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Ramadan is a time of togetherness with people gathering to share communal iftar meals (Picture: Daniel Leal)

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The word "Eid" itself means "feast" or "festival" and Eid al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holy month of fasting for Muslims.

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Muslims around the world will celebrate Eid al-Adha this week to remember the sacrifice made by Prophet Ibrahim.

Muslims to celebrate Eid al-Adha this week

The biggest wave of social unrest in Iran in almost three years has seen protesters chant 'Woman, Life, Freedom' and 'down with the dictator' (Picture: AFP via Getty Images)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi shake hands in Tehran in July last year (Picture: Sergei Savostyanov/Sputnik/AFP via Getty Images)

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An Iranian woman walks in the street on a rainy day in the capital Tehran, on the day Iran has said it has scrapped its morality police after more than two months of protests triggered by the death of Mahsa Amini following her arrest for allegedly violating the country's strict female dress code.

Scepticism over scrapping of Iran’s ‘morality police’

St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art deals with several religions, including Buddhism (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Martin Purbrick, Institute Director, Asia Scotland Institute

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Tate, a self-proclaimed ‘success coach’, made the announcement on one of his remaining social media accounts called Gettr.

‘Misogynist’ Andrew Tate converts to Islam

The Thingyan Water Festival is one of Myanmar's biggest public holidays (photo: Adobe)

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JK Rowling. Picture: Mike Marsland/WireImage

Euan McColm: Rushdie attack shines light on threats to female writers

Lady Evelyn Cobbold, who later took the name Zainab. She is buried in an isolated spot on her former estate at Glencarron in Wester Ross. PIC: You Tube.

The aristocrat who converted to Islam and inspired a pilgrimage to the Highlands

Glaswegian Muslims prepare for Ramadan at Glasgow Central Mosque in 2021. Photo: John Devlin.

When is Ramadan 2022, and why Muslims celebrate the Islamic holiday

Former prime minister Tony Blair, who sent UK troops into Afghanistan 20 years ago, who has said Britain has a "moral obligation" to stay until "all those who need to be are evacuated".

Blair says UK has 'moral obligation to stay in Afghanistan for evacuation'

Paigham Mustafa. Picture: Robert Kerr

The pandemic will leave a poisonous legacy of division - Paigham Mustafa

French police officers stand outside a high school after a history teacher who opened a discussion with students on caricatures of Islam's Prophet Muhammad was beheaded,

Terror probe after teacher is beheaded near Paris

One of the main rituals that occur on Eid ul-adha is the sacrificing of either a sheep, goat, or cow. However, under British law the animal must be killed in an official slaughterhouse. (Photo by Rob Stothard/Getty Images)

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The Scottish Labour leader said that all parties should have a "central belief system".

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Irish broadcaster RTE said she was accompanied by three consular officials from the Department of Foreign Affairs, members of the Army Ranger Wing, and a Turkish security officer on the flight. Picture: RTE News

IS bride Lisa Smith arrested after arriving back in Ireland from Syria

Muslim women protest after Boris Johnson's "letterbox" comments about the wearing of the burqua.

New guidelines published to tackle 'othering' of Scotland's Muslim communities

Nearly two-thirds of Muslim women in Scotland have witnessed or experienced hate crimes. Picture: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images

Scotland takes world-leading step to tackle Islamophobia – Anas Sarwar MSP

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James McArdle as Peter. Picture: Greg Macvean

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Jeremy Corbyn. Picture: House of Commons/PA Wire

Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn clash over discrimination in respective parties

Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Picture: Alastair Grant/PA Wire

Jeremy Hunt: ‘Don’t forget that we’re the party of enterprise’

Tory members overwhelming back Boris Johnson for PM but think Donald Trump would be a good alternative

Tory members would back Trump for PM and believe Islam is 'threat to British lif...

