Muslim-American students in California are bullied and discriminated against in schools at a rate double that of all students nationally – and much of it via administrators, teachers, textbooks and peers, according to a report by a prominent Muslim-American advocacy group.
A UN rights expert warned Thursday of turmoil inMyanmar if next week’s landmark elections fall short of expectations for a credible vote.
Playing the role of a Muslim student in her latest film, a young German actress has revealed that she felt a strange serenity when she put on hijab for the first time, despite of people looks at her.
Islamophobic hate crimes are to be recorded as a separate category for the first time by police in England and Wales, UK’s Prime Minister David Cameron has announced. Due to this move anti-Muslim attacks and anti-Sematic ones will be treated as same.
A British school has reported a 10-year-old Muslim student to police on suspicion of extremism, after he demanded a prayer room, enraging parents who accused the school of being “unfair.”
A British Muslim woman doused with alcohol on train; another whose hijab was pulled off before she suffered a hail of kicks and punches; yet another dubbed an “ISIS sympathizer” by a racist assailant who wanted to “blow her face off”.
Muslim leaders of mosques in at least 20 cities across the United States, are bracing themselves for anti-Islam demonstrations scheduled for Friday and Saturday by a loose group of potentially armed rightwing protesters according to a report in The Guardian.
Catering to the growing number of Muslims, the North Carolina city of Chapel Hill will open its first mosque in the next few weeks, fulfilling a five-year-old dream of the religious minority.
Reflecting a growing anti-Muslim sentiment in Canada amid ongoing identity & niqab debates, a second Muslim woman has been attacked in a Toronto mall in front of her daughters.
A leading Chicago Muslim organization has announced plans for hosting open day next Sunday in several mosques around the city, offering answers to anyone curious to learn about Islam.