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A five-metre-tall statue of a woman wearing the Islamic hijab headdress will be unveiled next month in a suburb of multicultural Birmingham.

A mob of Fulani Muslim raiders torched a Catholic parish rectory in Nigeria’s Middle Belt, killing a 25-year-old seminarian, local media reported.

A Pakistani international cricketer was sentenced for placing a bounty on the head of Geert Wilders, but the Netherlands doesn’t have an extradition treaty with Pakistan. 

Court confirms government ban on faith-linked garments, which has already triggered a school strike and a death threat against a headmaster enforcing the law.

A £2 million government grant to a Birmingham mosque has been suspended amid outcry over extremist Islamist statements made by its imams.

Head-to-toe robes worn by Muslims, known as abayas for girls and women and khamis for boys and men, have been banned from French public school classrooms beginning Monday.

China is now requiring religions to “support the leadership of the CCP, support the socialist system,” and teach dictator Xi Jinping’s ideology.

“The unfree, medieval forces of the Middle East have won a victory today”, says Denmark’s former immigration minister.

A 45-year-old man was charged Tuesday with threatening to blow up a plane during a flight from Australia to Malaysia that returned to Sydney.

Venezuelan socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro demanded that European countries outlaw Quran-burning protests on his television show Con Maduro Más on Monday, claiming governments who respect free speech are “indirect accomplices” in blasphemy.

Corporate journalists are fixated on the murder of O’Shae Sibley, a 28-year-old professional dancer, to feed a narrative of growing “anti-LGBTQ+ extremism” in the U.S. — while hiding the fact that the accused killer is reportedly a Muslim teen.

In a capitulation in the battle for freedom of speech, Denmark is set to prohibit the burning of the Qur’an in front of embassies.

Research by major German think tank finds Muslims can be over four times as likely to agree with antisemitic statements than average.

Dozens of women made a rare show of defiance against the brutal Taliban regime in Afghanistan’s capital of Kabul on Wednesday, marching against the ban on beauty salons issued early this month by the extremist government.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani expelled the Swedish ambassador on Wednesday, even as a mob of protesters waving photos of Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire.

Islamic clerics have infiltrated the UK to push an anti-blasphemy agenda, threatening the national security of the country, a report found.

Iran is making a push to attract wealthy overseas visitors to boost its sanctions-hit economy at the same time Tehran begins a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police return to the streets.

Released from his prison sentence for supporting ISIS in 2018, infamous radical who calls for hardline Sharia for Britain has been arrested. 

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Iranian authorities on Sunday announced a new campaign to force women to wear the Islamic headscarf and morality police returned to the streets 10 months after the death of a woman in their custody sparked nationwide protests.

Sweden may strike out its freedom of expression protections to ban Qur’an burning in exchange for Turkey backing its NATO membership bid.

The 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) on Sunday called for international laws to punish burning the Quran, following a demonstration in Sweden last week in which a man burned a copy of the Muslim holy book on the first day of the Eid al-Adha holiday.

Thousands of Muslims protested in major cities in Iraq on Friday, condemning the burning of a Qur’an during a protest in Sweden.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed shock on Thursday when confronted about the dramatic escalation in violence against non-Hindu religious minorities in his country during his tenure, claiming to be “really surprised” and denying any religious discrimination.

Europe will be conquered by Islam, according to a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official who claims the continent’s subjugation is part of

The East Turkistan Government in Exile, which represents the oppressed Uyghur and other Turkic communities under Chinese communist rule, condemned Palestinian leaders on Wednesday for meeting with dictator Xi Jinping and endorsing the genocide of Muslims in the region.

Just four per cent of Germans think the hard left poses no threat to society, with an overwhelming near-six-in-ten saying it does.

An Australian surfer accused of a naked, drunken rampage in Indonesia apologised for the incident Wednesday and said he is looking forward to being sent home and giving his mother a “big hug.”

Videos surfacing on social media on Tuesday revealed a massive uprising in southwestern Yunnan province, China, in which thousands of people attacked armored riot police preventing them from entering a mosque the Communist Party has targeted for demolition.

Police have arrested a 24-year-old Syrian migrant on suspicion of planning a “bomb attack” on a church in Sweden.

Swatch, the Swiss company famous for its colorful variety of designer watches, announced on Tuesday that Malaysian authorities raided its stores in 11 shopping malls across the country and confiscated 164 rainbow flag watches from its “Pride Collection” because they “bore LGBT connections.”

Pakistan’s Federal Shariat Court ruled on Friday that key provisions of the Transgender Persons Act of 2018 are contradicted by Islamic law.

The newly elected Turkish Parliament will feature 16 different political parties, reports say, including a radical Islamist party accused of ties to the Turkish terror organization Hizballah.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi described his country’s diversity as “the nation’s real strength” and celebrated the nation’s northeast in a letter published Monday amid ongoing anti-Christian riots that have displaced tens of thousands of people in northeast Manipur.

Maulana Nigar Alam, a 40-year-old Muslim cleric and religious scholar, was beaten to death by a Muslim mob on Sunday in the northwestern village of Sawaldher near the Afghan border.

A court in Turkey sentenced pop star Gülşen Bayraktar Çolakoğlu, widely known by her first name only, to ten months in prison on Wednesday for a joke mocking Islamist religious schools.

A recently published U.S. State Department grant opportunity, accepting applications through Wednesday, offers tens of thousands of dollars to English teachers in Pakistan who specialize in teaching “transgender youth,” in addition to other marginalized communities such as Afghan refugees.