The Head of UK government’s equality watchdog said that Muslims are better integrating into the British modern, multi-ethnic, multicultural community than many Christians, warning that people of faith in general were “under siege” from atheists.

The life of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) would be the subject of a BBC documentary to be screened next July, depicting lesson and stages of Islam’s prophet life in Makkah and Madinah, the UK Unreality TV website reported on Tuesday, June 21.

Syrian security forces have shot dead seven people after government supporters and opponents clashed in three cities, activists say.The reported deaths on Tuesday came as tens of thousands of Syrians demonstrated in support of President Bashar al-Assad in major cities, a day after he pledged further reforms in an address to the nation.

Australian Muslim women will no longer have to pull off their face veil when submitting complains to police stations according to a plan from New South Wales Police Minister Mike Gallacher to take fingerprints instead, the Sydney Morning Herald reported on Tuesday, June 21.

In an effort to save his 11-year rule against a growing popular uprising, Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad said Monday, June 20, that he would seek to launch a national dialogue and initiate reforms that could lead to a new constitution.

Syrian forces fired on protesters on Friday as tens of thousands rallied against President Bashar al-Assad, defying a crackdown.Friday’s protests erupted despite a pledge that Assad’s tycoon cousin Rami Makhlouf, a symbol to protesters of elite corruption and unaccountability, would renounce his business empire and channel his huge wealth into charity.

Eyeing to get a share of the booming Islamic finance industry, a British firm has launched a Shari`ah-compliant fund to enable Muslims to save for retirement, the Zawya website reported.

Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has won a third term in parliament, winning nearly 50 per cent of the vote in the country’s general election.

Syrian forces backed by helicopters killed at least 28 people at nationwide protests for democracy on Friday, as the United States said it is stepping up pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step down.

A French Muslim couple living in Britain are to challenge France’s ban on full-face covering at the European Court of Human Rights, saying the ban has driven them out of their homeland.“The case clearly is of importance to my clients,” lawyer Robina Shah, of the Immigration Advisory Service in Birmingham, told Agnce-France Presse (AFP) on […]