HOUSTON, Texas (AA) – Hadi Matar, the man accused of stabbing award-winning author Salman Rushdie in the US state of New York, pleaded not guilty Thursday to multiple offenses. Matar, 24, was indicted by a grand jury on second-degree attempted murder and assault. The judge in the case ordered him held without bail. If convicted, [&hellip...
DHAKA, Bangladesh (AA) – Rohingya refugees have urged visiting UN rights chief Michelle Bachelet to create a conducive environment in Myanmar for the sustainable repatriation of the persecuted minority to their home country. Bachelet’s visit marked the first time a United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has visited Bangladesh ...
LONDON (AA) – The UK leadership candidates must address Islamophobia within the Conservative Party, according to the head of the country’s largest and most diverse Muslim umbrella organization. Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) Nusrat Ghani recently said that the party is institutionally Islamophobic and her “Muslimness&...
PARIS (AA) – A French court has suspended the expulsion of an imam accused by the Interior Ministry of disseminating anti-Semitic and anti-gender equality messages. In its decision, the administrative court of Paris said the expulsion of Imam Hassan Iquioussen, a Moroccan national born in France, would constitute a “disproportionate attack” on...
LONDON (AA) – Rishi Sunak, one of the main contenders to become the British prime minister, has been criticized over his proposals to strengthen the government’s anti-terror strategy. Sunak’s plans, which include expanding the definition of extremism and vilifying individuals who are critical of the UK foreign policy, has been described by a f...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AA) – Education Minister George Magoha met Muslim leaders in Kenya and NTV journalist Rukia Bulle to apologize for his offensive racist and Islamophobic remarks. The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji and the Supreme Council of Kenya Muslims (SUPKEM) chair Hassan Ole Naado were among Muslim leaders present...
ANKARA (AA) – Muslim women wearing headscarf for religious reasons face more discrimination than others when applying for jobs in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, revealed a survey conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. Utrecht University in the Netherlands, Oxford University in the UK, and the German Center for ...
ANKARA (AA) – Türkiye has slammed Greece’s decision of closing more schools belonging to the Muslim Turkish minority in Western Thrace as religious discrimination. “Discrimination is rule in Greece,” Tanju Bilgic, the Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. Sharing some numbers about the Turkish minority in Western ...
ANKARA (AA) – The Paris Prosecutor’s Office has opened an investigation against a French restaurant in Paris over racism charges. Three Black women of African descent were not let in the Manko Restaurant near the Champs-Elysees Street in Paris on the grounds that they did not dress up in evening clothes, Le Parisien reported. After...
GENEVA (AA) – The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has rejected Myanmar’s preliminary objections in a Rohingya genocide case brought by Gambia. In its judgment, which is final and without appeal, the ICJ unanimously rejected the first, second, and third preliminary objections raised and the fourth objection with one dissenting ...
