
Thankfully, the man was open to having a conversation.
Adeel spoke to him for ten minutes, and told him about the vast amount of
charity and community work carried out by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community.
He said: “He was so impressed that he ended up giving
me a hug. But the next thing he said was really heartbreaking. He said he had
been living in London for eight or ten years, and this is the first time I’ve
spoken to a Muslim.”
Adeel recalls feeling shocked, and said it goes to
show that there are people who will formulate their opinions based on the
headlines.
Both locally and internationally, Ahmadi Muslims
regularly carry out charity walks, tree planting sessions, blood drives,
initiatives to feed the homeless, and build schools in developing countries.
During the pandemic, the community in the UK
immediately sprung into action and were ready to run errands for neighbours,
collect groceries, or even just make a friendly phone call.
In the UK alone during the first nine months of the
pandemic, the community delivered food and medicine to over 21,000 households,
delivered 673,000 pieces of PPE on behalf of the government, and sent over
10,000 food packages and 6,290 pieces of PPE to frontline workers.
Over 1,600 meals were donated to the homeless, 150
children were provided with daily healthy snacks for four weeks, and over 500
toys were donated to orphanages.
Each November, they help out with the British Royal
Legion’s poppy appeal and on New Year’s Day, 900 Ahmadi Muslims woke up early
to clean the streets because that’s how they wanted to start 2022.
Adeel said: “However we can, we try to contribute and
play our part in society because that is what Islam teaches us to do.”
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‘Love Jihad’ Season In Maharashtra — Shinde-Fadnavis
Govt Is Raking Up Interfaith Marriages
File photo of Maharashtra CM
Eknath Shinde and Deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis | ANI
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Purva Chitnis
8 January, 2023
Mumbai: Vishal Vimal, a social activist from Pune
working with the Maharashtra Andhashraddha Nirmoolan Samiti, has helped
facilitate 18 interfaith marriages over the past six years.
Intercaste and interfaith couples approach the
organisation seeking help. “Many of their parents are against their union,”
said Vimal.
“We check whether they are really in love or if it’s
just attraction. We offer some counselling and make sure they will be able to
live independently,” he added. The organisation then helps interfaith couples
register their marriage under the Special Marriage Act.
Vimal himself has been married to a Muslim woman since
2016. However, in his case, the marriage was blessed by both sets of parents.
Maharashtra’s focus on interfaith marriages and ‘love
jihad’, following the deaths of Shraddha Walkar and actor Tunisha Sharma last
year, though, have made Vimal anxious. “This is being done for polarisation of
votes,” he said.
On 25 December, Maharashtra cabinet minister Girish
Mahajan, calling Tunisha Sharma’s alleged suicide a case of ‘love jihad’, had
said that the state is planning a law against it. The comment had followed the
arrest of actor Sheezan Mohammed Khan on the charges of abetment to suicide.
Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis,
too, has stated multiple times in the past that the government is mulling a law
against love jihad. “Other states have made stringent laws to curb such cases
and hence Maharashtra is ready to enact the law on similar lines to ensure the
protection of women,” he said in the state assembly on 20 December.
According to political analyst Hemant Desai,
previously only certain pockets of the state saw Hindu-Muslim tension, but with
recent events, communal lines are being drawn across the state.
Earlier in December, the Shinde-Fadnavis government in
the state set up a committee to gather information about intercaste and
interfaith couples, and to enquire whether the families of the women involved
are estranged. However, after facing backlash over the committee “promoting
caste system”, the government amended its scope to include only interfaith
marriages.
On 14 December, Nationalist Congress Party (NCP)
leader Jitendra Awhad had tweeted that setting up the committee is an
“anti-constitutional” and “nauseating” step.
Ambadas Danve, leader of opposition in the Maharashtra
Legislative Council and Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) member, told
ThePrint that the teasing of a ‘love jihad’ law is a politically motivated move
by the BJP.
“We will study the law once it is brought in. If the
couple is going into these marriages consciously then why oppose it?” he asked,
adding that forcible conversions must come with some conditions.
Congress spokesperson Sachin Sawant told ThePrint,
“The state government has an utter disregard for the constitution. This law
will be anti-woman as it takes away their right to choose. It is the anti-idea
of India.”
