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 […]
SÉTIF, Algeria (MNTV) — France took its most significant step toward repairing relations with Algeria on May 8 when Deputy Armed Forces Minister Alice Rufo arrived in the eastern city of Sétif to attend commemorations marking the 81st anniversary of one of the bloodiest episodes of French colonial rule — the 1945 massacre of Muslim […]...
STOCKHOLM (MNTV) — The Swedish government has announced it will no longer use the word “Islamophobia” in official communications, with Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard telling parliament the term is problematic because it centres on the idea of irrational individual fear rather than structural discrimination. Stockholm will...
DUBLIN (MNTV) — A YouTube video presented as an independent documentary recently surfaced on Irish social media, claiming to tell the story of a Muslim man running a sex trafficking and drug operation in the town of Clonmel. It had all the hallmarks of investigative journalism: a female narrator recounting a disturbing personal testimony, dram...
LONDON (MNTV) — Britain’s two largest Muslim representative bodies have condemned the stabbing of two Jewish men in north London on April 29 while sharply criticising the government for using the attack to build a case against protests advocating and Muslim communities more broadly. The Muslim Council of Britain, which represents more t...
ALCOY, Spain (MNTV) — Each April, this city of 62,000 in south-east Spain stages one of the country’s most spectacular cultural events: three days of mock battles, blunderbuss fire, and elaborate costumes re-enacting the Christian conquest of Muslim-ruled Iberia. The Moros y Cristianos festival is Alcoy’s defining tradition, drawin...
PARIS (MNTV) — France will not pursue a blanket terrorist designation of the Muslim Brotherhood, Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez has said, describing such a move as legally shaky and practically unworkable. Instead, the government will target specific individuals and organisations on a case-by-case basis where it believes they are working aga...
VIENNA (MNTV) — Muslim pupils have become the single largest religious group in Vienna’s primary and secondary schools, accounting for 41.2 per cent of the student population, according to new figures released by the office of Education Councillor Bettina Emmerling. The proportion has risen from 39.4 per cent a year ago, reflecting the ...
MÜNSTER, Germany (MNTV) — The University of Münster will open Europe’s first fully independent Faculty of Islamic Theology on July 1, elevating the study of Islam to the same institutional rank as the Catholic and Protestant theological faculties that have been fixtures of German academia for centuries. The announcement was made on April...
BERN (MNTV) — Racial discrimination in Switzerland has settled at the highest levels ever recorded, with hostility toward Muslims showing the sharpest rise of any category, according to new data published jointly by the Federal Commission against Racism (FCR) and the human rights organisation humanrights.ch. After a surge of nearly 40 per cent...
