LONDON (AA) — The Swedish Migration Court has confirmed that an Iraqi man who staged a series of public Quran burnings last year will be deported, local media reported Wednesday. Immigration authorities refused to extend Salwan Momika’s residence permit last October, but the order for his departure was delayed for security reasons, accor...
LONDON (AA) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been accused of using an “Islamophobic trope” against Zarah Sultana, a Muslim Labour party member of parliament (MP), after asking her “to call on Hamas and the Houthis to de-escalate the situation” in the Middle East rather than the UK government. It came during a de...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – A brawl broke out in the Netherlands between police and a group intervening in a Quran attack planned by the leader of the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) movement, Edwin Wagensveld. Police said a group demonstrated against PEGIDA’s authorized Quran burning for which t...
LONDON (AA) – Six-year-old Palestinian-American Wadea al-Fayoume was stabbed 26 times at his home in Illinois, US, by his landlord, who was screaming anti-Muslim slurs as he brutally attacked the little boy. Just moments before, the assailant, 71-year-old Joseph M. Czuba, told the boy’s mother, Hanaan Shahin, who was also stabbed and criticall...
Ayodhya, India — AFP While for many Hindus in India, the opening of a grand new temple this month was a long-held ambition that materialized, for India’s over 200 million Muslims like Mohammed Shahid, the day will evoke only blood-soaked memories. The shrine in Ayodhya has been built on the ground where an ancient mosque […]
New York, United States – AFP An imam who was shot on Wednesday outside a mosque near New York has died, a US official told AFP. Police in the city of Newark, New Jersey, did not give a motive for the incident. “Hassan Sharif was a Transportation Security Officer at Newark Liberty International Airport since […]
ANKARA (AA) – Indian Muslims vowed to continue their fight for legal rights in the country on the 31st anniversary of the Babri Masjid’s demolition on Wednesday. The 16th-century Babri Masjid in Ayodhya in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh was demolished by Hindu hardliners in 1992, triggering violent clashes between Hindus and ...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s former President Christian Wulff has warned of growing anti-Muslim and Ialamophobic sentiments in the country, calling for a stronger stance against the xenophobic and racist propaganda of right-wing extremists. “Some still blame Muslims for completely different problems that have nothing to do with Muslims,” Wulf...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – The Muslim community in the Netherlands is worried by the results of last Wednesday’s elections, in which Geert Wilders’ far-right Islamophobic Party for Freedom (PVV) emerged as the top party. Speaking to the media, Muhsin Koktas, head of the Contact Body for Muslims and Government, said that the vict...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Stuart Seldowitz, a former Obama administration adviser, who was captured on video making threats and Islamophobic comments against a Muslim food vendor in New York City, has been arrested and faces hate crimes charges, local media reported. Seldowitz, 64, faces charges including aggravated harassment and several counts o...