“The government got these two cases [Shraddha and
Tunisha] on a platter for the BJP to pursue its agenda further. They are
creating a narrative that divides the public on communal lines,” said Pratap
Asbe, political commentator.
Flavia Agnes, women’s rights activist, and lawyer at
Bombay High Court, called the interfaith marriage committee “absurd”. “They
claim to be safeguarding women against domestic violence but that’s prevalent
in all kinds of marriages, not only interfaith marriages,” she said, adding
that such laws will only harm Hindu women and their right to choose.
Some believe the BJP is using the two cases to paint
the opposition as anti-Hindu, especially Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray).
“BJP is also trying to paint Uddhav Thackeray as
someone who is anti-Hindu and going closer to NCP and Congress,” said Hemant
Desai,
Asbe is of the opinion that while the BJP is trying to
gain political mileage, the BMC elections will be fought on BMC issues and not
on communal lines. “More than success rate, this is being done to keep the
communal pot in Maharashtra simmering,” he said.
Desai said that earlier there were only certain
pockets in the state like Aurangabad, Malegaon, and Bhiwandi where Hindu-Muslim
tensions prevailed, but using these cases, the government is trying to set a
similar narrative across the state.
This was observed when Kolhapur, which has not been
historically communal according to Desai, was the venue for a march Monday by Hindu
organisations against ‘love jihad’, alleged illegal conversions and cow
slaughter.
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Outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan ‘Major Thorn’ In
Ties Between Islamabad, Kabul
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
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Iftikhar A. Khan
January 8, 2023
ISLAMABAD: Noting that the outlawed Tehreek-i-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) was becoming a major irritant in Islamabad’s relations with the
Taliban government in Kabul, a leading think tank has called for reorienting
Afghan policy, civilianising National Action Plan (NAP) and
counterterrorism regime.
“Parliament is the centre of collective
decision-making, and the parliament must take a lead role in counterterrorism
efforts. It must build a clear stance on terrorism, and extremism. The subject
must not be an exclusive domain of the security agencies,” the Pakistan
Institute for Peace Studies, an Islamabad-based policy research and advocacy
think tank, said in a report released on Saturday.
The ‘Pakistan Security Report 2022’ noted the TTP,
believed to be operating from the neighbouring Afghanistan, remained one of the
major actors of violence in Pakistan in the year 2022, with the number of
terrorist attacks in the country marking an increase of 27 per cent from the
previous year.
The number of terrorist attacks in the country also
continued to rise for a second consecutive year. A total of 262 terrorist
attacks in Pakistan in the year — including 14 suicide bombings — claimed in
all 419 lives and injured another 734 people.
The security report noted that the Afghan Taliban’s
taking power in Kabul, and the Pakistani state’s persistent ambition to engage
in peace talks with the TTP had encouraged the group to regroup and escalate
terrorist violence in the country.
It appears uncertain whether “the Taliban will fulfil
their promises on foreign militant groups such as Al-Qaeda, Islamic State
Movement of Uzbekistan, ETIM (East Turkestan Islamic Movement) or TIP
(Turkistan Islamic Party), and TTP,” the report says, adding that so far, the
Afghan Taliban had only acted against IS-K.
According to the report, the TTP, local Taliban groups
such as Hafiz Gul Bahadur group, IS-K, and other similar religiously inspired
groups perpetrated a combined total of 179 terrorist attacks in Pakistan in
2022 as compared to 128 in the previous year, which killed 250 people and
injured 262 others.
Different Baloch and Sindhi nationalist insurgent
groups carried out 79 attacks, as compared to 77 such attacks in 2021, which
claimed 97 lives and wounded another 259 people.
As many 15 cross-border attacks took place in Pakistan
during 2022. Out of total, 13 attacks happened from across the country’s border
with Afghanistan in KP and Balochistan. These attacks from Afghanistan killed
34 people, including 20 security officials, and injured 52 others.
The report underlines that Afghan border forces under
the Taliban regime are involved in many of such incidents contrary to the
past practice when most of the cross-border attacks from Afghanistan were
carried out by the TTP or other militant groups.
The report recommends that the government should come
up with a proper mechanism to implement the National Security Policy as well as
the revised NAP. There is a need to increase capacity and role of civilian law
enforcement agencies that will prevent the terrorist threat to a significant
extent, according to another recommendation.
