ANKARA (AA) – France’s far-right politician Marine Le Pen has demanded more mosques be closed in the country. Her demand comes despite the closure of 24 mosques in France in the past two years upon the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. In an interview with French TV channel BFMTV, Marine Le Pen said: “He […]
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – A mosque in Germany was subjected to an Islamophobic attack. Last Saturday, Islamophobic slurs and derogatory words about Prophet Muhammad were written on the wall of the mosque affiliated with the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DITIB) in the western city of Offenbach. In a statement, police urged ey...
Paris, France (AFP): Facebook must pay reparations to the Muslim Rohingya who were forced from their homes in Myanmar after a brutal genocide by the Myanmar military. In a damning report by Amnesty International, it has been brought to light that the onslaught against the Muslim Rohingyas was fired by intense hate, exacerbated by rampant [&hel...
PARIS (AA) – France announced it will close another mosque, accusing the imam of being radicalized, according to media reports Wednesday. The Interior Ministry has started the process of closing the Obernai Mosque in the Bas-Rhin area, according to French BFM TV and Le Figaro. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said on Twitter that 23 “separati...
NEW DELHI (AA) – India’s investigating agencies on Tuesday conducted several raids in the capital New Delhi and other parts of the country, detaining dozens of people associated with the Popular Front of India (PFI), a Muslim organization, over alleged terror links, police said. Today’s raids have come days after India’s Nati...
RAMALLAH, Palestine (AA) – The Israeli army has closed the flashpoint Ibrahimi Mosque in the West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers. The move comes as Israelis celebrate the Jewish New Year on Monday. “The Israeli army prevented the call for prayer from the mosque and made it off-limits to Muslim worshippers,” mosque director [&h...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An ongoing survey of madrassas (Islamic schools) in the populous Indian state of Uttar Pradesh is being criticized by many Muslim representatives, with political parties alleging that the move is aimed at harassing the Muslim community in the country. The local ruling Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) recently ordered a survey of [&...
ANKARA (AA) – Islamophobia remains a growing threat across Europe, with several countries enacting policies that have contributed to the institutionalization of an issue that should instead be stamped out with urgency, a new report has warned. According to the European Islamophobia Report 2021, Islamophobia is still “as pressing a problem” acr...
NEW DELHI (AA) – Indian investigation agencies arrested 45 people associated with a Muslim organization in “anti-terror” raids across the country on Thursday, officials said. The National Investigation Agency (NIA) and the Enforcement Directorate (ED) conducted a joint search operation across the country against the Popular Front o...
NEW DELHI (AA) – An Indian court on Monday admitted for hearing a petition by a group of Hindus to allow them to pray inside a historic 17th-century Gyanvapi Mosque in the ancient city of Varanasi. Gyanvapi Mosque, adjacent to the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, has been at the center of an ongoing legal battle in […]
