Indonesia's anti-graft agency on March 16 named a prominent Islamist politician backing President Joko Widodo's re-election campaign as a suspect in a bribery case. The United Development Party (PPP) chairman Muhammad Romahurmuziy (Romi) had allegedly accepted bribes to get two people high ranking jobs at the religious affairs ministry.

On Friday March 15th, world media outlets reported on a mass shooting and murder of Muslim men praying in two mosques in New Zealand. 49 sincere Muslims attending the Friday prayer duties were shot and killed, with many more injured in the aftermath.

Only to start with as a short reminder of what Islam’s main pillars in prevention of poverty are: -      Islam has regulated the issue of ownership in a very clear and efficient way. Every individual is permitted to gain and to possess private property on everything that is not public or not state property, through the ways that Islam has made permissible (work, trade, inheritance, gifts, etc.), i.e. except steeling,…

• Despite the immense material and human resources, as well as the world’s richest oil and mineral reserves in our Muslim lands, the majority of the Muslim Ummah languishes in massive poverty, having less than 1.90 US dollars a day to meet their basic needs.