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August 18, 2023 - The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) is deeply saddened and alarmed by the recent mob violence targeting the Christian religious minority community in Pakistan. (mpac.org)
Members of Christian groups and others demonstrate to condemn the attack on a Christian area and a burned church by angry Muslim mob in Karachi, Pakistan, Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2023. (abc4.com)
Muslim protestors chant slogans during a rally to denounce burning of Islam's holy book 'Quran', in Peshawar, Pakistan, Friday, July 7, 2023. (religionnews.com)

New York) - The Pakistani government should urgently act to protect Shia Muslims in Pakistan from sectarian attack during the Muslim holy month of Moharram, Human Rights Watch said today. (hrw.org)
Because of the recurrent tragic events involving Shia Muslims, this article replaces the annual Sulltan Nevruz message sent out by our organization. (islamicpluralism.org)
The FATA includes Waziristan, best-known as an Al-Qaeda and Taliban base area, as well as the town of Parachinar, a reputed refuge for Osama bin Laden and site of horrific massacres of minority Shia Muslims by the Taliban late in 2008. (islamicpluralism.org)

The Bar Council is profoundly concerned by recent announcements in parts of Pakistan that Ahmadi Muslims lawyers must renounce their religion in order to practise at the Bar. (barcouncil.org.uk)
Nick Vineall KC, Chair of the Bar of England and Wales, has written to the chair of the Pakistan Bar Council requesting that action be taken to remedy this discrimination against Ahmadi Muslims and non-Muslims. (barcouncil.org.uk)
According to news reports from The Friday Times, Ahmadi Muslims have also faced physical attacks in court. (barcouncil.org.uk)
The decisions taken in Gujranwala and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to exclude Ahmadi Muslims and non-Muslims from the Bar - and by extension, potentially excluding citizens from access to legal representation - are intentionally discriminatory and seem impossible to reconcile with Pakistan's constitutional principles of religious freedom and equality before the law. (barcouncil.org.uk)
But, in 1974 the constitution was amended to declare Ahmadi Muslims as non-Muslims. (patheos.com)
Then, in 1984 the infamous Ordinance XX was adopted to criminalize any attempts by Ahmadi Muslims to "pose" as Muslim. (patheos.com)
The legislative duo effectively stripped Ahmadi Muslims of all religious rights. (patheos.com)
The plight of the Ahmadi Muslims in Pakistan shows us, Americans, that we're not as insulated from legalized hatred as we think we are. (patheos.com)
So the next time my President-elect Donald Trump calls Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, instead of simply saying he's "doing amazing work," I request him to demand the rights of Ahmadi Muslims. (patheos.com)
We told the Human Rights Committee that we are Atheists, Evangelical Christians, and Ahmadi Muslims from Ireland. (atheist.ie)

Both the District Bar Association of Gujranwala and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Bar Council issued notices that anyone applying for admittance to the Bar must positively assert they are Muslim and denounce the teachings of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community and its founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. (barcouncil.org.uk)
My religious community, The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, is especially familiar with violence stemming from intolerance in Pakistan. (patheos.com)
The plight of The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, the world's largest Muslim community under one spiritual leader, His Holiness the Khalifa of Islam Mirza Masroor Ahmad, has been non-stop since the community's inception. (patheos.com)
Just last week the administrative offices of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in Rabwah, Pakistan were raided in response to the publishing of literature. (patheos.com)
Before this, the Committee was briefed by six NGOs, including a unique joint delegation from Atheist Ireland, the Evangelical Alliance of Ireland and the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of Ireland. (atheist.ie)
In Pakistan, the issue of religious freedom is deeply embedded in the trajectory of the political construction of religious identity, a process that has caused severe violations of human rights for many groups, particularly the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. (columbia.edu)
On December 12 thousands of Sunni Muslims marking the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad in Punjab's Chakwal city attacked a mosque belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim community. (voa.gov)
In its most recent international religious freedom report on Pakistan, the U.S. State Department noted the concern by leaders of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community over the government's continued targeting of Ahmadis for blasphemy, and over legislation which deny them basic rights. (voa.gov)

The director of a Christian organisation organises seminar that brought together some 40 leading Christians, Muslims and Hindus. (asianews.it)
Titled 'Promoting Social Harmony and Peace,' the seminar brought together Christians, Muslims and Hindus. (asianews.it)
Hundreds of right-wing Hindu activists and monks rose in unison at a three-day conference last week and called for Hindus to arm themselves and kill Muslims. (arabnews.com)
SRI LANKA (ANS) - Many Tamil Christians and Hindus in Sri Lanka are being ordered by Muslim extremists to convert to Islam or leave the villages where their families have lived for generations. (assistnews.net)
Restrictions of religious gatherings are being enforced at a moment when religious communities across the globe, including Christians, Muslims, Jews, and Hindus, are preparing for important celebrations during the month of April. (who.int)

