Zabiha News

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!“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 [...]

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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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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Hasan al-Kasham, a Yemeni collector living in Doha, the capital of Qatar, is to sell a letter that he claims is the original letter written by Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) to the Byzantine king Heraclius. The Yemeni collector, who emphasizes that this is the original letter, says that scientific tests carried out [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “British independent publisher Gibson Square has bought Sherry Jones’s controversial novel about the child bride of Muhammad, which was dropped by Random House US following warnings that it could incite acts of violence from radical Muslims. Jones’s The Jewel of Medina was also pulled from bookshops in Serbia last month after [...]

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“Submitted by Zabiha News: “The security forces of Iran attacked a mosque and a religious school at three o’clock in the morning today, 27 August 2008, arrested the students and staff and destroyed the mosque and the religious school in the North East of Baluchistan, Iran. The people who witnessed this morning operations observed that [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “A Saudi religious court has convicted a Lebanese man of claiming to be a prophet and sentenced him to four years imprisonment.
A judicial official in the city of Medina’s court says Lebanese national Tony Nassar was found guilty of claiming prophethood.
The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because he was not [...]

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Submitted by Zabiha News: “Eighty percent of Muslim literature published in Russia reflects ideas and principles of wahhabism, islamologist Roman Silantyev said.
“It contains appeals not to observe laws of non-Muslim states (and Russia is a non-Muslim state), to liquidate peoples with other religious convictions,” Silantyev told journalists at the Chelyabinsk Interfax press center.
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Submitted by Zabiha News: Stephen (Suleiman) Schwartz is a self proclaimed Sufi disciple of Ibn Arabi, a Sufi mystic who passed away in year 1240 AD without having created a Sufi order. But somehow Mr. Stephen Schwartz claims to be an Ibn Arabi disciple.
Stephen Schwartz claims to be [...]

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