GENEVA (AA) – The Berlin police have banned rallies in support of Palestine, in order to prevent “incitement of anti-Semitic exclamations” and “glorification of violence”. In Berlin, two solidarity rallies with Palestinians were planned for Wednesday under the banners “Solidarity with All Political Prisoners on Pa...
BERLIN (AA) – Radical Islamophobic neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the mosque complex at around 11:10 p.m local time, smashed the windows, and left a flyer of the neo-Nazi group, ‘Letzte...
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...
Jama, a Somali-American Muslim woman, was forced to remove her hijab for a photo that was then used on her ID card SAINT PAUL, Minnesota – A lawsuit has been filed against the federal correctional facility FCI Waseca in Minnesota for violating religious rights. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has...
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...
TOPEKA, Kansas – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Chipotle, alleging religious harassment towards a former Muslim employee, Areej Saifan, in Kansas. Saifan claims that an assistant manager continually pestered her over several weeks to reveal her hair by removing her hijab. The situation escalated on August 9, ...
CAIR-Chicago suspects possible link to the ultra-rightist Hindutva RSS movement, involved in burning of Quran CHICAGO, Illinois – The Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has condemned the incident of a Quran burning in Naperville. The incident, which took place over the summer, was only recently made public on so...
