Pilgrim’s Progress This year’s hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia has been deadly, with more than 1,300 Muslims dying this month, according to the Associated Press, due to extreme hot weather that has averaged over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. Fatalities are not new to the hajj, which has been beset by deadly stampedes and disease outbreak, but […]
Following India’s elections, a video of women queuing outside a bank circulated in social media posts that falsely claimed they were lining up to receive a cash hand-out from the opposition Congress party. While Congress promised financial assistance to poor families as an election pledge, the party did not win enough votes to form a […]
KEREM SHALOM, Israel—Just miles from the point where Israel meets Gaza and Egypt, the Arab descendants of nomadic tribes are defending their country. At the Kerem Shalom military base—the headquarters of the Israeli army’s desert trackers unit, also known as the “Bedouin Battalion”—these soldiers, most of them Muslims, feel a strong sense of national pride […]
The annual Muslim pilgrimage to the sacred city of Mecca that wrapped up last week became a death march for over 1,300 Hajj participants who died in temperatures that climbed above 124 degrees. Saudi Arabia’s health minister Fahad Al-Jalajel, who on Sunday announced a death total of 1,301, blamed the fatalities on pilgrims “walking long […]
A woman in Texas has been charged with attempted capital murder and injury to a child after trying to drown a 3-year-old child at an apartment complex pool and making racial statements, according to police. The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations identified the family as Muslim and Palestinian and called on state […]
Would kumbaya spirit include Muslims, Jews? I’m an 86-year-old OU alum and rabid follower of Sooner softball from afar. I respect and admire these young women for their passion, determination, infectious kumbaya spirit and athleticism. And Patty Gasso is a great, great coach who, based on her televised post-game press conferences, is a laudable, sensitive […]
Would kumbaya spirit include Muslims, Jews? I’m an 86-year-old OU alum and rabid follower of Sooner softball from afar. I respect and admire these young women for their passion, determination, infectious kumbaya spirit and athleticism. And Patty Gasso is a great, great coach who, based on her televised post-game press conferences, is a laudable, sensitive mentor who […]
A Muslim mob in north-western Pakistan has broken into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and then lynched him over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Koran. The attackers also torched the station in Madyan, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and burned police vehicles parked there, according […]
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A Muslim mob in northwestern Pakistan on Thursday broke into a police station, snatched a man who was held there and then lynched him over allegations that he had desecrated Islam’s holy book, the Quran. The attackers also torched the station in Madyan, a town in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, and burned […]
MINA, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, as noontime summer heat caused heatstroke among thousands wrapping up the Hajj pilgrimage. The final days of the Hajj coincide with Muslims around the world celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday. […]
Muslim pilgrims used the early morning hours on Monday to perform the second day of the symbolic stoning of the devil, as noontime summer heat caused heatstroke among thousands wrapping up the Hajj pilgrimage. The final days of the Hajj coincide with Muslims around the world celebrating the Eid al-Adha holiday. The stoning of the […]
At least 14 people from Jordan have died in extreme heat during the Muslim Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, officials said on Sunday. A further 17 people are missing, the Jordanian foreign ministry said on Sunday, according to the state agency Petra. The ministry had initially confirmed the deaths of six Jordanian pilgrims who had […]