PARIS (AA) – Two young Muslim women who were beaten by police in France last year were taken into custody on Tuesday. University students Myriam, 24, and Maryam, 25, were assaulted by police officers in Asnieres-sur-Seine city, near Paris, on April 14, 2022. They were summoned by the court on Tuesday and subsequently taken into […...
MOSCOW (AA) – Head of the Russian upper chamber of parliament called on members of European parliaments on Saturday to publicly condemn the incidents of desecration of the Quran. In a post on Telegram, Valentina Matvienko said Russian lawmakers voiced strong protest against the recent Islamophobic actions in Sweden and the Netherlands. &...
BERLIN (AA) – Berlin Justice Senator Lena Kreck of the Left Party wants to change the so-called neutrality law, which blanketly bans female teachers from wearing headscarves, as soon as possible. “The fact that criticism of the constitutionality of Berlin’s neutrality law is justified has now also been confirmed by the Federa...
ANKARA (AA) – Norway cancelled its permission to burn the Quran, Islam’s holy book, after Ankara warned against it, Türkiye’s foreign minister said on Thursday. Speaking at an event in the Turkish capital Ankara, Mevlut Cavusoglu said that the acceleration of globalization and change has lead to hate crimes, Islamophobia, racism, xenopho...
WASHINGTON (AA) – The US House of Representatives voted along party lines Thursday to remove one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress from her seat on the influential Foreign Affairs Committee. The 218-211 vote saw all Democrats vote in opposition to removing Ilhan Omar from the panel. Nearly all of the chamber’s [&hel...
Ottawa, Canada (AFP): Canada’s parliament has unanimously passed a motion to take in 10,000 Uyghur refugees who fled China. The move builds on a February 2021 move by Canadian lawmakers to label Beijing’s treatment of Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims in its northwestern Xinjiang territory as genocide. Rights groups believe at least...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye summoned the Norwegian Ambassador in Ankara Erling Skjonsberg over reported plans to desecrate the holy Quran in the Scandinavian country on Friday, according to Turkish diplomatic sources. “Upon learning that there will be an attack against our holy book, the Quran, in Norway tomorrow, the Norwegian ambassado...
ISTANBUL (AA) – Hate speech in Denmark benefited from “police protection” under “the name of freedom of expression,” says the latest report of the Council of Europe’s anti-racism commission ECRI. The report was released amid furor over recent Islamophobic acts by Danish-Swedish politician Rasmus Paludan, leader of...
STOCKHOLM (AA) – Police in Finland have said the public burning of Islam’s holy book would not be allowed in the country. The National Police Board said that burning a copy of the Quran would likely violate religious peace, which is a punishable offence in Finland. The public burning or other desecration of a book […]
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye will not ratify Sweden’s bid for NATO membership unless it fulfills obligations under the tripartite memorandum, the country’s foreign minister has said. “If one day Sweden fulfills its obligations, then we will sit down and see. But at the moment, it is not possible for us to say yes to Sweden’s [...
