Since India’s first round of polling was held on April 7, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has resorted to fiery speeches against the country’s 200 million Muslims. He has called Muslims “infiltrators” and implied that they have too many children. The opposition Congress Party has filed a complaint, accusing Modi of violating election rules. The...
Twenty-four-year-old Jacob Beacher has been arrested for a hate crime at Rutgers University’s Center for Islamic Life. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey announced that he allegedly broke in and destroyed property, including sacred items during Eid celebrations. He also stole a Palestinian flag and a donation box. The in...
The Chinese government has banned Uyghurs from using social media. threatening arrests, hefty fines, and other penalties. The ban forbids Uyghurs using social media apps like TikTok. Access to platforms like Twitter and YouTube, as well as cryptocurrency trading, has also been restricted. Ilshat Hassan Kokbore of the World Uyghur Congress say...
The Council on American-Islamic Relations has denounced the dismissal of charges against a man accused of urinating on the doorstep of a mosque in Tennessee. Despite video evidence showing the act in the city of Chattanooga, charges of vandalism and indecent exposure have been dropped. CAIR’s Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper has cr...
BERLIN (AA) – The number of Islamophobic crimes in Germany more than doubled over the last year, media reports have said. In 2023, some 1,464 crimes nationwide were classified as Islamophobic, compared to 610 anti-Muslim hate crimes in the previous year, German Press Agency reported, citing a government reply to an inquiry by Christian D...
New Delhi, India — AFP India’s ruling party has pledged to introduce a new common civil code for the country, calling it a crucial step for gender equality, a week before a general election in the world’s most populous nation. Nearly a billion Indians will vote to elect a new government in six-week-long parliamentary polls [&...
New York City has reached a $17.5 million settlement in a class-action lawsuit filed by two Muslim women. It was against the police policy of removing hijabs during arrest photos. Although the city denies wrongdoing, the New York Police Department has altered its policy. It no longer mandates removing head coverings during arrests. The sett...
A 14-year-old girl, identified as Samara, is in coma following an attack by three teenagers outside her school in Montpellier, France. The perpetrators, aged 14 and 15, including a fellow female student of the victim’s school, have been detained on suspicion of attempted murder. The attack comes amid heightened tensions in French school...
A court ruling in India’s northern Uttar Pradesh state has sparked protests among Muslim educators. The decision could lead to the closure of thousands of Islamic schools, directly affecting more than 16,000 institutions, about 2 million students and about 100,000 teachers. The Allahabad High Court invalidated the Uttar Pradesh Board of ...
Salwan Momika, an Iraqi Christian notorious for burning copies of the Quran in Sweden, has been arrested in Norway. Momika, facing deportation from Sweden, sought asylum in Norway. But upon arrival in the country on March 28, he was detained by Norwegian police. Authorities plan to deport him to Sweden under the Dublin Agreement. Momika [&hell...
