In a shocker, Karnataka BJP MLA MP Renucharya has said that instead of offering prayers (namaz), Muslims are storing weapons in mosques and their priests (khazis) are giving fatwas instead of sermons.
An unusual story of a wedding is doing the rounds on internet in which a couple tied the knot at a mosque in Alappuzha district in Kerala on Sunday as per Hindu rituals.
Muslim community in Rampora graciously agreed for the demolition of a 40-year-old mosque in order to enable completion of a bridge over Jhelum river.
Tension has prevailed in UP's Sambhal district after the police stopped the construction of a mosque which was being built 'illegally'. Additional police troops have been deployed in the area.
"The SC said it was mosque and not made by destructing a temple. For us, accordiong to religion, it is still a mosque," head of Muslim body Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind (JUEH) Maulana Arshad Madani said.
During interrogation, the cleric admitted that he and some other youths had kept the explosives in the mosque.
The Supreme Court on Friday sought the Centre's response by November 5 on a plea seeking entry of Muslim women in mosques across the country and claiming that such restriction was "unconstitutional" and violative of fundamental rights to life, equality and gender justice.
During a time when religious fanaticism and daily instances of communal conflicts are consistently flaring up in the country, a village in the Nalanda district presents a 'too good to be true' example of religious harmony.
At a press conference here, Mulana Fazlul Manan Shahi, the Imam of Teele Wali Masjid in Lucknow, said, "We feel the pain caused by the temple's demolition as we have gone through a similar experience. We share the grief of our Dalit brothers. We will be there to rebuild the temple."
The mosque is located few kilometres away from Kavalappara, a remote hamlet in the district where a large number of people and children were killed following the landslide last Thursday. Search operations are still on to trace the bodies of the people, who have gone missing and are feared to have been buried alive.
The report rejected the MP's claims and stated that there were sufficient grounds for registering an FIR against him as he "targeted a particular community and (for) creating communal disharmony in Delhi".
"There are over 500 government lands where illegal mosques and graveyards are built. I object to such constructions on government land even if it is a mosque, temple or a gurdwara. But in the last five years I did not come to know about any such government land where an illegal temple or gurdwara is constructed," BJP MP Pravesh Verma said
A bench headed by Chief Justice Ranjan Gogoi said: "Let a Muslim woman come and challenge it. Then we will consider."
In the March 15 attacks, 42 worshippers were killed at the Al Noor mosque and seven were killed at the Linwood mosque during Friday prayers. Two more people died later at the Christchurch Hospital.
The blast took place at the mosque in the city's Pashtoonabad neighborhood during Friday prayers, according to Abdul Razzak Cheema, deputy inspector of police.
The explosion occurred on Monday night when people were assembling for prayers near the mosque in the provincial capital Quetta's Satellite Town area. The attack took place shortly after a police van arrived at the site to provide security to the people offering prayers at the mosque.
A bench headed by Justice S A Bobde issued notice to the Centre and asked it to respond to the plea filed by a Pune-based couple.
In announcing the cancellation of the third Test, New Zealand Cricket chief executive made clear that the events had forever changed the way in which the country approaches the security of sporting teams.
Police Commissioner Mike Bush said the four arrested people comprised three men and one woman.
Public protest against police administration over rumour of demolition of mosque wall in Varanasi
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