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Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) – International service: Maria Zakharova, the spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia, said that her country considers removing the name of the Islamic Emirate from the banned list and establishing relations with the Islamic Emirate as a necessity in the fight against terrorism and drug trafficking. The spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs made these statements to TASS news agency yesterday (Sunday, June 9) on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg economic meeting.In response to Moscow’s interaction with the current government in Kabul, the spokesperson of the Russian Foreign Ministry said that…
One of the famous Islamic scholars, Sheikh Abdallahi Gadon-Kaya, has said an acceptable hajj (Hajj Mabrur) is a sure and genuine path to paradise. He stated this while delivering a lecture on rituals of hajj to the Kebbi pilgrims at Hotel Number One in Qudai, Makkatul Mukarrama, otherwise known as Kebbi House on Monday.The cleric quoted the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) as saying: “Acceptable Hajj (Hajj Mabrur) has no reward except paradise.”Mr Gadon-Kaya, who summarised the entire hajj in 10 steps, observed that every pilgrim that had the opportunity to come to perform hajj, “God Almighty wants him…
(NewsNation) — A social media account linked to the Islamic State group is circulating a potential threat aimed at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics. The group’s supporters are sharing a poster of a manipulated image seemingly depicting the moments before a theoretical attack in Paris with text that warns of a lone wolf-style event. The implied threat comes just weeks before the Paris Olympic games, all while French authorities are on their highest terror alert level after foiling an alleged Olympic-related plot in recent weeks. Blinken: ‘We’re all waiting on Hamas’ after weekend hostage rescue NewsNation was not able to…
The sheikh who was sent into hiding after a series of statements criticising extreme Islamic views has demanded a Royal Commission into radical Muslim groups.Taking to Facebook once more, Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi called for an official inquiry into Islamist extremism, just days after Hizb ut-Tahrir released footage which was accused of promoting domestic violence.That footage showed Muslim women discussing exactly when and how men should hit their wives.“We urgently need a Royal Commission into Wahabism, Salafism, Hizb ut Tahrir and all other forms of radical Sunni Islam,” Sheikh Tawhidi said on Facebook on Tuesday.Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi called for an official…
Homowo festival Celebrated by the Ga people of Accra, the Homowo Festival is typically held in the months of August or September. It commemorates the harvest season and involves various rituals, including the sprinkling of ‘Kpokpoi’ (a special dish made from maize) to signify the end of the famine period. Asafotufiam festival Held by the people of Ada in the Greater Accra Region, the Asafotufiam Festival is celebrated in August. It is a military-themed festival that honors the warriors of the Ada traditional area through drumming, dancing, and mock battles. Akwambo festival Celebrated by the people of the Nzema in…
Afghan Voice Agency (AVA) – Tehran: Nasser Kanani, the spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, who was speaking to reporters today, Monday, June 10, in his weekly news conference, answered two questions of the AVA reporter about the latest decision regarding He answered the situation of the Afghan consulate in Mashhad, as well as holding a meeting of the regional contact group in Tehran without the presence of the representative of the Islamic Emirate. In response to the first question about the situation of the Afghan consulate in Mashhad, he noted: Regarding the…
Image caption, Umm Hudaifa, the first wife of the late IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, is now in prison in IraqArticle informationAuthor, Feras KilaniRole, BBC ArabicReporting from Baghdad10 June 2024In a rare interview from prison, a widow of the Islamic State group’s leader has shared her account of their life. Umm Hudaifa was the first wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and was married to him while he oversaw IS’s brutal rule over large parts of Syria and Iraq. She is now being held in an Iraqi jail while she is investigated for terrorism-related crimes.In the summer of 2014, Umm Hudaifa…
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Home » General » Senegal: African Development Bank and Islamic Development Bank fund livestock project to improve animal product quality Partners in the first phase of Senegal’s five-year National Integrated Livestock Development Program (French acronym PNDIES-P1) met on 28 May. Workshop participants included Senegal’s Ministry of Agriculture, Food Sovereignty and Livestock, the African Development Bank (AfDB) (www.AfDB.org), the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The project three project components — animal productivity, products and product processing, animal product marketing and skill enhancement, and project coordination and management — will help make the country’s…
I recently binged the first season We Are Lady Parts, a Channel 4 comedy about an all-female Muslim punk band which is back for its second season. The American punk (and Muslim), Michael Muhammad Knight, could not have imagined what he was calling into existence when he came up with the name “taqwacore” for his debut novel, The Taqwacores, in 2004. Knight’s book describes a fictional Muslim punk house in New York: “inhabited by burqa-wearing riot girls, mohawked Sufis, straightedge Sunnis, Shi’a skinheads, Indonesian skaters”. The Taqwacores has since become a catalyst for a new sub-genre, taqwacore. Taqwacore’s name is…
Ad The Organisation of Islamic Countries Arbitration Centre (OIC- AC) has indicated interest in supporting foreign direct investment into Nigeria though amicable resolution of disputes. The Secretary General of OIC-AC, Dr Umar Oseni, gave this indication at a reception organised in his honour in Abuja on Sunday night. Oseni, a Nigerian, said in all the bilateral treaties Nigeria is entering into with other countries, OIC will ensure that there is a clause in them for dispute settlements and the body had provided the platform to actually resolve those disputes. “For Nigeria, what we can encourage is to ensure that Nigeria…
