Zabiha News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“Malaysia’s top Islamic body fresh from banning tomboys issued an edict Saturday that prohibits Muslims from practicing yoga, saying that elements of Hinduism in the ancient Indian exercise could corrupt them.
The National Fatwa Council’s chairman, Abdul Shukor Husin, said many Muslims fail to [...]

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“Habeeb Zainul Abideen, undersecretary at the Ministry of Municipal and Rural Affairs, has emphasized the government’s plan to establish permanent tents in Arafat.
“We have a plan to change the face of Arafat with several new projects, which includes the construction of fireproof tents with walls around them,” he said, adding that the projects would cost [...]

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“The Moroccan government has banned an issue of the French magazine L’Express International, claiming it insults Islam in articles exploring the relationship between that religion and Christianity.
Information Minister Khalid Naciri said Sunday that he had no choice but to ban the current issue because of the offensive nature of the articles it contained. The minister [...]

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“Sunni Islam’s highest authority has approved a woman’s right to fight back if her husband uses violence against her.
The declaration by Sheikh Abdel Hamid al-Atrash, who heads Al-Azhar University’s committee for fatwas or religious rulings, comes after similar rulings by clerics in Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
“Everyone has the right to defend themselves… all human beings [...]

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“Malaysia’s top Islamic council has decreed that tomboyish behavior and lesbian sex are forbidden in Islam, a newspaper said on Friday.
The National Fatwa Council issued the edict following what it said a spate of cases involving young women behaving like men and indulging in lesbian sex, the Malay language Berita Harian daily said.
“There are teenage [...]

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“One of the most distinguished muftis in the Gulf switches on his computer, dons a headset and prepares to issue yet another fatwa.

Abdulrahman Ammoura, 48, usually dispenses his religious advice to the faithful at a nearby mosque but today he is in a cramped cubicle in Abu Dhabi, answering the telephone at the [...]

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“A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim [...]

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“A police official holds a banner outside the Grand Mosque in Makkah during late night prayers on Friday. The banner in Arabic means the Holy Haram was full and urges worshippers to pray wherever they were. More than three million people thronged the Two Holy Harams on the 27th night of Ramadan”

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“Two of the Arab world’s most prominent Muslim theologians have waded into a bitter exchange of barbs, engaging in a debate that is a small-scale rendition of the worsening animosity between the Sunni and Shiite branches of Islam.
The fight began early this month when Youssef al-Qaradawi, a Sunni who is one of the best known [...]

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“Iranian police said dozens of Satan-worshiping cults have found their way into the country and that many of them are seeking to turn people against Islam, press reports said on Wednesday.
“There are more than 3,000 Satan-worshipping cults in the world and about 50 of them have entered Iran,” deputy police chief Hossein Zolfaghari was quoted [...]

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“The NWFP government will impose the shariah law in Malakand division on the 27th of Ramazan, NWFP Law Minister Barrister Arshad Abdullah said on Tuesday.
Talking to Daily Times, he said that the provincial government is also translating the amended Shari Nizam-e-Adl Regulation of 1999 into Urdu and will forward it to Sufi Muhammad, chief of [...]

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“A Saudi scholar has issued a religious decree saying it is permissible to kill the owners of television networks broadcasting “depravation and debauchery”.
“It is lawful to kill … the apostles of depravation … if their evil cannot be easily removed through simple sanctions,” Saleh al-Luhaidan, chief justice of the supreme judicial council, was quoted by [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Sheikh Abdul Mohsen Al-Obaikan, a prominent Saudi Islamic scholar, has rejected the views of Sheikh Saleh Al-Fowzan on the expansion of the Masaa (the walking area between Safa and Marwah) inside the Grand Mosque in Makkah, saying such views would create confusion among the public.
Al-Obaikan, who is a member of the [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Muslims in China’s far northwest region of Xinjiang are banned from performing Tarawih prayers, special nightly prayers performed during the holy fasting month of Ramadan, with men prevented from growing beards and women from covering their faces, in the latest restrictions on China’s Muslim minority.
“We must timely warn and stop [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “A number of members of the religious police (the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice) have urged the Chairman of the Saudi Shura Council, Dr Saleh Bin Humaid, to enable them to have access to blocked websites to monitor immoral practices by visitors of these sites.
In an open [...]

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