One in five Muslim women in the U.K. experienced hate crimes in the past year, according to the Muslim Women’s Network U.K. Baroness Shaista Gohir, also a House of Lords member, highlighted the alarming trend at a Women and Equalities Committee meeting. She linked the rise of what she called “gendered Islamophobia” to negative poli...
Pakistan has condemned rising racist and Islamophobic remarks against British Pakistanis in the U.K. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs voiced concern over attempts to vilify the diaspora of 1.7 million. Controversy erupted after Indian lawmaker Priyanka Chaturvedi’s social media post labeled “Asian grooming gangs” as “Pakistani grooming g...
An Uyghur woman in occupied Eastern Turkistan has been sentenced to 17 years in prison for teaching Quranic verses to her sons and a neighbor. Forty-nine-year-old Seylihan Rozi has been accused of conducting “illegal underground religious activities,” local officials claim. Her sons received sentences of seven and 10 years for receiving religi...
A court in Sri Lanka has sent a prominent Buddhist monk to jail in a case related to anti-Islam comments. Gnanasara Thera was fined and jailed for nine months after he failed to appear before the court which issued an arrest warrant. The monk, who represents the far-right organization Bodu Bala Sena, was sentenced to […]
The Muslim Council of Britain or MCB has criticized Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch for Islamophobic remarks made during a Prime Minister’s Questions session. Badenoch claimed that Muslims use Islamophobia to interfere in cases of child abuse and exploitation. She specifically linked the All-Party Parliamentary Group or APPG on Britis...
France’s Interior Minister has urged banning Muslim women from wearing hijabs during school trips, citing the need to curb Islamist influences. Bruno Retailleau made the call on the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Twelve people were killed by Al-Qaeda terrorists after the magazine published offensive cartoons about Prophet Muha...
Andrew McIntyre, 39, found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of encouraging people to take part in unrest through Telegram channel LONDON (AA) – A man described as the prime orchestrator of last summer’s anti-Muslim and anti-immigrant race riots has been sentenced to seven and a half years in prison for using social media to incite [&helli...
Lower Austria Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner called for ‘measures in the fight against Islam’ in controversial, inflammatory interview -GENEVA (AA) The president of the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IGGO), Umit Vural, has demanded an apology and correction from Governor Johanna Mikl-Leitner of northeastern Lower Austria for her prejud...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) noted a rise in harassment of San Francisco mosques in 2024. It noted a 30-year high in anti-Muslim and anti-Palestinian racism. Executive Director Zahra Billoo urged officials to take stronger action against hate crimes. On Christmas Eve, a man standing outside San Francisco’s Bernal Hei...
GENEVA (AA) – The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) on Monday said it is “deeply alarmed” by a sharp rise in Islamophobic hate crimes over the past year, with offenses doubling in some areas, and urged stronger legislation and unified action against it. In a statement, the council cited the spike reported by the Greater [&helli...
