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 ...
WASHINGTON (AA): A report by a Muslim group in the US has revealed that the overwhelming majority of entries on an FBI watchlist — a whopping 98% — are Muslim names. The report, titled “Twenty Years Too Many, A Call to Stop the FBI’s Secret Watchlist,” details the FBI’s use of the Terrorism Screening Database, […...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA): A Muslim student was insulted by a university professor in Germany because she was wearing a headscarf, her lawyer said on Monday. The incident occurred during an economics class at the campus of the Bonn-Rhein-Sieg university in northwestern Germany. The professor used slurs and even compared the Muslim woman’s headscar...
ATHENS (AA): A right-wing coalition party in the Italian government led by Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has prepared a draft law intended to ban Muslim prayer spaces outside of mosques. The bill proposed by the Brothers of Italy (FdI) party, which is currently being debated in the parliament’s environment committee, aims to prohibit the...
TORONTO (AA): Three Democratic lawmakers have reintroduced the “Combating International Islamophobia Bill” legislation to US Congress to address the staggering rise in incidents of Islamophobia worldwide. Minnesota Representative Ilhan Omar, New Jersey Senator Cory Booker and Illinois Representative Jan Schakowsky signed the bill, ...
TRENTON, Canada (AA): It’s been two years since four members of a Pakistani-origin family was killed in London, a small city, 200 kilometers southwest of Toronto. It was a pleasant Sunday evening when the Afzaal family ventured out for a leisurely stroll. What was meant to be some quality family time ended in horror – […]
