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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Tuesday said Saudi Arabia would “return” to a “moderate Islam that is open to all religions” - comments likely to rile staunch conservatives in the Gulf kingdom. The crown prince also announced Saudi Arabia would “eradicate promoters of extremist thoughts”, saying the country was not like this in the past. “We are returning to what we were before - a country of moderate Islam that is open to all religions and to the world,” the 32-year-old heir to the throne said. Bin Salman made the remarks during a Future Investment Initiative (FII) summit in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. During Tuesday’s event, Salman voiced his confidence in Saudi Arabia’s younger generation and its ability to adjust to a post-oil world, mentioning, among other things, the benefits of solar power. Bin Salman’s remarks come a month after Saudi Arabia made a landmark decision to allow women to legally drive vehicles starting in June 2018, a move that was cr...

By . | Publish Date: Sep 12 2017 9:42AM   A member of a Muslim minority group has been sentenced to two years in a Chinese prison after forming online discussions groups to teach about Islam. The official website China Judgments Online said Huang Shike was arrested in 2016 in Xinjiang province, three months after forming a discussion group about Muslim worship on the messaging app WeChat. He taught about the Quran, Islam’s holy book, in another WeChat discussion group. More than 100 people were members of each group, the website said. Huang is a member of the Hui minority. The discussion groups “disturbed normal religious activity” and violated laws about using the internet to discuss religion, the website said. Chinese authorities have steadily tightened controls on Xinjiang, where they believe radical Islamic thought has infiltrated the region.(NAN)   Source:https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/international/m...

Four officials of the Saudi Arabian Custom Service have been arrested over alleged torturing of two Nigerian pilgrims at the Medina International Airport last Thursday.   Daily Trust exclusively reported that the pilgrims who are from Nasarawa state,  were detained for nine hours before being tortured, one of them injured.   The Coordinator of the National Hajj Commission (NAHCON) Office in Medina, Dr Bello Tambuwal who disclosed this to newsmen said the Saudi government has taken over the case following their complaint.   He also disclosed that a Saudi Arabian lawyer had vowed to fight for the cause of the victims.   Tambuwal however said that the two affected pilgrims were discharged after being treated at an undisclosed hospital.    He added that none of the 43,127 Nigerian pilgrims who have so far arrived  Medina lost his life or was on admission in the hospital as against the previous years when they recorded ...

Killing of innocent people with no just cause‎ is against the teaching of Islam, an Imam of the Prophet's Mosque in Madina, Saudi Arabia, She‎ikh Salah Al-Budair, has said. He blamed the growing trend of indiscriminate killings across the world on extremist elements who are bent on forcing unwholesome innovations down the throat of the Muslim world. Sheikh Al-Budair spoke through an interpreter when he received a 250 member delegation from 10 African countries including Nigeria in Madina on Umrah (lesser hajj) under the auspices of the Saudi Arabia government. "Bid'ah (innovation in religion) is ‎a great affliction on the land. It causes transgression and killing of people in the land," he said. The Imam said deviant groups over the centuries have been responsible for the shedding of innocent blood which are not part of the teaching of Islam. He warned Muslim scholars against ‎making hasty pronouncements but to be patient with one another...

Gobsmacked! British moms and dads were fuming after a school instructed students to write an essay explaining why they had converted to Islam. Gemma Gough posted the assignment on Facebook – and said her child would not be completing the assignment. “This is not acceptable,” she wrote. ‘Kids are too impressionable and imagine if these letters got in the wrong hands in years to come.” The 12 and 13-year-old kids at Beaucamps High School in Guernsey were told to consider what it would be like to become a Muslim. They also had to write a letter to their loved ones explaining their decision to become a Muslim. ...

Q&A: The Sharp Fall in Oil Prices - Sheikh Ata Abu Al-Rashtah Question: The oil prices have continued to drop to the point where the price of a barrel has fallen below $40. Saudi has not reduced production in order for the prices to stabilize in the case since it is the biggest producer amongst the OPEC states. That was apparent in the OPEC meeting held on 04/12/2015. Similarly, America has increased its production instead of reducing it in order to confront the decreasing prices… So what are the reasons for the fall in the prices of oil. Answer: In order to make the picture clear it is necessary to review the oil prices throughout the last year in line with the timing of political events and a number of influencing and changing realities, so that we are capable of examining the causes of the increase of oil and its decrease within close periods of time: 1 – During the rule of Abdullah Bin Abdul Aziz and a short time before his death the prices of oil fell sha...