ISTANBUL (AA): Iran on Friday said it would not accept Sweden’s next ambassador to Tehran or send its own envoy to Stockholm after the most recent Quran burning in the Nordic country. “Upon the conclusion of the Swedish envoy’s tenure in Tehran, we will refrain from receiving his successor until there is a decisive action [&h...
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AA): Members of an Islamophobic group in Denmark burned a copy of the Holy Quran on Friday. The ultranationalist group called Danske Patrioter burned the holy book in front of Iraq’s Embassy in Copenhagen. They also carried a banner with insulting slogans about Islam before stomping on the Iraqi flag and a copy [&hel...
WASHINGTON – Former President Donald Trump’s 2017 ban on Muslims entering the country continues to affect family reunifications. Although the ban was lifted when President Joe Biden took office in 2021, the additional vetting requirements are still causing delays in processing refugee cases. Delays worsened when embassies around t...
BAGHDAD (AA): Followers of Muqtada al-Sadr in Iraq rallied against the desecration of the Quran in Sweden after Friday prayers. Hundreds of people carried the Muslim holy book to protest against the attack on the Quran in Sweden’s capital Stockholm. Early Thursday morning, a crowd of Iraqis stormed Sweden’s Embassy in Baghdad and set it [&hell...
NEW YORK (AA): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed solidarity with the worldwide Muslim community Thursday in his meeting with the Ambassadorial Group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Guterres condemned acts of intolerance, violence and Islamophobia, which exacerbate tensions and contribute to discrimination and ra...
LONDON – After a U.K.-based campaign group CAGE testified about the persecution of Muslims in France, its executive director Muhammad Rabbani was reportedly harassed. The French government barred Rabbani from entering France and detained him for nearly 24 hours. CAGE has been monitoring government policies in France that directly impac...
TORONTO (AA): Disrespect for holy books and places of worship is “unacceptable,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday, in response to the desecration of the Quran in Sweden. “What we need is mutual respect. I think we’ve been very clear that the desecration of holy books, the desecration of places of worship ...
HARTFORD, Connecticut – Muslim lawmaker Maryam Khan, who was attacked last month outside a prayer hall has alleged that police was downplaying the assault. She was attacked by 30-year-old Andrey Desmond outside a prayer service in Hartford, the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Desmond was previously charged with assault, trespassing ...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): A man stomped on the Quran outside Iraq’s embassy in Stockholm on Thursday but did not ignite the book, AFP saw, hours after protesters stormed Sweden’s Baghdad embassy over a possible burning of the Muslim holy book. Salwan Momika, 37, stomped and kicked the holy book but left the protest without burning [...
NEW YORK (AA): Protesters in Iraq stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire early Thursday over the burning of the Quran. Videos circulating online showed hundreds of protesters breaching Sweden’s embassy and waving flags and chanting. Smoke was rising from the embassy building, according to an Anadolu reporter in Iraq. T...
