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Doctor? Engineer? As dreams fade, Afghan girls turn to madrasas

In a chilly classroom in the southern Afghan province of Kandahar, the birthplace of the Taliban movement, teenage girls pore over Islamic texts as the disembodied voice of a male scholar emanates from a loud speaker.

Reuters

Algeria recalls ambassador to France over wanted dissident

Algeria has recalled its envoy to France "for consultations" after Paris intervened to help Amira Bouraoui, an activist and journalist who is wanted by Algiers, avoid deportation and detention.

Radio France Internationale

Government's anti-terror programme failing to tackle 'non-violent Islamist extremism'

Suella Braverman said 'major reform' is needed of the controversial Prevent programme after a long-delayed review. But Amnesty International said it was 'riddled with biased thinking, errors, and plain anti-Muslim prejduice'

Daily Mirror

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We fled war to die in an earthquake, says Iraqi woman mourning family in Turkey

Six years ago, Rehab Talal and her family fled the Islamic State-held city of Mosul in northern Iraq seeking shelter in Turkey, but seven members of her family died, including a week-old baby, when her parents' house collapsed in the earthquake.

Reuters

Devastated couple whose daughter died abroad don't know where grandchildren are

Judy and Sean Devlin last saw 27-year-old single mum Kelsey in 2021 when she flew to Islamabad with children Zara and Zain after being told her Pakistani mother-in-law was dying.

Edinburgh Live

Grieving couple whose daughter, 27, died abroad don't know where grandchildren are

Judy and Sean Devlin last saw 27-year-old single mum Kelsey in 2021 when she flew to Islamabad with children Zara and Zain after being told her Pakistani mother-in-law was dying

Daily Mirror

Malaysia condemns desecration of Quran in Netherlands, Sweden

Government says it is ‘appalled’ that Islamophobic acts had been repeated within days in the two European countries.

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Suspect in Times Square New Year’s Eve attack on NYPD officers just another kid in Maine until his embrace of radical Islam

In his sleepy Maine hometown, teen-aged Trevor Bickford was just one of the guys.

Tribune News Service

Turkey, Saudi Arabia condemn Taliban’s university ban for women

Saudi Arabia expressed ‘astonishment and regret’ over the ban, while Turkey called it ‘neither Islamic nor humane’.

Al Jazeera

Türkiye Decries Taliban University Ban for Women

Türkiye became the latest Muslim-majority country to condemn a decision by Taliban authorities to bar women from universities, while about two dozen women staged a protest in the streets of Kabul on Thursday. The Saudi foreign ministry on Wednesday had expressed “astonishment and regret” at Afghan women being denied a…

Asharq Al-Awsat

World Cup 2022 briefing: Morocco’s pride in Islam should inspire us all

It is uplifting to see players practicing their religion and celebrating with their mothers on such a big global stage

The Guardian - UK

Free Speech Rules, Free Speech Culture, and Legal Education: Responses to Objections

I was invited to participate in a Hofstra Law Review symposium on free speech in law schools, which will be happening in February, and I thought I'd serialize my current draft article; there's still plenty of time to improve it, so I'd love to hear people's comments. Here are some…

Reason

Islamic State names new leader after Quraishi blew himself up when surrounded -sources

The Islamic State (IS) militant group has appointed a previously unknown figure as its head after its leader blew himself up in October while being besieged by former anti-government rebels in southern Syria, those involved in the clash told Reuters.

Reuters

Emily Sheffield: As society evolves, our moral codes are being tested like never before

When was the last time you asked yourself: what is the moral code you live by? And if you wrote a list of the guidelines within that code, what would they be? Frequently we will trot out the golden rule that we should treat others as we want to be…

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Asharq Al-Awsat

Crown Prince Says Saudi Arabia to Sponsor Restoration of Jakarta Islamic Center

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud has announced Saudi Arabia's sponsorship of the restoration of the Islamic Center in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta, following a fire last month, which damaged a huge part of the Center, the Saudi Press Agency reported Wednesday. Islamic Centers have a…

The Guardian - UK

‘Closed’ village on Lebanese-Israeli boundary welcomes visitors after 22 years

Mindsets are changing, says resident of Ghajar, a Syrian Alawite village in occupied Golan Heights

Dynamite News

BJP Takes Dig At Owaisi's Hijab-Clad-PM Remark

Hinting at the debatable position of women in Islam, BJP's Shehzad Poonawalla on Wednesday took a jibe at AIMIM Chief Asaduddin Owaisi by asking to first make a hijab-wearing girl the president of his party and then hope for such a girl to become prime minister.Read more on Dynamite News:

The Conversation

How Indonesia's female candidates have used social media to boost Islamic image and win elections

In recent years, voters in the world’s third-largest democracy, Indonesia, have preferred to support candidates with solid religious personas and a lifestyle and appearances adhering to Islamic values. This preference is in line with the increasing trend towards Islamic piety in the Muslim majority country.

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Al-Issa: We Advocate Peace, Reject Violence

Negative slogans falsely raised in the name of religions or cultures only represent themselves, reaffirmed Muslim World League (MWL) Secretary-General Mohammad Al-Issa in a speech he gave during the unveiling of a “knotted gun” statue at the MWL headquarters in Riyadh on Wednesday. “We reaffirm that we are advocates of…

Manchester Evening News

Stockport councillor thrown out of Tory party for Twitter posts 'deemed discriminatory towards those of the Islamic faith'

Councillor Alanna Vine has been permanently expelled by the party following an investigation into her online activity.

The Independent UK

‘Unhinged’ Rudy Giuliani behaved in drunken and Islamophobic manner at law firm dinner, book claims

“Rudy was unhinged,” writes former US attorney Geoffrey Berman of Mr Giuliani’s behaviour at a dinner party in 2016

The Guardian - US

‘Unhinged’ Rudy Giuliani drank and ranted about Islam, new book claims

Ex-mayor derailed ‘train wreck’ dinner with clients and colleagues, then was later considered for secretary of state

Bangkok Post

Singapore, Vietnam ease anti-gay laws; Indonesia urged to look other way

Indonesia’s top Islamic scholars have urged Jakarta not to follow the lead of neighbouring countries in decriminalising gay sex, as many in the world’s most populous Muslim-majority nation continue to view same-sex relationships as deviant.

The Independent UK

Sir Salman Rushdie’s attacker ‘surprised’ to learn of the author’s survival

Hadi Matar said Sir Salman was ‘someone who attacked Islam’ but did not confirm that his actions were driven by Iran’s fatwa.

Dublin Live

Gay man feels no longer welcome in Dublin mosque after 'lifestyle' condemned

Dr Al-Qadri defended reported comments about gay sex and the spread of monkeypox within the LGBTQAI+ community

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