Islam and violence

Amid the global unrest over the civil unrest triggered by Mahsa Amini's death, the Iranian judiciary on Monday handed down three more death sentences, reported France24.

The U.S. Embassy in Turkey will be closed on March 5 due to an unspecified security threat, the Associated Press reported.

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The threat of violent Islamist extremism has been growing in Kosovo, the US State Department said in its latest annual report on global terrorism.

The final version of Turkey's national school curriculum has left evolution out and added the concept of "jihad" as part of Islamic law in books, Education Minister İsmet Yılmaz said on July 18.

The walls of Vienna trembled on 27th of September, 1529, as strange music echoed close by. The sound of hundreds of drums stopped the heartbeats of the Austrian defenders. Also, the loud horn-like noise of the zurna pierced their souls, bringing fear of the unknown; of a distant menace coming from afar – The Janissaries.

BBC's two-part reality show, "Muslims Like Us" gives away its standpoint right from the start, from its name. An urgent need to accept Muslims, while continuing to pigeonhole and perpetuate the otherness of Muslims in Britain and the ensuing confusion behind all this, eventually becomes the premise of the show, even if not intentionally.

More than a million children in the Central African Republic are in urgent need of humanitarian aid while almost half of those under five are malnourished, the United Nations said on Nov. 27. 

Some two million children have been affected by violence which first broke out in December 2012, and 1.2 million now need urgent aid, said the U.N. children's agency, UNICEF. 

By Atta-Ul Naseer, Imam & National President Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at Greece

The attacks in Paris or any other place in the world which result in innocent lives being lost are extremely barbaric and categorically against the teachings of Islam.

The fourth supreme head of the worldwide Ahmadiyya Muslim Community wrote in his book Murder in the name of Allah,

On Peace Day, the Iranian mother who pardoned the killer of her son at the last minute tells daily Hürriyet that although ?qisas? ? the principle of equal retribution ? is permitted in Islam, forgiving feels better than revenge According to the Quran, equal retribution ? ?qisas? ? is permissible for crimes such as murder.

A suicide bomber detonated an explosives vest during May 22 weekly prayers at a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia, killing and wounding several people, officials said.