PARIS (AA) – A French court has suspended the expulsion of an imam accused by the Interior Ministry of disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-gender equality messages. In its decision, the administrative court of Paris said the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan national born in France, would constitute a “disproportionate attack” on...
LONDON (AA) – Rishi Sunak, one of the main contenders to become the British prime minister, has been criticized over his proposals to strengthen the government’s anti-terror strategy. Sunak’s plans, which include expanding the definition of extremism and vilifying individuals who are critical of the UK foreign policy, has been described by a f...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Education Minister George Magoha met Muslim leaders in Kenya and NTV journalist Rukia Bulle to apologize for his offensive racist and Islamophobic remarks. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) chair Hassan Ole Naado were among Muslim leaders present...
ANKARA (AA) – Muslim women wearing headscarf for religious reasons face more discrimination than others when applying for jobs in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, revealed a survey conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Oxford University in the UK, and the German Center for ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has slammed Greece’s decision of closing more schools belonging to the Muslim Turkish minority in Western Thrace as religious discrimination. “Discrimination is rule in Greece,” Tanju Bilgic, the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. Sharing some numbers about the Turkish minority in Western ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against a French restaurant in Paris over racism charges. Three Black women of African descent were not let in the Manko Restaurant near the Champs-Elysees Street in Paris on the grounds that they did not dress up in evening clothes, Le Parisien reported. After...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Myanmar’s preliminary objections in a Rohingya genocide case brought by Gambia. In its judgment, which is final and without appeal, the ICJ unanimously rejected the first, second, and third preliminary objections raised and the fourth objection with one dissenting ...
ANKARA (AA) – Over a decade has passed since the Oslo terror attack in which a far-right Norwegian extremist, inspired by anti-Muslim hate in a quest to “save” European culture, killed eight people with a bomb and shot dead another 69 at a youth camp. Anders Breivik began the carnage of July 22, 2011 with […]
SARAJEVO (AA) – It has been 14 years since Karadzic, one of those responsible for the 1992-1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, was captured in Serbia’s capital Belgrade, but not before executing the most well-documented and widely known genocide and crimes against humanity in Europe after World War II. Karadzic was held responsible...
BELGRADE, Serbia (AA) – Bosnia and Herzegovina bade farewell to 16 more victims identified to have been killed in the Prijedor massacre. The 16 newly identified Bosniak Muslim civilians who were killed in the Bosnian war by Serbian forces between 1992 and 1995 were buried in a collective funeral at the Kamicani Memorial Center. At [&hell...
