TRAPPES, France (AA) – A group of people staged a protest in the northern French city of Trappes on Friday against a ban on Muslim girls wearing abaya in schools. The group, along with some parents of schoolgirls, staged the protest under the banner “Don’t Touch My Abaya Community” in front of La Plaine de […]
WASHINGTON (AA) – An unidentified person threw a copy of the Quran to the ground and kicked it outside the Turkish House in New York on Friday morning. The Quran was desecrated at 10:46 a.m. local time (1446 GMT), Anadolu has learned. Turkish House security personnel immediately intervened and removed the person from the premises, […]
Artux, China – AFP A policeman waves reporters away from a desert prison in Xinjiang, part of a network of detention facilities transformed by China’s shifting policies in the northwestern region. Since 2017, more than a million Uyghurs and other Muslims have been swept into internment camps where human rights abuses are commonplac...
Ban was challenged by Muslim rights group, which argued that it was discriminatory and violated the right to freedom of religion PARIS, France – France’s highest court has upheld the government’s ban on the abaya, a loose-fitting, floor-length garment worn by some Muslim schoolgirls in schools. The Council of State ruled that...
AFP reporter saw a sign in a cemetery prohibiting Islamic ‘religious activities’ such as kneeling, prostrating, praying with palms facing upwards and reciting scripture KASHGAR, China – The Chinese government is trying to transform the historically difficult Xinjiang region, dominated by Uighur Muslims, into a tourist hub. Kashgar, a cit...
Erdogan told American Muslim leaders to inform the U.S. Congress and other political bodies about the dangers of Islamophobia ANKARA, Türkiye – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with a delegation from the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (U.S.CMO) at the Presidential Complex in Ankara. The meeting was attended by prominent ...
GENEVA (AA) – The UN Human Rights Council said Wednesday that attacks on the Quran in Europe will be discussed at its 54th session from Sept. 11 to Oct.13. Czech Republic’s Ambassador to the UN, Vaclav Balek, told a news conference in Geneva that the session would be the longest of the Council. Balek, who […]
– Events in Malmo city ‘terrible,’ says Swedish premier LONDON (AA) – Clashes between the police and rioters in Sweden’s third-largest city Malmo continued Monday after another Quran-burning protest, according to the Swedish police. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference that the events in Mal...
BERLIN (AA) – With Islamophobia already a major issue in Germany, there are heightened fears within the Muslim community that far-right activists could stage acts of desecration of religious scriptures in the country, like the ones seen in other European nations such as Sweden and Denmark. If that were to happen, it could lead to […]
ANKARA (AA) – More than 60 Muslim girl students refused to remove their abaya at schools, the French education minister said on Tuesday. Gabriel Attal said in an interview with RMC that the abaya, a loose full-length robe worn by Muslim women as a sign of modesty, was recently banned in schools due to the […]
