STOCKHOLM (AA): An Iraqi national on Wednesday burned a copy of the Muslim holy book Quran outside a mosque in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. The incident took place outside the Stockholm Mosque in Medborgarplatsen, where Salwan Momika first threw the Quran on the ground before burning it with insulting words about Islam. The provocation [&...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Swedish police said they have granted a permit for a protest where the organiser plans to burn a copy of the Muslim holy book Quran outside Stockholm’s main mosque on Wednesday, the start of the Muslim three-day Eid al-Adha holiday. The green light came two weeks after a Swedish appeals court rejected […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Police officers in Britain discriminate against minorities, especially Muslims, because of suspicion, according to a human rights advocate. In an interview, Muhammad Mussa, a spokesman for the London-based independent advocacy organization CAGE, talked about “discriminatory and misogynistic” behavior by British polic...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA): The world’s first Islamic Experience Center in the Netherlands, where Islam is explained through the technologies of virtual reality glasses, hologram and 8D sound, aims to break down Islamophobic prejudices. The center has been established in the city of Rotterdam by the Islamic Experience Center Foundation,...
Moscow, Russia (AFP): Belarusian strongman Alexander Lukashenko has said that long-standing tensions between Moscow’s army and the Wagner mercenary group, which staged a mutiny in Russia, had been mismanaged. Lukashenko was speaking three days after he brokered a deal to end the rebellion that rattled his Russian ally Vladimir Putin. The...
BERLIN (AA): Germany has condemned the escalating settler violence in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. “Clearly the federal government naturally condemns any form of violence,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Christian Wagner told a press briefing in Berlin. Israeli settlers’ actions in Palestinian communities over the weekend in which hundreds of P...
MOSCOW / TEHRAN, Iran (AA): Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the armed rebellion of the Wagner group in phone talks with the Qatari emir and Iranian president. In a statement on its website, the Kremlin said Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani supported the Russian leadership against the rebellion during the phone talk with [...
ROME (AA): A controversial law proposed by the ruling far-right coalition has again brought Muslims and their places of worship to the fore of Italy’s political discourse. If passed, the law could shut down hundreds of Islamic prayer spaces, a prospect triggering alarm within the country’s 2.5 million-strong Muslim community. Opposition politi...
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP): NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg has said the weekend mutiny by mercenary troops in Russia has shown that President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was a “mistake”. “We are monitoring the situation in Russia. The events over the weekend are an internal Russian matter, and yet another demonstrat...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA): A Serbian court has ordered the release of three Kosovar policemen who were arrested along the border with Kosovo earlier this month. The Higher Court in Kraljevo city said that the three were charged with illegal “possession of weapons and explosive devices,” and that they will be allowed to remain free pending [&hellip...
