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Two Muslim women stabbed in Paris with shouts of ‘dirty Arabs!” and “this is our home!”
On Sunday evening, two “European-looking” women stabbed two Muslim women in Paris after reportedly shouting racist insults. French police opened an attempted murder investigation after arresting the two suspects. The incident occurred on Sunday evening at the Champ de Mars Park, near the Eiffel Tower. The two victims, Kenza and Amel, were walking with two […] More
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“Disrespectful, provocative and rude,” Turkey President Erdogan slams French President Macron for saying ‘Islam is in crisis and needs reforming”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the French president’s recent claims about Islam amount to a dangerous provocation as reported by TRT World. “[Emmanuel] Macron’s statement on ‘Islam is in crisis’ in a city where Muslims are the majority go beyond disrespect and are a clear provocation,” Erdogan told a gathering of mosque […] More
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Arsenal Muslim star Mesut Ozil criticizes Muslim world for doing nothing for the Uyghur Muslims in China
England’s Premier League club Arsenal star Mesut Ozil on Friday accused Muslims of staying silent over what he called China’s persecution of Uyghurs in Xinjiang as reported by A News. On his Instagram account, the Turkish international wrote under the headline, “East Turkistan: Bleeding Wound of Islamic Ummah,” calling Uyghurs “warriors who resist persecution… Glorious believers […] More
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Social media hails a brave Muslim man who tried stopping burning of the Quran in Norway, condemnations came from worldwide
Social media was set ablaze with praises on Friday for a ‘Muslim hero’ who interrupted an anti-Islam rally last week to stop another man from burning a copy of the Quran in Norway. A scuffle broke out after the leader of the ‘Stop Islamisation of Norway (SIAN)’ rally, Lars Thorsen, tried to burn a copy […] More
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Qatar withdraws support for China over Beijing’s crackdown on Uyghur Muslim minority
Qatar has pulled out from the 13 countries which have backed China’s human rights record pointing that it is concerned about the situation of the Muslim Uighur minority group going through crackdown in the far western region of the Asian giant, Bloomberg reports. The tiny Gulf country has informed the United Nations Human Rights Council […] More
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Indian Muslim officer wants to change name to escape lynching and Hindu mobs hate
Upset over the rising mob lynching incidents in the country, a Muslim bureaucrat in the Kamal Nath government in Madhya Pradesh wants to change his name. In a series of tweets on Saturday, senior officer Niyaz Khan expressed his fear for the safety of the Muslim community in the country. Opening up about how he […] More
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“Uyghur Muslims under China’s draconian rule can neither fast nor pray during this Ramadan, 3 years in a row”, says Uyghur American Association
As Muslims worldwide began a month of abstaining from food or drink from dawn until sunset for Ramadan Monday, Uyghurs chafed under tough Chinese controls over observations of the annual Muslim holy month in the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). Activists and U.S. politicians meanwhile called for greater world attention to and condemnation of China’s […] More
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A top Angelican New Zealand girls school bans the Hijab
Students at a top Auckland girls Christian school were told the hijab violates dress code despite national calls to support Muslim community in the wake of a terrorist attack. Less than a week after the terror attack in Christchurch that killed 50 muslim worshipers, a top New Zealand girls school has banned the headscarf from […] More
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An ex-Guantanamo Bay Muslim’s powerful message on Christchurch mosques attack, stating who is really to be blamed and how Muslims should react
50 Muslims killed at Friday prayers in New Zealand terror attack by far right fanatics. When they can livestream murder of worshippers at prayer you know depravity has sunk to lowest pits as written by brother Moazzam Begg. This hatred has been stoked by politicians and media. They must be accounted alongside killers. They said […] More
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Disturbed Muslim parents withdraw 600 kids from school in Birmingham, UK over LGBT teachings in school curriculum row
Muslim parents reportedly withdrew 600 children from Parkfield Community School today after claiming they were being ‘brainwashed’ over gay lifestyles. The pupils were taken out of classes as the row surrounding LGBT lifestyles being taught openly in the classroom escalated as reported by Birmingham Mail. Some reports suggest as many as 80 per cent of […] More
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Anti-Islamic, hate-preacher Tommy Robinson banned from Facebook and Instagram for ‘violating community standards’
Tommy Robinson’s official pages have been banned from Facebook and Instragram for violating their “community standards”. Facebook announced the decision on Tuesday, stating that he had “repeatedly broken these standards, posting material that uses dehumanising language and calls for violence targeted at Muslims”. Mr Robinson tried to respond to the news in an Instagram story […] More
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Sweden U19 football team goalie embraced Islam, and since been facing threats
National footballer of Sweden’s U19 Women team converted to Islam after meeting Turkish Muslim boy A women goalkeeper for Sweden National Team under 19, faced huge criticism threats, insults over the past seven months following her conversion to Islam. Ronja Andersson, a member of the Uppsala Women’s Football team appeared on a TV show called Troll […] More