On Tuesday, France’s highest administrative court upheld a ban on the burkini under a new “secularism framework”. It prohibits women from wearing the full-length swimwear in public pools. The Council of State confirmed the suspension of the internal regulations of the swimming pools passed in May by the city of Grenoble. The city had authoriz...
PARIS (AA) – The highest administrative court in France has upheld a ban on the ‘burkini’ under a new “secularism framework.” The ‘burkini’ is a full-body swimming costume that allows Muslim women to participate in the sport while observing the religious commandment for modest covering. The ban will effectively pr...
Al-Azhar University, the top Sunni Islamic Institution in the world, is calling for enacting a new law to protect mosques and confront Islamophobia. The Al-Azhar Observatory for Combating Extremism said there is an urgent need to enact a new law guaranteeing protection of mosques and criminalizing Islamophobia. This call comes amid rising hate...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The International Union for Muslim Scholars (IUMS) has called for enacting a law to ban insults against religions and sanctities. In a statement, the Doha-based group said it will dispatch a delegation of Muslim scholars to Islamic countries for talks on the increasing verbal attacks against Islam. IUMS said it will ask [&helli...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – A Bangladeshi lawyer reportedly posted a derogatory social media comment about the Holy Prophet Muhammad (SAW) on Wednesday. The Facebook post went viral on social media amid outrage in the South Asian Muslim-majority nation against insulting comments about the prophet from two officials of India’s ruling B...
COLOGNE, Germany (AA) – More than 800 mosques in Germany have been the targets of threats and attacks since 2014, but in most of the cases, the crimes were not properly investigated, according to Brandeilig, an initiative of rights group FAIR International. The group, which has founded Germany’s first reporting center for attacks on mosques, [...
KARACHI, Pakistan (AA) – The general secretary of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) spoke by phone on Sunday June 12 with Pakistan’s foreign minister on the rising tide of Islamophobia in India, particularly the recent insulting remarks made by two spokespersons for India’s ruling party against Islam’s Prophet Muhammad ...
ISLAMABAD (AA): Pakistan has urged the UN General Assembly to take notice of the recent insulting remarks against Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) by two officials of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari spoke with the President of the UN General Assembly Abdulla Shahid over phone and apprise...
PARIS (AA) – The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance on Thursday called on Denmark to urgently address anti-Muslim discrimination and racism against minorities and stop forced evictions of immigrant families. In a monitoring report, the commission urged Danish authorities to introduce a national action plan against racism ...
BAKU (AA) – Azerbaijan summoned Thursday the Indian envoy over insulting remarks on Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) by officials of India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). Last week, ruling party spokesperson Nupur Sharma and Naveen Kumar Jindal, the BJP’s Delhi media head, made insulting remarks about the prophet, trigge...
