MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin – Two women are charged with hate crimes after they were caught on video attacking two women wearing hijabs in Milwaukee, a city in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. The victims said they believed they were attacked because of their appearance. The incident occurred July 30 in Cathedral Square Park. The victims said [&hel...
GENEVA (AA): Recent “reckless” attacks on Islam’s holy book, the Quran, in Denmark and Sweden are “individual” provocations, the EU said on Thursday. “The EU has always been clear that manifestations of racism, xenophobia, and related intolerance have no place in Europe,” Nabila Massrali, the EU spokesperson...
LONDON – The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) has accused banks of closing the accounts of British Muslims without proper transparency and redress. The MCB said that individuals and organizations from the community were disproportionately affected by this problem. The organization expressed deep concern about this practice. The organizati...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA) – Members of the ultranationalist group known as Danske Patrioter (Danish Patriots) continued the desecration of Muslims’ holy book, the Quran, for the third consecutive day on Wednesday in Denmark’s capital Copenhagen, as they burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy for the second day in...
BERLIN (AA): The number of politically motivated attacks on refugee shelters in Germany has steadily increased since the beginning of last year, with 80 crimes reported in the first half of this year, mostly involving far-right activists as perpetrators and migrant Muslims from Afro-Asian origin as the victims. Following a parliamentary inquir...
NEW DELHI, India – The Indian capital, New Delhi, was placed on high alert following communal clashes in its vicinity. Six fatalities have been confirmed in Nuh district in Haryana state, which borders New Delhi. A mob attacked a mosque in the satellite town of Gurugram. In the incident, 19-year-old deputy imam Hafiz Saad was […]
OSLO, Norway – A Uyghur woman has been arrested by Chinese security forces for complaining about her son’s long prison sentence. The woman, named Rahile Jalalidin, was arrested in Urumqi, the capital of the Xinjiang Autonomous Region in China’s far northwest. Her son, Zulyar Yasin, was sentenced to 15 years in prison for traveling ...
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (AFP): The Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) has voiced outright “disappointment” with the response by Sweden and Denmark to acts of desecration of the Holy Quran. Secretary-general Hissein Brahim Taha called on both countries to prevent the desecration of the Quran and “expressed his disappointme...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): Sweden’s government has said that it intends to “intensify” border controls due to worsening security situation in the wake of several instances of the desecration of the Holy Quran. Tensions have flared between Sweden and Muslim countries following several offensive incidents of the public desecratio...
GENEVA (AA): Members of Danske Patrioter, an Islamophobic and extreme nationalist group, on Tuesday burned a copy of the Holy Quran in front of the Turkish Embassy in Copenhagen. The group members chanted slogans against Islam and live-streamed their act on social media. They also burned the holy book in front of the embassies of […]