Footage showing French police assaulting two Muslim women wearing Hijab has triggered anger on social media. In the April 14 video, French police use disproportionate force against two Muslim in headscarves in the city of Asnieres-sur-Seine. Police can be seen beating one of the women and trying to push the other to the ground. As […]
Iraq’s Foreign Ministry summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires over an incident involving the burning of a copy of the Quran by far-right extremists last week. On Thursday, Rasmus Paludan, the Danish leader of the Stram Kurs Party, burned a copy of the holy book in the city of Linkoping, according to media reports. Swedish Prime Minis...
Footage of police’s harsh treatment of a 13-year-old Turkish boy in the German city of Duisburg DOOS BURG has sparked social media outrage. The boy was allegedly tearing up an election poster. In the April 12 footage, two police officers can be seen handcuffing Emirhan Altintas while one of the officers was pressing the boy’s […]
PARIS – The Islamic headscarf has emerged as a major polarizing issue during the presidential election for allegedly being antithetical to France’s fundamental value of secularism. The veil, or headscarf, has always been a highly charged issue for the French political class and a compulsive phobia for the French right. It has been called...
MOSCOW – Russia has announced retaliatory sanctions on 13 current and former UK officials, including Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Foreign Secretary Liz Truss and Defense Secretary Ben Wallace. Moscow banned several other Cabinet members and politicians from entering Russia over “unprecedented hostile action by the British Government, in...
PARIS – A man will stand trial in France for assaulting two Muslim women who were wearing headscarves, according to the women’s attorney. Lawyer Nabil Boudi said that the suspect will face charges at the Montpellier Criminal Court on September 14. The alleged assailant will face charges in court for temporarily preventing the two w...
WASHINGTON – Russia has formally protested via a diplomatic note against ongoing US arms shipments to Ukraine, warning of “unpredictable consequences” if they continue. The demarche came as US President Joe Biden signed off on an additional $800 million in military aid to Kyiv. Biden’s decision included heavy armaments ...
MOSCOW – Russia has declared 18 diplomats of the EU office in Moscow persona non grata, a move deplored by EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell as “unjustified”. Earlier, the Foreign Ministry summoned EU ambassador Marcus Exeter and expressed its strong protest against the expulsion of 19 Russian diplomats from the country&#...
PARIS- France’s Council of State has postponed until next week the verdict in the case of the Pessac Mosque in the Gironde department of southwestern France, which is threatened with closure for allegedly conveying a “Salafist ideology.” More than 100 faithful Muslims gathered to show their support to the mosque. Defense lawyer Sefen Guez Guez...
MOSCOW – Russia has vowed to increase strikes on Kyiv in response to Ukraine’s attacks on the Russian regions bordering Ukraine. The Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov said Ukraine’s combat helicopter that attacked Russia’s Bryansk region yesterday was shot down by the air defense systems. According to Konash...