The police arrested them yesterday, after complaints of some Muslims who claim to have found torn pages of the Qu'ran in a bag hidden near the home of two Christians. (asianews.it)
Grateful for the opportunity to take part in the event, one Muslim scholar acknowledges that Pakistani Christians "love the country" and play an important role in "education and health care. (asianews.it)
Naqvi acknowledged that in the past he held inaccurate ideas about Christians in Pakistan. (asianews.it)
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) - Muslims in eastern Pakistan went on a rampage Wednesday over allegations that a Christian man had desecrated the Quran, demolishing the man's house, burning churches and damaging several other homes, police and local Christians said. (abc4.com)
A delegation of Muslim clerics also arrived in Jaranwala from the city of Lahore to express solidarity with the Christians. (abc4.com)
On behalf of all Muslims in Pakistan, he asked Christians for forgiveness. (fides.org)
Police in eastern Pakistan arrested 129 Muslims overnight after a Muslim mob angered over an alleged desecration of the Quran attacked churches and homes of minority Christians, prompting authorities to summon soldiers to restore order, officials said. (8newsnow.com)
JARANWALA, Pakistan (AP) - Police arrested 129 Muslims after a mob angered by an alleged Quran desecration attacked a dozen churches and nearly two dozen homes of minority Christians, officials said Thursday. (8newsnow.com)

Indian Muslims suffer heavy discrimination in almost every field from education and housing to jobs. (riazhaq.com)
Why do majority of Islamic communication in India is still in Urdu when a large number of Indian Muslims cannot read the Urdu alphabets? (muftisays.com)
But Urdu is not the language of a large number of Indian Muslims? (muftisays.com)
Changed Gender Relations among South Indian Muslims," Journal of South Asian Studies. (lu.se)

All of the passengers killed were Shiite Muslims, said Abdul Sattar Khan, a Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provincial lawmaker from the Kohistan region. (latimes.com)
Sunni extremist organizations have regularly carried out attacks on Shiite Muslims, who they regard as heretics. (latimes.com)
Local sources, speaking in the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said sectarian clashes between Sunni and Shiite Muslims in the Gilgit area broke out a month ago, after Sunnis accused local Shiites of instigating violence against their community. (latimes.com)
The victims were all Shiite Muslims, a minority in Pakistan that is frequently targeted by extremists from the majority Sunni community, said lawmaker Abdul Sattar. (dailyrecord.co.uk)

The Muslim League was the original successor of the All-India Muslim League that led the Pakistan Movement to achieve an independent nation. (wikipedia.org)
On the foundation of Pakistan, the President of the All-India Muslim League, Jinnah, became the new nation's Governor-General, and the secretary general of the Muslim League, Liaquat Ali Khan became Prime Minister. (wikipedia.org)
The All-India Muslim League was disbanded in December 1947 and succeeded by two organisations, the Muslim League and the Indian Union Muslim League, the first being its original successor in Pakistan. (wikipedia.org)
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Monday condemned what it called "violent calls" by the Hindu right in India to carry out the 'genocide' of Muslims living in the neighboring country. (arabnews.com)
Pakistan called on the international community including the United Nations, Organization of Islamic Corporation and other human rights organizations to hold India accountable "for its gross and systematic human rights violations against minorities, particularly Muslims and take immediate measures to save them from impending genocide. (arabnews.com)
Pakistan also said India should investigate the hate speeches and incidents of violence against minorities and take measures to curb such events in the future. (arabnews.com)
Intra-Muslim tension inside India, between moderate Barelvi-Sunni Muslims and the radical Deobandi sect, emerged on the weekend of January 3, at a conference in the Indian city of Moradabad, held by the All-India Ulema and Mashaikh Board, representing the moderate leaders. (islamicpluralism.org)
The Barelvi Muslim leaders, representing a majority of Sunni Muslims in both Pakistan and India, are conservative but adhere to the spiritual Islam of Sufism, which is anathema to the Taliban, their Deobandi mentors, and their Wahhabi sponsors in Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states. (islamicpluralism.org)
Radical Islamist violence in India had been limited when compared with conditions in Afghanistan and Pakistan, until the Mumbai terror raid at the end of 2008. (islamicpluralism.org)
As Pakistanis celebrate Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah's birthday today on Christmas Day, there are some who are questioning the founder's wisdom in seeking partition of India to carve out Pakistan as an independent nation. (riazhaq.com)
They wonder aloud if it was a mistake to demand a separate country for Muslims of undivided India. (riazhaq.com)
While India maintains its facade of religious tolerance, democracy and secularism through a few high-profile Muslim tokens among its high officials and celebrities, the ground reality for the vast majority of ordinary Muslims is much harsher. (riazhaq.com)
An Indian government commission headed by former Indian Chief Justice Rajendar Sachar confirms that Muslims are the new untouchables in caste-ridden and communal India. (riazhaq.com)
In spite of all of its problems, Pakistan has continued to offer higher upward economic and social mobility to its citizens over the last two decades than India. (riazhaq.com)
UP Muslims (aka Muhajirs, aka Bhaiyay) and Islam in India/Pakistan/Bangladesh? (muftisays.com)

