09/03/2016
Most of the Ukrainians know very little of skullcaps, mostly the famous anecdote: “and when I stand with my hands on my hips, I don’t care why you put your skullcap on”. Yet those who attended the Uzbek Culture Day at Kyiv Islamic cultural Centre on February 27, can now tell that there are six main...
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04/03/2016
The Muslim population in Europe not only faces an increase in number of Islamophobic hate crimes since the recent attacks in Paris, but they also suffer due to legal loopholes that allow such offenses to go unpunished, experts told Anadolu Agency.
Discrimination against Muslims in Europe has...
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18/02/2016
Three Ukrainian cities, Kyiv, Odessa and Sumy, celebrated the World Hijab Day last Sunday. Girls and women spoke of both what hijab means for a practicing Muslim and of traditional dress of different peoples, modern fashion, and shared their own experience of covering up in Non-Muslim society.
In...
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15/02/2016
A benefit on providing the internally displaced Crimean Tatars with grocery baskets and warm winter bed sets, initiated by a German Fund “Muslime Helfen” with their Ukrainian Partners, the AUASO “Alraid” and RAMU “Umma”, was launched last weekend.
At Kyiv ICC, the Crimean Tatars who were forced to...
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08/02/2016
Real Crimean manty (meat-stuffed steamed dumplings), chak-chak, kubite, sarma, burma and many other pleasures of the table with long forgotten taste for most Ukrainians (for they didn’t have a chance to eat them since Crimean peninsula was occupied by Russia) were offered to every guest of Crimean...
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08/02/2016
Dnipropetrovsk Muslim community was forced to move from one place to another during the past 18 years, and their rooms can be generally described by a proverb “it's a bit tight, but all right if we don't fight”. Today this community marks its “coming of age”, having settled down: from now on, a new...
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28/01/2016
Ukrainian Muslims filmed a video where they expressed their point of view on prejudice and speculations about Islam and Muslims that are very far from being true. Stereotyped and mostly negative perception of that religion and its followers does no good in terms of consolidating the society which...
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26/01/2016
Israeli companies doing business in Crimea may be subject to sanctions, the Ukrainian Embassy in Tel Aviv threatened last week.
According to the Ukrainians, Israeli citizens have been traveling to the Black Sea peninsula, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, without permission from Kiev, and...
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25/01/2016
Officials in Moscow-annexed Crimea said on last Thursday that a revered community leader of Tatars, a Muslim minority with a long history of persecution by Russia, has been arrested in absentia and faces three unspecified charges for "premeditated crimes".
Mustafa Jemilev, a lawmaker in Ukraine's...
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22/01/2016
Kyiv Muslims showed their solidarity during the Ukraine’s Unity Day, aiming to help the compatriots who desperately needed help, like wounded and oncology patients. It was on January 22, they held a Blood Donation Benefit at Kyiv Islamic Cultural Centre, with medical workers from Kyiv City Blood...
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