A Dutch court on Wednesday sentenced a person to 90 days in jail for threatening Muslims on social media.
According to a statement by the court, the 33-year-old person threatened Muslims with death after Christchurch massacre in New Zealand.
On March 15, 2019, terrorist Brenton Tarrant attacked two mosques in the city of Christchurch during Friday prayers and killed 51 people and wounded 49 others.
“I will do the same. I will get a gun and kill all Muslims,” the convict...
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of “separatism.
Macron has so far stayed away from issues related to France’s Muslim community, the biggest in Europe, focusing instead on economic reforms.
In a much-anticipated intervention less than a month before mayoral elections, Macron said he would gradually put an end to the system in which...
Muslim communities in Germany have called for more police protection after the arrest of members of a rightwing extremist group that is believed to have been plotting large-scale attacks on mosques around the country.
Twelve men who were arrested following police raids on Friday had been planning attacks using semi-automatic weapons on worshippers during prayers in 10 German states, said to have been inspired by those carried out in New Zealand last year, according to a government...
Unknown assailants broke the windows of an Arabic mosque and a Muslim prayer room in the Germany city of Ulm late January, German Islamic magazine IslamiQ says. The places were targeted three times and the attacks caused damage worth about 4,000 euros, the police told the press.
According to police spokesman Wolfgang Jurgens, the attacks were carried out on the nights of Jan. 27, 28 and 31. However, in the official police reports, the attacks on the Islamic places of worship were not...
Every other day in 2019 a mosque, a Muslim institution or a religious representative in Germany was attacked against Islam.
"This is right-wing terror, which must be resolutely countered," explains Christine Buchholz, a member of the Left Bundestag. "The threat to people, mosques and other Muslim institutions is unacceptable."
Since January 2019, this has identified a certain sub-group of Islamophobic attacks, namely those on meeting places, cultural associations, cemeteries,...
At least one person was killed and 13 were injured in a double bomb attack this morning in a mosque in northeast Nigeria.
The attack happened in the early hours of the morning as worshipers gathered for the morning prayer at Gwoza site in Borno province.
Referring to statements by police officials, local Channel television reported that the two suicide bombers were carried out by two women who activated the explosives in front of the mosque.
So far no one has claimed...
Islamophobic attacks in France rose by 54% in 2019, the president of the National Observatory of Islamophobia said Monday.
In a written statement, Abdallah Zekri said there were 100 attacks against Muslims in France in 2018 and this rose to 154 in 2019.
The attacks mostly occurred in the Ile-de-France, Rhones-Alpes and Paca regions of the country, Zekri said.
He said there are no links between Islam and terrorism and Muslims in France should be able to practice their...
Jewish settlers set fire to a mosque in Jerusalem, vandalizing its walls with racial slurs.
Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that a group of settlers set fire to the Badriya mosque in Beit Safafa town.
The witnesses added that the townspeople put out the fire before it spread into the mosque.
The settlers sprayed Hebrew racial slurs on the wall of the mosque.
Palestinian towns and mosques are often suffer repeated racist attacks by settlers.
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Delta Air Lines has been fined US$50,000 by the US Department of Transportation to settle allegations it discriminated against three Muslim passengers who were ordered off their planes.
In its consent order on Friday, the department said it found Delta “engaged in discriminatory conduct” and violated anti-discrimination laws when it removed the three passengers.
In one incident on July 26, 2016, a Muslim couple were removed from Delta Flight 229 at Charles de Gaulle Airport in...
Myanmar has been ordered by the United Nations’ highest court to prevent genocidal violence against its Rohingya Muslim minority and preserve evidence of past attacks.
In a momentous and unanimous decision, the international court of justice (ICJ) in The Hague ordered Myanmar to carry out emergency, “provisional” measures, intervening in the country’s domestic affairs by instructing the government of Aung San Suu Kyi to respect the requirements of the 1948 genocide convention.
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A commission set up to investigate the 2017 crackdown in Rakhine that led hundreds of thousands of mostly Muslim Rohingya to flee Myanmar, has concluded that while some soldiers probably committed war crimes there was no genocide.
The Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) released the findings of its investigation, but not the full report, to the country's president on Monday, a few days before the United Nations' top court is set to rule on whether to impose urgent measures to...
İGÖÖ President Ümit Vural, the right-wing Austrian People's Party (ÖVP) and the far-right Freedom Party (FPÖ) in the coalition government passed during the parliamentary school and implemented in September 2019, the headscarf ban on schools has made statements.
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Vural pointed out that the headscarf is a religious practice of Muslim women known to all over the world, and as...
A deal between conservatives and Greens to form a governing coalition in Austria includes banning headscarves in school until the age of 14 and preventive custody for potentially dangerous individuals.
The measures are part of what conservative leader Sebastian Kurz describes as his tough stance on undocumented immigration and “political Islam”, aimed at appealing to his base but also to disillusioned former supporters of the far right, whose coalition with his party collapsed in May...
Amsterdam’s Islamic secondary school, the Cornelis Haga Lyceum, was the target of an attempted arson attack the night before pupils returned after the holidays, according to school leaders. Director Soner Atasoy told NRC that vandals appeared to have thrown a brick through a classroom window and poured flammable liquid over the teacher’s chair.
A canister of accelerant fluid was found in the playground. The school has been the focus of controversy last year over its teaching methods,...
According to Indian press reports, during the protests, police raided a madrasah in the city of Muzaffarnagar, Uttar Pradesh, and tried to get the students to say the words of Hinduism by calling them "terrorists."
The 68-year-old responsible of the madrasa, Mevlana Asad Rıza Hüseyni, said in a statement on the subject that he was among the people who were struck by the cops and that his left arm was broken and there was bandage on both legs.
"I didn't think I would, but God...