AMSTERDAM (AA) – A far-right Dutch politician, and leader of the Islamophobic group Pegida, tore out pages from a copy of the Quran in The Hague, the administrative capital of the Netherlands, on Sunday. Edwin Wagensveld shared a video of his provocative act on Twitter which took place in front of the parliamentary building in […]
ANKARA (AA) – Marginalizing Muslims as being somehow “not French” serves to stoke hatred and is “intolerable,” according to France’s justice minister. “Saying that Muslims are not as French as others is intolerable,” Eric Dupond-Moretti told the media, criticizing remarks by controversial French writer Michel Houellebec...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Miffed by vile Islamophobia from locals as well as apathy and inaction by local authorities, a human rights group in South Korea has appealed to the UN to help construct a mosque for the Muslim community. The appeal comes after local residents in the southeastern city of Daegu blocked the construction of […]
ANKARA (AA) – Australian Test cricketer Usman Khawaja has revealed that he had been harassed for being Muslim. After cricket writer Bharat Sundaresan complained on Twitter about security personnel at cricket venues around Australia stopping him and questioning his credentials several times, Khawaja replied with his own experience. “...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) has refused to investigate false documents alleging a Muslim charity was financing terrorism although some of the false paperwork included phony RCMP search warrants, the Canadian Press has reported. The RCMP told the Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) it should take concern...
BERLIN (AA) – The German government will take resolute measures to combat Islamophobia, Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said on Wednesday. Faeser delivered a speech at the German Islam Conference, a forum for dialogue between authorities and the representatives of the Muslim community. “Many people face racism each and every day in German...
ANKARA (AA) – On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the demolition of the historic Indian Babri Masjid by a fanatical Hindu mob, India’s prominent Muslim leaders said that December 6 will forever remain a “Black Day” for Indian democracy. On December 6, 1992, the 16th-century Babri Mosque in the northern Indian city of […]
STOCKHOLM (AA) – A desecrated Quran was left Friday near the entrance to a mosque in Stockholm in an Islamophobic attack. Images shared by the Stockholm Mosque show the damaged holy book of the Muslims chained up and hanging from an iron railing outside the mosque. The mosque said in a statement that it and […]
BERLIN (AA) – Muslim gravestones were vandalized in northern Germany, the head of an Islamic association said Tuesday. “We have received some visuals showing that some Muslim gravestones in the Stocken Cemetery in the city northern state of Lower Saxony’s city of Hannover were vandalized,” the leader of the Shura Association, Recep Bilge...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Rishi Sunak, Britain’s new prime minister, is guilty of using discriminatory rhetoric against Muslims, and under his government, “more discrimination” awaits Muslims, says a British political scientist. Suella Braverman, Sunak’s choice for home secretary, came under fire late last month after branding people seeking...
