International
What It's Like for Muslim Essential Workers to Fast During the Coronavirus
BuzzFeed NewsNearly 40 people around the world told BuzzFeed News that Ramadan is hammering home their isolation during the pandemic: They miss friends, family, and their mosques.
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Is There a Difference Between a Niqab and a Face Mask?
Open DemocracyThe prevalence of face masks to fight the COVID-19 pandemic might help spark a more constructive conversation on the niqab.
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The Uyghur Diaspora: “Anything We Do to Keep Our Culture Alive Is a Form of Resistance…”
AmaliahHana Manadath profiles four individuals fighting to keep the Uyghur culture alive through food and fashion as well as those doing advocacy work to bring further awareness to the situation.
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How a 10th-Century Muslim Surgeon Revolutionised Surgical Procedures
TRT WorldThe translations of Al Zahrawi’s work on surgeries were taught in European universities for several centuries.
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The Rohingya, Uyghurs, Shiites, the Ahmedis and the Homosexual: a Warning to British Muslims
Byline TimesShahmir Sanni explains how the only way Muslims can defeat the far-right who demonize them is by joining forces with the LGTBQ community.
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Keir Starmer Shifts Labour Party Policy on Kashmir in Bid to Woo Indian Voters
Middle East EyeFollowing a meeting with Labour Friends of India, Starmer says conflict is ‘bilateral issue for India and Pakistan’.
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'The Game': The Gamble Bangladeshis Take in Libya to Reach Europe
Middle East EyeWith few work opportunities at home, many Bangladeshis look to escape poverty by undertaking a long and dangerous journey in the hands of traffickers.
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COVID-19 Restricts Africa's Ramadan Routine
DW AkademieAfrica’s measures to slow down COVID-19 have changed how the holy month of Ramadan is observed, restricting Muslims to their homes. Previously, followers of Islam prayed in mosques and broke the daily fast together.
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Amid the Coronavirus, Bailing out Mosques Is Essential
Al JazeeraMosques provide important community services that are needed now more than ever, but many may not survive without help.
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United States
15 Funerals a Day: The Pace of Death Stuns Brooklyn Muslims
The New York TimesAl-Rayaan Muslim Funeral Services has turned to family members and fellow mourners to offer prayers and move bodies.
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Muslims Observing Ramadan Are Providing Critical Coronavirus Relief
ViceInspired by Ramadan, several Muslim organizations and individuals are donating their time and money to aid those hit hard by COVID-19.
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Scottsdale Community College Apologizes for Discriminatory Islamic Questions on Quiz
YourValley.netPublic outcry calls for serious collegiate repercussions.
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I’m Spending This Ramadan in a Hospital Emergency Room. It Feels Just Like Home
The Washington PostHow to be Muslim and Indian and American all at once, during a pandemic.
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How Pittsburgh's Muslim Community Is Celebrating Ramadan During Coronavirus
Pittsburgh's City PaperAfter a week operating with almost a dozen of his workers staying home due to coronavirus protections, Abdullah Salem started to debate whether he should temporarily close his restaurant and grocery.
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Leading Muslim Civil Rights Group Calls for Justice Over 'Modern-Day Lynching' of Unarmed Black Jogger
The New ArabA leading American Muslim civil rights group has called for the immediate arrest of two men who allegedly shot Ahmaud Arbery, 25, as he jogged through his neighborhood in Georgia.
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New York Muslims Raise Concerns About Substandard Ramadan Meals
Middle East EyeSome meals distributed to Muslim residents across city were military rations from US defense contractor.
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Canada
Tensions Erupt in Canadian City Over Broadcast of Muslim Call to Prayer
Middle East EyeFar-right activists have demanded decision be reversed, while open letter equates Adhan with slogans used by Islamic State group.
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Islamophobia Heard Loud and Clear in Canada's Adhan Controversy
The Middle East EyeCities exempting mosques from noise bylaws to allow the call to prayer during Ramadan have sparked a backlash in some quarters.
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Senegal
To Halt COVID Spread, Senegal Launches Bread Delivery During Ramadan
VOA NewsDuring the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, Muslims in Senegal usually rush to the bakeries in the afternoon to buy bread for breaking the daily fast. That habit risked spreading the coronavirus. To reduce the risk, the government has banned the sale of bread at shops and launched a delivery program.
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Somalia
Un: Somalia Faces Dire Threats From Conflict, Natural Disasters, COVID
VOA NewsThe U.N. The High Commissioner for Refugees is appealing for strong International support to help millions of Somalis facing a growing number of catastrophic threats from conflict, natural disasters and the potential spread of COVID-19.
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Burkina Faso
'COVID-19 Changed Everything': Ramadan for IDPs in Burkina Faso
Al JazeeraWith pandemic disrupting supply chains, thousands displaced by war struggle with lack of food during Muslim holy month.
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United Kingdom
After Coronavirus, Black and Brown People Must Be at the Heart of Britain's Story
The GuardianEthnic minorities’ war and postwar efforts were erased. Today, as our doctors and nurses give their lives, we cannot have a repeat.