In recent years, Sunni extremist groups in Pakistan have been implicated in a number of deadly attacks on Shia during Moharram, which in 2011 began on November 26. (hrw.org)
In Balochistan , where local militants challenge government authority, and elsewhere across Pakistan, law enforcement officials have failed to intervene or prevent attacks on Shia and other vulnerable groups. (hrw.org)
One of the deadliest attacks in recent years occurred in September 2010, when a suicide bomber targeted a Shiite Muslim rally in the southern city of Quetta, killing 57 people. (latimes.com)
The attacks in Jaranwala, in the district of Faisalabad in Punjab province, erupted after some Muslims living in the area claimed they had seen a local Christian, Raja Amir, and his friend tearing out pages from a Quran, throwing them on the ground and writing insulting remarks on other pages. (abc4.com)
In the Pakistan criminal code there are provisions that sanction attacks on religion and the sacred, for example 295B and 295C. (atheist.ie)
A league of Muslim nations on Sunday demanded that Israel halt attacks killing Palestinian civilians amid heavy fighting between it and Hamas in the Gaza Strip, even as fissures between countries over their recognition of Israel emerged. (dawn.com)
Pakistan has to contend with extra suspicion of immunization drives because of the 2011 U.S. special forces raid inside the country that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, architect of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States in 2001. (medscape.com)

Since Pakistan's return to constitutional rule in 2008, hundreds of Shia have been killed across Pakistan by alleged Sunni extremists. (hrw.org)
The Jatt people are Sunni Muslims who believe that the supreme God, Allah, spoke through his prophet, Mohammed, and taught mankind how to live a righteous life through the Koran and the Hadith. (joshuaproject.net)
The two main holidays for Sunni Muslims are Eid al Fitr, the breaking of the monthly fast and Eid al Adha, the celebration of Abraham's willingness to sacrifice his son to Allah. (joshuaproject.net)
They are solidly Sunni Muslim. (joshuaproject.net)
About 15% of Pakistan's population is Shiite Muslim, while the majority is Sunni Muslim. (latimes.com)
The Associated Press quoted a spokesman for a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, a Sunni Muslim militant group, as claiming responsibility for the slayings. (latimes.com)
There is a degree of religious freedom promised to minorities by law, but in practice, non-Muslims and non-Sunnis must practice their faith cautiously or risk attack by the Sunni Muslim majority. (joshuaproject.net)
The area, part of the famed Silk Road linking northern Pakistan to China, is populated by Sunni tribes. (dailyrecord.co.uk)
Sunni extremists allied to or inspired by al Qaida and the Taliban routinely attack government and security force targets, as well as religious minorities and other Muslim sects they consider infidels. (dailyrecord.co.uk)
They have been targeted for extermination in Afghanistan, by the Taliban, and in Pakistan, by Taliban-allied Sunni fanatics. (islamicpluralism.org)
In the second instance of burial boycott, the Hazaras demanded that Pakistan effect a "targeted operation" against the Sunni Muslim extremists that have slaughtered them. (islamicpluralism.org)

Despite Muslim League's support for Islam, the party did not take any action against the Usury payments, attracting criticism from religious parties. (wikipedia.org)
I thought they were against Islam and Pakistan," he told AsiaNews . (asianews.it)
Those holding anti-Sweden protests included a radical party, Tehreek-e-Labiak Pakistan (TLP), which previously held violent protest to condemn the desecration of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad. (religionnews.com)
In the Constitution of Pakistan there are definitions of what is, and is not, Islam and who is, or is not, Muslim. (atheist.ie)
Politicians, the media, and Muslim organizations have spent years silencing critics of Islam. (answeringmuslims.com)
Islam teaches (1) to kill apostates, (2) that anyone who diverges from the core teaches of Islam is an apostate, and (3) that Muslims must carry out Islamic penalties even against their own families. (answeringmuslims.com)
Cases in Pakistan where Christian and Hindu girls are kidnapped, forced to convert to Islam, and then forced to marry their kidnappers are on the rise even though the country has the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act which forbids marriage below the age of 18. (cbn.com)
She was forced her to convert to Islam, then marry a Muslim man. (cbn.com)
The OIC statement called on Israel to respect Muslims' access to Al Aqsa Mosque, the third-holiest site in Islam, as well as stop settlers from forcibly evicting Palestinian families from their homes. (dawn.com)
The interdisciplinary research was part of a book project that bridges film studies, women's / feminist studies, religion / Islam and culture in Muslim societies, history, and cross-cultural communication with a focus on gender and human rights issues, and feminist cinematic activism and resistance by Muslim women filmmakers. (uni-bremen.de)

