The Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia operated at full capacity Sunday, with worshippers praying shoulder-to-shoulder for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic began.
Mecca (Saudi Arabia) — Mask-clad Muslims circled Islam’s holiest site along socially distanced paths on Sunday, as Saudi authorities partially resumed the year-round umrah pilgrimage amid extensive health precautions after seven-month coronavirus hiatus.
Islam’s holiest site has been hit by a swarm of locusts forcing religious authorities to launch an unprecedented clean-up operation.
Mina (Saudi Arabia) – Thousands of cleaners are busy separating plastic from other rubbish as more than two million Muslims wrap up a pilgrimage to Mecca that presents a huge environmental challenge for Saudi Arabia.
Leaked documents from the Belgian Unit for Coordination and Threat Analysis (OCAM) have revealed that future Belgian Imams are being trained with materials containing radical Islamic policies including persecuting homosexuals engaging in armed jihad. The documents, which were leaked to
At the heart of Saudi Arabia’s recent cultural and political upheaval is an understanding that the country must become more compatible with the Western world, and more hospitable to foreign investment, in order to manage the transition away from an oil-based economy with limitless deep pockets. Possibly the trickiest aspect of this transformation will be an Islamic reformation in the notoriously strict kingdom.
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Saudi Arabia has begun issuing hajj pilgrims with identification bracelets one year after a stampede killed around 2,300 people.
Contents: Attack on Islam’s holy site in Medina caps end-of-Ramadan jihadist carnage; Bond yields continue to plummet globally into negative territory after Brexit
Contents: Female suicide bomber attacks Bursa in northwestern Turkey; Austria votes to close border with Italy to slow refugees
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, national security editor for Breitbart News and author of the new book Defeating Jihad: The Winnable War, tells host Stephen K. Bannon on Breitbart News Daily about tensions with Saudi Arabia, as pressure to declassify the Saudi-related “28 Pages” of 9/11 documents from the Senate Intelligence Committee report grows.
Contents: Mideast trends: Sunni-Shia countries align along predicted lines; Saudi Arabia faces increased social unrest with sudden austerity budget
Contents: Huge construction crane in Saudi Arabia’s Mecca Grand Mosque crashes, killing dozens; 1979 takeover of Grand Mosque led to al-Qaeda and 9/11
Disney Channel star Selena Gomez provoked outrage with some recent pictures she took on her visit to Abu Dhabi’s Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque.