“There should be a zero-tolerance policy towards the
terrorist groups, and there should be no negotiations with those who are
unwilling to quit violence.”
The report suggests that a very high vigilance level
is required to counter the major threat posed by the Baloch and Sindhi
nationalist insurgents to foreign engagements and workers in Balochistan and
parts of Sindh.
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Mideast
Charlie Hebdo: Iran Urges Muslim Action against
Western Sacrilegious Moves
January, 07, 2023
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Denouncing French magazine Charlie
Hebdo for insulting the religious authority of Iran, Iranian Foreign Minister
Hossein Amirabdollahian called on Muslim countries to prevent Western states
from promoting hate and committing acts of sacrilege in the name of freedom.
In a telephone conversation on Friday, Amirabdollahian
and his Pakistani counterpart Bilawal Bhutto Zardari talked about the latest
developments in bilateral ties and some regional and international issues.
Amirabdollahian said he was pleased with the growing
trend of bilateral ties, especially the holding of the joint economic
commission of the two countries in Pakistan. He also underlined the importance
of implementing the agreements concluded at the commission.
He then pointed to the acts of the Zionist regime to
promote Islamophobia and strongly condemned the fake regime's latest move to
desecrate Al-Aqsa Mosque.
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Iranian arrested in Germany on suspicion of Islamist
chemical attack plot
By AFP
08-01-2023
An Iranian man has been arrested in western Germany
suspected of preparing an “Islamist attack” using cyanide and ricin, police and
prosecutors said Sunday.
Munster police and the Dusseldorf prosecutors’ office
said in a press release that officers searched a residence in the town of
Castrop-Rauxel for “toxic substances” intended to carry out an attack.
The 32-year-old Iranian was “suspected of having
prepared a serious act of violence threatening the security of the state by
obtaining cyanide and ricin with a view to committing an Islamist attack,” said
investigators.
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Palestinian Islamic Jihad: 'Our double agents foiled
the assassination of a senior member'
Jan 7, 2023
Akram Al-A'jouri, the military commander of the
Al-Quds brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, told
Al-Jazeera that "The Hommesh operation was intended to capture and kill
occupation soldiers since the prisoner issue is one of the most important
issues."
"The Homesh operation" is a reference by
Al-A'jouri to the shooting attack by Palestinian terrorists near the evacuated
village of Homesh in northern Samaria, which killed Yehuda Dimentman and
injured two additional students at the Har Shalom yeshiva.
A'jouri claimed that the Al-Quds brigades managed to
stop infiltration by Israeli intelligence into their ranks by employing two
double agents, one of them was able to trick an Israeli intelligence officer
and return after carrying out his mission.
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Iran condemns Zionist regime’s unfounded accusations
against Islamic Republic
7 January 2023
Tehran (ISNA) - Ambassador and Permanent
Representative of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations, Amir
Saeid Iravani in a letter to the president of the Security Council condemned
the Israeli envoy’s baseless allegations against Iran.
I am writing to you in reference to the UN Security
Council's emergency meeting on the situation in the Middle East, including the
Palestinian question, which was held on 5 January 2023 (S/PV.9236). During the
meeting, the Security Council was presented with unjustified references and
unfounded accusations against the Islamic Republic of Iran levelled by a
representative of the Israeli regime.
Since the format of the meeting prevented my delegation
from making a statement in response to such fabrications, I would appreciate it
if you could draw the Council members' attention to the following position of
my delegation on the abovementioned unjustified allegations:
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Scores of Israeli settlers break into Al-Asqa Mosque
08/January/2023
JERUSALEM, Sunday, January 8, 2023 (WAFA) – Scores of
Israeli settler fanatics guarded by police today broke into the Al-Aqsa Mosque
compound in occupied Jerusalem, according to witnesses.
Local sources told WAFA that scores of Israeli
settlers entered the compound through the Moroccan Gate in groups and performed
rituals and Talmudic prayers there under the protection of Israeli police
officers.
Since 2003, the Israeli occupation authorities have
been allowing settlers into the compound almost on a daily basis, with the
exclusion of Friday, the Muslim day of rest and worship.
