A vehicle that was set on fire in the car park of the Merkez Mosque affiliated to DITIB became unusable. A vehicle found in the car park of the Central Mosque affiliated to the Turkish-Islamic Union of Religious Affairs (DITIB) on Schmidtstr Street in the city of Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, was set on fire …
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Spain’s Catholic Church is to open an investigation into alleged sex abuse of hundreds of children by members of the clergy dating back 80 years that the newspaper El Pais has uncovered, the daily said on Sunday. The investigation will look into allegations of abuse against 251 priests and some lay people from religious institutions …
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The promise was a war waged by all-seeing drones and precision bombs. The documents show flawed intelligence, faulty targeting, years of civilian deaths — and scant accountability. Shortly before 3 a.m. on July 19, 2016, American Special Operations forces bombed what they believed were three ISIS “staging areas” on the outskirts of Tokhar, a riverside …
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Turgut Baştan, who lives in the town of Nibelle, near the city of Orleans, France, and his family, were left with bloody pig feet in front of their house last week. The townspeople supported the Baştan family, who was subjected to racist attack, with a demonstration they organized. The crowd marching with banners reading “solidarity” …
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The international community must hold Israel to account for its 54-year occupation of Palestine, a UN human rights expert said on Thursday, five years after the UN Security Council called for all settlement activities in Palestinian territories to end. “On the fifth anniversary of the adoption of Resolution 2334 by the United Nations Security Council, …
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A firearms store and gun range in suburban Kansas City refused to let a Muslim woman use the range unless she removed her hijab, a Muslim civil rights organization alleged in a federal lawsuit. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the Council on American-Islamic Relations and the law firm of Baldwin & Vernon in Independence alleges …
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According to a new study, the pandemic, far from reducing anti-Muslim hate crimes has accelerated some of the worst narratives against Islam and Muslims. A new report on Islamophobia in Europe has warned that hate crimes against Muslims in the continent have “worsened, if not reached a tipping point,” over the last two years. The …
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Over 28,000 children have been killed in conflicts since 2005 in Afghanistan, the United Nations Children’s Fund said on Friday in a press release, reports Tolo news online. According to UNICEF, Afghanistan has the highest number of verified child casualties since 2005. ‘Afghanistan, for example, has the highest number of verified child casualties since 2005, …
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Nearly 40% of the Yemeni population are facing “inadequate food” problems, a UN body announced on Monday. Despite continued efforts to mitigate the risk of famine in Yemen, food insecurity continues to remain a key challenge in the country, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Twitter. “Acute food insecurity is …
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The Dutch Religious Foundation issued a statement Monday condemning the sending of letters to several mosques in the Netherlands with Islamophobic content. The mosques, which are affiliated with the foundation, also known as Hollanda Diyanet Vakfı (HDV), received the letters last week, which included cartoons insulting the Prophet Muhammad and Islam. The foundation said in …
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