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Jordan’s prime minister on Monday praised Palestinian rioters on Temple Mount for physically assaulting Israelis going to pray at the site, which is Judaism’s holiest.

On Thursday and Friday, Swedish cities saw cars set on fire and police injured as a result of rioting by people opposed to demonstrations by Qu’ran-burning politician Rasmus Paludan.

Christians living in countries hostile to Christianity often face increased fears for their personal safety in the run-up to the Easter holiday, Mike Gore, the CEO of Open Doors Australia and New Zealand (an organization that aids persecuted Christians) wrote in an op-ed for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) on Thursday.

Vulnerable Rep. Cindy Axne, Iowa’s lone congressional Democrat, campaigned last weekend with a Muslim Imam previously accused of sexual abuse for “touching” an “18-year-old woman’s breasts and genitals while rubbing oil on her skin” and the mother’s breasts during what was believed to be a “ritual.”

Emmanuel Macron has claimed that those who criticise French lockdown policy are not living in the ‘real world’, while praising one veil-wearing Muslim woman as a feminist.

An ISIS supporter was given a whole-life sentence for stabbing a lawmaker to death in revenge for his voting for airstrikes in Syria.

Islamic extremists raided the village of Masambo in the northeastern province of North Kivu in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on April 3, the Barnabas Fund reported Thursday.

The suspected terrorist accused of murdering Sir David Amess told a court that he killed the Tory MP for voting for air strikes in Syria.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri appeared in a video released online on Tuesday in which he praised an Indian Muslim woman for defiantly shouting, “allahu akbar,” to a group of Hindu nationalists in southern India’s Karnataka state in February, the Indian Express reported on Thursday.

A court in northern Nigeria’s Kano state, which enforces Islamic law (sharia) alongside common law, sentenced an atheist man to 24 years in prison on Tuesday on the charge of “blasphemy” for a Facebook statement he posted in April 2020 deemed offensive to Islam, Nigeria’s Premium Times online newspaper reported.

The leadership of the East Turkistan Government in Exile, the democratic representative body for the occupied region China calls Xinjiang, told Breitbart News this week that Communist Party officials “humiliate” Muslims in the region by forcing them to eat pork or drink alcohol during Ramadan.

The Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, formerly Constantinople, held its first Ramadan prayers in 88 years on Friday to mark the start of the Islamic month of fasting, after being converted into a mosque in 2020.

The German city of Cologne is considering dropping a depiction of its historic Christian cathedral from the city’s logo. Some have criticised the proposed change and called for residents to speak out against the city government.

Muslims across the globe prepared for the start of Ramadan — a month-long holiday during which adherents of Islam participate in a fast from dawn to sunset — on Friday. Islamic faithful observe Ramadan annually as it serves as one of

A lawyer fined £500 ($660) by regulators after saying that “free speech is dying and Islamists and other Muslims are playing a central role” has won an appeal to the Bar Tribunals & Adjudication Service.

(AP) — British lawmaker Sir David Amess was “assassinated” while meeting constituents last year by a “fanatical, radicalised Islamist terrorist,” a court heard Monday as the accused killer went on trial.

In an apparent move of desperation, Germany has agreed to a gas deal with Islamist Qatar to try and wean itself off Russian energy.

The Manchester mosque attended by terrorist Salman Abedi has been accused of burying its “head in the sand” towards Islamic extremism.

The United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday adopted a resolution to declare March 15 the “International Day to Combat Islamophobia.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson may travel to Saudi Arabia next week to beg for increased oil production as sanctions restrict Russian exports, despite the dictatorship executing 81 people en masse on Saturday.

Eighty-one people convicted of a range of crimes were executed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday in the the largest known mass killing carried out in the kingdom in its modern history.

Four men have been sentenced in relation to the terror killing of a Catholic Priest in France, an attack that was perpetrated by self-described Islamic State members.

Members of the Islamic State terrorist group have celebrated the ongoing conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine, expressing hope the war will spread to other European countries.

The National Guard of Ukraine has shared video footage of “Azov fighters” greasing bullets with pig fat for Chechen “orcs” deployed in their country on their verified Twitter account.

The Mufti of the Chechen Republic has endorsed Russian president Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, backed by Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, saying that the invaders are “on the path of Allah”.

Danish anti-Islam politician and activist Rasmus Paludan has been granted permission to hold a demonstration in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, nearly two years after his supporters burned a Qu’ran, sparking a riot in Malmo.

Israel on Monday appointed an Arab Muslim to serve as in the country’s highest court as one of four new Supreme Court justices.

The strict Islamic nation of Kuwait has moved to modernise its armed forces by allowing women to sign up for combat roles, however they will be required to wear hijab face coverings at all times and not be allowed to carry weapons into battle.

Police detectives were aware of the Machester Arena bomber’s ties to terrorism three years before the 2017 attack that left 22 dead.

A number of shops in Saudi Arabia conspicuously sold red lingerie in advance of Monday’s Valentine’s Day holiday despite the Islamic kingdom banning the use of the term “Valentine’s Day” to promote sales, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported Monday.

A Muslim mob stoned to death a 41-year-old man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan Saturday evening, before hanging his body from a tree.

The leader of the Arab Islamist Ra’am party in the Israeli government, Mansour Abbas, denied Israel was an “apartheid state,” adding Jews are Arabs were “creating miracles” by ruling side by side in a coalition for the first time in Israel’s history.

The Community Service Trust (CST), an antisemitism awareness charity, recorded 2,255 antisemitic incidents across Britain in 2021, including 176 violent assaults.

A Muslim female college student arrived on campus in southern India’s Karnataka state on Tuesday and shouted “Allahu Akbar” (“God is Great” in Arabic) at a Hindu mob of young men who yelled “Jai Shri Ram (“Glory to Lord Ram” in Hindi) at her as she walked to class in footage captured by India’s News9 digital platform.

Belgian police detained 13 people from a radical Islamic Salafist-linked group during raids Tuesday across the port city of Antwerp.

The French government introduced a new body to reshape Islam in France, part of President Emmanuel Macron’s efforts to rid it of extremism.