Muslim world

Much work has been done and much effort has been spent on global reconciliation. As the most recent contribution, Türkiye will host the 5th Islamic Solidarity Games to make a fresh start towards world peace. Approximately 3 thousand athletes from 56 different Islamic countries will come together for sports, pose a harmonic stance to show that unity, despite differences, is possible.

The huge burden of the world's natural and manmade disasters are on the shoulders of the Muslim countries, yet their civil societies are not strong enough to respond, according to the head of Kızılay, the Turkish Red Crescent. A network among the national societies of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) countries will be set up today in Istanbul to strengthen cooperation.

Turkey and Iran need to work together to find solutions to the problems of the Islamic world and for the unity of the Muslim Ummah, the head of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate said Nov. 30.

Muslims were curious to find out how U.S. President Donald Trump was going to manage the holy month of Ramadan. Still today, the question at the back of Muslim minds is whether - as a sitting president - Trump is hostile to Islam or not. Muslim activists in the U.S.

On Tuesday, National Security Adviser H. R. McMaster gave a press briefing in which he spoke of President Trump’s trip to the Middle East, offering a glimpse of what Trump has planned, and revealing Trump would directly address the issues plaguing Islam. McMaster said Trump will deliver a speech “to unite the broader Muslim world against common enemies of all civilization.”

Roughly one fifth of people now living are Muslims. Their societies are located in every corner of the globe and vary in language, ethnicity, political ideology, nationality, culture, and wealth. Yet we tend to imagine this 1.5 billion people, despite such diversity, as a cohesive and united whole, defined above all by their Muslim identity.

Islamophobia, Turcophobia, Erdoğanphobia or whatever it might be called, is a reality that Western nations perceive that they face an existential threat from foreigners flooding into their countries. The number of Syrian refugees embraced by all EU countries cannot exceed a fraction of the number of refugees Turkey has taken, which became their second home.

President Donald Trump’s recent executive order temporarily freezing immigration from seven predominantly Islamic countries would affect only about 12% of the world’s Muslims, according to estimates from a 2015 Pew Research Center report on the current and projected size of religious groups.

Many people are angry with the President Trump’s falsely-labeled “Muslim ban,” which bars refugees from seven high-risk Muslim majority countries for a period of JUST 90 days. The same countries, of course, were previously identified by President Obama’s own Department of Homeland Security, but some people and media choose to forget that…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davuto?lu has put forth a call to "liberate all Islamic lands under occupation," while also asking for a common and broader view of Muslims in order to discuss the problems of the Muslim world with maturity.