NEW YORK (AA): UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres expressed solidarity with the worldwide Muslim community Thursday in his meeting with the Ambassadorial Group of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC). Guterres condemned acts of intolerance, violence and Islamophobia, which exacerbate tensions and contribute to discrimination and ra...
LONDON – After a U.K.-based campaign group CAGE testified about the persecution of Muslims in France, its executive director Muhammad Rabbani was reportedly harassed. The French government barred Rabbani from entering France and detained him for nearly 24 hours. CAGE has been monitoring government policies in France that directly impac...
TORONTO (AA): Disrespect for holy books and places of worship is “unacceptable,” UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said on Thursday, in response to the desecration of the Quran in Sweden. “What we need is mutual respect. I think we’ve been very clear that the desecration of holy books, the desecration of places of worship ...
HARTFORD, Connecticut – Muslim lawmaker Maryam Khan, who was attacked last month outside a prayer hall has alleged that police was downplaying the assault. She was attacked by 30-year-old Andrey Desmond outside a prayer service in Hartford, the capital of the U.S. state of Connecticut. Desmond was previously charged with assault, trespassing ...
Stockholm, Sweden (AFP): A man stomped on the Quran outside Iraq’s embassy in Stockholm on Thursday but did not ignite the book, AFP saw, hours after protesters stormed Sweden’s Baghdad embassy over a possible burning of the Muslim holy book. Salwan Momika, 37, stomped and kicked the holy book but left the protest without burning [...
NEW YORK (AA): Protesters in Iraq stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad and set it on fire early Thursday over the burning of the Quran. Videos circulating online showed hundreds of protesters breaching Sweden’s embassy and waving flags and chanting. Smoke was rising from the embassy building, according to an Anadolu reporter in Iraq. T...
HELSINKI, Finland – Muslim groups in Finland have called on the government to take concrete steps to achieve “zero tolerance” of racism. The statement, signed by 26 Islamic communities and organizations, invoked Finland’s Freedom of Religion Act, which states that everyone has the right to practice their own religion. T...
STOCKHOLM (AA): A Syrian Muslim who obtained permission from the Swedish police to burn the Torah and the Bible in front of the Israeli Embassy in Stockholm chose not to burn the sacred books in response to the provocations of burning the copy of the Holy Quran. Ahmet Allus on Saturday told journalists in front […]
Vilnius, Lithuania (AFP/AA): President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday that Turkey would not be able to ratify Sweden’s NATO candidacy until at least October because parliament was not in session. “There is a two-month parliament holiday. Of course, it will not be possible to end this holiday before October,” Erdogan told...
BERLIN (AA) – A copy of the Holy Quran was burned and thrown in front of a mosque in southwestern Germany. According to the Turkish Muslim umbrella organization DITIB, the incident occurred on July 8 in front of the Mimar Sinan Mosque. The mosque is located in the town of Maulbronn in Baden-Wuerttemberg province. Osman […]