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North America
‘Biases Can Be Melted.’ Muslim Mayor of New Jersey To
Be Sworn In For Unprecedented 5th Term
By Camille Furst
Jan. 07, 2023
The man who religious groups recognize as the longest
serving Muslim public official in the state of New Jersey is being sworn in for
his fifth term Saturday.
“(It shows that) assumed biases can be melted because
people will see you for who you are rather than what could be stereotypical
about you or your community,” Khairullah told NJ Advance Media.
Born in Syria, he was first elected to the post in
2005, just four years after becoming a U.S. citizen. This November, he won his
latest election 728-372 against Republican candidate Maria Emma Anderson.
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Hamilton mosque speaks out after bomb threat, calls
incident 'disturbing and concerning'
Desmond Brown
Jan 07, 2023
Representatives from a mosque in downtown Hamilton are
speaking out after they say a bomb threat was made against the mosque on
Friday, calling the incident "disturbing and concerning."
"A bomb threat was made to the Ibrahim Jame
Mosque in relation to a congregational prayer," said a statement posted on
the mosque's Facebook page on Saturday.
According to Hashemi, it was Hamilton's police chief
who asked him to "evacuate the building as soon as possible due to a bomb
threat," and that he was told the threat came in through an anonymous
police tip line.
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Mauritania celebrates Nouakchott as cultural capital of
Islamic world
January 7, 2023
Mauritania on Friday commenced the first events since
Nouakchott was chosen as the capital of culture in the Islamic world for 2023.
Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani,
ministers of culture from many Arab and Islamic countries and professionals
from the fields of culture, literature and media attended the opening ceremony
held at the Conference Palace in Nouakchott.
The opening ceremony, organised under the supervision
of the Islamic World Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (ICESCO)
and the Mauritanian Ministry of Culture, included artistic performances and
cultural exhibitions besides a pavilion devoted to manuscripts and another for
sites registered on the Islamic Heritage List.
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US will suffer Soviet Union’s fate, says Iran Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps’ Quds Force commander
07.01.2023
The commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic
Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) of Iran has said that the United States will
shamefully leave the West Asia region and suffer the fate of the Soviet Union,
Tehran Times reported.
General Ismail Qaani said think tanks have
corroborated his assessment.
“The United States will be plagued with the fate of
the Soviet Union and think tanks have confirmed this,” the commander averred.
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Europe
Paris mosque drops complaint against French writer
Michel Houellebecq
07/01/2023
The rector of the Grand Mosque of Paris has confirmed
that he has decided to drop his complaint against award-winning French writer
Michel Houellebecq over "violent comments" targeting Muslims made
during a recent interview.
In a statement issued on Friday – the day after a
meeting between the two men – the mosque's rector Chems-Eddine Hafiz said that
"after having taken note of the modifications" of the remarks made by
Michel Houellebecq and "of the regrets he expressed", the Grand
Mosque of Paris has decided to drop legal proceedings against him.
Last week, Hafiz denounced "violent" and
"extremely grave" remarks made by Houellebecq against Muslims
published in the November edition of the "counter-culture" magazine
Front populaire.
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German police detain Iranian suspected of planning
'Islamist-motivated' attack
8 Jan 2023
German police have taken into custody a 32-year-old
Iranian citizen suspected of having procured cyanide and ricin to commit an
"Islamist-motivated" attack, authorities in western Germany said
today.
The premises of the suspect in city of Castrop-Rauxel
were searched as part of the investigation, according to a joint press release
from the Duesseldorf public prosecutor's office and police in the cities of
Recklinghausen and Muenster.
"The suspect is suspected of having prepared a
serious act of violence endangering the state by allegedly procuring cyanide
and ricin to commit an Islamist-motivated attack," the statement said.
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Pardoned Ivorian soldiers arrive home after months in
Malian detention
08/01/2023
The troops, whose detention triggered a bitter
diplomatic row between the countries, were arrested on July 10, 2022, after
arriving in the Malian capital Bamako.
Mali accused them of being mercenaries, while Ivory
Coast and the United Nations say they were flown in to provide routine backup
security for the German contingent of the UN peacekeeping mission.
After their plane landed at 11:40 pm (23:40 GMT), the
uniformed soldiers disembarked one by one, each brandishing a small Ivorian
flag.
