Ramadan has started on a soar note for the 10 million strong mostly Muslim Uyghur minority in northwest China. The government has been reported by AFP to mark the start of Ramadan with its customary ban on civil servants, students and children from taking part in fasting, government websites said as the blessed month started […] More
BEIJING: China’s government won’t interfere with fasting and other standard religious activities in the traditionally Muslim region of Xinjiang during the Islamic month of Ramadan that begins this month, officials said on Thursday. This comes after villagers in Uyghur were forced to spy on their Muslim neighbours to see if they are fasting. And other […] More
More than 70 Uyghurs held in a Thai detention facility have gone on a hunger strike, telling RFA’s Uyghur Service in a handwritten letter that they would rather die in Thailand than go back to China. “If we were returned back to China, we will face physical and emotional torture, and be killed or sentenced […] More
Villagers in a remote part of northwestern China’s troubled Xinjiang region are being forced by local authorities to spy on their Muslim neighbors, watching constantly for behavior deemed “suspicious” or opposed to Beijing’s rule over the mostly Muslim Uyghur region, sources say. This comes after seeing how certain states have experienced a rise in Islamophobia […] More
Recently, we came to know that a certain state in China is imposing a ban on religion in schools, most specifically Islam. This appalling turn of events comes after last year, we saw the headlines coming out of China, specifically the far western Xinjiang district, that the authorities there had placed an outrageous ban on […] More
The ‘Boat people’ – thousands of Rohingyan Muslims drifting on rickety boats for 7 days or more, braving a journey for months to reach a land of hope, to escape persecution, to a better life in Malaysia. With them, Bangladeshi nationals escaping extreme poverty in the hope of a better life. For both groups, this […] More
At The Peak is in an annual event organised by our wonderful brothers and sisters at Serving Islam Team. This year’s At The Peak (#AtThePeak2015) conference was held at the University of Hong Kong and was co-hosted by the Muslim Students’ Association (MSA) of the Hong Kong University Students’ Union, and Discover Islam Hong Kong. […] More
Global Messenger Day (#GlobalMessengerDay) was a worldwide campaign initiated by iERA (the Islāmic Education & Research Academy). The aim of this campaign was simple – to let communities around the world know who was Prophet Muḥammad (peace be upon him and his family). The ever-growing need to spread his true message amidst the clouds of […] More
“Top officials warn of possible international terrorist threats to Hong Kong” were the headlines of the South China Morning Post, a daily English tabloid in Hong Kong. The issue came about as a result of a now well known image, being used in a draft publication by a local Islamic organisation (Mujahiddah of Islam Hong […] More
A Muslim was jailed for six years in China for refusing to shave off his beard, while his wife was imprisoned for two years for wearing a burqa, as part of a severe crackdown on religious “extremism” in the far-western province of Xinjiang, local media reported. China blames rising violence in Xinjiang on Muslim fanatics […] More
Chinese authorities have ordered Muslim shopkeepers and restaurant owners in a village in its troubled Xinjiang region to sell alcohol and cigarettes, and promote them in “eye-catching displays,” in an attempt to undermine Islam’s hold on local residents. Radio Free Asia (RFA) reported. Establishments that failed to comply were threatened with closure and their owners […] More
