Citing China’s ban on fasting the holy month of Ramadan in the Muslim dominant Xinjiang district, the World Uyghur Congress has accused Beijing of launching an “unnamed war against Muslims and Islam.”
For the past two Fridays, since the Islamic fasting month of Ramadan began some 12 days ago, thousands of Muslims have filled Jamia Masjid, Kenya’s largest mosque, located in Nairobi’s central business district.
A Muslim couple were verbally abused by a group of teenage girls in a Greater Manchester tram, in an attack that sparked angry comments from social media users.
Masked men attacked a mosque in Massachusetts Wednesday that left several windows broken, an official and a community leader said.
Worried about the latest surge of anti-Muslim hate crimes, Canadian Muslim groups have launched a national campaign to combat hatred, educate Canadians about the ramifications of hate crimes and to help find ways to address this phenomenon.
In what is perceived as a rebellion against Norway liberal society, a growing number of youth have been reverting to Islam, seeing it as offering a goal to their lives and showing guidelines and rules many of them miss in society.
Myanmar rejected as unbalanced comments made by several Nobel Peace Prize winners calling for an end to the persecution of Rohingya Muslims.
On Friday thirty Muslim students were denied entry to the De Mot-Couvreur institute in Brussels for wearing long skirts.
Islamophobia was on rise particularly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but it’s frequency and notoriety has increased in the U.S. during the past decade, Muslim leaders here say.
In operations by Chinese occupying forces have detained 181 Uighurs in Eastern Turkestan.