They were greeted by President Alassane Ouattara
before entering the presidential pavilion at the airport where their families
were waiting for them.
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India
West Bengal: Two suspected Islamic State-linked
terrorists arrested in Howrah
Jan 07, 2023
Kolkata Police's special task force arrested two
persons, suspected to be terrorists allied to the Islamic State, from Howrah's
Tikiapara area, a senior police officer said on Saturday.
Acting on a tip-off from a central investigating
agency, a team of Kolkata Police's Special Task Force (STF) picked up the two
from their hideout in Tikiapara's Aftabuddin Munshi Lane on Friday night, he
said.
"Both of them are involved in spreading tentacles
of the terror group in Howrah. We are questioning them to understand more about
their roles," the officer told PTI, adding that they were also involved in
"brainwashing local youths towards anti-national activities."
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Pakistan
Cop martyred in Bannu; four ‘militants’ dead in CTD
operation
Ghulam Mursalin Marwat
January 8, 2023
LAKKI MARWAT: A police constable was martyred and
another suffered gunshot wounds when militants attacked a police patrol in
Bannu, while villagers and police repulsed yet another attack on a police post
in Lakki Marwat district on the night between Friday and Saturday, officials
said.
Separately, the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) of
police claimed to have killed four alleged militants during an
intelligence-based operation in Sarband area on the outskirts of Peshawar on
Saturday.
Officials said that a police mobile van came under a
gun and bomb attack in Domel area of Bannu. A team of Domel police station was
on patrol duty when it spotted two suspected motorcyclists and signalled them
to stop.
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PTI changes its mind on timing of Elahi’s trust vote
in PA
Mansoor Malik
January 8, 2023
LAHORE: Changing his mind, former prime minister Imran
Khan has now agreed to put off the trust vote — to be taken by Chief Minister
Parvez Elahi — until a court decision on the governor’s order seeking a vote of
confidence in the Punjab Assembly.
The decision taken by Mr Khan on Saturday came in
contrast to his earlier claims, wherein he along with party stalwart Fawad
Chaudhry insisted that a vote of confidence must be held before the Jan 11
hearing at the Lahore High Court.
In a bid to convince Mr Elahi, the PTI chairman had
also sent a delegation to the chief minister’s residence on Dec 24, but PML-Q
leader and former federal minister Moonis Elahi had urged the PTI chief to wait
for the court order.
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97pc applicants were successful in getting student
visas: British envoy
Jamal Shahid
January 8, 2023
ISLAMABAD: British High Commissioner Dr Christian
Turner has said the issuance rate of British student visas from Pakistan is 97pc,
which meant 97pc of the applicants get the visa.
Refuting the perception that British student visa was
the hardest to get, Dr Turner said they had issued 23,500 student visas which
doubled from the time he arrived in Pakistan three years ago.
Dr Turner, who arrived in December 2019, will cease to
be the high commissioner to Pakistan this week. However, he told Prime Minister
Shehbaz Sharif that he would now become “an ambassador for Pakistan”.
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JI to launch protest against inflation today
Staff Reporte
January 8, 2023
LAHORE: Jamaat-i-Islami emir Sirajul Haq has announced
a countrywide protest campaign to be launched by his party on Sunday against
the rising inflation in the country.
Addressing the party workers at Mansoora here on
Saturday, Mr Haq said the government of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM)
and the PPP was a continuation of the PTI rule as the ‘troika’ failed to
provide any relief to the masses.
He regretted that because of the bad economy, people
had to stand in long queues to purchase wheat flour in every city of the
country and the prices of essential commodities had gone beyond the common
man’s reach.
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South Asia
Taliban Calls On Ghor Imams To Help Track Down Former
Soldiers
By Amu TV
08-01-2023
A source familiar with the matter, said on a condition
of anonymity: “Taliban forces have been visiting mosques in the city (Firuzkuh
Ghor’s capital) for more than a week and asking Mullah Imams to identify former
military personnel and share their names, father’s names, and their residential
addresses with the Taliban.”
“The Taliban security and intelligence personnel are
looking for former military personnel to collect weapons and ammunition from
them. On the other hand, some former soldiers who went to neighbouring
countries like Iran due to recent developments (Taliban takeover) have returned
and the Taliban want to identify them and take their weapons,” he added.
