Saudi Arabia has installed “advanced self-sterilisation gates” at the entrances of the grand mosques in Makkah and Madinah in an effort to combat the spread of the coronavirus. According to Saudi24, the move is part…
Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa mosque compound will be closed to worshippers throughout the holy fasting month of Ramadan due to the coronavirus pandemic, Muslim clerics at Islam’s third-holiest site have announced. Jerusalem Islamic Waqf, the Jordan-appointed council…
Outbreak could be worse in Somalia than anywhere else if nothing is done before it spreads, medical experts warn, writes Hamza Mohamed. The coronavirus pandemic could kill more people in Somalia than anywhere else if…
Saudi bans Umrah pilgrimage, Iran cancels Friday prayers and Singapore Muslims are urged to bring own mats to mosques. Al Jazeera reports. People around the world are avoiding crowded places, cutting back on inessential travel…
Abdullah al-Mohamed uses a game to help his daughter Salwa cope with the sounds of falling bombs in Syria’s Idlib, writes Farah Najjar Salwa, a three-year-old Syrian girl, has only ever known war. But now,…
Senior EU officials urge Syrian forces to stop Idlib offensive in face of ‘the extraordinary human suffering’, reports Al-Jazeera. The European Union has called for an end to the bombings in northwest Syria and the opening…
By Middle East Monitor and Al Qalam Reporter Nelson Mandela’s grandson has rejected US President Donald Trump’s so-called “Deal of the Century” to resolve the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. “We reject the partisan peace plan for the…
Trump’s deal is a crazy move to legitimize the Occupied Palestinian Territories officially as Apartheid-era Bantustans of South Africa, writes Iqbal Jassat. Undoubtedly masses of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories and millions of their compatriots…
Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has defended Myanmar‘s military against genocide allegations made at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) amid accusations of mass killings, rape and expulsion of the Rohingya Muslim minority. The Gambia, a small…
By 5Pillars New government statistics have revealed that eight of the top 20 schools in England for academic progress are Muslim schools. Top of the list is Tauheedul Islam Girls’ School (TIGHS) in Blackburn which scored…