1988, after the death of Pakistan's military ruler and later civilian President Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, a new Muslim League was formed under the leadership of Nawaz Sharif, but it had no connection with the original Muslim League. (wikipedia.org)
The purpose of the gathering was to improve understanding of Christian traditions and promote tangible ways to build "bridges of peace" between Pakistan's Muslim and Christian communities. (asianews.it)
Supporters of Pakistan's main opposition party Pakistan Tahreek-e-Insaf and radical Islamist Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan party also held demonstrations in all of the country's major cities, including Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar, and Quetta. (religionnews.com)
Critics love to point out Pakistan's break-up in 1971 as evidence of failure of Jinnah's Pakistan. (riazhaq.com)
We believe such laws are inconsistent with Pakistan's international obligations and we would urge the Government of Pakistan to protect religious freedom and basic rights of all members of its population, including religious minorities. (voa.gov)
Nearly 260,000 volunteers and workers fanned out across Pakistan in an effort to vaccinate every child below the age of five in a week-long campaign, Pakistan's national coordinator on polio, Mohammad Safdar, said. (medscape.com)

We see this in figures, during the last two years the number of tourists coming from Pakistan has increased from three thousand eight hundred in 2016 to more than 30000 last year (2018). (apa.az)

Muslim Aid has sent a team to the city of Mirpur and surrounding area, a two-hour journey from the Muslim Aid office in Islamabad, to do a full needs-assessment. (muslimaid.org)
ISLAMABAD (AP) - Thousands of Muslims in Pakistan gathered on Friday to protest last week's burning of the Quran, Islam's holy book, in Stockholm following a call by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to "send a strong message to Sweden. (religionnews.com)

Gurjarnwala (AsiaNews) - Hundreds of Muslims attacked the Christian village of Khokarki this morning a few miles from the city of Gujranwala (Punjab), forcing its inhabitants to flee. (asianews.it)
Held in Multan (Punjab) on 12-15 June, the three-day initiative came from Asher William, director of a Christian organisation, Pakistan Outreach, that promotes interreligious dialogue, social harmony and the word of God. (asianews.it)
This incident occurred in the Punjab province of Pakistan, resulting in one confirmed death and many wounded. (patheos.com)
1) This Act may be called the Muslim Family Laws (Punjab Amendment) Act, 1975. (pakistanlawyer.com)

REPORTING FROM PESHAWAR, PAKISTAN -- Gunmen stopped a convoy of buses in northern Pakistan on Tuesday, and then shot and killed 16 passengers, local officials said, in what appeared to be a sectarian strike on the country's minority Shiite community. (latimes.com)
For the rest, they're an advanced society, muslims, or any other ethnic or religious minority don't have any reason for concern. (riazhaq.com)
It's been more than forty years since Pakistan passed a constitutional amendment declaring that members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim minority religious community are not Muslims. (voa.gov)
The report noted that U.S. officials have met with Pakistani officials repeatedly to discuss the treatment of all minority religious groups in Pakistan, including Ahmadiyya Muslims, as well as to encourage interfaith dialogue and religious tolerance. (voa.gov)

There is no Muslim who has no respect for Masjid al-Haram in Makkah, Masjid al-Nabawi in Medina and Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem - the first Qibla for Muslims. (com.pk)
The latest in this slew of persecution is the 1,000-person mob attack on the mosque in Chakwal District, Pakistan. (patheos.com)
Anger has grown in Muslim countries since last Wednesday when a man, identified in Swedish media as an Iraqi Christian immigrant, burned a Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm on the festival of Eid al-Adha. (religionnews.com)
One of the three delegations included Abdul Kabir Azad, Imam of the Royal Mosque in Lahore, the largest and most important in Pakistan: "He is a man well known for his service. (fides.org)

Haq's Musings: Are Muslims Worse Off in Jinnah's Pakistan? (riazhaq.com)

GUNMEN wearing military uniforms killed 18 bus passengers in an apparent sectarian attack in northern Pakistan. (dailyrecord.co.uk)
Bangkok) - Burmese security forces committed killings, rape, and mass arrests against Rohingya Muslims after failing to protect both them and Arakan Buddhists during deadly sectarian violence in western Burma in June 2012. (hrw.org)

