A 22-year-old man accused of killing a British-Bangladeshi imam in East London has pleaded not guilty to the charges. Muzahid Ali, one of three men charged with murdering Mohammed Aqil Mahdi, appeared at Southwark Crown Court Friday and was remanded to custody. The other defendants are Majid Ahmed and Abul Kashem. They did not appear [&helli...
Sarah Abou-Bakr, a graduate student at Montreal’s McGill University, is this year’s recipient of the Centre Culturel Islamique de Québec Memorial Award. Abou-Bakr is the Quebec Public Affairs Lead at the National Council of Canadian Muslims. The award honors a student at the university whose work fosters inclusion of Muslims in Quebec and Can...
Hijab-wearing footballers played an impromptu game in Paris’ Luxembourg garden, behind the Senate protesting a decision banning them from sports competitions. Founé Diawara, co-president of the collective Les Hijabeuses, an offshoot of the Alliance citoyenne group “What bothers us is that some women are being left out, including ...
Kashmiris across Pakistan-administered and Indian-controlled Kashmir on Wednesday observed India’s Republic Day as a “Black Day.” They protested New Delhi’s withdrawal of the decades-long special rights of the disputed Jammu Kashmir region starting in August 2019. Tensions have been mounting between the two nuclear powers since then. P...
An investigation revealed 93 sites of “potential human burials” in a small area around a former residential school in the province of British Columbia, Canadian media reports. The sites were identified during a survey of the St. Joseph’s Mission Residential School and nearby Onward Ranch, CBC News reported. Whitney Spearing, who led the probe,...
An attorney for the former Louisville Metro Police detective awaiting trial for his role in the shooting death of Breonna Taylor, is seeking to close part of the court proceedings. Stew Mathews filed a motion trying to bar journalists and the public from watching individual voir dire, which is the questioning of potential jurors. Mathews [&hel...
A Florida school district has canceled a presentation on the civil rights movement due to some people’s fears that it might address critical race theory. Michael Butler, a history professor at Flagler College in St. Augustine, said his lecture has nothing to do with the controversial topic. Critical Race theory is an academic examination of [&...
Wyoming’s first African American Sheriff Aaron Appelhans fired his deputy after a federal lawsuit from a Black employee claimed years of racist name-calling. It led the employee to quit the force. In the lawsuit, Albany County Patrol Sgt. Christian Handley reportedly drove past Cpl. Jamin Johnson’s house while Johnson and his wife were leaving...
British Muslims are one of the most discriminated against communities in the United Kingdom, according to a new report published Monday. The analysis was done by the University of Birmingham and the firm, YouGov. The report found that Britons are more likely to hold discriminatory and negative views on Islam than on any other religion, [&helli...
The Central Council of Muslims in Germany is condemning an attack with assault rifles targeting a mosque in the Saxony-Anhalt province. The group said “anti-Muslim hatred and racism are not just in words” as far-right terror attacks against Muslims in the country are on the rise. Two people heard shots near the Islamic Cultural Centre [&helli...
