Indian Muslims are facing a more difficult time now than ever before over religious traditions, said a leader of the All India Muslim Personal Law Board. He compared the current persecution of Indian Muslims to that of 1857 when the British violently suppressed the freedom movement. Board General Secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani urg...
Chinese authorities in Xinjiang are restricting the number of Muslims allowed to observe fasting in Ramadan. The move has drawn heavy criticism from rights groups. For years, Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims have been prohibited from fully observing Ramadan in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region known to Uyghurs as Eastern Turkestan. That in...
On Saturday, France’s interior minister denounced racist comments, defending his greetings to French Muslims commemorating the start of Ramadan. Gerald Darmanin condemned the “ordinary racism” of people for his April 1 tweet wishing all Muslims in France a “happy Ramadan.” The controversial French Minister has announced shutting down 92 mosque...
PARIS (AA) – France’s interior minister has defended his greetings to French Muslims commemorating the beginning of the holy month of Ramadan. Gerald Darmanin took to social media to post a message condemning “ordinary racism” for his tweet April 1 that wished all Muslims in France a “happy Ramadan.” “...
ROTTERDAM – An Islamophobic Dutch group is planning to hold deliberately provocative barbecues near mosques over the next several weeks, coinciding with the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in which most believers fast from pre-morning to sunset. According to PEGIDA, standing for “Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of West,” the barbecu...
Right-wing Israeli Knesset member Itamar Ben-Gvir Thursday stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem under tight police protection. A Palestinian agency said Ben-Gvir breached the site after Israeli police agreed to allow him to tour the complex ahead of the start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan. The Islamic Endowments D...
Indian media professionals have appealed to institutions to uphold their constitutional mandate amid open calls for attacks on religious minorities, especially Muslims. In an open letter, they wrote “The concerted amplification of hatred has been growing over the past years and months.” Some groups have advocated violence during elections, pol...
Authorities in Bahrain’s capital Manama shut down an Indian restaurant after it denied entry to a woman wearing the hijab. Video footage of restaurant staff barring a veiled woman from the restaurant in the Muslim-majority country went viral on social media causing outrage. On Friday, the friend of the woman in question explained what happened...
A member of the Karnataka legislative council in India called the banning of Muslims from conducting business on temple grounds “illogical.” Senior leader of India’s ruling BJP party H. Vishwanath said the government should break its silence and take action against temple authorities. He said the state of Karnataka is moving in the wrong direc...
A rise in anti-Islam rhetoric in the French presidential election campaign risks creating a “spiral of hatred,” the rector of a Paris mosque said. Chems-eddine Hafiz, the rector of Paris’s historic Grande Mosquée, said law-abiding Muslims are being scapegoated just like Jews were vilified in the 1930s. He also said French society is weakened ...
