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Hundreds of 'abused' captives freed from Nigeria Islamic school
AFP, Published on 28/09/2019
» KADUNA (NIGERIA) - Police in the northern Nigerian city of Kaduna have rescued more than 300 male students being held at an Islamic school where many had been tortured and sexually abused, a police spokesman said Friday.
Islamic world reacts with disgust at NZ mosque attacks
Reuters, Published on 15/03/2019
» JAKARTA: Political and Islamic leaders expressed their disgust at the deadly shooting at two mosques in New Zealand on Friday, with some citing rising "Islamophobia" as responsible.
Scores of children abducted from Islamic seminary in Nigeria
AFP, Published on 31/05/2021
» KANO, Nigeria: Gunmen kidnapped scores of children from an Islamic seminary in central Nigeria, officials said, the latest in a string of such incidents plaguing the populous African nation.
Southern Islamic leaders want to rollback legalisation of cannabis
Saritdet Marukatat, Published on 25/07/2022
» Southern Islamic leaders are planning further action to press for the return of marijuana to the narcotics list after the government turned a deaf ear to their initial call last week.
France to ban wearing Islamic abayas in schools: minister
AFP, Published on 28/08/2023
» PARIS - French authorities are to ban the wearing in school of abaya dresses worn by some Muslim women, the education minister said Sunday, arguing the garment violated France's strict secular laws in education.
Pakistan's army a state above a state
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 25/07/2018
» 'Look, we have no other choice," Pakistan's former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said last May. "These games have gone on too long. Something has to change." Then he left to be with his wife Kulsoom, who is on life support while receiving treatment for cancer in England. But last week he and his daughter Maryam returned to Pakistan to begin serving the jail sentences imposed on them by a Pakistani court.
Deputy chair of Pattani Islamic Committee dies from gun injuries
Abdullah Benjakat, Published on 10/06/2018
» PATTANI: The deputy chairman of the Pattani Islamic Committee, who was seriously injured in a gun attack on Friday, died on Sunday morning at Pattani Hospital, according to a hospital announcement. He was 55.
Erdogan pays homage to Islamic idol on eve of vote
AFP, Published on 27/05/2023
» ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays homage on Saturday to his executed Islamic predecessor in an attempt to rally his conservative base on the eve of a historic runoff vote.
Another failed state
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/06/2020
» Re: "Are we a failed state?", (PostBag, June 1).
Slim state albatrosses
Oped, Postbag, Published on 03/07/2020
» Re: "Debt-ridden group lays off 961 staff", (BP, July 1).