Pakistan has condemned rising racist and Islamophobic remarks against British Pakistanis in the U.K. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs voiced concern over attempts to vilify the diaspora of 1.7 million. Controversy erupted after Indian lawmaker Priyanka Chaturvedi’s social media post labeled “Asian grooming gangs” as “Pakistani grooming g...
France’s Interior Minister has urged banning Muslim women from wearing hijabs during school trips, citing the need to curb Islamist influences. Bruno Retailleau made the call on the 10th anniversary of the Charlie Hebdo attacks. Twelve people were killed by Al-Qaeda terrorists after the magazine published offensive cartoons about Prophet Muha...
ISTANBUL (AA) — A populous western German state will open the country’s first anti-Muslim racism reporting center in spring 2025, local media reported. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia, home to more than 1.7 million Muslims, will establish the center, called MEDAR, to document and report attacks and crimes targeting Muslims. The center, whi...
WASHINGTON (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump’s top border adviser said Thursday that the new administration will reintroduce family detention for migrants with children. “You knew you were in the country illegally and chose to have a child. So you put your family in that position,” Tom Homan told The Washington Post. ...
President-elect Donald Trump has vowed to restore Alaska’s Mount Denali to its former name, Mount McKinley, honouring 19th-century President William McKinley. Addressing a crowd in Phoenix, Trump criticised the 2015 decision by the Obama administration to revert to the mountain’s Indigenous name, Denali. Trump called the renaming unfair to McK...
Michael Anton, named by President-elect Donald Trump as director of policy planning at the State Department, faces backlash for past writings. Anton has been espousing white nationalist and Islamophobic views. In a 2016 essay, using the pseudonym Publius Decius Mus, Anton wrote the U.S. Constitution serves Americans alone, not immigrants or fo...
More than 1 million foreign nationals, including people from nations reeling under terrorism, have been granted Temporary Protected Status (TPS) under the Biden administration. As of Sept. 30, roughly 1,095,115 foreign nationals from Afghanistan, Haiti, Venezuela, and Lebanon, among others, were granted TPS, according to a new report by the Co...
President Joe Biden has designated the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania as a national monument. The move aims to highlight the painful history of Native American boarding schools in the U.S. The Carlisle School, which operated from 1879 to 1918, was the first federally funded off-reservation boarding school. It aimed ...
ISTANBUL (AA) – President-elect Donald Trump named Caleb Vitello as the new acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), signaling a strong push to begin mass deportation efforts immediately upon taking office. ICE welcomed the appointment, citing Vitello’s extensive experience and Trump’s focus on addressing illegal imm...
A Manhattan court has acquitted former U.S. Marine Daniel Penny in the choking death of Jordan Neely aboard a New York subway. After a grueling seven-week trial and extensive deliberations, Penny was found not guilty of criminally negligent homicide, a charge stemming from an incident caught on a video that went viral. Neely’s death in [&helli...