Father Gulshan Barkat, who teaches church history at the National Catholic Institute of Theology in Karachi, described the blasphemy allegations as a "false accusation" and said the local mosques were also to blame because loudspeakers erected on minarets had earlier in the day called on Muslims to gather and "attack the churches and Christian community. (abc4.com)
And a 14-year-old Christian girl who lived in the Zia Colony located in Karachi, Pakistan was kidnapped by three men in Oct. 2019. (cbn.com)
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan launched a nationwide polio vaccination drive on Monday to try to reach 38.7 million children and eradicate the paralyzing and potentially deadly virus in one of the last countries where it is endemic. (medscape.com)

War ensued and East Pakistan became Peoples Republic of Bangladesh on 26 March 1971. (wikipedia.org)
Pakistani-directed Taliban sympathizers have also appeared as far away as Bangladesh, a Muslim country of nearly 160 million, on India's eastern border. (islamicpluralism.org)
They lavish praise on Bangladesh and scold Pakistan as part of the annual ritual a few days before Quaid-e-Azam's birthday every year. (riazhaq.com)
Economic gap between East and West Pakistan in 1960s is often cited as a key reason for the secessionist movement led by Shaikh Mujib's Awami League and the creation of Bangladesh in 1971. (riazhaq.com)
Why do Muslims in Bangladesh still insist on Urdu when it is not a language in their country? (muftisays.com)
5 Several trials incorporating community-level interventions in South Asia (Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal) and sub-Saharan Africa (Nigeria, Malawi, Ethiopia) have shown reductions in neonatal mortality rates. (who.int)

Particular attention was also given to destroyed churches: "Muslim leaders have called violence against churches by name, namely desecration and blasphemy, noting that the Prophet Muhammad condemns all violence against religious symbols. (fides.org)

The gathering strongly condemned the NATO killing of dozens of Pakistani soldiers and exposed the traitors amongst the political and military leadership in Pakistan who are the ones who are really responsible for this attack. (hizb.org.uk)
Imam Qaiser speaking in Urdu, addressed the continued failings of both civilian and military rule in Pakistan - rule which continues to allow the killing of Pakistani citizens by CIA and Blackwater /XE. (hizb.org.uk)
IHRC is urging all campaigners to immediately contact the Foreign Office and the Pakistani embassy to stop the 1 June execution of British Muslim Mirza Tahir Hussain. (ihrc.org.uk)
In another delegation, the Archbishop reports, "there was Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, a prominent Pakistani cleric, head of the All Pakistan Ulema Council, a very influential body at a religious and political level. (fides.org)
With the New Year, enhanced fears of, and challenges to, the Afghan and Pakistani Taliban, al-Qaeda, other local jihadists, and their allies among violent Muslim fundamentalists, have become visible across the Indian subcontinent. (islamicpluralism.org)
At the same time last weekend that Indian Muslim leaders appealed for their religious properties to be returned from radical control, Taliban in the Pakistani Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) on the northwest border with Afghanistan dug up the corpse of Anwarul Haq, a local spiritual figure, and blew up six shrines in the FATA agency of Orakzai. (islamicpluralism.org)
Pakistan is the fourth biggest country to provide doctors to United States and at present 12000 Pakistani physicians and specialist doctors are working in different states. (riazhaq.com)
Lahore, Pakistan - A pregnant woman was stoned to death Tuesday by her own family outside a courthouse in the Pakistani city of Lahore for marrying the man she loved. (answeringmuslims.com)
A Pakistani Christian girl was rescued from a Muslim man who reportedly abducted, raped, and forced her to marry him. (cbn.com)

Proceedings of the Regional Workshop on Environmental Health Management in Refugee Areas, Peshawar, Pakistan, 28 April - 2 May 1991 : papers and country reports. (who.int)

Shia in Pakistan should be able to participate in Ashura processions without fear of attack," said Brad Adams , Asia director at Human Rights Watch. (hrw.org)

According to AsiaNews sources, anonymous for security reasons, the attack took place following a dispute between Christian Mushtag gill and some local Muslims, who had accused the man and his son of blasphemy. (asianews.it)

Pakistan was founded as a democratic safe haven for all minorities. (patheos.com)
We said we were now speaking out for minorities in Pakistan, who are afraid to speak out publicly themselves. (atheist.ie)

