Temporary use during the lockdown of Croke Park, a sporting venue with extreme symbolic significance for the Irish nation, for Islamic prayer is continuing in the post-pandemic era.
Muslims make up almost 1 per cent of the population in Ukraine, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian. There is a large Muslim population in Crimea — home to the Crimean Tatars and illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Numbers there jump to 12 per cent. There is also a sizeable Muslim community in eastern Ukraine, the result of waves of economic migration as the region industrialised and many Muslims immigrated to the Donbas region to work in the mines and factories.
Police arrested four men in Nantes after they allegedly slaughtered a pair of sheep in the middle of a street during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival.
A Muslim resident of the southern French city of Nice recorded himself slaughtering a sheep in his bathtub for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday and posted the video on social media.
Belgian authorities seized around 70 sheep in total in the provinces of Brabant and Hainaut, preventing the animals from being illegally slaughtered for the Islamic Eid al-Adha holiday.
The local government in Turin, Italy, has allowed Muslim groups to publicly celebrate an Islamic holiday while still restricting other gatherings due to the Wuhan coronavirus.
One Metropolitan Police Services officer suffered a head injury when he tried to break up a fight at an illegal mass gathering for the Muslim celebration of Eid in East London.
A pair of Tunisian migrants are under investigation by Italian authorities for animal cruelty after allegedly slaughtering sheep in a parking lot.
Security forces in India reportedly imposed tight restrictions on mosques across Indian-administered Kashmir for Monday’s Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
The Italian populist League party, led by firebrand Matteo Salvini, has introduced legislation that would ban ritual halal slaughter, arguing that animals should be respected and protected from suffering.
French police in the heavily migrant populated suburbs of Paris have seized 32 sheep that were found in the garage of a pizzeria ahead of the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival in which Muslims sacrifice animals.
While Flanders and Wallonia are set to ban unstunned Islamic ritual slaughter in 2019, the practice will remain legal in the Belgian capital of Brussels.
MECCA, Saudi Arabia — Mansour al-Amer swipes a card to reveal a narrow sleep pod, reminiscent of Japan’s famed capsule hotels. But this pod is in Saudi Arabia, where the Muslim hajj pilgrimage begins Sunday.
TEL AVIV — Saudi Cleric Ahmad Bin Qassem al-Gamedi caused a firestorm in Saudi Arabia for ruling that Muslims are allowed to celebrate Valentine’s Day.
JERUSALEM – The Governor of Ramallah recently declared that the Palestinian Authority will remain loyal to “martyrs” – i.e. terrorists – who are “perfuming the ground with the scent of their blood” by getting killed while carrying out attacks against Israelis.
TEL AVIV — As Muslims around the world celebrate Eid al-Adha, or the Sacrifice Feast, the Fatah movement led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has posted holiday pictures showing PA officials visiting the graves of terrorists and depicting Tel Aviv as “occupied” Palestinian territory.
Three Arab Israeli men living in the northern Israeli city of Tayibe were indicted Thursday for carrying out an arson attack in the name of the Islamic State terror group and attempting to dig a smuggling tunnel to the West Bank, officials said.
The Houthi rebels in Yemen receive Iranian arms shipments via a “sister state” as well as two African countries, the Saudi Alwatan newspaper reported.
A Palestinian tried to stab an Israeli soldier near the flashpoint West Bank city of Hebron on Tuesday before being shot dead, the army said, the latest death in a flare-up of violence.
The Egyptian police have arrested at least 18 people this week, after they were allegedly involved in sectarian clashes between Christians and Muslims in Minya district in the Nile Delta region.
A suicide bomber detonated himself outside a Shiite mosque in Pakistan during prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Tuesday, injuring as many as 13 people.
For some Syrian refugees in Turkey – who find themselves hopeless, fearful, and concerned about their prospects and that of their family back in Syria – an end to their current predicament seems unattainable save for a return home for Eid al-Adha, one of the most important festivals on the Islamic calendar.
The Islamic State commemorated the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha this week with a video of jumpsuit-clad prisoners hung from meat hooks and slaughtered like cattle.
Obama told Americans that the United States is determined to welcome Muslim refugees and immigrants into the country.
A fire broke out at the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce in Florida shortly after midnight on Monday morning, evidently serious enough for flames to be seen from outside the building. This was the mosque attended by Omar Mateen, the mass murderer who attacked the Pulse nightclub in Orlando.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent his best wishes to the Muslim and Druze citizens of Israel for the Eid al-Adha festival that began Sunday night.
JAFFA, Israel – The Egyptian novelist Fatma Naout has been sentenced to three years in jail for publishing a Facebook post criticizing the custom of sheep slaughter during the Muslim Festival of the Sacrifice (Eid al Adha). The court said
A Saudi man living in the kingdom’s capital city Riyadh beat his seven-year-old daughter to death with an air conditioning hose in a fit of rage. Her crime was telling him she did not love him.
Party activists attending UKIP’s annual conference in Doncaster were reportedly stranded by a lack of transport because of holidaying Muslim taxi drivers. Newspaper columnist Katie Hopkins and a BBC reporter were also caught up in the delays. Followers of Islam across
Muslim parents and schoolchildren in New Jersey were outraged this week when they learned that the entire Jersey City school district would not be closed for Thursday’s Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha.
