As the U.S. paused Sunday to mark the 21st anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Iran Fars news agency claimed Muslim Americans suffer daily from the ramifications of Islamophobia sparked by the terrorists’ deadly work on the World Trade Center in New York.
Six Persian Gulf states have threatened Netflix with legal action if it continues broadcasting content found “offensive” to Islamic sensibilities, apparently targeting programs that show people who are gay and lesbian.
During the planned three and a half months of court proceedings in Paris, survivors and those mourning loved ones will recount the horrors inflicted along the beachfront of Nice on the night of July 14, 2016.
Bastille Day, 2016. Shortly after the end of a fireworks display, a 19-tonne (21 U.S.-ton) truck careered through the crowds for 2 kilometres (1¼ miles) like a snow plough, hitting person after person. The final death toll was 86, including 15 children and adolescents, while 450 others were injured…
The leader of the Swedish Islamic Nyans Party has been convicted of minor assault by a Turkish court over a violent incident directed at a relative that took place in 2009.
There is an elevated threat of terror attacks on French soil by Islamic extremists, France’s national anti-terrorism prosecutor warned Friday.
Iran’s strict governing Islamic authorities on Wednesday night allowed women to attend a men’s soccer game after decades of prohibiting what one religious scholar called the “vulgarity” of such an act.
An Afghan refugee, who is Sunni Muslim, has been charged with the murder of another Muslim man in New Mexico in addition to two other Muslim men he is charged with killing.
Supermodel Bella Hadid claimed she has lost friends and job opportunities over her support for the Palestinians.
A man wielding a shotgun in the centre of the French city of Saint-Quentin was shot and injured this week after firing toward police while yelling “Allahu akbar!” Investigators have not ruled out a possible terror motive.
A court in Sunni-majority Saudi Arabia sentenced a Saudi woman and adherent of Shia Islam to 34 years in prison on Monday for using her personal Twitter account to “create public turmoil and destabilize civil and national security” by re-Tweeting posts demanding the Saudi government release women’s rights activists from prison, Turkey’s Hürriyet newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Yaser Said, 65, was recently convicted of murdering his two teenage daughters in ‘honor killings’ in Texas more than a decade ago.
(AFP) – Scottish police said on Sunday they were investigating an apparent “online threat” made to Harry Potter author JK Rowling in response to her tweet supporting Salman Rushdie following his stabbing.
Salman Rushdie has reportedly been taken off a ventilator, and is once again able to talk with others after being brutally attacked during an event in New York.
Salman Rushdie’s agent has said “the news is not good” in an update on his condition after being stabbed on stage in New York.
An alleged member of an Islamic State group cell nicknamed “The Beatles” that tortured and killed Western hostages was charged.
A Muslim migrant from Afghanistan has been charged in the killings of two other immigrants and is the suspect in yet two more killings, which are thought to be motivated by an Islamic religious dispute.
The Administrative Court of Paris halted the deportation of Imam Hassan Iquioussen on Friday after he had been set to leave the country for hate preaching on the order of Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin.
Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre appointed Mukhtar Robow — a former deputy chief of al-Shabaab, which is a Somali branch of the international jihadist terror organization al-Qaeda — as Somalia’s new religion minister on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
A Malmö imam has been charged with incitement to racial hatred by Swedish prosecutors over antisemitic sermons.
The “Mirror Line” – a proposed 75-mile-long twin skyscraper metropolis in arid northwest Saudi Arabia – will liberate its proposed 5 million residents “from roads, cars, and emissions,” according to the Saudi Press Agency this week.
Three men in the Swedish city of Linköping have been sentenced to prison over their involvement in riots triggered by anti-Islam activists burning the Qur’an. More burnings are now planned.
An Israeli journalist sparked an outcry after a main news station aired an item showing him violating the ban on non-Muslims and sneaking into the Saudi city of Mecca, Islam’s holiest city, to film the Haj pilgrim.
China’s state media arms mocked leftist American President Joe Biden on Monday for what Beijing branded a “lukewarm” and “embarrassing” trip to the Middle East that did not appear to result in any concrete agreements or benefits for America.
Swedish writer Jonas Gardell has demanded mosques welcome members of the LGBT community and re-examine attitudes following the Oslo shooting.
Temporary use during the lockdown of Croke Park, a sporting venue with extreme symbolic significance for the Irish nation, for Islamic prayer is continuing in the post-pandemic era.
Muslims make up almost 1 per cent of the population in Ukraine, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian. There is a large Muslim population in Crimea — home to the Crimean Tatars and illegally annexed by Russia in 2014. Numbers there jump to 12 per cent. There is also a sizeable Muslim community in eastern Ukraine, the result of waves of economic migration as the region industrialised and many Muslims immigrated to the Donbas region to work in the mines and factories.
Half of the police officers who attended the Muslim Easter riots in the city of Örebro say they have experienced mental health problems following the violence that saw several officers attacked and injured.
One million Muslim pilgrims gathered in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, on Thursday to begin the largest Hajj, or annual Islamic pilgrimage, the Kingdom has seen since before the Chinese coronavirus pandemic began in March 2020, Arab News reported.
France repatriated 51 women and children from former Islamic State areas in Syria, according to the counterterrorism prosecutor´s office.
The lone survivor of a team of Islamic extremists who attack Paris in 2015 was convicted Wednesday of murder.
Over the course of an extraordinary trial, the lone surviving attacker proclaimed his radicalism, wept, and pleaded with judges to forgive.
Two people were killed and more than 20 were wounded in what the Norwegian security service called an “Islamist terror act.”
An Indonesian nightlife venue called Holywings apologized on Thursday for offending religious sentiments in the Muslim-majority country after it offered men named Muhammad free alcohol in a promo.
The rising share of global migrants arriving at the southern U.S. border has created a mosque in Tijuana, Mexico.
At least 144 violations of France’s secularism law were reported in the second quarter of this year in French schools, a rising trend.
Belgium Islam Party leader Redouane Ahrouch refused to look at, or shake the hand of a woman during a television appearance in April of 2018.
An imam hired to be an independent advisor on Islamophobia for the British government has been dismissed for working to get a “blasphemous” film about the daughter of the prophet Muhammad cancelled.
British movie The Lady of Heaven has been banned in Morocco after Islamic authorities condemned it for presenting a version of Islamic history they disagree with and “hurting the feelings of Muslims”.
The British government’s advisor on Islamophobia has been revealed to support the Muslim protests against a supposedly “blasphemous” film.
