LONDON (AA) – Clashes between the police and rioters in Sweden’s third-largest city Malmo continued on Monday after another incident of desecration of the Muslim holy book, according to the Swedish police. Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said at a press conference that the events in Malmo were “terrible.” “These are pa...
GENEVA (AA) – Unknown Islamophobic extremists left a severed pig’s head at the entrance of a mosque in the Austrian city of Graz on Sunday. According to a media report, a local resident notified police at around 9:40 p.m. Sunday evening, stating that the entrance area of the mosque had been damaged. Police found the […]
This is latest in series of Quran burnings in Sweden that have been condemned by religious leaders and human rights groups STOCKHOLM, Sweden – Swedish police on Sunday arrested 15 people who tried to stop Salwan Momika from burning a copy of the Muslim holy book. The incident occurred in a Muslim-majority area of Malmoe […]
PARIS (AA) – A rights watchdog in France has challenged the government’s ‘abaya’ dress ban in schools at the Council of State, the country’s highest court, a lawyer said. The abaya is a full-length dress worn by some Muslim women for religious reasons. Vincent Brengarth, the lawyer for the Muslim Rights Action (ADM), said on ...
ANKARA (AA) – The French president on Friday vowed that the government will be uncompromising on the overgarment ban in schools. Emmanuel Macron visited a high school in the town of Orange, southern France, where he made comments on the ban on wearing abaya, an overgarment worn by Muslim girls and women, at school. “Schools […]
– Despite sparking condemnation, affecting Sweden’s image negatively, anti-Islamic firebrand continues desecrations of Muslim holy book LONDON (AA) — Salwan Momika, an Iraqi refugee living in Stockholm, has recently been making headlines over his repeated acts of desecration of the Quran causing a diplomatic row between many Muslim...
– Some 50.2% answered ‘yes’, 35% said ‘no’ and 14.8% did not know, says pollster COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – At least half of Denmark supports a recent government proposal that intends to make Quran burning an illegal act, revealed a survey. With a sample size of 1,000 people, the survey, conducted recently by Voxm...
An estimated 900,000 to 1.8 million Uyghurs and other Muslim groups have been detained in high security camps GENEVA, Switzerland – A U.N. group has found more evidence of forced disappearances of Uighurs in China’s Xinjiang autonomous region. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has said that China has intensified ...
Students wearing abaya will not be allowed in class from Sept. 4, says education minister ANKARA (AA) – The new school year begins in France on Monday with a ban on abayas, a loose-fitting garment worn by some Muslim girls. Education Minister Gabriel Attal said that female students wearing an abaya would be allowed to […]
Increase in public support comes as government looking to discuss regulation that would prevent provocative acts of targeting Muslim holy book STOCKHOLM (AA) – Swedes who want a ban to be introduced for burning the Quran and other holy books have increased to 53%, two points higher than the previous poll. The latest survey was […]