Many former Afghan soldiers, meanwhile, raised their
voices about the treatment by the Taliban security and intelligence entities,
stating that the Taliban keep visiting their homes and demanding weapons and
ammunition.
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Those Confused About Next Election Should Study
Bangladesh's History, Foreign Minister Says
UNB
January 8, 2023
Foreign Minister Dr AK Abdul Momen has said Bangladesh
is a democratic country and urged those who have confusions about the next
general election to study Bangladesh's history.
"Awami League has always formed governments
through elections. We will surely welcome international observers. We have
nothing to hide," he told reporters after the inauguration of the e-gates
at Sylhet airport, apparently referring to the US, on Sunday.
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Afghan national stranded abroad without visa for 2
years, family in India awaits his return for 'happily ever after'
08.01.23
We miss him a lot, we want him to join us soon -- a
heartbreaking plea to the Indian government by a nine-year-old girl awaiting
return of her father, an Afghan national and a post-doctoral fellow in the
University of Kerala who is stranded abroad for over two years for want of
visa, so that they can live "happily ever after".
Gulabmir Rahmany, a post-doctoral fellow in the
Sociology department of the university, went to Afghanistan in 2020 to renew
his visa and to collect data in connection with his post-doctoral research on
that country.
Unfortunately for him, the United States troops
stationed there since 2001 began their withdrawal in 2020 and the Taliban took
over the country.
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Taliban ‘committed’ to safety of Chinese in
Afghanistan after Isis attack on Kabul hotel
Amy Chew
8 Jan, 2023
The Taliban has said it will guarantee the safety of
Chinese nationals in Afghanistan, three weeks after an Islamic State affiliate
attacked a Kabul hotel that caters to Chinese businessmen.
Taliban spokesman Suhail Shaheen told the Post on
Wednesday that the regime had an “obligation” to maintain the safety of Chinese
nationals.
“The current government reiterates its obligation to
maintain the safety of Chinese nationals and all other nationals who are coming
to Afghanistan either for investment, business or tourism,” Shaheen said via
WhatsApp.
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Bangladesh’s economy 35th largest in the world: Visual
Capitalist
UNB, Dhaka
Jan 7, 2023
According to Canada-based online publication 'Visual
Capitalist', Bangladesh has emerged as the 35th largest economy in the world.
Earlier, the IMF revealed that Bangladesh and India
were the only two South Asian countries considered to be part of the 50 largest
economies.
Citing IMF statistics, Visual Capitalist published the
report titled 'The Top Heavy Global Economy' on December 29, 2022. It has
listed countries in terms of gross domestic product (GDP).
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Southeast Asia
Selangor Islamic Council Says Only Recognising
Overseas Muslim Marriages Registered With Islamic Religious Department
08 Jan 2023
SHAH ALAM, Jan 8 — The Selangor Islamic Religious
Council (Mais) does not recognise any marriage of local couples conducted
abroad if they are not registered with the state Islamic Religious Department
(Jais).
Mais chairman, Tan Sri Abdul Aziz Mohd Yusof, said
that, although the marriage is valid in Islam, if couples fail to register with
Jais, their marriage is not recognised.
“For example, like dealing with their children who are
getting married, it will be a difficult process if the parents’ marriage is not
registered and recognised in Selangor... the same goes for the division of
inheritance.
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Slapping incident: Education Ministry awaits report of
Integrity Unit, says Fadhlina
08 Jan 2023
NIBONG TEBAL, Jan 8 — The Ministry of Education (MoE)
has completed an investigation into the recent incident of a volleyball coach
slapping two young female players, said its Minister, Fadhlina Sidek.
“I want to emphasise that from the beginning we have
stated that in this case, the process is very important. We have a space for
justice for all parties, and even the coach can also make a representation. MoE
does not compromise on violence,” she told reporters, here today.
She said this after visiting the Bukit Panchor
basketball court, here, which is the location of the Nibong Tebal parliamentary
free market 2023.
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Salahuddin: Pakatan still Opposition in Johor, but
ties with BN good
08 Jan 2023
JOHOR BARU, Jan 8 — Pakatan Harapan (PH) is still
playing the role of the opposition in Johor as there was no discussion
regarding the form of cooperation with Barisan Nasional (BN) in the state so
far.