Anas Sarwar claimed he was barred from giving evidence to a formal probe into his claims of racist comments made by a party colleague

Scottish Labour embroiled in new racism row

Baroness Warsi has accused the Conservative Party of "institutional" Islamophobia

Conservatives suspend 14 members amid Islamophobia claims

A Jewish woman prays in a cave that contains tombs of holy Jewish rabbis at the ancient cemetery of the northern Israeli city of Safed - a city associated with Jewish mysticism and Kabbalah. PIC: Menahem Kahana / AFP/Getty Images

Book review: Kabbalah: Secrecy, Scandal And The Soul, by Harry Freedman

Sinead O'Connor has converted to Islam. Picture: TWITTER/@MAGDADAVITT77

SinÃ©ad O'Connor converts to Islam, changing name to Shuhada' Davitt

The trial took place at Dundee Sheriff Court

Ex SNP councillor fined after sending racist texts to Muslim lover

Boris Johnson. Picture: Getty Images

Boris Johnson's Facebook page '˜host to Islamophobic hate comments'

Christine Hamilton: Said her tweet was tongue in cheek. Picture: PA

Christine Hamilton dropped by charity over KKK tweet

Comedy review: Eshaan Akhbar: Prophet Like It's Hot, Gilded Balloon

The moment Faisal Islam is stopped. Picture: Sky News.

'˜Is Theresa May coming doon?' Moment Ayr man interrupts Sky broadcast

The then Labour MP Jim Murphy is engulfed by independence and Union supporters in 2014 (Picture: Getty)

Darren McGarvey: Cybernat, Yoon or Remoaner '“ pick your prejudice

Pakistani police arrested Bibi, a newly married woman, who was married against her will in September, on murder charges after she allegedly poisoned her husband's milk and it inadvertently killed 17 other people in a remote village. Picture: AP Photo/Iram Asim

Pakistan Bride in forced marriage kills 17 in botched poison plot

Too many children are being exposed to a digital forum riddled with bigotry and prejudice. Photograph:
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Euan McColm: Radicalised misogynists go under the radar

People run to safety from the Route 91 Harvest country music festival. Picture: Getty

Jim Duffy: Vegas tragedy exposes America's blind spot - itself

Henry Bolton, who has been elected as the new Ukip party leader, at the party's conference in Torquay. Picture: PA

UKIP elects new leader: '˜We are not UK Nazi party'

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe: Somehow Thom Tuck manages to remain gentlemanly and stiff upper lipped even when largely naked and daubed with make up.

Muhammad Ali stands over Sonny Liston on May 25, 1965, in Lewiston, Maine. Picture: AP

Plans to create musical about life of Muhammad Ali

The attack site. Picture: AFP/Getty

Police thwart terrorist plot at Islam's holiest site

Young Muslims are often caught between tradition and modern society. Picture: John Devlin

Rev Dr John Cameron: Young Muslims may yet shun extremism

A rally in Glasgow protesting against Donald Trump's hardline immigration policies. Picture: John Devlin

Mary Brown: Integration need not mean '˜native' cultures will suffer

Chancellor Angela Merkel and president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Picture: AP

Angela Merkel urges Erdogan to uphold democracy in referendum

Yusuf dedicated songs to the recently departed Leonard Cohen and Leon Russell. Picture: Leon Neal/AFP

Music review: A Cat's Attic '“ Yusuf/Cat Stevens

Jayda Fransen of Britain First faces up to six months in prison. Picture: YouTube

Britain First deputy leader on trial for religious harassment

Simon Collis and his wife Huda Majarkech. Picture: iNews

UK ambassador to Saudi Arabia converts to Islam

Police line the pitch following the violence after the Scottish Cup Final between Hibs and Rangers. Picture: TSPL

Leaders: Offensive behaviour act an imperfect but useful tool

Vladimir Putin had already violated every major security treaty from the 1975 Helsinki Final Act to the 1999 Charter of Paris. Picture: AFP/Getty Images

Alan Sked: EU is an economic disaster zone

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Donald Trump not expecting 'good' relationship with David Cameron

Donald Trump has reportedly suggested that new London mayor Sadiq Khan would be exempt from his proposed ban on Muslims entering the US, should he make it to the presidency in January. Picture: PA Wire

London mayor Sadiq Khan dismisses Donald Trump's offer

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The Glasgow Airport islamist attack took place in 2007. Picture: AP

'˜Tolerance' could put Scotland at increased terror risk

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