Muslim Majority Countries

A Deoband-based Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind today accused the BJP government of protecting people engaged in poisoning the majority community's mind in the country. It claimed that the country's unity is being hampered in the name of "false nationalism".

With Pakistan trying to garner international support against India after the Centre scrapped Jammu and Kashmir's special status, the BJP asserted on Tuesday that no major Muslim country is with Islamabad since they consider it an internal matter of India.

Three Indonesian housewives have been arrested over an online video that claimed President Joko Widodo would ban prayer and make gay marriage legal in the Muslim majority country if re-elected, police said on Monday.

The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a "child predator".

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to ban travelers from certain majority-Muslim countries if he thinks it is necessary to protect the United States, a victory in what has been a priority since Trump's first weeks in office and a major affirmation of presidential power.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said it was regrettable that the US Supreme Court revived part of a US travel ban imposed on citizens from six majority Muslim countries, and said it could fuel extremism in the region.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees to go into effect for people with no connection to the United States while agreeing to hear his appeals in the closely watched legal fight.

The US Supreme Court has set a 10-day deadline for the challengers of President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban on citizens from six Muslim- majority countries to respond to the government's emergency request to let the order take effect.

Aides have said the speech, given in the cradle of Islam, will be 'uplifting' but also 'blunt' in its call for leaders of Muslim countries to take a stand against violent fundamentalism.

Passengers traveling to the United States from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will be prohibited from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly, according to new rules set to go into effect Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's revamped travel ban is facing its first major legal setback, after a federal judge halted enforcement of the directive.

The majority of celebrities on stage spoke out in some way against President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, which bans refugees and people from seven primarily Muslim countries from coming into the United States

Donald Trump's wife, Melania, in her first major political speech on Monday, portrayed her husband as a talented, compassionate and unrelenting leader who would unify rather than divide the country if elected to the White House.

Mehbooba Mufti of the Peoples Democratic Party or PDP took oath this morning as the first woman Chief Minister of the country's only Muslim majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, at the head of a coalition government that includes the BJP.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Saudi Arabia this week to witness a major military exercise by troops of several Muslim countries to improve training in responding to the threat posed by terror groups.

A Deoband-based Jamiat Ulama-e-Hind today accused the BJP government of protecting people engaged in poisoning the majority community's mind in the country. It claimed that the country's unity is being hampered in the name of "false nationalism".

With Pakistan trying to garner international support against India after the Centre scrapped Jammu and Kashmir's special status, the BJP asserted on Tuesday that no major Muslim country is with Islamabad since they consider it an internal matter of India.

Three Indonesian housewives have been arrested over an online video that claimed President Joko Widodo would ban prayer and make gay marriage legal in the Muslim majority country if re-elected, police said on Monday.

The marriage of a Malaysian man with a 11-year-old Thai girl has sparked outrage in the Muslim majority country with one activist Sunday labelling the groom a "child predator".

The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that President Donald Trump has the authority to ban travelers from certain majority-Muslim countries if he thinks it is necessary to protect the United States, a victory in what has been a priority since Trump's first weeks in office and a major affirmation of presidential power.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Tuesday said it was regrettable that the US Supreme Court revived part of a US travel ban imposed on citizens from six majority Muslim countries, and said it could fuel extremism in the region.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday handed a victory to President Donald Trump by allowing his temporary bans on travelers from six Muslim-majority countries and all refugees to go into effect for people with no connection to the United States while agreeing to hear his appeals in the closely watched legal fight.

The US Supreme Court has set a 10-day deadline for the challengers of President Donald Trump's controversial travel ban on citizens from six Muslim- majority countries to respond to the government's emergency request to let the order take effect.

Aides have said the speech, given in the cradle of Islam, will be 'uplifting' but also 'blunt' in its call for leaders of Muslim countries to take a stand against violent fundamentalism.

Passengers traveling to the United States from 10 airports in eight Muslim-majority countries will be prohibited from bringing laptops, tablets and other portable electronic devices on board with them when they fly, according to new rules set to go into effect Tuesday.

President Donald Trump's revamped travel ban is facing its first major legal setback, after a federal judge halted enforcement of the directive.

The majority of celebrities on stage spoke out in some way against President Donald Trump's executive order on immigration, which bans refugees and people from seven primarily Muslim countries from coming into the United States

Donald Trump's wife, Melania, in her first major political speech on Monday, portrayed her husband as a talented, compassionate and unrelenting leader who would unify rather than divide the country if elected to the White House.

Mehbooba Mufti of the Peoples Democratic Party or PDP took oath this morning as the first woman Chief Minister of the country's only Muslim majority state, Jammu and Kashmir, at the head of a coalition government that includes the BJP.

Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will visit Saudi Arabia this week to witness a major military exercise by troops of several Muslim countries to improve training in responding to the threat posed by terror groups.