L’Avenue, a Paris restaurant popular with celebrities, has a system in place to keep out people with Arabic-sounding names and women in headscarves, an investigation by BuzzFeed News in France shows. BuzzFeed News spoke with four servers who worked at L’Avenue for several years, one until very recently. The four former employees claim that their …
Mosque in southern Sweden target of arson attack
The Islamic Cultural Center of Hässleholm was destroyed in a fire on May 19. Police are treating the fire as an arson attack, according to P4 Malmö. According to officials, a person entered the Islamic Cultural Center’s prayer room to purposely set the fire. The fire had the potential to spread to connected apartments, Magnus …
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Man, 26, hands himself in after student’s hijab almost pulled off in shocking hate crime at bus station
Police have made an arrest after five students were racially abused and one was attacked. The female victims were waiting for a bus at Newcastle Bus Station when they spotted a man urinating in the street. He then approached the group, spat at them and made racially abusive comments. The incident then turned violent when he head-butted …
Anti-Islam Pegida to roast pigs in front of mosques during Ramadan
Anti-Islam movement Pegida is planing to roast pigs on the spit in front of five mosques during Ramadan. The action is planned for mosques in Arnhem, Gouda, Rotterdam, Utrecht and The Hague, during the evening prayer, AD reports. The first demonstration will be held at the Ulu Camii mosque in Utrecht on June 4th. Similar actions …
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Israel forces damage Islamic cemetery in Jerusalem
Occupation officials from the Israel Nature and Parks Authority stormed the Islamic cemetery of Bab Al-Rahma, adjacent to the eastern wall of Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem, Quds Press reported on May 9. The Islamic Endowment Department in Jerusalem said that members of the Nature and Parks Authority stormed the cemetery protected by the Israeli police …
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Germany: Berlin court backs headscarf ban for teacher
A Berlin court on May 8 ruled that city authorities took the right decision to uphold the state’s neutrality law by barring a primary school teacher from wearing a headscarf during classes. Under the city state’s so-called neutrality law, public employees are prevented from wearing overt religious symbols and clothing. Justice Arne Boyer said such …
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How India’s institutions are failing Muslims
Muslims of India have been feeling more vulnerable and insecure in the first four months of 2018 than ever before. Recent cases of failed justice for crimes committed against them have disheartened the Muslim community. Even to outside observers, it is increasingly clear that Muslims are being ostracised and singled out and that state institutions are failing …
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Muslims recoil at a French proposal to change the Quran
A manifesto published in the French daily Le Parisien on April 21, signed by some 300 prominent intellectuals and politicians, including former President Nicolas Sarkozy and former Prime Minister Manuel Valls, made a shocking demand. Arguing that the Quran incites violence, it insisted that “the verses of the Quran calling for murder and punishment of Jews, Christians, and nonbelievers …
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Muslim man killed by Hindu woman’s family in Bikaner over love affair
The family of a Hindu woman allegedly thrashed her Muslim friend in Bikaner late on May 1 evening, leading to his death at a hospital a few hours later in yet another incident of communal violence in Rajasthan, and one that is reminiscent of the killing in Delhi earlier this year of a Hindu boy by the family …
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Denmark passes law banning burqa and niqab
Denmark has joined several European countries in banning garments that cover the face, including Islamic veils such as the niqab or burqa, in a move condemned by human rights campaigners as “neither necessary nor proportionate”. In a 75-30 vote with 74 absentees on May 29, Danish lawmakers approved the law presented by Denmark’s centre-right governing coalition. …
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