ISTANBUL (AA) – Nearly half of Muslims living in Europe face discrimination in their daily lives, the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) has said in a scathing report. The report ‘Being Muslim in the EU’, based on 2022 data, highlighted a sharp increase in anti-Muslim sentiment, with 47% of Muslim respondents reporting racial d...
LONDON (AA) – Religious hate crimes in England and Wales reached an all-time high, with a 25% increase following the onset of Israel’s war on Gaza, according to the latest Home Office figures. The sharp increase comes despite a 5% drop in hate crimes during the same period. The report highlights that religious hate crime […]
ATHENS (AA) – Some 80 Muslim organizations and community leaders called the UK government to take tangible steps to address rising Islamophobia in the country. In a statement, the organizations and community leaders, organized under the Islamophobia Action Group, drew attention to the normalization of Islamophobia, which recently fueled riots ...
-LONDON (AA) – A rise in extreme right-wing violence in the UK has targeted the Muslim community, triggering fear and anxiety. It began after a stabbing incident in the English seaside town of Southport on July 29, when 17-year-old Axel Rudakubana killed three children and injured 10 others. Since then, it has spread across the country, ...
Leh, India – AFP Buddhist monks and Muslims in the Indian Himalayan territory of Ladakh turned out to vote Monday, demanding statehood and that their local culture be protected in the overwhelmingly Hindu nation. Almost half the people in the sparsely populated, cold desert region bordering China and Pakistan are Muslim. Ladakhis’ ...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US Homeland Security Department has responded to an “increase in threats” against Jews, Muslims and Arab-Americans since October 7, Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has said. “In the days and weeks since the attack, we have responded to an increase in threats against Jewish, Muslim and Arab-American communities an...
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 ...
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...
ANKARA (AA) – The Muslim community in Belgium is contesting new sexuality education methods in schools, according to a statement. “This decision seems to confront the universal and inviolable values of the familial education framework, and the interests of the students and their families,” Muslim associations said in a statem...
NEW DELHI (AA) – A private school teacher in northern India who is heard encouraging students to slap a Muslim student is facing charges, according to police sources. A police official in Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state, confirmed that the teacher is facing charges for intentionally causing hurt as well as insults and provocation. [...
