TEHRAN (IQNA) – Speaking to a French radio station, Nicolas Sarkozy has said that if elected he would ban the hijab, the head covering of Muslim women.
News ID: 3461142 Publish Date : 2016/10/12
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A Quran competition is scheduled to be held in Iraq later this month for members of the country’s Association of Quran Reciters.
News ID: 3461141 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Pumping their clenched fists, the crowd in a Dearborn park chanted Sunday in support of the grandson of Islam's prophet, Imam Hussain [AS]:"Labayka ya Hussain," they declared in Arabic, which means "We're with you, oh Hussain."
News ID: 3461137 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama has offered his apology to Muslims who were offended by his statement related to a verse of the Quran.
News ID: 3461136 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Nigeria has issued a warrant for the arrest of the spokesman of Islamic Movement in Nigeria (IMN) a few days after banning the group.
News ID: 3461135 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Some 130 Quranic sessions will be held on the sidelines of the 39th edition of Iran’s national Holy Quran competition, an official said.
News ID: 3461133 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslims are questioning their freedom in Germany after a mosque under construction was vandalized late Wednesday by assailants writing racist-Islamophobic slogans on its walls.
News ID: 3461129 Publish Date : 2016/10/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The leader of Yemen's Houthi Ansarullah movement condemned a recent Saudi airstrike against a funeral in the capital Sana’a, saying the attack points to the frustration of the United States and the Saudi regime in the war on the impoverished Arab country.
News ID: 3461127 Publish Date : 2016/10/10
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A public forum featuring Muslims who grew up in the faith and others who converted to Islam will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Oklahoma City University in Oklahoma, the US.
News ID: 3461125 Publish Date : 2016/10/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Deans of Iraq’s Quranic colleges will hold a meeting in the holy city of Karbala later this month.
News ID: 3461120 Publish Date : 2016/10/09
TEHRAN (IQNA) – More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site that is located in al-Quds (Jerusalem), was in danger.
News ID: 3461119 Publish Date : 2016/10/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A report published recently by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) noted that Brexit "seems to have led to a further rise in 'anti-foreigner' sentiment" against what it claims is a backdrop of rising Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
News ID: 3461115 Publish Date : 2016/10/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Muslim community in Long Island, New York, is in a state of “constant anxiety” and is “forced to defend” a religion that terrorists have hijacked, said President of the Islamic Center of Long Island in Westbury Dr. Isma Chaudhry, at a forum hosted by the center this week.
News ID: 3461113 Publish Date : 2016/10/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The organizing committee of the 39th edition of Iran’s national Holy Quran contest announced the names of members of the competition’s panel of judges.
News ID: 3461112 Publish Date : 2016/10/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – A rare tome recently joined Swem Library’s collection of gems—one that could shed light on an important slice of American history.
News ID: 3461111 Publish Date : 2016/10/08
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Alberta Premier Rachel Notley said she was troubled by anti-Muslim posters that appeared on the University of Calgary’s campus on Tuesday morning.
News ID: 3461101 Publish Date : 2016/10/06
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Dar-ol-Quran of Imam Hussein’s (AS) holy shrine plans to hold a Quran memorization competition for women in Wasit Province of Iraq.
News ID: 3461098 Publish Date : 2016/10/05
TEHRAN (IQNA) – “Think not of those who are slain in God’s way as dead. Nay, they are living, finding their sustenance in the presence of their Lord.” (Quran 3:169) Indeed, this verse of the Holy Quran explains that martyrdom on the path of God is not equivalent to death, for the body may perish but the soul is immortal.
News ID: 3461093 Publish Date : 2016/10/11
TEHRAN (IQNA) – Iran’s cultural attaché in Tanzania described the Muslim Students International Quran Competition as a gathering of the Muslim world’s future-builders.
News ID: 3461092 Publish Date : 2016/10/04
TEHRAN (IQNA) – The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has organized a workshop on “The role of women in the development of OIC member states”, in collaboration with the Statistical, Economic, Social Research and Training Center for Islamic Countries (SESRIC), a subsidiary organ of OIC, on October 3-4 at SESRIC headquarters in Ankara, Turkey.
News ID: 3461086 Publish Date : 2016/10/04
