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...
The Indian film “Beast” has been banned in Kuwait and Qatar due to its reportedly stereotypical depiction of Muslims as terrorists and its dialogues against Pakistan. The Tamil-language film, described as an action-comedy, stars Thalapathy Vijay and Pooja Hegde HEGDAY. Vijay plays a government intelligence agent stuck in a mall with terrorists...
U.S.-based civil rights, faith groups and advocates have condemned a federal commission being pressured to dilute its reporting on religious persecution in India. In a letter to the United States Commission on International Religious Freedom or USCIRF, these groups and individuals urged it to withstand pressure from U.S.-based Hindu nationalis...
American Muslim Author Khalid Baig says Amazon has removed one of his books from its listing, because it violates the online behemoth’s content guidelines. The book, “First Things First,” is a collection of magazine articles originally published in Impact International magazine in the 1990s. Baig’s articles were then revised and compiled into...
LONDON (AA) – A man has been found guilty of murdering British lawmaker Sir David Amess at the Old Bailey who was killed in Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, last October. The 69-year-old Conservative MP was stabbed to death while meeting with locals in his constituency. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was convicted of murder and preparing acts of […]
On Wednesday, U.S. Congresswoman Ilhan Omar pressed one of President Biden’s most senior diplomats about America’s silence on India’s mistreatment of Muslims. Omar asked Wendy Sherman, deputy secretary of state, how U.S. support for Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government is “promoting a free and open region,” Omar lambas...
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.” “...
