A DAD of three has been left languishing in prison after being beaten by police following a misunderstanding during a religious pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia. Kausar Uddin, 47, from Sighthill, travelled to Mecca last month with his wife, three children…
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The above is what most Singaporeans woke up to on 20 Jan 2016 in this article here. I am a Singaporean Muslim and my family have been in Singapore since the late 1800s. (Yes, Singapore was built from the ground…
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At least 717 people have been killed in a stampede at the annual Hajj pilgrimage, Saudi Arabia’s civil defence directorate said, as the death toll continued to rise. The directorate said at least 863 other pilgrims were injured in Thursday’s…
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Hundreds of thousands of Muslims from across the globe began the annual hajj pilgrimage on Tuesday (Sept 22). The pilgrims began moving from Saudi Arabia’s holy city of Mecca to nearby Mina for the start of the event. The first…
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MECCA: A recent surge in cases of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS), a sometimes deadly virus, in Saudi Arabia has ebbed in the run-up to Islam’s annual haj pilgrimage, the kingdom’s Health Minister Khaled al-Falih said on Thursday. As pilgrims…
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