PODGORICA, Montenegro – In the southeastern European country of Montenegro, two incidents targeting Muslims in religious dress occurred in quick succession this month. First, a Kuwaiti woman wearing an Islamic headscarf and her family were pelted with an alcoholic drink from a hotel balcony in Budva. Two days later, a man insulted a teen...
LONDON – The former British ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Sherard Cowper-Coles, has been accused of racism. Cowper-Coles, who now holds a senior position at HSBC, is alleged to have commented to Oxford students that the “Arab mind is empty.” The former diplomat made his comments in an impromptu speech welcoming students to the ...
TEL AVIV, Israel – In a shocking incident that has drawn international attention, a Muslim passenger was subjected to an emotionally charged encounter with airline staff after a harrowing security ordeal. The incident occurred at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv and involved United Airlines. Video footage has surfaced on social media showi...
ALGERIA (AA) – Algeria has said that Denmark’s foreign minister apologized for a recent string of hate crimes directed against the Quran by far-right extremists in front of the diplomatic missions of several Muslim nations, including Algeria’s. During a phone call with his Algerian counterpart Ahmed Attaf, Lars Lokke Rasmusse...
ISTANBUL (AA) – In Fisksatra, a quiet suburb in the Nacka municipality just outside Stockholm, Muslims and Christians have coexisted peacefully for years. Together, they have held “peace prayers,” organized cultural festivals, and even planned to establish their houses of worship next to one another. That spirit has been put to the test by the...
NEW DELHI, India – Following recent communal riots in the outskirts of the Indian capital, New Delhi, far-right Hindu organizations have called for an economic boycott of Muslim businesses and the expulsion of Muslims from villages. Six people were killed in the riots, including two security guards. In the high-tech satellite city of Gur...
-Perpetrators chanted anti-Islamic slogans during provocative act, which took place under police protection COPENHAGEN, Denmark – Members of the ultranationalist group, Danske Patrioter, or Danish Patriots, burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen. The group then proceeded to burn another copy of the Qura...
-Resolution sought support of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s bill to establish State Department office to monitor Islamophobia. WASHINGTON – The largest association of lawyers in the U.S. has condemned Islamophobia and called on the U.N. and the American Congress to take action to combat anti-Muslim sentiments. A resolution passed by t...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA): Attacks on the Muslim holy book, the Quran, continued on Friday by Danish anti-Islamic and ultranationalist group “Danske Patrioter” (Danish Patriots) despite wide-ranging condemnation. Members of the group burned copies of the Quran in front of the Pakistani, Algerian, Indonesian, and Moroccan embassies, ...
LONDON – An international coalition of more than 35 civil rights groups has called on British global news service Reuters to end its partnership with India’s Asia News International (ANI). They accuse ANI of being complicit in Islamophobic reporting and spreading propaganda unleashed by Hindu nationalists. In a letter to Reuters and its ...
