French President Emmanuel Macron’s government on Saturday introduced a new agency to reshape Islam as part of efforts to rid France of extremism. The French government-appointed clergy and lay people will make up the leadership of the Forum of Islam in France. The French government shut down 92 mosques in 2021. Supporters say it will […...
When 33-year-old Syrian native Ahmad won the diversity lottery and a chance to get a visa to the United States in May 2018, he was in disbelief. It was his third attempt applying for the Diversity Visa Program, which gives up to 50,000 people a chance to apply for a U.S. green card every year. […]
Hundreds of people protested Saturday in Istanbul as human rights organizations gathered outside the Greek consulate. They carried signs and banners, and chanted slogans. Representatives of human rights groups criticized Greece’s refugee policy. Kenan Alpay, Deputy Chairman of the humanitarian group Ozgur-Der, said they gathered to protest th...
Weary of the civil war at home, a Yemeni family attempted to cross into Europe through Greece to a tragic end. But one family member was lost at sea after Greek coast guard units threw him into the Mediterranean Sea. The family — husband and wife, Mahgdi Kalla and Fatima Mahmud, along with their cousin, […]
Britain’s largest Muslim group on Thursday called on everyone involved in the Beijing Winter Olympics to raise awareness about the plight of the Uyghur people. About three million Uyghurs have been forcibly detained at internment camps and subjected to torture, rape, mass sterilization, and forced labour, the Muslim Council of Britain said. Th...
Republican Oklahoma City mayoral candidate Carol Hefner said during a debate she thinks Islam should be “eradicated” from the globe. Hefner defended her past Islamophobic social media posts during the debate. Debate moderator Storme Jones pointed out Hefner has previously called Islam “an evil culture and not a religion.” Hefner’s response was...
Austria’s Greens party continued to receive public criticism Wednesday over an alleged coalition agreement to ban headscarves for teachers in schools. Leaked documents show the Greens had engaged in an undisclosed deal with the Austrian People’s Party as part of the negotiations for the January 2020 coalition agreement. The Greens allegedly pr...
More than 80 Muslim organizations, including civil and human rights groups, mosques and charities, have sent a letter to the U.S. Department of Justice. They are calling for an investigation into whether an anti-Muslim group violated federal laws by spying on several Muslim organizations in the U.S. Those organizations include the Council on A...
As the world turns its attention to Beijing for the Winter Olympics, Uyghurs, Tibetans, Hong Kongers and Chinese human rights advocates are calling for governments to boycott the Games. Exiled Uyghur Muslims remain cut off from their families five years after China began its campaign of mass incarceration, forced labor, and cultural genocide. ...
Greece’s Turkish community on Tuesday condemned a provocative Islamophobic poster placed near a mosque in the northern part of the country. According to media reports the poster read: “Islamization of Evros (region) should be stopped now.” It was placed near the historic Chelebi Sultan Mehmed Mosque near the Turkish-Greek border. The Friendshi...
