Salim Moumou Eljeddahoui is setting off on a 3,000 mile journey to Mecca, to perform the Muslim obligation to perform the religious pilgrimage. Following in the footsteps of his grandfather who walked from France to Mecca, Salim hopes to arrive in Saudi Arabia from his home in Nottingham before December 18th.
British Muslims are being warned that criminal gangs are operating a multi-million pound illegal racket selling them fake holy water wrongly labelled as having come from Mecca. The black market trade in fake ‘Zam Zam’ water – named after the 14ft-deep well in the holy city in Saudi Arabia from where the genuine substance flows…
According to Mansur Escudero, president of the Islamic Council, Islam does not benefit from a strong and hierarchical structure like the Catholic Church which once again forces them to accept external help. In Andalusia, two of the Mosques (Fuengirola e Marbella) were financed by money coming from Saudi Arabia and a new one at Malaga…
A month after the removal of six imams from a U.S. Airways flight spurred accusations of harassment, the federal government has given airport security trainers cultural awareness training about the Islamic pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. This year, an estimated 16,000 American Muslims are making the annual pilgrimage, called the hajj – including several hundred from…
Saudi Arabia has summoned its ambassador to Denmark, and Riyadh justified this measure to that Copenhagen did not take enough measures against the paper which published drawings insulting for prophet Muhammad.