Since he assumed office on May 20, 2023, as the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies, (NBAIS) Professor Yahuza Sulaiman Imam has been recording remarkable achievements in the turnaround of the agency towards delivering its primary mandate of conducting Senior Arabic and Islamic Secondary School Certificate Examination (SAISSCE) in Nigeria.In fact, Prof. Imam is working assiduously to ensure that NBAIS is well positioned for smooth and effective conduct and supervision of SAISSCE in 28 states and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT. The Board is undoubtedly a key player in the promotion and preservation of…
Bedeviled by bad lending JUBAIR HASAN | Published: June 11, 2024 00:20:59 A crisis of confidence among clients following massive lending malpractices lands Islamic banking in Bangladesh in a quandary with liquidity crunch bedeviling their operations, according to official disclosure.From deposit to investment, and even in case of wage earners’ remittance, the shariah-based banking operations keep losing their share in recent months, which becomes a matter of concern particularly to a section of unconventional bankers.According to Islamic banking-related statistics of Bangladesh Bank, the country’s central bank, Islamic banking held 23.86 per cent of the entire deposit portfolio with the country’s…
By James Sillars, business reporterPro-Palestinian activists say they have attacked 20 Barclays bank branches across England and Scotland as part of a campaign aimed at damaging Israel’s war machine.The Palestine Action group, which has previously focused its campaign on Israel-based defence contractor Elbit’s UK operations, said its members were responsible for the vandalism.Images posted on X showed windows smashed and widespread use of graffiti on several bank branch entrances.The locations targeted included branches in London, Birmingham, Bristol and Edinburgh.The campaigners also included members of the environment-focused protest group Shut the System.Palestine Action accused Barclays of having financial interests in both…
Soldiers conduct a rapid deployment exercise on the outskirts of Mutwanga, which has been repeatedly attacked by the armed group Allied Democratic Forces. (Alexis Huguet/AFP) About 80 civilians have been killed by suspected ADF rebels in the DRC’s North Kivu in the course of a month.Politicians urged the government to make security a priority.North Kivu is also the province where M23 rebels are fighting South African soldiers.Attacks attributed to Uganda’s Islamic State-linked Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) claimed another 41 lives in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) North Kivu, taking the total to around 80 civilians in the space…
June 10, 2024 (MLN): Newly licensed by Securities & Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP), Pakistan’s first Digital Insurer Salaam Family Takaful Limited (SFTL) and Central Depository Company of Pakistan Limited (CDC) have entered an arrangement for SFTL’s participation in the Centralized Information Sharing Solution for the Insurance Industry (CISSII) and Centralized Insurance Repository (CIR). According to a press release issued on Monday, these are key cross-industry information sharing systems developed and administered by CDC. The agreements were signed by Badiuddin Akber CEO-CDC, and Rizwan Hussain CEO-SFTL, in the presence of Syed Nayyar Hussain Executive Director-SFTL, Abdul Samad COO-CDC, and other senior…
Congo’s government says militants allied with the Islamic State group have killed at least 41 people in several villages in eastern North Kivu provinceBy MOSES SAWASAWA Associated PressJune 10, 2024, 9:06 AM ET• 2 min readGOMA, Congo — Militants allied with the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed at least 41 people in several villages in North Kivu province, the national government said Monday, as residents openly wondered why security forces weren’t protecting them.The statement said Friday’s attacks were carried out by Allied Democratic Forces militants in the villages of Masala, Mahihi and Keme.Local civil society members asserted…
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GOMA, Congo — Militants allied with the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed at least 41 people in several villages in North Kivu province, the national government said Monday, as residents openly wondered why security forces weren’t protecting them.The statement said Friday’s attacks were carried out by Allied Democratic Forces militants in the villages of Masala, Mahihi and Keme.Local civil society members asserted that the true toll was higher, with as many as 80 killed.Richard Kirimba, a civil society official in the area that was attacked, said the militants appeared to be expanding their operations and that local…
(Last Updated On: )Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on the sidelines of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) that work on the possible removal of the Islamic Emirate from Moscow’s terrorist list is based on the need for contact with Afghanistan. Speaking to TASS she said some media has reacted “nervously to the fact that Russia maintains contacts with the Taliban (IEA) movement.” “Apparently, those who write about these issues do not realize that the solution to such problems as the fight against drug trafficking, terrorism and organized crime actually requires contacts. And it is in our…
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Once a year, Muslim pilgrims flowing into Saudi Arabia unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, one of the pillars of Islam. As they fulfill a religious obligation, they immerse themselves in what can be a spiritual experience of a lifetime for them and a chance to seek God’s forgiveness and the erasure of past sins.Here’s a look at the pilgrimage and its significance to Muslims. WHAT IS HAJJ?Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is required once in a lifetime of every Muslim who can…
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Once a year, Muslim pilgrims flowing into Saudi Arabia unite in a series of religious rituals and acts of worship as they perform the Hajj, one of the pillars of Islam. As they fulfill a religious obligation, they immerse themselves in what can be a spiritual experience of a lifetime for them and a chance to seek God’s forgiveness and the erasure of past sins.Here’s a look at the pilgrimage and its significance to Muslims. WHAT IS HAJJ?Hajj is the annual Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca in Saudi Arabia that is required once in a lifetime of every Muslim who can…