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 ...
SACRAMENTO, California – A sex offender in California has been arrested and charged with a hate crime for threatening Muslims. He allegedly shouted racial slurs in a park and threatened to “shoot and bomb” Muslims. The man, Robert Avery, also allegedly tried to run people over in the park with his car. No one was […]
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – Mosques across Germany are facing an increase in vandalism, harassment and threats, Muslim community leaders told Anadolu on Wednesday. Kemal Ergun, president of the Turkish-Muslim group IGMG, said more mosques have received threatening letters in recent weeks, signed with the neo-Nazi alias “NSU 2.0.” “We will not get ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Prisoners in Guantanamo Bay are detained unlawfully by the US government which denies them the right to fair trial, and fails to protect them from sexual, physical and psychological abuse, a lawyer said. Lawyer Anas Mustapha, who is in charge of the Guantanamo project of CAGE, a London-based non-governmental organization (NGO) ...
COPENHAGEN (AA): A Danish anti-Islamic and ultranationalist group burned the holy Quran on Wednesday. Members of the Danske Patrioter, or Danish Patriots, burned copies of the Muslim holy book in front of the Turkish, Pakistani, Algerian, Indonesian and Iranian embassies in Copenhagen. The provocations, in which anti-Islamic slogans were shout...
STOCKHOLM, Sweeden – In response to burning of Quran the Muslim community in Sweden have tried to shift the focus away from the abusers. Instead, they have tried to focus on friendly dialog with the media, onlookers, and police. One of those community members, Husam El Gomati, was seen handing out expensive chocolates and laughing [&hell...
