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...
LONDON (MNTV) — The scale of Reform UK’s breakthrough in last week’s local elections has turned what was a hypothetical concern into a lived reality for millions of British Muslims. The party gained 1,451 councillors and took control of 14 councils, having held none of the seats contested before the vote. Labour shed 1,496 council...
LONDON (MNTV) — The Ayaan Institute has launched what researchers describe as the first large-scale study of Muslim converts in Britain in over a decade, seeking to move beyond the security-focused framing that has dominated previous research and build an evidence-based picture of a community that may be three times larger than the most common...
MADRID (MNTV) — Spain has assembled the most comprehensive set of measures against Israel of any major EU member state since the genocide in Gaza began — from recognising Palestinian statehood and intervening in South Africa’s ICJ genocide case, to imposing an arms embargo, banning settlement imports, restricting military transit through...
SARAJEVO (MNTV) — Bosnia’s state court sentenced former Bosnian Serb soldier Dusko Zoric to 15 years in prison for the killing of five Bosniak Muslim civilians during an attack on the village of Zecovi near Prijedor in July 1992 — the latest conviction stemming from a massacre that claimed at least 69 lives and remains […]
