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LONDON (AA): Sweden wants to strengthen relations with Muslim countries, the Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom has said, as the country drew criticism over the repeated and unhindered desecration of the Quran in the country. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said that Billstrom had a conversation with more than 20 ambassadors of the...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA): From discriminatory legislation to actual acts of aggression and violence, the Muslim community in Denmark has repeatedly raised concerns over a growing wave of Islamophobia in the country. With the latest furor over the attacks on the Quran, community leaders are hoping for more systematic change, rather than cosmeti...
ANKARA (AA): Denmark is studying several measures and legislation to prevent the recurrence of Quran burning incidents, the Egyptian Foreign Ministry said Friday. Danish Foreign Minister Lars Rasmussen affirmed this in a phone call with his Egyptian counterpart Sameh Shoukry, Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said in a statement. Rasmu...
JOHANNESBURG (AA): The junta in Niger late Thursday overturned several military cooperation agreements with France, putting the fate of its former colonial master’s military base in the West African country up in the air. Amadou Abdramane, a spokesperson for the National Council for the Safeguarding of the Country, read out a statement on nati...
LONDON (AA): The UK has said that it is reducing the number of staff at its embassy in coup-hit Niger. “There has been a military takeover in Niger, which has led to protests and unrest,” said the UK Foreign Office in a statement. “Protests can be violent and the situation could change quickly without warning,” [&hellip...
GENEVA (AA): Recent “reckless” attacks on Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in Denmark and Sweden are “individual” provocations, the EU said on Thursday. “The EU has always been clear that manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and related intolerance have no place in Europe,” Nabila Massrali, the EU spokesperson...
LONDON – The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has accused banks of closing the accounts of British Muslims without proper transparency and redress. The MCB said that individuals and organizations from the community were disproportionately affected by this problem. The organization expressed deep concern about this practice. The organizati...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina’s Srebrenica Memorial Center has prepared a report that includes those who deny the genocide in 1995, in which over 8,000 Bosniak civilians were brutally killed by Bosnian Serb forces. The report was prepared in line with research done between May 2022 and May 2023 into denials and dow...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – Members of the ultranationalist group known as Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots) continued the desecration of Muslims’ holy book, the Quran, for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, as they burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy for the second day in...
BERLIN (AA): The number of politically motivated attacks on refugee shelters in Germany has steadily increased since the beginning of last year, with 80 crimes reported in the first half of this year, mostly involving far-right activists as perpetrators and migrant Muslims from Afro-Asian origin as the victims. Following a parliamentary inquir...
