WARSAW (MNTV) — Poland’s Muslim community is growing. Not dramatically, not controversially, but steadily — as labour migrants from Muslim-majority countries join a workforce increasingly visible in the country’s cities as taxi drivers, delivery couriers, and service workers. Dr Agata Nalborczyk, a researcher at the University of W...
BARCELONA (MNTV) — Lamine Yamal, the 18-year-old Barcelona forward widely regarded as one of the most talented footballers of his generation, has ignited an international political storm after waving a large Palestinian flag from the team’s open-top bus during Monday’s La Liga title celebrations in front of an estimated 750,000 peo...
BELFAST (MNTV) — When Northern Ireland’s Supreme Court ruled last year that the country’s exclusively Christian religious education syllabus breached the right to freedom of thought and religion, it was supposed to mark the beginning of a more pluralistic approach to what children learn about faith and belief. A new curriculum, de...
BERLIN (MNTV) — When far-right politician Beatrix von Storch stood up in the German Bundestag on International Women’s Day and denounced a hijab-wearing Miss Germany finalist as a dangerous Islamic activist, the woman in question was not afraid. She was, by her own account, a little pleased. Büsra Sayed, a 27-year-old entrepreneur who d...
VIENNA (MNTV) — The Austrian government said its ban on headscarves in schools was designed to protect young Muslim girls. The women and girls it claimed to be protecting said otherwise — by a margin of 93 to 5. That was the central finding of a survey published by Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative, authored by […]
LONDON (MNTV) — The Muslim Council of Britain has published what it describes as the most comprehensive analysis of British Muslim demographics and socioeconomic conditions ever produced, drawing on two decades of census data to map a community that has grown to roughly four million people — around six per cent of the U.K. population […...
SEVILLE (MNTV) — Voters in Andalusia, Spain’s largest and most populous region, head to the polls on Sunday in an election being watched as a barometer of how deeply anti-immigration politics have penetrated the Spanish mainstream. The contest is nominally about who governs the southern region, currently led by Juanma Moreno of the conse...
GENEVA (MNTV) — When political scientist Enes Bayraklı and researcher Farid Hafez decided in 2014 to build a systematic, continent-wide evidence base on anti-Muslim racism in Europe, the project was born from a simple and repeated frustration. Wherever they spoke, Muslim civil society organisations told them the same thing: they raised the ala...
BERLIN (MNTV) — In his latest work, Farid Hafez — a senior researcher at Georgetown University’s Bridge Initiative — presents a sweeping historical argument that connects the governance of Muslim populations across nearly a century and a half of Central European history, from the Austro-Hungarian administration of Bosnia-Herzegovina in t...
LONDON (MNTV) — A new book published by Oxford University Press offers a systematic examination of something that activists and Muslim communities across Europe have long observed but that academic research has largely overlooked: how centre-left parties — not just the right — have contributed to the securitisation of Islam, treating Muslim mi...
