Category: Arab News

The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice (Haia) has formally apologized to the British man and his Saudi wife for the troubles caused to them by some of its staffers last Friday. Four Haia staffers have been transferred outside Riyadh for their involvement in the attack, a statement issued by the commission…

Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, the religious police, has launched an investigation into a physical assault by some of its members on a British national who was with his Saudi wife in the capital Riyadh. The investigation was ordered by the Commission president Shaikh Abdul Lateef Bin Abdul…

Libya’s most senior religious authority, the grand mufti Sheikh Sadik al-Ghariani, is believed to have fled Britain after it emerged that he was helping to direct the Islamist takeover of Tripoli from the UK. Ghariani left the UK for Qatar as Home Office officials began examining broadcasts he had made to Islamist groups using an…

Muslim leaders have issued a fatwa condemning British jihadis, it was revealed today. The fatwa quoting Quranic verses, which has been issued by some of the country’s top imams, is the strongest condemnation yet by the Muslim community of Britons joining Islamic extremists. The fatwa has been endorsed by senior Islamic scholars including Sheikh Qamaruzzaman Azmi of the…

The government is considering temporary bans on British-born jihadists in Iraq and Syria from returning to the UK, according to a BBC report. The BBC understands UK nationals suspected of being involved in terrorist acts would be allowed to keep their British citizenship. But they would be prevented from re-entering the UK for a period…

‘We must not import conflict. We must export peace instead’ Jewish and Muslim leaders in the UK have urged followers of their faiths to “export peace” to the Middle East, BBC reported. In an unprecedented joint statement, the Jewish Board of Deputies and Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) condemned Islamophobia and anti-Semitism, BBC reported. In…

Boris Johnson has called for the presumption of innocence to be reversed in cases where Britons travel to Iraq or Syria and said he wants the jihadist who beheaded an American journalist to be killed in a bomb attack. The Mayor of London, who has overall responsibility for the Metropolitan Police, said legislation should be…

In France and Germany, synagogues and Jewish community centres have been firebombed. In Britain, a rabbi was attacked near a Jewish boarding school. And in Australia, a bus carrying Jewish schoolchildren was targeted by teenagers shouting “Heil Hitler” and threatening to slit the children’s throats. But while anti-Semitism is clearly a problem, is it correct…

The English jihadist who beheaded the American journalist James Foley is believed to be the leader of a group of British fighters holding foreign hostages in sources, the Guardian has said quoting sourcing. “As an international manhunt got under way on Wednesday, the English-speaking militant was identified to the Guardian by one of his former…

Islamic State jihadist militants could grow strong enough to target people “on the streets of Britain” unless action is taken, Prime Minister David Cameron has warned, BBC reported. He said a “humanitarian response” to the rebel group was not enough and a “firm security response” was needed. The prime minister was writing in the Sunday…

Joining ISIS and travelling to Mesopotamian killing fields may not be on top of the summer plans for those who shop on Oxford Street, but someone though there was no harm in trying. Dozens of pro-Isis leaflets were distributed in London’s Oxford Street on Tuesday, urging Muslims to pledge allegiance to the jihadi group and…