Pakistan, China’s closest ally in the Muslim world, openly criticized its treatment of its Uighur population, a majority-Muslim ethnic minority living in the western Chinese region in Xinjiang, earlier this week. It marks the strongest condemnation of China’s repression of the population yet. Noorul Haq Qadri, Pakistan’s federal minister for …

China’s ongoing mistreatment of its Muslim Uyghur minority continues to escape the headlines, including in Muslim-majority nations. Although the forced assimilation campaign targets the Uyghurs’ culture and religion amongst other human rights violations, they have received no support from other Muslim populations; common critics of Islamophobia and abuses against Muslim …

  Some local governments and institutes have posted notices in China’s restive Xinjiang province banning students and civil servants from taking part in traditional fasting during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. Experts on the region say although the orders are not new, they run the risk of reinforcing recent tensions. …

Baku, Azerbaijan, Jun 25 APA reports that the article titled “Azerbaijan, oil and the 21st century” says South Caucasus country Azerbaijan is known as an ancient Silk Road country. “I visited a Muslim mosque constructed 800 years ago and the touched walls of Baku’s “Old City,” a walled fortress from which …

South Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethnolinguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had until the 1920s provided numerous dynasties to the Persian thrones. The rise of nationalism in the 20th century gradually breached the image of South …

Sources report that the authorities in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region are secretly transferring Muslim Uyghurs to other prisons throughout China. The reasons for the transfer are thought to be a lack of capacity to host the vast amount of prisoners, prevention of unrest in Xinjiang and the creation of …

Baku, North Azerbaijan,July 5 The man who shot the mayor of Ganja had fought in Syria and wanted to turn North Azerbaijan into an Islamic state, according to an official press release. On 3 July, the mayor of Ganja, Elmar Valiyev, and his bodyguard, Gasim Ashbazov, were shot in the …

  South Azerbaijan Question in Evolution: Identity, Society, and Regional Security-By Emil Aslan Souleimanov and Josef Kraus Iranian Azerbaijanis have historically been considered the country’s most loyal ethno-linguistic minority. Predominantly Shiite, with religion being the most important source of collective identity, Turkophone Azerbaijanis had until the 1920s provided numerous dynasties to the Persian …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, May 5 The 13th festival of Azerbaijan folk music (ASHUG  music) was held with the presence of the South Azerbaijan folk music’s Pioneers and citizens of Zanjan city. The Azerbaijan folk music (ASHUG  music) festival was held at the Imam Cultural Hall –Zanjan city on the 5th of …

Tabriz, South Azerbaijan, Apr 5 This much, at least, can be said for Mohammed bin Salman, the putatively reformist crown prince of Saudi Arabia: He has made all the right enemies. Among those who would celebrate his end are the leaders of ISIS, al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, and Hamas, as well as …