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Saudi Arabia

News Reports

Yoga soon to be a part of the sports curriculum in Saudi Arabia schools: Saudi Yoga committee working with Edu ministry

OpIndia Staff - 17 March, 2022

The president of the Saudi Yoga Committee (SYC) Nouf Al-Marwaai has announced the decision on 14th March 2022.

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Blogger Raif Badawi released after 1000 lashes and 10 years in prison: How criticism of Sharia laws, Kingdom of Saud changed his life

Dibakar Dutta - 12 March, 2022

Raif Badawi had dared to speak his mind, despite being aware of the harsh consequences under the totalitarian regime of the Saudi monarch.

World

Saudi, UAE leaders decline calls with Joe Biden amid fears of oil price rise even as they took calls from Putin amid Russia-Ukraine war

OpIndia Staff - 9 March, 2022

The relationship between Saudi Arabia and United States has deteriorated under the Joe Biden administration.

News Reports

USA: Al-Qaeda terrorist who wanted to participate in 9/11 attacks released for psychiatric treatment, Biden administration dropped legal challenge

OpIndia Staff - 8 March, 2022

The prisoner named al-Qahtani was trained by Islamist terror outfit Al-Qaeda and had tried to enter the United States unsuccessfully on August 4, 2001, to participate in the deadly 9/11 attacks.

News Reports

Hijab as ‘choice’: When 15 girls were left to die in a raging fire just because they were not ‘appropriately dressed’

OpIndia Staff - 24 February, 2022

In 2002, 15 Muslim school girls died as they were not allowed to escape a burning school building by Religious Police for not wearing hijab, rescuers were not allowed to help them because 'touching' women was not allowed.

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Foreign funding, radical Islamic organisations and hijab protests: A plan to mobilise Muslim youth against India

Shashank Bharadwaj - 14 February, 2022

The hijab protests are now being seen as a strategic move by the PFI and Jamaat-e-Hind to recruit young Muslims into the radicalisation movement.

News Reports

Elle India distances itself from Rana Ayyub’s brother Arif Ayyub after his tweets attacking the Saudi regime go viral

OpIndia Staff - 27 January, 2022

While Elle India clarified that Arif Ayyub is not associated with the publishing house since August 2019, Ayyub's Facebook profile mentions it as being associated with them.

News Reports

Rana Ayyub’s brother Arif Ayyub wants Muslim nations to join military forces against Saudi, UAE and attack Israel, rants against India

OpIndia Staff - 25 January, 2022

Arif Ayyub was seen raving and ranting against the improving ties between Israel and UAE. He called the Saudi and UAE rulers 'debauch Arabs' who are not Islamic enough.

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