Bamako, Mali (AFP): Thousands of demonstrators thronged Mali’s capital Bamako on Friday to protest the publication of a video on social media deemed blasphemous against Islam. Six people were held on Thursday accused of complicity in circulating a “blasphemous” video showing a man making “derogatory comments” and ...
More than 10,000 Muslims met Saturday for a one-day conference in Minneapolis. It was one of the largest Muslim gatherings in the state since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Several Minnesota mosques organized the event, led by Dar al-Faruq Center and the Muslim American Society. It marked the 18th consecutive annual convention aimed at [...
U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk on Wednesday called for a moratorium on forced returns of refugees and migrants to Burma. His comments follow news that Malaysia deported two Burmese nationals who sought protection through the U.N. refugee agency on Oct. 6. More than 100 other nationals from Burma, some of whom had serious protection [&hel...
TORONTO (AA) – A study conducted in Canada has revealed the networks that funded Islamophobia, as it “has become a transnational sector.” Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Jasmin Zine, a professor of Sociology, Religion and Culture, and the Muslim Studies Option at Wilfrid Laurier University, said the Islamophobia industry has a ma...
Community leaders say Fargo, North Dakota’s Islamic Cemetery has been the target of a vandalism spree. Last Friday, an employee at the cemetery entered the building housing concrete vaults used in burials. Heidi Soliman, a spokesperson with the Islamic Society of The Islamic Society of Fargo, said the employee found all the vaults had been [&h...
ROTTERDAM, Netherlands (AA) – Dutch police on Saturday arrested a leader of far-right Islamophobic group Pegida, which ended the planned Quran burning rally of the group in Rotterdam before it started. Anti-Islam movement Pegida earlier announced that they would gather in the city center of Rotterdam on Saturday to burn a copy of Quran, Muslim...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – A Canadian man who perpetrated a “racially motivated” attack on a Black Muslim woman and her daughter was sentenced Friday to 16 months in prison and probation for two years. Richard Bradley Stevens, 43, accosted the pair Dec. 8, 2020, while they were sitting in their car outside a shopping mall [&helli...
TRENTON, Canada (AA) – Authorities are searching for a graffiti writer who vandalized a mosque in Toronto last week. Police have an image of the graffiti writer that was captured on security camera and have issued a description of the suspect. Authorities appealed to the public to come forward with information related to the incident. [&...
OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The trial against members of the Spanish neo-Nazi group ‘Hogar Social Madrid’ has started. The radical Islamophobic group has been involved in orchestrating an attack on Madrid’s largest mosque. Prosecutors are demanding three years in jail for inciting hatred against Muslims for the group’s leader,...
Muslim Americans have expressed concerns about the appointment to an interfaith council of a senior member of an organization associated with a Hindu supremacist group. Chandru Acharya has been appointed to the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) faith-based religious council in order to advise the US government on domestic is...