The Fribourg branch of the conservative right Swiss People’s Party launched an initiative on Wednesday to close down the Centre for Islam and Society, which it suspects will become a […]
Petition to reject xenophobia comes amid large protests in Dresden on Monday against immigration January 6, 2015 9:15AM ET A backlash against anti-Muslim protests in German cities saw 80 prominent national figures support a petition Tuesday calling for an end to what they see as a rising xenophobia in the […]
Disenchanted German citizens and right-wing extremists are joining forces to form a protest movement to fight what they see as the Islamization of the West. Is this the end of […]
A large majority of citizens is apparently in favour of introducing a nationwide ban on burqas for Moslem women in Switzerland according to an opinion poll. More than 60% of […]
November 30, 2014 _ 12:01 PM Muslims are facing the worst job discrimination of any minority group in Britain, according to new research which found that they had the lowest chance of being in work or in a managerial role. Muslims are facing the worst job discrimination of any minority […]
A social experiment that ended with an actor posing as an Islamophobe getting punched in the face has shown that Canadians are prepared to defend Muslims in the face of overt racist abuse in the wake of a recent terror attack. In an attempt to test whether Canadians feel safe […]
For all his odes to liberal ideals, Maher’s latest effort to demonize Muslims reveals a disturbing, illiberal truth by Myriam Francois-Cerrah Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy once said, “There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless.’ There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.” Her words seem […]
Ben Affleck became embroiled in a furious debate about Islam on an American television show, accusing the host of being racist and the guests of being ignorant Harriet Alexander By Harriet Alexander1:56PM BST 05 Oct 2014 Ben Affleck, the Oscar-winning actor and director, has launched a ferocious defence of Islam, […]
The Islamic Central Council of Switzerland has filed charges against a Swiss politician for incitement to commit a crime after he appeared to welcome the recent shooting of a Muslim and called for more such shootings. Minutes after a man was shot to death in a mosque in northeastern Switzerland […]
A student campaign has been launched against ‘Student Rights,’ a UK-based group that has attracted criticism for its failure to speak up for Muslim students’ rights as well as controversy over its funding and associations. Students have launched a campaign against the pressure group ‘Student Rights’, which appears to have […]
A student campaign has been launched against ‘Student Rights,’ a UK-based group that has attracted criticism for its failure to speak up for Muslim students’ rights as well as controversy over its funding and associations. Students have launched a campaign against the pressure group ‘Student Rights’, which appears to have […]
Religion News Service | By Omar Sacirbey Posted: 09/21/2013 8:08 am EDT Huff Post: (RNS) Islamophobic or empowering? Those are among the reactions to a new Diesel jeans ad featuring a heavily tattooed, white woman wearing a redesigned, denim burqa. The slogan next to her: “I Am Not What I Appear To […]
Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary-general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has warned against the rise of Islamophobia, which seeks to defame Islam and Muslims. JEDDAH: HABIB SHAIKH ARABNEWS In a statement to the fifth International Conference on Islamic Civilization in Zanzibar, Tanzania, on Tuesday, he said, “I firmly believe that […]
A French teenager has attempted suicide after reportedly being assaulted by skinheads for wearing the Muslim veil. The 16-year-old jumped from the fourth floor of her apartment building outside Paris […]
British organization Tell Mama collects statistics on incidents of violence and hostility against Muslims. Some experts now accuse EU countries of not running a similar, large-scale database. “I’ve had multiple […]
by Rula Samain | Jun 03, 2013 | JORDAN TIMES AMMAN — Muslim preachers, both male and female, from all governorates met over three days last week to discuss how best to promote the values enshrined in the Amman Message, which Jordan adopted in 2004 to introduce the true teachings […]
Source Herald Scotland THE SON of a leader at one of Scotland’s biggest mosques has been identified as the victim of a brutal gang shooting in Edinburgh. Tributes were paid […]
JEDDAH: NASIM CHOWDHURY ARABNEWS Thursday 25 April 2013 In the early days of Islam, Omar, who would later become a caliph, was in a frenzied rage and set out to […]
Source: The Independent BY ROBERT VERKAIK , LAW EDITOR THE INDEPENDENT Five Muslim community workers have accused MI5 of waging a campaign of blackmail and harassment in an attempt to recruit them as informants. The men claim they were given a choice of working for the Security Service or face […]
STORY SUMMARY Editorial, Daily Star, Lebanon This week’s news of offensive cartoons in Europe is nothing new, although the party doing the complaining should take a long look at itself in the mirror. In recent years, countries such as Denmark and France have received international attention for the publication of […]