While making up 11% of the population, Muslims account for 40% of India's prison population . (riazhaq.com)
In Sittwe, where the population was about half Arakan and half Muslim, most Muslims have fled the city or were forcibly relocated, raising questions about whether the government will respect their right to return home. (hrw.org)
ABSTRACT We examined differences in health indicators and associated factors across countries according to the proportion of the population who are Muslim. (who.int)
RÉSUMÉ Nous avons examiné les différences entre les indicateurs de santé et les facteurs associés dans différents pays en fonction de la proportion de la population musulmane. (who.int)
The COVID-19 lockdown made little difference to the quality of life of the literate population of Pakistan. (who.int)

Deobandi madrassas in Pakistan were the birthplace of the Taliban, who are led by Deobandis in Afghanistan and Pakistan alike. (islamicpluralism.org)
But observers attuned to the widening reach of the Taliban-Al Qaeda offensive in South Asia have warned that the extremist enemy's aims always extended beyond Afghanistan and Pakistan. (islamicpluralism.org)
Efforts to eradicate the disease have been undermined by opposition from the Taliban and other Islamist militants, who say immunization is a foreign ploy to sterilize Muslim children or a cover for Western spies. (medscape.com)

The Muslim Ummah must reject the puppet rulers who serve Western interests, passively watching the genocide that is happening beneath their noses. (hizb.org.uk)
He said Khateeb and Chief Imam of Masjid Al Haram Sheikh Abdul Rehman Al Sudais had also appealed the Muslim Ummah to come ahead for all-out support to the affected people. (com.pk)

Talking to APP, Ashrafi who is also the chairman of Pakistan Ulema Council, assured the development charities for all possible support to conduct relief and rehabilitation work in the flood-hit areas of the country. (com.pk)

Prime Minister's Special Representative for Interfaith Harmony and Middle East Hafiz Muhammad Tahir Mehmood Ashrafi, emphasizing the need to accelerate the relief activities, Thursday urged the Muslim world's aid agencies to help the flood victims in Pakistan. (com.pk)

Holding the Holy Bible in my hands was an amazing experience and a memorable day in my life," said Naqvi, a Muslim cleric and Islamic scholar honoured with the title of al-Haaj bestowed upon those who have made the pilgrimage (the Haaj) to Makkah, a city he has already visited twice. (asianews.it)
The Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan enshrines the principles of religious freedom and equality before the law and it is difficult to see how the notices can be consistent with that principle. (barcouncil.org.uk)
A program of New York University, Dialogues: Islamic World-U.S.-The West emerged from the tragedy of September 11th, which highlighted the need for greater communication among and about the United States, Europe, and the Muslim world. (nyu.edu)
He outlined how the solution to economic crisis, representative government and state security in Pakistan lies in re-establishing the Islamic Khilafah. (hizb.org.uk)
Muslims rallied in across Pakistan to observe a "Day of the Sanctity of Quran" after the South Asian Islamic nation's prime minister issued a call for anti-Sweden protests over last week's burning of Islamic holy book 'Quran' in Stockholm. (religionnews.com)
The Archbishop of Lahore also appreciates the words and actions of members of Islamic political parties, such as Senator Siraj ul-Haq, head of Pakistan Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the main religious party in the country: the organization of JI's affiliated social welfare agency, the Al-Khidmat Foundation, has pledged to help rebuild damaged Christian homes. (fides.org)
We said that Pakistan has told the Committee that it cannot enact laws that are repugnant to (its interpretation of) Islamic injunctions. (atheist.ie)
The interdisciplinary research focused on a comparative study of the work of independent Muslim feminist women filmmakers from Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan, who, since the late 1970's, have shared similar, yet varying, histories of politically motivated Islamization (Pakistan), Islamic Revolution (Iran), and Talibanization (Afghanistan) in their respective countries. (uni-bremen.de)

He called upon the moderates to "liberate our properties," and demanded that the Indian government assure that administrators of the numerous religious facilities be named from the 80 percent of Indian moderate Muslims who maintain Sufi traditions. (islamicpluralism.org)

The quake, which measured 5.8 magnitude on the Richter scale, killed 19 people and injured more than 300, according to Muslim Aid's Country Director in Pakistan, Syed Shahnawaz, quoting local authority reports. (muslimaid.org)
Police chief Rizwan Khan said this had angered the local Muslims. (abc4.com)
The city police chief, Bilal Mehmood, said officers arrested Raja Amir and a friend who were accused by local Muslims of tearing pages from a Quran, writing insulting remarks on other pages and then throwing the book on the ground. (8newsnow.com)
Inflammatory anti-Muslim media accounts and local propaganda fanned the violence. (hrw.org)
According to local sources, Muslims came to dominate the area when they moved to new homes built for victims of the Boxing Day tsunami of 2004. (assistnews.net)

It is "difficult to explain my feelings in words, the joyfulness of the moment when I gave 15 copies of the Holy Bible to Muslim clerics and individuals. (asianews.it)
Police eventually intervened, firing into the air and wielding batons before dispersing the attackers with the help of Muslim clerics and elders. (abc4.com)

