BERLIN (AA) – Germany’s Muslim community has been facing growing attacks since the start of the war against Palestine, a Berlin-based non-governmental human rights organization has reported. “In recent weeks we have seen an increase in anti-Muslim racism. We currently have three documented anti-Muslim incidents per day. This applies to t...
BERLIN (AA) – Germany has expressed concern over mounting anti-Muslim racism in the country since the start of the attacks on Gaza on October 7. Any attacks on Muslims in Germany, for religious or other reasons, are “absolutely unacceptable,” government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said at a news conference in Berlin. “The nearly 5 million Mus...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The Illinois man accused of killing a 6-year-old Palestinian American child, and repeatedly stabbing the boy’s mother, has pleaded not guilty. Joseph Czuba, 71, was the landlord of the house Wadea al-Fayoume and his mother, Hanaan Shahin, were renting when they were attacked. He was taken into custody following th...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The world must “stand together against Islamophobia,” Australia’s foreign minister has said. Penny Wong’s remarks came after two mosques in Adelaide, South Australia, were hit by arson attacks last week, a development she said left her “appalled.” “All of us, including every political leader, must stand ...
Washington, United States – AFP A US landlord was charged with murder and hate crimes Sunday after allegedly stabbing a Muslim woman and her six-year-old son dozens of times in an attack that police linked to last week’s Hamas attack on Israel. The child, who was stabbed 26 times, died at hospital, but the 32-year-old […]
BERLIN (AA) – Radical Islamophobic neo-Nazis threw stones at a mosque in the western city of Siegburg on Friday night, the latest in a string of attacks targeting Germany’s Muslim community. The assailants entered the mosque complex at around 11:10 p.m local time, smashed the windows, and left a flyer of the neo-Nazi group, ‘Letzte...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – UK-based advocacy group CAGE’s Managing Director Muhammad Rabbani was denied entry into Poland, where he was to speak at a conference, at France’s request. In a statement, CAGE said that Rabbani was due to deliver “another critical speech against France’s state-sponsored Islamophobia, as he had done last ...
LONDON (AA) – France’s highest court has again ruled that the government ban on the abaya (a long, loose outer garment worn by Muslim women) is legal. The Council of State said it had rejected an appeal by three organizations against the government ban announced last month on the abaya. Last week, the Sud Education […]
PARIS (AA) – A Muslim student who had been turned away from school for wearing a kimono, a loose Japanese garment in France, has filed a complaint with the UN over being “discriminated against” due to her religious affiliation. The controversy over the French government’s stance against hijab in schools continues with many st...
ROTTERDAM (AA) – Muslims in the Netherlands have strongly reacted to the state’s secret investigation of Muslims and Islamic institutions. Muhsin Koktas, head of the Contact Body for Muslims and Government (CMO) in the Netherlands, said that he was not surprised by the secret investigations after the increase in Islamophobia and ra...