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UK Muslim, 100, Walks Garden Laps for Virus Victims While Fasting
Al JazeeraInspired by Tom Moore, Dabirul Choudhury raises tens of thousands for coronavirus victims from the UK to Bangladesh.
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London Mosques Broadcast Adhan Publicly for Ramadan During Coronavirus Lockdown
Arab NewsMosques in the east London borough of Waltham Forest have started broadcasting the adhan (call to prayer) publicly during Ramadan to help Muslims stay connected to their places of worship during the coronavirus lockdown.
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France
French Muslims Face a Cruel Coronavirus Shortage: Burial Grounds
The New York TimesFor many immigrant families, the pandemic has halted the tradition of repatriating bodies to their country of origin, and finding a plot in France has become ever more difficult.
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France Mandates Masks to Control the Coronavirus. Burqas Remain Banned.
The Washington PostFrance, the originator of the burqa ban, has done more than any other Western nation over the past decade to resist face coverings in public. But as the country begins to emerge from its coronavirus lockdown Monday, masks are mandatory.
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Germany
Germany: Muslims Ready to Go Back to Mosques
Anadolu AgencyAfter 2 months of coronavirus lockdown, mosques throughout country will reopen this weekend.
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Mosque, Social Center in Germany’s Cologne Attacked
Daily SabahSeveral people attacked a mosque and a social center of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) in Germany’s Cologne Saturday morning – a day before places of worship were planned to be reopened in light of the easing of measures to fight the spread of the novel coronavirus.
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Norway
Suspect Claims Norway Mosque Attack Was 'Emergency Justice'
ABC NewsA Norwegian man suspected of killing his ethnic Chinese stepsister and then opening fire in an Oslo mosque says he acted out of “emergency justice.”
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Austria
From Celebration to Crisis: The Austrian Chancellor of Exclusion
Daily SabahIn his late 20s, Sebastian Kurz started his career as the secretary of integration affairs in an unusual and fresh way, speaking of migration in a rather positive manner. But soon after grabbing power, he became a societal splitter, excluding people of color. This is especially true for Austria’s Muslim population.
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China
His Dictionaries Taught Chinese to the Uyghur World. Then He Was Taken Away
Sup ChinaHüsenjan was a Chinese state employee — and member of the Chinese Communist Party — tasked with creating dictionaries for the Uyghur language. His work couldn’t save him.
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A Lost ‘Little Africa’: How China, Too, Blames Foreigners for the Virus
The New York Review of BookIn this pandemic, we have quickly become acquainted with a new form of witnessing, one that is both more collective and more remote than ever. From our various isolated “indoors,” blue LED screens have formed small portals into violence, beauty, tragedy, and nonsense. More than ever, we exist “in the discourse.
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India
The Coronavirus Pandemic Intensifies Islamophobia in India
Global Voices“Even a global pandemic cannot end religious hatred”
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Why Gulf States Are Backtracking on India
Foreign PolicyIslamophobia is undoing years of New Delhi’s diplomatic gains in the Middle East.
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Hundreds of Rohingya Refugees Stuck at Sea With ‘Zero Hope’
The New York TimesAt least three boats carrying Rohingya refugees have been adrift for more than two months. As of this week, rights groups that had been tracking the boats lost sight of them.
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Bangladesh
Bangladesh Lifts Curbs on Mosque Prayers as Lockdown Eases
The TribuneBangladesh on Thursday allowed Muslims to attend prayer congregations in mosques as the government continues to ease the lockdown restrictions amid the coronavirus outbreak which has infected 12,425 people in the country so far.
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Kuwait
Marriage, Materialism, and the Macabre: Meet Kuwait's New Generation of Artists
Middle East EyeThe Gulf state’s younger generation is shaping one of the oldest art scenes in the region.
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Israel/Palestine
Ramadan Roles Help the Unemployed in Gaza
Arab NewsRamadan is a way for struggling Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to earn an income and at the same time bring a festive touch to the month of fasting.
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Iran
Sanctions Make Iran's Coronavirus Crisis More Deadly
Al JazeeraIn the face of this global threat, the US should abandon its maximum pressure strategy against Iran and lift sanctions.
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Afghanistan
Taliban Reaches out to Shias
The HinduAhead of intra-Afghan talks, the Sunni insurgency asks Shias to join the fight against the ‘invaders’.
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Pakistan
In Pakistan, Mosques Become Coronavirus Battleground Issue
Al JazeeraTens of thousands of mosques across the country were reopened late last month, despite the coronavirus pandemic.
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Shia Clerics Insist on Bringing out Processions
DAWNSeveral Shia groups have conveyed to the government that they will bring out processions to commemorate the martyrdom of Hazrat Ali and it cannot ban them.
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HRW Slams Exclusion of Ahmadis From Pakistan Minority Commission
Al JazeeraHRW calls exclusion of Ahmadiyya from commission ‘absurd’, while sect leaders warn it could lead to greater persecution.
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