“The Lady of Heaven” inflames Muslim public opinion

“The Lady of Heaven” was released in the UK on the 3rd of June 2022 and has since been banned by the cinema chain Cineworld, after it prompted protests outside some of its movie theaters in Birmingham, Bolton and Sheffield1. The film has also been banned in Morocco, Pakistan, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. According to…

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France has closed twenty mosques since December

French authorities shut down 20 mosques and prayer halls they found to be preaching radical Islamic ideology since December, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday. “Fight against the #radicalization: since December 2015, twenty Muslim places of worship have been closed,” the Interior Ministry tweeted. Of the country’s 2,500 mosques and prayer halls, approximately 120…

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Vatican representative meets with Islam scholar in Cairo

December 4, 2013   Vatican City – The Secretary of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue, Msgr. Miguel Angel Ayuso, met Tuesday in Cairo with a senior scholar specializing in the Sunni Islam faith, said a Vatican spokesman. Ayuso met for 45 minutes with Abbas Shouman, the second-highest official with Al Azhar University, a world-renowned…

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    Moderates attack ‘fundamentally wrong’ approach to teaching Islam

    Riyadh ul Haq, who has preached of the evil influence of the West, may be a faithful representative of the Deobandi school of Sunni Islam but he does not speak for all Islamic scholars, let alone all Muslims. No one knows that better than Sheikh Ibrahim Mogra. Mr Mogra, the chairman of the Muslim Council…

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