Netherlands mosque attacks and rising Islamophobia
Rotterdam, the Netherlands – Charif Slimani, the imam of the Moroccan mosque in Roosendaal in the Netherlands, arrived early on the morning of November 14, 2015, to prepare his sermon for the Friday...
View ArticleFar-right group targets Madrid mosque after Brussels attacks
A far-right group targeted a mosque in Madrid in a “protest” following the Brussels attacks, lighting flares and hanging a sign asking “Today Brussels, tomorrow Madrid?” The far-right group Hogar...
View ArticleSun ordered to admit British Muslims story was ‘significantly misleading’
The Sun has been ordered to print a statement acknowledging that its claims that one in five British Muslims supported people who have gone to Syria to fight for jihadi groups such as Islamic State...
View ArticleMany millions of Muslims ‘fundamentally incompatible with the modern world’,...
Tony Blair has said that “many millions” of Muslims hold a viewpoint that is “fundamentally incompatible with the modern world.” Rejecting arguments that Isis is simply “tens of thousands of...
View ArticleMuslim Americans Are Model Citizens, According to a New Poll
Muslim citizens are as American as apple pie, a new poll says. The survey, from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding, shows that though Muslims living in America are facing more violence...
View ArticleHorrific moment Muslim woman is mown down by grinning far-right activist who...
Shocking footage has emerged of a Muslim woman being mown down by a car in a hit-and-run during an anti-Islam rally in the Brussels district of Molenbeek. Video footage of the incident shows the white...
View Article‘We all think you’re a terrorist’: Texas schoolboy says teacher humiliated...
The family of a Muslim child is upset because they say the 12-year-old’s teacher called him a terrorist in front of his classmates, KHOU reports. Waleed Abushaaban, an honor student at a middle school...
View ArticleThis Man Riddled A Mosque With Bullet Holes. Now They’re Forgiving Him
Just hours after a series of deadly terrorist attacks struck Paris, France, on November 13, 2015, Ted A. Hakey Jr. slipped deeper and deeper into a drunken rage. Convinced that Muslims were inherently...
View ArticleMoeen Ali detained at Birmingham Airport due to his Muslim identity
Universally acclaimed England Cricket Team player, Moeen Ali faced a lot of confusion when he was detained for 40 minutes at Birmingham Airport due to his Muslims identity. During his detention, he...
View ArticleCollege student booted from Southwest flight after passenger heard him say...
UC Berkeley student whose family fled Iraq in 2002 after his diplomat father was killed under Saddam Hussein’s regime, was booted from a Southwest Airlines flight and questioned by the FBI after...
View ArticleMuslim woman kicked off plane as flight attendant said she ‘did not feel...
A Muslim woman was asked to get off a plane without any explanation after she asked her neighbour to switch seats. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) has called for an investigation of a...
View ArticleMuslim prayer hall set on fire in France
AJACCIO: A Muslim prayer hall was ravaged by fire overnight in the capital of the French island of Corsica, local authorities said, four months after a separate Muslim prayer hall there was ransacked....
View ArticleFBI says ‘Australian IS jihadist’ is actually a Jewish American troll named...
A young Jewish American man has been charged with pretending to be an Australian-based Islamic State jihadist after a FBI joint investigation with the Australian Federal Police based on information...
View ArticleLondon mayor Sadiq Khan will be an exception: Trump on Muslims ban
Washington: Presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump has said as U.S. President he would make an exception for London’s first Muslim mayor Sadiq Khan in his proposed temporary ban on the entry of...
View ArticlePolice have apologised for making a fake Islamist suicide bomber use a...
Police have apologised for making a fake Islamist suicide bomber use a “religious phrase” during a counter-terror exercise in Manchester. The simulated attack started on Monday night, when a man...
View ArticleRumi film will challenge Muslim stereotypes, says Gladiator writer
An Oscar-winning screenwriter has agreed to work on a biopic about the 13th-century poet Jalaluddin al-Rumi. David Franzoni, who wrote the script for the 2000 blockbuster Gladiator, and Stephen Joel...
View ArticleHandshakes, Islam, and Religious Tolerance in the West: by Jennifer S. Bryson
Two Muslim boys in Switzerland have declined, on religious grounds, to shake hands with their female teachers. The school district says Swiss custom should override religion and is now threatening to...
View ArticleOrlando shooting was revenge against HIV-positive partner: Omar Mateen’s ‘gay...
A man who says he was Omar Mateen’s lover has claimed the mass murderer acted out of revenge after finding out one of his partners was HIV positive. Mateen, 29, shot dead 49 people at Pulse, a gay...
View ArticleMosque firebombed and sprayed with anti-Islamic graffiti in Perth as hundreds...
A suspected petrol bomb exploded outside a Perth mosque as hundreds of worshippers were praying inside. The attack occurred at the Australian Islamic College mosque at Thornlie, south-east of Perth, at...
View ArticleTop court green-lights surveillance of Japan’s Muslims
Tokyo, Japan – Mohamed Fujita used to host religious study groups at his home that were open to all Muslims. But today he’s afraid to invite strangers, in case they’re police informants. Extensive...
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