NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Four members of a Bengali Muslim family, including a 16-year-old boy, were detained in India and allegedly pushed across the border into Bangladesh despite electoral and identity records indicating longstanding ties to India. Police detained 60-year-old Dablu Saikh and his sons Kayem, 29, Rajaul, 20, and Asmaul, 16, f...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — A 50-year-old man has been charged over a torrent of racist and Islamophobic abuse directed at a 13-year-old Muslim girl on a Sydney bus, an attack Australia’s anti-Islamophobia envoy said reflected a disturbing trend of younger victims, ABC News reported. The man was arrested at a home in Greenacre, in Sydney&...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A mosque and an Islamic seminary were attacked with stones as a Hindu religious procession passed through a town in southern India, in the latest incident involving Muslim religious sites during Hindu festival processions that have increasingly become flashpoints for anti-Muslim hostility and violence across the count...
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) – A teenage schoolgirl who was called an “immigrant terrorist” aboard a crowded Sydney bus has been praised for her bravery as a man faces court over the vile remarks that shocked commuters, reports The Sydney Morning Herald. Janna, 13, was wearing her hijab and school uniform when she saw an older […]
SYDNEY, Australia (MNTV) — A 13-year-old Muslim girl was subjected to a torrent of racist abuse on a Sydney bus, in an incident police are investigating and that advocates say reflects a sharp rise in anti-Muslim hostility in Australia, SBS News reported. The girl, Janna, an eighth-grader born in Australia, was traveling toward Greenacre in [&...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A senior Muslim police officer in eastern India has been transferred a day after a Hindu group complained about her use of common Islamic expressions in a motivational video, triggering criticism that visible expressions of Muslim identity are increasingly being treated as incompatible with public office. Bushra Bano,...
BERLIN (MNTV) — The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has reached 30% support in a nationwide poll for the first time, opening a 10-point lead over Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s conservatives — a milestone that underscores how a party built substantially on hostility toward Islam and Muslims has moved from the margins toward the hear...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Muslim families in India’s West Bengal state say relatives have been seized from their homes during midnight raids and detained as suspected Bangladeshis. Some families say their relatives have effectively disappeared as the Hindu nationalist BJP government intensifies a citizenship crackdown that disproportionately t...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — A Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party government in eastern India has ordered 252 Muslim madrasas to shut and placed another 100 at risk of closure, intensifying a growing witch-hunt against Islamic educational institutions under BJP rule. The sweeping action in West Bengal follows a statewide investigation order...
NEW DELHI, India (MNTV) — Authorities in India’s northeastern Assam state have demolished 73 homes in Muslim-majority Goalpara district, leaving families without shelter even as residents say they legally owned the land on which their houses were built. The demolition drive was carried out across several villages in the Krishnai area und...
