A video showing a hijab-wearing Muslim student being heckled by a Hindu far-right mob in the state of Karnataka has caused outrage in India. Muskan Khan was surrounded by men wearing saffron scarves as she arrived at her college in the city of Mandya. Khan said that as she confronted the protestors, she found that […]
A video of Bollywood superstar Shah Rukh Khan making Dua at singer Lata Mangeshkar’s funeral on Sunday went viral stirring controversy. He is being accused by Islamophobes of ‘spitting Jihad’. Khan was seen at the funeral raising his hands to offer a prayer before blowing in the wind. Two Hindutva politicians claimed Khan “spat” on […...
Islamophobia has led a Muslim mother in San Juan Island, Washington to make a life changing decision. The Washington Post revealed that the woman’s babysitter called the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, claiming that the Muslim woman’s baby had undergone female genital mutilation (FGM). The babysitter also invited a friend to examine the ...
Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson described one of the leaders of the extremist Oath Keepers organization implicated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot as “a devout Christian.” It’s highly unlikely Carlson would have offered a similar defense for a Muslim American. Since Sept. 11, 2001, Muslim Americans have experienced growing discrimination and...
A former Labor councilor has been sentenced to five years and six months in prison for the attempted rape of a young girl and sexually assaulting a boy under 11 in the 1970s. Sixty-four-year-old Lord Nazir Ahmed was found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court last month of two counts of attempted rape and one of […]
Uyghurs in the U.S. protested in front of the White House Saturday against the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. They criticized the Chinese government and accused it of carrying out “genocide” in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region. In 2019, Human Rights Watch confirmed that the Chinese government has committed, and continues to commit, crim...
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, […]
