Islamophobia

Discrimination, hate against Muslims at ‘epidemic proportions:’ UN chief

Mar 18, 2021 16:23

United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned that hatred and discrimination against Muslims has risen to "epidemic proportions," calling for further collective efforts to promote social cohesion and religious tolerance.
Indian government policies systematically discriminatory against Muslims: HRW

Feb 23, 2021 17:22

"Everyone together," "development for all," and "everyone’s trust," these were the slogans of Indian Prime Minister Modi in almost all election campaigns since 2014, when his party fought a historic and a fierce campaign with a landslide victory.
HRW: Indian government policies, actions discriminatory against Muslims

Feb 19, 2021 19:09

Human Rights Watch (HRW) says the Indian government has adopted laws and policies that are discriminatory against the country's Muslim minority population.
Turkey urges action against racism on anniv. of Hanau attacks

Feb 19, 2021 18:23

Turkey has called on Europe to take action against racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia, as the country is set to mark one year since terrorist attacks in Germany’s western city of Hanau.
EU top court rules countries can ban halal slaughter

Dec 18, 2020 14:30

The European Union's top court has upheld curbs on ritual animal slaughter in Belgium, in a move that targets Muslim religious rites.
Erdogan hopes France will 'get rid of' Macron soon

Dec 04, 2020 17:22

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says he hopes France will "get rid of" President Emmanuel Macron in the shortest possible time, in his harshest remark against the French leader yet.
Canada Muslim massacre convict’s sentence set back from 40 to 25

Nov 27, 2020 10:13

The Court of Appeal in Quebec decides that a man from the province that murdered seven Muslims in an attack on a mosque there in 2017 can appeal for parole after 25 years instead of the 40 he had originally been handed down.
Pakistan govt. agrees to boycott French products after protests: Party

Nov 17, 2020 13:18

A Pakistani party says it has called off anti-France protests because the government has agreed to boycott French products over French President Emmanuel Macron’s defense of offensive cartoons attributing to Almighty’s Last and Greatest Messenger to mankind, Prophet Muhammad (blessings of God upon him and his progeny).
Pakistani lawyers protest French Islamophobia, urge closure of its embassy

Nov 13, 2020 12:21

Pakistani lawyers have staged a major protest rally against the anti-Islam rhetoric and positions of French President Emmanuel Macron in streets of the nation’s capital Islamabad, demanding the closure of France’s embassy in the Muslim country.
France hasn’t learned from dark past: Iranian intellectuals

Nov 05, 2020 05:38

A group of Iranian intellectuals strongly refute Emanuel Macron’s claim that support for sacrilege amounts to protection of free speech, saying the French president’s stance shows that his country is back on its decades-long abusive path.