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Islamic leaders in Australia are urging Muslims to donate money to help fund an alternative to children’s cartoon Peppa Pig which will be set in a “predominantly Muslim town”.

The move by refugees and illegal migrants to set up a makeshift mosque at Idomeni camp on the northern borders between Greece and FYROM indicates that not only do they intend to be relocated to other hotspots in Greece, as the government would like them to, but are planning on staying for as long as it take until the borders reopen.

According to UK site ‘express.co.uk’, a Greek government official from the Education Ministry, who wanted to remain anonymous told newspaper ‘Kathimerini’ that authorities fear that Muslims in Greece could be radicalised, if a mosque was not built for their religious needs soon.

A Turkish imam who hit headlines as a "rocking imam" after co-founding a rock band has been denied permission to perform a concert in Portugal by Turkey's Directorate of Religious Affairs (Diyanet).

A sacked imam faces charges of inciting ethnic hatred over a controversial sermon delivered in 2013 in defence of the Ottoman Turkish invasion, entitled "How to increase [God's] blessings", still available on YouTube.

Istanbul’s Aziz Mahmud Hudayi Mosque mosque at the city’s historic Uskudar district has gathered fans thanks to its cat-friendly attitude. The mosque’s imam is seen daily playing with feline visitors and his attitude has gone viral on social media.

An imam who worked at a mosque in the Çanakkale province of northwestern Turkey has joined the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), daily Taraf quoted Deputy Prime Minister Bülent Arınç as saying on Dec. 12, adding that the imam has been removed from his post.

Five of the six people detained in the city of in Pazardzhik for suspected propagation of anti-democratic ideology, have been released, BNR radio station reported on Wednesday.

Turkish authorities have announced that prayer carpets at mosques in the southeastern town of Batman will be replaced due to the complaints filed by Muslims who alleged that some of their motifs "resemble Christian priests."