by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Nov 23, 2016 | News
Radio Islam and Agencies | 24 November 2016 The eagerly anticipated high-speed railway linking Makkah and Madinah will finally open in March 2018. The Haramain High Speed Rail linking Islam’s holiest cities was initially scheduled to open at the end of 2016 but the...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Nov 23, 2016 | News
Radio Islam and Agencies | 23 November 2016 The Committee for Islamic Affairs in Saudi Arabia’s Shoura council is currently studying a proposal presented by one of its members for allocating specific women-only timings for kissing the Black Stone ritual during Hajj...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Nov 23, 2016 | News
Radio Islam and Agencies | 22 November 2016 Saudi police have arrested an expat agricultural engineer in Riyadh who offended Muslim sentiments by posting a doctored photo of the Kaaba on social media. The accused is an Indian national who works on a farm in Tameer...
by Mohamed Ismail Bukharia | Nov 22, 2016 | Opinion and Analysis
Ebrahim Moosa – Radio Islam – Opinion | 23 November 2016 Of all of South Africa’s claims to fame, one of the most notorious is oft-repeated statistic that ‘South Africa is one of the most unequal, if not the most unequal society in the world’. Regrettably,...