NEW YORK (AA) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump has promised to reinstate the controversial Muslim travel ban if he is elected to office in 2024. In a speech to his supporters in Iowa, he said he had instituted strict security vetting and imposed a strong entry ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists […]
ADEN, Yemen (AA): Yemen’s Houthi rebels have banned the sale of Swedish goods in areas under their control over the burning of Islam’s holy book, the Quran. “The Houthis will boycott Swedish goods due to insults against the sacred values of Islam,” Minister of Industry and Trade Muhammad Sharaf al-Mutahhar told the Houthi-run Al-Masirah televi...
NEW YORK (AA): Former US President Donald Trump said Friday he would bring back his controversial Muslim travel ban if elected in 2024. “Under the Trump administration, we imposed extreme vetting and put on a powerful travel ban to keep radical Islamic terrorists and jihadists out of our country,” Trump told supporters in the state...
PARIS (AA): A court in France rejected a request Friday to overturn a controversial burkini ban on beaches in Mandelieu-la-Napoule. The request by the Human Rights League France was rejected by the Nice Administrative Court on grounds that the municipality’s decision was aimed at preventing disruption of public order. Mandelieu-la-Napoul...
ISTANBUL (AA): Last week’s fatal police shooting of 17-year-old Muslim of Algerian descent Nahel M. has shed light on the wider issue of systemic racism in French society. According to a researcher, the malaise is deeply rooted in the country’s colonial past and continues to permeate its institutions. Police and other law enforcers have system...
MOSCOW (AA): The Russian Investigative Committee has said that it has opened a criminal case against a 28-year-old Egyptian citizen after he published an offensive video showing the desecration of the Quran. In a statement on its website, the committee’s office in Russia’s city of Ulyanovsk said the man, who videotaped himself whil...
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan/ ISTANBUL (AA): Thousands of people marched across Pakistan on Friday against the recent desecration of a copy of the Quran in Sweden. The South Asian Muslim nation observed “Youm-e-Taqaddus-e-Quran”, or ‘Quran Sanctity Day.’ Demonstrations and rallies were organized in major cities, including Karach...
NEW DEHLHI, India – An Indian court on Wednesday sentenced 10 men for 10 years in jail for lynching a Muslim man four years ago. Tabrez Ansari, 24, was beaten to death by a Hindu mob in the eastern state of Jharkhand in 2019. The convicts, who accused Ansari of theft, had tied the 22-year-old […]
ANKARA (AA) – The 57-member bloc of Islamic countries has called for the use of art and media to combat Islamophobia. A meeting of the grouping’s broadcasting union stressed the need to improve understanding of the use of freedom of expression in the media. Wahid Ali Sindi, director of information for the Organization of Islamic [&hellip...
LONDON (AA) – The shooting of a 17-year-old by police in a Paris suburb and subsequent protests raised concerns about institutional racism in France, experts say. The teenager, Nahel, was of Algerian and Moroccan descent. Salman Sayyid, a professor at the University of Leeds, said the shooting was a sign of institutional Islamophobia and racis...
