On a warm sunny Tuesday, here are some things going on:
From National Review, the New York office of Planned Avoidance Of Parenthood decides to remove the name of founder Margaret Sanger for support of eugenics.
From FrontpageMag, Democrats are destroying New York City - again.
From Townhall, what's the difference between woke and racist?
From The Washington Free Beacon, a school district in Michigan fires a teacher for pointing out the "Trump is our president" on social media.
From the Washington Examiner, the Associated Press has separate and unequal language for blacks and whites.
From The Federalist, the conversation about black lives needs to stop focusing on white people.
From American Thinker, being both a Democrat and free speech supporter is no longer possible.
From CNS News, deaths in the U.S. from the coronavirus have decreased from April to July.
From LifeZette, former Vice President Biden does indeed support defunding the police.
From NewsBusters, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough urges President Trump to implement the "Biden plan" on the coronavirus 20 times in one show.
From Canada Free Press, exposing BLM's moral bankruptcy.
From CBC News, the NHL and other sports leagues prepare to resume play amid the coronavirus pandemic.
From Global News, face masks are now mandatory on GO Transit.
From CTV News, according to a study, most ships in Canada's Cabot Strait are not obeying rules for protecting whales.
From TeleSUR, Ecuador's National Justice Court ratifies an eight-year sentence given to former President Rafael Correa.
From Morocco World News, Morocco's government prepares to relaunch the country's housing and urban development sectors.
From Hürriyet Daily News, the Turkish government invites foreign leaders to attend prayers in the Hagia Sophia.
From Turkish Minute, another Turk is arrested for allegedly insulting President Erdoğan on social media. (What is this "freedom of speech" you speak of?)
From Rûdaw, Al-Nouri Mosque in Mosul, Iraq is slowly being rebuilt, three years after being destroyed by ISIS.
From Panorama, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov discusses the border situation between Armenia and Azerbaijan with the ambassadors from those two countries. (via The Armenian Reporter)
From In-Cyprus, a bag containing a police radio falls out of a helicopter flying over Limassol, Cyprus.
From The Syrian Observer, the Syrian government arrests 38 soldiers for allegedly having ties to businessman Rami Makhlouf.
From Arutz Sheva, Israel's coronavirus hotels draw complaints about their food and cleanliness.
From The Times Of Israel, health official Gabi Barbash is reportedly chosen to head Israel's campaign against the coronavirus.
From The Jerusalem Post, according to a report, weekend closures will result only in a minimal reduction in coronavirus infection.
From YNetNews, thousand of Israeli social workers rally in Tel Aviv and block a street.
From the Egypt Independent, the Egyptian governorate of Giza bans illegal animal slaughter marquees during Eid al-Adha.
From Egypt Today, Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopian agree to continue their dam negotiations.
From the Ethiopian Monitor, the Ethiopian Commodity Exchange will add three more items.
From the Saudi Gazette, the Saudi Project for Landmine Clearance dismantles 1,287 landmines in Yemen.
From The New Arab, Lebanon faces a new wave of emigration.
From Radio Farda, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Tehran for his first official visit to Iran.
From IranWire, Iranian President Rouhani chooses "herd immunity" over protests.
From Dawn, due to the Zilhaj moon not being sighted, Eidul Azha will being in Pakistan August 1st.
From The Express Tribune, scientists plan to study the surging Shishper glacier in the Pakistani region of Gilgit-Baltistan.
From Pakistan Today, the party Pakistan Muslim League - Nawaz demands the abolition of the country's National Accountability Bureau after a Supreme Court ruling.
From Khaama Press, Afghan National Defense and Security Forces send 12 Taliban terrorists to their virgins in repulsing an attack in the province of Zabul.
From The Hans India, Indian politician Shafiqur Rehman Barq demands the opening of mosques and Idgahs for Eid al-Adha. (An Idgah is a large open-air enclosure used for prayers during the Islamic feasts of Eid al-Adha or Eid al-Fitr. The term may also be spelled "Eidgah", "Eid Gah" or "Id Gah".)
From the Hindustan Times, Indian Commerce Minister Piyush Goyal proposes a "preferential trade agreement" with the U.S.
From ANI, according to India's National Investigative Agency, smugglers used the country's coronavirus lockdown to smuggle large amounts of gold into the state of Kerala.
From India Today, travelers arriving at the Delhi airport will have to quarantine at an approved location in the city for seven days, and at home for seven more days.
From the Dhaka Tribune, a private medical association in Bangladesh threatens protests if any of its members face "unnecessary harassment" from law enforcement.
From the Daily Mirror, Sri Lanka's election commission sets two special days for postal voters.
From the Colombo Page, Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa orders an investigation into illegal hunting of wild animals.
From Maldives Insider, Hanifaru Bay in the Maldive Islands, the world's biggest manta ray feeding hotspot, is set to reopen this coming Saturday.
From The Jakarta Post, Indonesian police charge three recruiting agency bosses over the torture death of a man found in a freezer on a Chinese fishing vessel.
From The Straits Times, 28 people are charged with violating Singapore's coronavirus distancing rules.
From the Borneo Post, Malaysian parliamentcritters are warned to watch their language.
From Free Malaysia Today, collection of zakat in Malaysia increases by 9 percent over a year earlier, even amid the coronavirus pandemic. (Zakat is a system of charitable giving and is one of the Five Pillars of Islam.)
From Vietnam Plus, according to Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung, no new airlines will be permitted to open up in Vietnam until 2022.
From The Mainichi, Japan raises a travel advisory for 16 countries and the region of Palestine.
From Gatestone Institute, Nike and other brands are reportedly complicit in Chinese slave labor.
From The Stream, former Vice President Biden is "mumbling towards Mecca".
From CBS Baltimore, Baltimore County, Maryland will require children as young as two to wear face masks while indoors. (In the local dialect, we call the place "Balmer Canny, Merlin". The story comes via the Daily Caller.)
From The Daily Caller, according to an opinion column, schools should reopen on time, despite opposition by Democrats.
From CheckYourFact, no, the coffee company Starbucks did not call for police to be defunded.
From Fox News, scientists at MIT create a deepfake video showing President Nixon giving a speech that would have been used if Apollo 11 couldn't return from the moon.
From SpaceWar, SpaceX launches South Korea's first military-use-only communications satellite.
From the New York Post, New York's Mr. Bill won't say when anti-police graffiti will be removed from a building named for one of his mayoral predecessors.
And from WPVI-TV, a couple in Tomball, Texas runs a honey of a business.
Zakat, one of the five pillars of Islam, is a religious obligation for all those Muslims who possess a set amount of wealth and assets for a specific period. Real estate property is also a tangible asset that is included in the nisab (financial criteria) for which you have to pay zakat. This is not the case on property tax. Get to know Zakat on Property & How to Calculate it?
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