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Police say the problem of sexual abuse of children by clerics is pervasive and the scores of police reports they have received are just the tip of the iceberg.

Jordanian Islamic scholar Ahmad al-Shahrouri has scolded people living in the West for their “lack of purity and cleanliness” in the age of coronavirus.

Videos of seemingly hundreds of Muslim Uyghurs leaving western Xinjiang province to work in factories elsewhere indicate that China is plugging the holes in its economy caused by the Wuhan coronavirus with “slave laborers and cannon fodder,” the human rights publication Bitter Winter asserted on Wednesday.

Fears the Chinese coronavirus might spread from corpses to nearby populations has prevented the burial of many people in Iraq who have died from the respiratory illness, reports revealed Monday.

TEL AVIV – An Imam in Gaza said in a sermon broadcast on Hamas TV that the coronavirus is a “soldier of Allah (God)” that was sent to harm Western countries while not affecting Palestinians and Muslims.

Indonesian government authorities successfully halted a planned gathering of almost 9,000 Muslim pilgrims late Wednesday, amid fears it would spread Chinese coronavirus.

Tens of thousands of Muslim faithful sparked an outcry in Bangladesh on Wednesday as they defied authorities to hold a mass prayer gathering just as the South Asian nation reported its first death from the global pandemic.

Devout Muslim Shiite followers in Iran fought their way into two major shrines closed over coronavirus fears, Iranian state media reported Tuesday, as they demanded the right to continue worshipping practices that include kissing, touching and in some cases licking sacred public objects.

Iran warned Monday the coronavirus pandemic could overwhelm local health facilities as the death toll topped 700 and another senior lawmaker died from the disease.

Turkey on Sunday quarantined thousands of pilgrims returning from Saudi Arabia, officials said, after recording one more coronavirus case bringing the total number to six.

The Communist Party of China published a “human rights report” on Friday finding the United States responsible for a wide variety of atrocities, claiming American citizens’ “personal dignity and privacy are systematically violated.”

Members of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (CECC) introduced a bipartisan bill to ban all imports from western Xinjiang, China, on Wednesday, asserting it is impossible to keep items manufactured by Muslim slaves out of America otherwise.

Trevor Phillips, a veteran anti-racism campaigner, accused the Labour Party of “shutting down debate” after he was expelled from the party over allegedly Islamophobic statements concerning Pakistani grooming gangs.

The United Nations Office in Geneva has allowed a Chinese government propaganda exhibit claiming ethnic Uyghurs in Xinjiang live in “religious harmony” under the Communist Party, a denial of overwhelming evidence China is undertaking a genocide campaign against the mostly Muslim minority.

A mob of aggrieved Muslims in Kono State, Nigeria, attempted to tear down the house of and kill a singer who they believe insulted Muhammed on Wednesday, leading religious authorities to release a call for public calm over the matter.

Riyadh — Saudi Arabia is treading a tightrope as it bars Muslim pilgrims from Islam’s holiest sites to contain the coronavirus, rolling out restrictions that while essential could prove both expensive and politically perilous.

A 70-year-old cleric died in Iraq on Wednesday, just hours after being confirmed as a carrier of Chinese coronavirus, making him the first Iraqi fatality.

Devout Muslims in Iran who defy coronavirus health warnings were warned Tuesday they could be jailed and flogged after videos emerged of them licking holy shrines to prove their personal invincibility against any threat of infection.

The China Tribunal, an independent legal entity created to investigate decades of reports of China selling organs cut out of living political prisoners, concluded in its report published this week that live organ harvesting “continues to this day.”

A terrorism trial starts Monday for a Dutch man of Turkish descent who allegedly opened fire on a tram, killing four people.

Devout Iranian Muslims are releasing online videos showing the faithful licking and kissing an Islamic shrine to show they have no fear of infection during the country’s growing coronavirus outbreak.

The government of Saudi Arabia banned travel to the holiest cities in Islam, Mecca and Medina, on Thursday and banned all tourist visas to people from nations affected by the Chinese coronavirus.

Riyadh — Saudi Arabia on Thursday suspended visas for visits to Islam’s holiest sites for the “umrah” pilgrimage, an unprecedented move triggered by coronavirus fears that raises questions over the hajj, which starts in July.

President Donald Trump corrected a reporter on Tuesday for suggesting his travel ban from certain countries was discriminatory against Muslims.

A 35-year-old Muslim man in the commune of Cavaillon is facing trial after being accused of domestically abusing his wife and daughters who refused to wear an Islamic veil.

Budget airline boss Michael O’Leary has come under fire from Muslim groups and politicians for suggesting airport security checks should focus on lone Muslim men rather than families with children “because that is where the threat is coming from”.

A man convicted of killing a grieving mother with “industrial strength” acid has launched an Islamist terror attack on prison staff after becoming radicalised behind bars, according to reports. 

Lawmakers in Indonesia are considering legislation that would require state “rehabilitation” for individuals seeking “sexual satisfaction through unusual and unreasonable ways, which include sadism, masochism, incest, and homosexuality,” the Jakarta Post revealed this week.

LONDON (AP) – A British woman who supported the Islamic State group pleaded guilty Friday to plotting to bomb St. Paul’s Cathedral in London. Safiyya Amira Shaikh, 36, from Middlesex in southeast England, admitted to the preparation of terrorist acts

An imam in Gothenburg’s largest mosque has been roundly criticised after comparing female genital mutilation (FGM) practices to those who undergo gender reassignment surgeries.

All of “impotent” Israel’s military positions are now within range of Iranian attack, Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Major General Hossein Salami, warned Tuesday.

The Boko Haram terror group has released a new video threatening to kill Nigeria’s Minister of Communication after the latter stated he would interrupt the group’s lines of communication.

Hungarian European Parliamentarian Balázs Hidvéghi declared this week that “radical Muslim antisemitism” is on the rise in Europe thanks to massive illegal immigration.

A 30-year-old Islamic convert who was arrested after brandishing a machete over the weekend is said to have quarrelled with a neighbouring family whose 11-year-old daughter he wanted to marry.

An Indonesian Muslim group named Indonesia Tanpa Pacaran (“Indonesia without dating”) has declared February 14 “Indonesia Without Dating Day,” organizing rallies, talks, popular events to stamp out both the holiday and the practice of dating before marriage.

Over 70,000 women in Germany have been subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), and a further 17,000 young girls are at risk of having the barbaric procedure being committed against them. A German doctor, Cornelia Strunz, who works at the