Muslims
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The Sri Lankan government has officially apologized to the Muslim minority for the forced cremation of COVID-19 victims, despite WHO guidance that Islamic burials are safe during the pandemic. The Muslim Country Council announced that it would take legal action and seek compensation against the two academics behind the decision, Mattika Withanage and Channa Jayasumana.
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Mufti of Moscow: the share of locals in mosques is increasing
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Muslims in Paris are forced to send their children to a private Muslim school 200 kilometers from their home. This is due to factors such as the fact that the French government has closed at least 5 Muslim schools since 2017 and stopped funding such schools.
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A court in India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh has effectively banned Islamic schools. This decision applies to 2.7 million students and tens of thousands of teachers studying in 25,000 madrasahs in the state. Indian Muslims are protesting against the court order.
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Khalid Javid, director of Muslim Aid, an international Muslim charity, said that poverty in Britain is growing at an unprecedented rate, and that non-Muslims are also coming to receive food aid, which his organization distributes in mosques.
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In recent days, a fragment of an interview given by Abbot Pierre, a famous French politician, Catholic priest and World War II veteran, in 1993 has been circulated on French social networks. It says that a religious, social and political figure is making Muslims pay for the crimes of Europeans against Jews.
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The largest technology park in the world will be opened in the area of the former Ataturk Airport terminal in Istanbul. More than 25 thousand people work under more than 2000 technology entrepreneurs.
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It has been 13 years since the start of the civil war in Syria. During this period, more than 306 thousand Syrians died, more than 5 million people sought refuge in neighboring countries, and 7 million people became internal refugees. Currently, 16.7 million people are in need of humanitarian assistance.
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Heavy rains in Yemen have damaged 204 camps where 2 million internally displaced people live, and 6,500 families have been left homeless. They need food, shelter, clothing and hygiene products.