Angry Muslims were urged to go back to their homes, allegedly with promises that the man who desecrated the Quran would soon be arrested. (abc4.com)
I remember Muslims, quite rightly, openly condemning the murder of Dmr Lee Rigby, yet there are verses in the Quran commands them to commit such evil acts. (answeringmuslims.com)

In the 1950s, Pakistan signed the pro-Capitalist pacts like CENTO and SEATO, quenching any possible chance of communist influence in the country. (wikipedia.org)
It is also a reality that Turkey was the first Muslim country that recognized Israel in 1949. (com.pk)
Iran became the second Muslim country to establish diplomatic relations and close cooperation with Israel in 1950. (com.pk)
We consider Azerbaijan an important country in this region, not only in this region but among Muslim states," the Ambassador of Pakistan to Azerbaijan, Saeed Khan Mohmand said in an interview to ONA news agency. (apa.az)
The government of Pakistan made a flawed step shortly after the creation of the new country. (patheos.com)
Because (American) Muslim community has the lowest crime rate, the highest entrepreneurship , the highest educational attainment for women in the country (US). (riazhaq.com)
But opinions on Muslims aren't always positive in certain sections of the country. (riazhaq.com)
It is expected that in near future Pakistan will become the third biggest country to provide doctors who fulfill the demand for international doctors in the USA, says a press release. (riazhaq.com)
Muslims will one day conquer Britain by having more babies, a fanatic lawyer in the country has boasted. (medindia.net)

The roundtable, which will include ambassadors to the United Nations from Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and Iran, will focus on how to improve Muslim-Western relations and on the findings from the report of the February 2006 Dialogues conference in Malaysia. (nyu.edu)
Counting 4.5 to 7.5 million spread across Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan, they are mostly Shia believers. (islamicpluralism.org)
The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Nasser Kan'ani strongly condemned the attack and offered condolences on behalf of the government and the people of Iran to the government and the people of Pakistan. (com.pk)

Attack sparked by quarrel with Christian, his son and some Muslims, over false accusation of blasphemy. (asianews.it)
We told the UN Human Rights Committee that Pakistan must repeal its blasphemy laws, release all prisoners detained for blasphemy, and train the police to protect victims of anti-blasphemy mob violence and murder. (atheist.ie)
and the case of an atheist ex-Muslim blogger from Pakistan who is seeking asylum in Ireland, and who has received death threats for blasphemy even after leaving Pakistan. (atheist.ie)

Muslim Aid is launching an appeal for the victims of the powerful earthquake which struck eastern Pakistan earlier today. (muslimaid.org)
He offered his sincere condolences to the victims' families and to the government and people of Pakistan wishing a speedy recovery to the injured. (com.pk)
Egypt, government and people, expressed their sincere condolences and sympathy to the government and people of brotherly Pakistan in this painful affliction, and to the families of the victims, wishing a speedy recovery for all the injured," the Egyptian foreign ministry said. (com.pk)

I am writing to request that you act urgently to prevent the imminent execution of British citizen Mirza Tahir Hussain in Pakistan. (ihrc.org.uk)

Another Muslim leader says he found inspiration in the teachings and practices of Jesus. (asianews.it)
How can Muslims accept Jesus as prophet when his teachings are the complete opposite of Muhammad? (answeringmuslims.com)

It is truly remarkable, it demonstrates the sincere disposition, closeness and goodwill of those who disagree with the forms of inter-communal violence and the Muslim imams who instigated it by promoting hatred and religious violence", he said. (fides.org)
We said that Pakistan must ensure that all citizens can peacefully practice their religious or nonreligious beliefs, without discrimination or persecution or forced conversions. (atheist.ie)
I will argue that the vision of Muhammad Ali Jinnah, the primary founding father of Pakistan, had been the most prime example of how both secularism and religious moral ethos may be negotiated to yield a form of secularism that is exclusive to non-Western states with regards to religious identity. (columbia.edu)
The work examines the contribution of these Muslim women filmmakers who have boldly defied socio-cultural, political, and religious constraints in some of the most hostile environments and conservative societies, and chosen film as their medium to question various forms of oppression in their respective countries. (uni-bremen.de)

The Pakistan Ministry has announced the commencement of a nationwide polio vaccination campaign beginning on October 2, aiming to immunize more children. (medindia.net)

At the controversial elections held by the military regime of Pervez Musharraf in October, five different parties using the name Muslim League contested seats. (wikipedia.org)
Former Pakistan Army chief and President Pervez Musharraf is to officially launch the All Pakistan Muslim League (APML) on the 1st October, in this regard a number of events will be held in different cities. (infopakistan.pk)

