Against a regular drumbeat of anti-Muslim rhetoric by the country’s political class, Muslims increasingly bear the brunt as places of worship become unsafe. A Turkish mosque in the Alpine community of Albertville in France was subjected to an arson attack on Tuesday. The announcement was made by the Milli Gorus Islamic Confederation (CIMG) on their …
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Sixty percent of Muslim youths surveyed in Massachusetts reported being mocked, verbally harassed or physically abused because of their Islamic faith, the state’s chapter of Council on American-Islamic Relations said in a report released Tuesday. The Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization said about one-third of students also altered their appearance, behavior, or names to …
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Labour court concluded that the company rejected a Muslim woman’s job application because of her faith and gender. A Muslim woman wearing a hijab applied for an administrative job at Brussels Intercommunal Transport Company (STIB-MIVB), but her application was rejected twice. A labour court in Brussels ruled that the law has been violated as the …
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The suspect has been named as Jurgen Conings, a military shooting instructor who took weapons from a barracks. He is said to have made threats in the past against virologist Marc Van Ranst, who led Belgium’s public health response to coronavirus. Mr Van Ranst and his family have been taken to a safe place. Latest …
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The actor, who has been the subject of multiple sexual misconduct allegations, is to play a detective in Franco Nero’s film about a man wrongly suspected of child abuse Kevin Spacey, the actor who has faced numerous allegations of sexual misconduct over the past four years, is set to return to film acting with a …
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A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children has been found in Canada at a former residential school set up to assimilate indigenous people. The children were students at the Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia that closed in 1978. The discovery was announced on Thursday by the chief of the Tk’emlups te …
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The authorities in Saudi Arabia have defended restrictions on the volume of loudspeakers at mosques. The country’s Islamic Affairs Ministry announced last week that all loudspeakers should be set at only a third of their maximum volume. Islamic Affairs Minister Abdullatif al-Sheikh said the measure was in response to complaints from the public. But the …
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A man accused of killing four members of a Canadian Muslim family by running them over in his pickup truck, targeted them in an attack motivated by hate, police said on Monday. Police in London, Ontario, citing witnesses, said that 20-year-old Nathaniel Veltman, jumped the curb in his vehicle on Sunday, struck five members of …
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The International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals on Tuesday rejected his appeal against 2017 convictions for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity. Mr Mladić, 79, known as “the Butcher of Bosnia”, presided over some of the most horrific crimes to occur in Europe since the Second World War. He commanded violent ethnic cleansing campaigns …
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German Health Minister Jens Spahn is facing fierce cross-party criticism after a report emerged about his ministry’s plans to dispose of unusable face masks by handing them out to vulnerable groups amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Health Ministry on Saturday hit back at the claims made in the German magazine Der Spiegel, saying all its …
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