When a mosque in suburban Virginia became the target of a firebomb attack, faith leaders decided that rather than turn inward, it was the moment to embrace the local community.

All Muslim immigration to the United States should be halted, Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump said Monday.

The Italian government intends to close down clandestine mosques in the country as part of the fight against terrorism, Interior Minister Angelino Alfano announced Friday.

The Muslim community living in Britain have been victims of more than 100 racial attacks since the terrorist attacks in Paris, figures prepared for ministers reveal.

A French Muslim woman wearing a niqab was punched then slashed as she left a metro station in Marseille as anti-Muslim hate crimes appear to be increasing in the wake of the Paris terrorist attacks.

A surge of anti-Islam sentiment swept across Australia on Sunday as protesters waving placards displaying slogans screaming “Say No to Sharia Law” and “Halal is Extortion” attended rallies nationwide organized by far-right wing group Reclaim Australia and splinter group, LoveAustraliaOrLeave.

Several mosques have been vandalised and a number of suspected hate crimes targeting Muslims carried out after dozens of United States governors announced they would not accept Syrian refugees in their states.

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve has said Sunday he would begin the “dissolution of mosques where hate is preached,” as quoted by Le Figaro newspaper reports Sputnik.

In the age of internet technology, digital printing and 24-hour news channels, the headlines have never travelled faster.

France has decided to close its borders, declare a nation-wide state of emergency, and deploy its army in and around Paris after at least 153 people were killed and dozens injured in multiple shootings, a 100-person hostage crisis, and explosions rocked the French capital late on Friday.