The secretary-general reaffirmed the OIC's solidarity with Pakistan in its efforts to combat extremism and terrorism. (com.pk)
In a statement, the Saudi Foreign Ministry denounced the attack and reaffirmed the Kingdom's rejection of violence and terrorism anywhere in the world, expressing that the Kingdom stood in full solidarity with Pakistan and its people. (com.pk)

About 500 people in Britain become Muslim every day. (medindia.net)
A general picture of Muslim presence in Britain is given, against which specific topics and activities of the Naqshbandi-Haqqani participants are described. (lu.se)

Though very painful for Muslims, it is a glaring reality that 162 countries of the world, including the US, China, France, Germany and Russia, have recognized Israel and have established close diplomatic relations with her. (com.pk)

The Jatts are a Muslim community in Pakistan. (joshuaproject.net)
The Muslim community in the village took the defences of man, who is the victim of a personal vendetta for a matter related to land. (asianews.it)
The American Muslim community is indeed doing pretty well. (riazhaq.com)
The muslim community in America is way better integrated into mainstream society than in some other countries in western Europe. (riazhaq.com)
The new Muslim community went on to stake its claim by renaming the village Islamiapuram. (assistnews.net)

Two prominent Muslims, Al-Haaj Tahir Abas Naqvi and Ejaz Mehmood, took part in the event. (asianews.it)

Amid these wider concerns over democratic processes, we have been alerted to the specific concerns of Ahmadi Muslim lawyers who are facing discrimination in being denied the right to practise at the Bar because of their religion. (barcouncil.org.uk)

A Muslim mob went on a rampage Wednesday, attacking a Christian area in eastern Pakistan, burning a church and damaging two others, police said. (abc4.com)
And he continues: "I was very touched to hear Muslim leaders say to crying Christian mothers: 'Your children are our children. (fides.org)
Inter-ject sparadically in brief video blips of the happy Christian and little toy dog (black in colour preferably) walking approaching the mass of muslim prayers in action. (answeringmuslims.com)
Then show the happy Christian and little doggie walk in front casually of all the muslims. (answeringmuslims.com)
Religion and fertility : Arab Christian-Muslim differentials / Joseph Chamie. (who.int)

Hazara Town, Quetta, Pakistan. (islamicpluralism.org)

The OIC statement came after a virtual meeting in which Saudi Arabia condemned the violation of the sanctity of Muslim holy sites and evictions of Palestinians from their homes in East Jerusalem. (dawn.com)

In most of the Muslim world, people depend on the spirit world for their daily needs since they regard Allah as too distant. (joshuaproject.net)

Of 190 UN countries, 48 were classified as Muslim-majority countries (MMC) and 142 as non-MMC. (who.int)

Sulltan Nevruz is celebrated by Iranian, Turkic, Kurdish, Balkan and related communities of Muslims as a New Year observance, and by Sufis as the birthdate of Imam Ali Ibn Abi Talib, r.a. (islamicpluralism.org)

The Koli people of Pakistan speak the Sindhi language. (joshuaproject.net)
The Koli Muslim people are located in southeast Pakistan. (joshuaproject.net)
Muslim Aid will be monitoring the situation around Mirpur over the next few days and weeks to see how we can best help get people back on their feet. (muslimaid.org)
Expressing gratitude to Saudi government for taking extraordinary measures to help the flood-stricken people in Pakistan, he said the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) had dispatched hundreds of tons relief goods including food, medical supplies and shelters in the affected areas so far. (com.pk)
Ashrafi also welcomed the KSrelief's initiative for launching a countrywide humanitarian campaign to help the flood affected people in Pakistan. (com.pk)
While most people have welcomed the change to a Muslim woman, agreeing it's a perfect reflection of Britain's diversity, some are not so pleased. (newageislam.com)
The suicide attack that took place in Bajaur on Sunday, which killed around 54 people and left over 200 injured, has drawn strong condemnations from across the Muslim world. (com.pk)

However, on June 12, Arakan mobs burned down the homes of up to 10,000 Rohingya and non-Rohingya Muslims in the city's largest Muslim neighborhood while the police and paramilitary Lon Thein forces opened fire on Rohingya with live ammunition. (hrw.org)
At a recent press briefing, State Department Deputy Spokesperson Mark Toner said the United States was "very concerned" over reports about the raid by police on the Ahmadiyya Muslim headquarters. (voa.gov)

Bhutto Zardari said Pakistan will address the issue at the United Nations on July 11. (religionnews.com)
This week in Geneva, the United Nations Human Rights Committee questioned Pakistan on its human rights obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. (atheist.ie)

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