A video of Indian policemen beating Muslim women advocating for wearing the hijab in school revived the controversy on Wednesday. The footage has been circulating on social media, and was broadcast by the local NDTV channel. It shows a group of women with their faces covered being approached by police before being struck by long […]
Three Kashmiri students have spent more than three months in jail now for celebrating the Pakistani cricket team’s win over India. Their families have appealed for their release as they struggle to bail them out. Arsheed Yousuf, Inayat Altaf and Showkat Ahmad Ganai — all in their early 20s — were arrested last October on […]
The hearing of the Rohingya genocide case at the International Court of Justice or ICJ is set to begin Monday in the Hague. Members of the persecuted Muslim minority have growing concerns over allowing Burma’s ruling military junta to participate in court proceedings. They believe it would be tantamount to supporting decades of killings and [...
An Uyghur high school principal in northwestern China’s Xinjiang region is serving 18 years in prison for inviting two Uyghur scholars to give presentations. Sherep Heyit is principal of No. 6 High School in Korla, the second-largest city in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. It has been three or four years since Heyit disappeared, accordi...
After seeing an anti-Muslim tweet by New Jersey state Sen. Ed Durr, Selaedin Maksut set out to explain Islam to the Republican lawmaker. Maksut, who heads the Council on American-Islamic Relations’ New Jersey chapter, didn’t expect anything would come of the meeting with Durr late last year. But surprisingly, Durr became an ally helping garner...
A Columbus, Ohio Imam who was found dead in a vehicle last December died from multiple gunshot wounds including one to the head, autopsy results show. They note that Mohamed Adam was shot in the left side of his head, his left chest/neck, left side near his abdomen, left leg and his right hand. Adam […]
Dearborn, Michigan police fatally shot a man Saturday after he allegedly started a fire at a mosque and shot at law enforcement officers. The incident stemmed from a shooting in Detroit, the police chief told The Detroit News. At 1:18 a.m., Dearborn officers on patrol observed a fire at the Al-Huda Islamic Association on the […]
Sweden is seeking to discredit Muslim parents’ claims on social media that Swedish social service agencies kidnap Muslim children. The government said Friday the allegations are false, as well as “seriously misleading and aim to create tensions and spread mistrust.” The Swedish Foreign Ministry said “all children in Sweden are protected and ca...
Unknown vandals painted a swastika Wednesday on one of the doors of a mosque in Germany, according to a Muslim group. Turgut Ulker from Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs said similar attacks on mosques in Dortmund were carried out last month. These have increased recently and are worrisome to the Muslim community. Ulker demanded auth...
A court in a southern Indian state told Muslim students on Thursday not to wear hijab until it delivers a verdict on their petitions. The students had requested the court overturn a ban on hijabs or headscarves worn by Muslim women. The Supreme Court of India on Friday declined to hear the case. Hijab protests […]
