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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 534

Muslims

Salwan Najem (Youtube screenshot)
February 3, 2025, 7:03 pm
Swedish court convicts Quran burner of hate crimes, days after his ally was killed
Salwan Najem ‘expressed contempt for the Muslim ethnic group,’ court says, adding he and partner Salwan Momika — shot Thursday — exceeded free speech protections ‘by a wide margin’
By Reuters
Screen capture from video of the short film 'Sevap/Mitzvah' (A Good Deed). (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 26, 2024, 3:27 pm
Sarajevo film premiere spotlights rare Muslim-Jewish harmony
‘Sevap/Mitzvah’ tells true story of Muslim woman who hid a Jewish family in WWII Nazi-occupied Sarajevo and was then saved by a Jewish family from besieged Bosnian capital in 1990s
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Illustrative - A Palestinian woman prays by a relative's tomb as others bury their dead following overnight Israeli airstrikes, at a cemetery in east Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip, February 26, 2024. (Photo by SAID KHATIB / AFP)
April 9, 2024, 3:13 pm
Unable to travel to northern Gaza, Christians bury their dead in Muslim cemeteries
Worker at Muslim cemetery in Rafah area says he’s doing what’s necessary to ‘protect God’s creations on this earth’ amid ongoing war, mass displacement
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Muslims attend Friday prayers during the Muslims holy fasting month of Ramadan, at Amr ibn al-Aas Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, April 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil, File)
October 17, 2023, 1:59 am
Fearing ostracism or worse, many Muslim nonbelievers hide their views in Middle East
Atheists, agnostics and religiously unaffiliated people in Arab world tell about the various ways they get around while avoiding persecution
By MARIAM FAM
Scores of angry protesters burn the Swedish and Netherlands flags after Friday prayers outside Mohammad al-Amin Mosque to denounce the recent desecration of Islam's holy book by activists in the European countries in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, January 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
August 25, 2023, 4:47 pm
Danish bill would make it illegal to burn Quran or other religious texts  
A recent string of public desecrations of the Quran by anti-Islam activists has sparked angry demonstrations in Muslim countries
By JAN M. OLSEN
Huda Zaqqout reads from a large copy of a Muslim holy book at her home, a few weeks before she is slated to travel to Mecca for the Muslim pilgrimage of hajj, in Gaza City, May 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Fatima Shbair)
June 15, 2023, 12:08 pm
‘Now I can die in peace’: After long waits, new pilgrims ready for COVID-free hajj
After 3 years in which pandemic limited attendance and long waiting lists swelled further, Muslims from Gaza, Indonesia and the US prepare for once-in-a-lifetime visit to Mecca
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Richard 'Mac' McKinney as seen in 'Stranger at the Gate.' (Karl Schroder)
September 13, 2022, 10:33 pm
An ex-Marine was about to bomb an Indiana mosque. And then they welcomed him inside
Joshua Seftel’s ‘Stranger at the Gate’ tells the story of military vet Richard ‘Mac’ McKinney’s change of heart — and religion — after getting to know Muslims off the battlefield
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative: Palestinians visit the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, ahead of the holy month of Ramadan, on April 10, 2021. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
August 2, 2022, 2:50 pm
PSG’s Muslim soccer stars criticized for Al-Aqsa Mosque visit
Paris Saint-Germain players Idrissa Gana Gueye, Presnel Kimpembe and Abdou Diallo are accused by some of ‘normalizing’ the conflict after posting pictures from Jerusalem holy site
By Tobias Siegal
Muslim worshipers wait in the rain for the Eid al-Fitr prayer marking the end of the month of Ramadan at the Mosque of Athens, Greece, on May 2, 2022. (AP Photo/ Thanassis Stavrakis)
July 24, 2022, 8:11 pm
Erdogan accuses Greece of undermining Muslim minority rights
Turkish president raises concern about treatment of Muslims who make up 1/3 of Thrace region’s population; Ankara says Athens militarized islands in violation of Lausanne Treaty
By AP
Muslims pray during the first dawn prayers of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, around the Kaaba, the cubic building at the Grand Mosque, as they keep social distancing to help curb the spread of the coronavirus, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, April 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
April 14, 2021, 8:46 am
Muslims mark Ramadan in pandemic’s shadow amid new outbreaks
While less restricted than last year, only vaccinated or recovered allowed at Islam’s holiest mosque in Mecca, as lockdowns curb festivities in Gaza, Iraq, Indonesia and more
By amr nabil and Niniek Karmini
Then-Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, during a press conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, February 22, 2020. (AP Photo/Vincent Thian)
October 29, 2020, 7:37 pm
Malaysia’s former PM says Muslims have right to kill millions of French
Twitter blocks tweet by 95-year-old Mahathir Mohamad, posted after deadly Nice attack
By AFP and ToI Staff
A man holds a photograph of France's President Emmanuel Macron, stamped with a shoe mark, during a protest against France in Istanbul, October 25, 2020. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)
October 26, 2020, 8:06 pm
Mideast Muslims call for French goods boycott to protest caricatures
Demonstrations against Emmanuel Macron held across region from Israeli Arab town of Hura and the Gaza Strip to Pakistan and war-town Yemen
By Aya Batrawy
A pigeon flies over the site of the Grand Mosque that is empty due to the coronavirus prevention procedures, on the first day of the annual hajj that normally draws millions of faithful, in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, Saudi Arabia, July 29, 2020. (AP Photo)
July 30, 2020, 1:12 pm
Limited number of pilgrims pray on peak day of hajj in shadow of coronavirus
After 2.5 million people visited Islam’s holiest site in Mecca last year for pilgrimage, only between 1,000 and 10,000 to be allowed in this year by Saudi authorities
By Aya Batrawy
Graffiti at a mosque in the town of Agen in southwestern France. (screenshot: YouTube)
July 27, 2020, 8:37 am
Swastika daubed on mosque in southwest France
French interior minister denounces ‘odious’ act, affirms his support for Muslim community of Agen
By AFP
People near the German central DITIB mosque in Cologne, Germany, March 15, 2020, after the city banned religious services due to the coronavirus outbreak. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
April 30, 2020, 9:39 am
Germany’s top court rules against virus ban on religious services
Ruling follows appeal by Muslim association seeking to allow Friday prayers during remainder of Ramadan
By AFP
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