Residents saw the front door smashed, donation boxes forced open and other items damaged. LONDON – A well-known Islamic cultural center in west London reported that an apparent Islamophobic attack was carried out on its property on the night of September 26. Residents saw the front door smashed, donation boxes forced open and other items...
TUNIS, Tunisia (AA) – France on Thursday said that it will start withdrawing its troops from Niger “this week.” “The disengagement of military personnel and military assets deployed in Niger begins this week. This maneuver is intended to bring back all the military personnel by the end of the year,” the French Armed Forces Ministry [&hel...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Thursday called for immediate action against the rising incidents of the desecration of religious places and symbols worldwide. “Human Rights Council resolution 53/1 noted with deep concern the rising incidents of desecration of places of worship and religious symbols across the world, cal...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – UK-based advocacy group CAGE’s Managing Director Muhammad Rabbani was denied entry into Poland, where he was to speak at a conference, at France’s request. In a statement, CAGE said that Rabbani was due to deliver “another critical speech against France’s state-sponsored Islamophobia, as he had done last ...
Rabbani claims that France shared information about him with Poland, which led to his deportation LONDON – A representative of the civil rights group Cage claimed that he was deported from Poland under pressure from the French government. Muhammad Rabbani, the director of U.K. chapter of Cage, said the move came after he criticized Franc...
BRUSSELS (AA) – The European Commission confirmed Monday that the EU stands ready to impose sanctions on Serbia over the attacks in northern Kosovo if the bloc’s member states find enough evidence. “The European Union stands ready to assess measures vis-a-vis Serbia if member states decided that they have enough information, enough facts...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Organizations representing the Muslim community in Belgium have challenged a law in the Flemish region at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds that it violates freedom of religion and worship. According to a statement by the Belgian Religious Foundation on Thursday, the petition was submitted under the...
LONDON (AA) – The UK home secretary has voiced strong criticism of the current operation of the UN refugee treaty, calling it “absurd and unsustainable.” In her speech at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, Suella Braverman argued that UN’s 1951 Refugee Convention is extending protection to nearly 800 milli...
ATHENS (AA) — France’s ambassador in Niger has left the West African country, French media reported on Wednesday. The plane carrying Sylvain Itte and six others left the country early in the morning, according to the daily Le Figaro, which added that the aircraft was flying in the direction of eastern neighbor Chad. Itte’s departur...
