While governments and citizens across Europe oppose minarets on their skylines, a French city is offering a rare example of accommodating its Muslims by helping build a mosque complex complete with a restaurant, bookstore, library, exhibition hall and study rooms. “We wanted the mosque to be built where everyone could see it,” Laurent Cathala, the mayor of Créteil commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, told the Washington Post on December 9.

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Racism against Israeli Arabs has alarmingly increased in the Israeli society amid a systematic state discrimination which makes the matter worse, the Association of Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said in its annual report cited on December 9, by the Israeli daiy Haaretz . “Israeli society is reaching new heights of racism that damages freedom of expression and privacy,” ACRI President Sami Michael said upon the release of the report on civil rights in Israel.

Pakistan’s sacked chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry has declined a Saudi exile offer to resolve the simmering judicial and political crisis in the country, reports IslamOnline.net.

“On behalf of the Pakistani government, the Saudi ambassador [Ali S Awadh Asseri] offered justice Chaudhry that if he agrees to voluntarily retire, the government is ready to reinstate the sacked judges, except Justice Khalil ur Rehman Ramday, whom it considers the second main chara...

Snowy white, colourfully embroidered or finely crocheted, prayer caps are becoming a booming industry and a lifetime business for hundreds of thousands of people in the Muslim Asian nation. Caps’ trading is the only business for them. Most of them consider making prayer caps a religious duty.

Prayer cap, which many Muslim men wear, makes a thriving business, with nearly half a million Bangladeshis working in the industry. Most of the production is made at homes or in few h...