Johor PH chairman Datuk Seri Salahuddin Ayub, however,
said the relationship between the two parties is very good in the spirit of
unity.
“The last time when I was in the State Legislative
Assembly (DUN) during the Mentri Besar’s winding up of the 2023 Budget at the
Johor State Assembly sitting (December last year), we were still seated in the
opposition side.
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Anwar to sign eight MOUs during visit to Indonesia
By IYLIA MARSYA ISKANDAR
08 Jan 2023
SEPANG: Eight memorandums of understanding are
expected to be signed between Malaysia and Indonesia during Datuk Seri Anwar
Ibrahim’s official visit to the neighbouring country, says Datuk Seri Zambry
Abdul Kadir.
He said there would also be a ceremony to hand over 11
letters of interest by Malaysian companies to Bambang Susantono, who heads the
Nusantara Capital City Authority, a special agency tasked with managing and
governing Nusantara city, the future capital of Indonesia.
The Malaysian firms are registering their interest in
working closely with Indonesia to develop the city located in Kalimantan, he
added.
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Arab world
Shoura Council speaker heads Saudi delegation to Asian
Parliamentary Assembly meetings
ARAB NEWS
January 07, 2023
RIYADH: The speaker of the Saudi Shoura Council is
heading Saudi Arabia’s delegation to the 13th executive council meeting and the
general assembly of the Association of Asian Parliaments, to be hosted in the
Turkish city of Antalya, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday.
Sheikh Abdullah Al-Asheikh highlighted the importance
of the Kingdom’s participation in regional and international parliamentary
meetings, in support of cooperation and joint action in all fields and at
various levels.
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‘Everyone has a story to tell’: Iraq five years after
Islamic State
Marcus Ray
JANUARY 8, 2023
It is nearing midnight and the city has come alive.
Along the riverbank men play backgammon and smoke shisha. Throngs of children
entertain themselves in a nearby amusement park, enjoying precious hours of
respite from the blistering summer heat.
The vitality and chaos that cascade down the streets
resemble a balmy evening in Rio or Madrid. But this is Mosul in Iraq. And amid
all the revelry, remnants of the ancient city’s brutal and bloody history
linger on.
This history exemplifies the staggering resilience of
Iraqis in the face of great adversity. It shows how progress and hope have
followed hardship and loss. But other problems now afflict the city’s
residents. They are sobering reminders of the destructive forces that continue
to undermine Iraq’s path to stability and prosperity.
Over five years have passed since Mosul, the
second-largest city in Iraq, was liberated from Islamic State (IS). Government
forces and jihadists had clashed street by street, house by house, wrestling
for control over IS’s de facto capital and most prized possession.
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Outdoor camping experience at Ithra mixes new,
traditional
JASMINE BAGER
January 07, 2023
DHAHRAN: Ithra has launched its own version of the
“kashtah” experience, the quintessential Arabian tradition of desert residents
unwinding under the winter night sky while wrapped up in cozy layers to chat
and enjoy Arabic coffee.
Visitors can now rent elegant and cozy tents for a few
hours in Dhahran. It’s the perfect spot to take a step back, rejoice in the
winter air, and sip a warm drink while chatting under the benevolent stars.
Visitors rent a semi-open space, with a view of the
iconic Ithra building decorated in lights. The tent is covered from the top but
open from the sides.
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Artist paints largest mural of King Abdulaziz
TAREQ AL-THAQAFI
January 07, 2023
MAKKAH: Artist Mohammed Al-Ammar’s mural of King
Abdulaziz decorating a tower on the King Fahd Road in Riyadh has been
registered with Guinness World Records, and the hope is for a winning entry.
Al-Ammar worked for about 50 days on the mural, using
thermal gaseous paint sprays to make sure that the graffiti was not damaged by
weather elements such as wind and rain.
Al-Ammar told Arab News that it was a different, rich,
cultural and artistic experience, especially after receiving accolades from
citizens, residents and foreigners in the city.
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Saudi family businesses on show at Bayt Al-Arab expo
in Egypt
ARAB NEWS
January 07, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi Arabia’s Social Development Bank is
representing the Kingdom at the first exhibition for Arab family businesses —
Bayt Al-Arab — in Egypt.
