ROME (AA) – A controversial law proposed by Italy’s ruling far-right coalition has raised concerns among the country’s Muslim community. The proposed law aims to close hundreds of Islamic prayer spaces. Both the country’s 2.5 million Muslims and the opposition are running up a storm against the law. The bill, presented by Pri...
NEW DELHI, India: Two Muslim youths were reportedly lynched by a Hindu mob for carrying meat in their car in the western Indian state of Maharashtra. One of the two, 25-year-old Afan Abdul Majeed Ansari, succumbed to his injuries in hospital. The other, Ghulam Hussain Qureshi, remains in critical condition. According to local media reports, [...
WASHINGTON – Thousands of elderly Uyghurs have been detained in China’s Xinjiang region since 2016, according to Uyghur activists. They say that many of those detained have died in custody, often without their families being notified. Those who survived were subjected to forced labor, political indoctrination, and cultural oppress...
GENEVA (AA) – A study shows that the housing market in the Central European country of Austria is affected by racial discrimination. A study commissioned by the Ombud for Equal Treatment (GAW) found that Muslims are particularly affected by discrimination. The authors of the study responded to 157 housing advertisements in the Austrian c...
ISTANBUL (AA): The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has “strongly condemned” the desecration of the Muslim holy book by Israeli settlers who vandalized a mosque in the town of Urif in the occupied West Bank. “This barbaric and disgraceful act” was a clear attack on the sacred values of Islam and targeted the feelings […]...
Sitapur, India (AFP): Staged videos to stoke hatred and fear of India’s Muslims are peddling disinformation and fanning sectarian tensions in the country. India under Hindu nationalist prime minister Narendra Modi has seen rising Hindu radicalisation and Islamophobia, putting the safety of the country’s over 200 million Muslims at ...
BERLIN (AA): The number of unreported Islamophobic attacks in Germany is increasing due to a growing distrust of authorities, a Muslim community leader in the capital Berlin has warned. There were 124 attacks on Muslims and mosques across Germany in just the first 90 days of 2023, an alarming average of more than one a […]
ISTANBUL (AA): Muslim groups in Australia have expressed concern over a bill prohibiting the use of an Islamic inscription that the ISIS also carried on their flags. The inscription which came to be associated with the ISIS group, consists of words that formed part of the seal used by the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon […]
ATHENS (AA): A French citizen tore down a copy of the Quran at a mosque in Greece’s Western Thrace, representatives of the region’s local Turkish minority said Thursday. Upon a complaint filed by locals who witnessed the provocative act in the Iskece (Xanthi) province’s Ilica Kaplicalar (Ano Thermai) village, the French citizen was held ...
NEW DELHI (AA): A school in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh faced administrative action and was de-recognized for allegedly forcing non-Muslim girls to wear hijabs or headscarves. State Home Minister Narottam Mishra, while talking to journalists in the capital Bhopal on Wednesday, warned that action will continue against the school ...
