PARIS – The Islamic headscarf has emerged as a major polarizing issue during the presidential election for allegedly being antithetical to France’s fundamental value of secularism. The veil, or headscarf, has always been a highly charged issue for the French political class and a compulsive phobia for the French right. It has been called...
PARIS – A man will stand trial in France for assaulting two Muslim women who were wearing headscarves, according to the women’s attorney. Lawyer Nabil Boudi said that the suspect will face charges at the Montpellier Criminal Court on September 14. The alleged assailant will face charges in court for temporarily preventing the two w...
PARIS- France’s Council of State has postponed until next week the verdict in the case of the Pessac Mosque in the Gironde department of southwestern France, which is threatened with closure for allegedly conveying a “Salafist ideology.” More than 100 faithful Muslims gathered to show their support to the mosque. Defense lawyer Sefen Guez Guez...
On Friday, an Indian Central Bureau of Investigation court directed former Amnesty International India chief Aakar Patel not to leave the country without its permission. The Indian government has sanctioned the CBI’s prosecution of Amnesty International. Under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act, an association cannot be prosecuted withou...
On Thursday, the Danish leader of a far-right party burned a copy of the Quran in a heavily-populated Muslim area in Sweden. According to media reports, Rasmus Paludan, head of the Stram Kurs party, placed the Muslim holy book down in a public square in the city of Linkoping and burned it. He was accompanied […]
Hundreds of Indian police officers demolished Muslim homes with bulldozers in a small Muslim neighbourhood in Khargone city, the BBC reported. Several Muslim homes and shops are being torn down in Madhya Pradesh. Aakar Patel, chair of Amnesty International India’s board, said such punitive demolition could amount to collective punishment in vi...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – The Danish leader of the far-right Stram Kurs (Hard Line) party burned a copy of the Holy Quran on Thursday in a heavily-populated Muslim area in Sweden, according to media reports. Rasmus Paludan, accompanied by police, went to an open public space in southern Linkoping and placed the Muslim holy book down […]
KARACHI, Pakistan – Thousands of Pakistanis formed a human chain to commend the UN for declaring March 15 as International Day to Combat Islamophobia. The event took place in the Jhang district of the northeastern Punjab province under the umbrella of the Muslim Institute, an Islamabad-based think tank, which has long been voicing concer...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Unlawful demolition of properties owned by Muslims in India could “amount to collective punishment,” a global rights group said on Thursday. Amnesty International called for a “thorough, impartial and transparent investigation” into “reports of demolition of largely Muslim-owned shops and houses following incidents of communal ...
TRENTON, Canada – Canada’s largest Muslim charitable organization has launched a court challenge, saying the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) probe into its affairs is rife with Islamophobia. The Muslim Association of Canada (MAC) wants the CRA audit stopped because it is unfairly “tainted by systemic bias and Islamophobia...