The exhibition, which opened at Al-Qubba Palace in
Cairo on Thursday and runs until Jan. 11, is supervised by the Egyptian
Ministry of Social Solidarity and the Arab League, under the patronage of
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi.
The head of the Saudi delegation, Saeed Al-Zahrani,
noted that the Social Development Bank provides a suitable work environment for
entrepreneurs through its production incubators, business accelerators, and
community kitchens.
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Muslim World League, Makkah Clock Towers sign
scientific and cultural cooperation agreement
ARAB NEWS
January 07, 2023
RIYADH: The Muslim World League has signed a
scientific and cultural cooperation agreement with the Makkah hotel complex The
Clock Towers, involving the creation of exhibitions, museums, and publications
in multiple languages, all related to Islamic civilization and the life of
Prophet Muhammad.
The agreement was signed by MWL Undersecretary for
Executive Affairs Nayef Al-Sharif and Clock Towers CEO Abdulaziz Almosa in the
presence of Dr. Mohammed bin Abdulkarim Al-Issa, MWL secretary-general and
chairman of the International Fair and Museum of the Prophet’s Biography and
Islamic Civilization.
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Saudi Arabia arrests 14,740 illegals in one week
ARAB NEWS
January 08, 2023
RIYADH: Saudi authorities arrested 14,740 people in
one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations,
according to an official report.
From Dec. 29 to Jan. 4, a total of 8,058 people were
arrested for violations of residency rules, while 4,283 were held over illegal
border crossing attempts, and a further 2,399 for labor-related issues.
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Saudi aid agency sends aid for kidney patients in
Yemen
ARAB NEWS
January 08, 2023
RIYADH: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief
Center has sent four trucks carrying more than 36 tons of medical supplies
related to kidney dialysis treatment to Yemen.
Dr. Abdullah Saleh Al-Moallem, director of KSrelief’s
health and environmental aid department, said there are 11 more such trucks
scheduled to enter Yemen in the coming few days, meaning a total of more than
116 tons of medical assistance will be supplied to kidney dialysis centers in
several Yemeni governorates by the convoy.
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Africa
Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria Calls For
Investment In Islamized Digitization, ICT Content For Muslims
7 JANUARY 2023
The Muslim Students' Society of Nigeria, MSSN, has
called for urgent investment by Muslims in the area of Islamized digitization
and ICT content.
MSSN made the call in a communique, jointly signed by
Malam Muhammad Bin Isa, the National Chairman, and Malam Auwal Yunus, the
Secretary, respectively, issued at the end of its 79th National Islamic
Vacation Course (NIVC), held in Ilorin.
According to the communique, investment in Islamic
digitization has become necessary, to preserve the future generation in the
fast developing world of technology.
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Nigerian Army Appoints New Commander For North-East
Operation Against Boko Haram, ISWAP
January 7, 2023
The Nigerian Army has appointed Major General I.S. Ali
as the new Theatre Commander of the Joint Task Force North-East operation
against the Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists, known as Operation Hadin Kai.
Ali, who was formerly with the 3 Division in Jos,
Plateau State, was appointed on Saturday according to a release by the Director,
Army Public Relations, Brig Gen Onyema Nwachukwu, and obtained by
SaharaReporters.
“The Chief of Army Staff (COAS) Lieutenant General
Faruk Yahaya, has approved the redeployment of Major Generals, and Brigadier
Generals amongst several other senior officers across NA formations and units
in the country,” the statement said.
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Bawumia mobbed in Tamale as he hands over refurbished
Mosque
EMMANUEL TORNYI
January 7, 2023
In September 2020, the regional Chief Imam Sheikh
Abdul Salam Ahmed and Alhaji Opha appealed to the Vice President to help pay
for the cost of the work done by a Kumasi contractor on the ground floor of the
Tamale Central Mosque.
Later in November 2020, Dr. Bawumia after a jummah
prayer in Tamale paid the cost and announced his decision to complete the
remainder of the works of the over 50-year-old Mosque which included the second
and third floors, the manarats, penthouse, lightening, painting, and other
works.
Bawumia at the handing-over ceremony in Tamale after
the completion of the renovation called for religious tolerance between the
various religious groups in the country.
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