OVIEDO, Spain (AA) – The UN human rights chief on Wednesday slammed recent “despicable incidents” of desecration of Muslims’ religious scripture in Europe. They are “deliberate provocations… intended to drive wedges between countries and communities,” Volker Turk, the UN high commissioner for human rights, said at a high-level conf...
BIRMINGHAM, England (AA) – UK-based advocacy group CAGE’s Managing Director Muhammad Rabbani was denied entry into Poland, where he was to speak at a conference, at France’s request. In a statement, CAGE said that Rabbani was due to deliver “another critical speech against France’s state-sponsored Islamophobia, as he had done last ...
Rabbani claims that France shared information about him with Poland, which led to his deportation LONDON – A representative of the civil rights group Cage claimed that he was deported from Poland under pressure from the French government. Muhammad Rabbani, the director of U.K. chapter of Cage, said the move came after he criticized Franc...
TOPEKA, Kansas – The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has sued Chipotle, alleging religious harassment towards a former Muslim employee, Areej Saifan, in Kansas. Saifan claims that an assistant manager continually pestered her over several weeks to reveal her hair by removing her hijab. The situation escalated on August 9, ...
CAIR-Chicago suspects possible link to the ultra-rightist Hindutva RSS movement, involved in burning of Quran CHICAGO, Illinois – The Chicago branch of the Council on American-Islamic Relations has condemned the incident of a Quran burning in Naperville. The incident, which took place over the summer, was only recently made public on so...
Nabil Haidar, had sued San Jose Police Department, asserting that he was persistently subjected to anti-Muslim comments SAN JOSE, California – A former Lebanese-origin American police officer from San Jose, California, has been awarded a $400,000 settlement over allegations of harassment based on his Muslim faith. Nabil Haidar, had sued ...
Guide does not just outline the problems but provides practical advice and also offers guidance to concerned parents WASHINGTON – The Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, unveiled a comprehensive anti-bullying guide specifically designed for Muslim students and their families. This comes after a study by CAIR-CA in 2021 reveal...
ISTANBUL (AA) – The dean of Georgetown University Qatar on Sunday called for collective action against Islamophobia at the conclusion of a two-day gathering focused on the threat of hatred of Islam. Safwan M. Masri, who is also the distinguished professor of the practice at Georgetown’s Walsh School of Foreign Service, hailed Qatar for its [&h...
Eyewitnesses say Ishaq, a mentally challenged person, had taken a banana from the makeshift Hindu temple NEW DELHI, India – A 22-year-old Muslim man was brutally lynched in the Indian capital of New Delhi after allegedly stealing a banana from a makeshift Hindu temple. The makeshift Hindu temple on the sidewalk, called pandal, was built...
BRUSSELS (AA) – Organizations representing the Muslim community in Belgium have challenged a law in the Flemish region at the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) on the grounds that it violates freedom of religion and worship. According to a statement by the Belgian Religious Foundation on Thursday, the petition was submitted under the...