Europe

Anti-Islamophobia activists in France launched the “Job Hijab” platform to help the country’s veiled women find job opportunities amid restrictions on wearing the veil in the country. This initiative was welcomed by some tweeters on Twitter, as they confirmed that…

Veiled Muslim women face more discrimination than others when applying for jobs in Germany, the Netherlands and Spain, revealed a survey conducted by researchers from the Netherlands, Germany, and the UK, Anadolu News Agency reported. Utrecht University in the Netherlands,…

The city of Würzburg in Germany hosted the first and largest conference of Allah’s Greatest Eid, Eid al-Ghadir, in the presence of Islamic centers. The ceremony was sponsored by the Khatim al-Anbiya Islamic Center and hosted by the Islamic Center…

A pocket book containing three Islamic supplications attributed to Imam Ali, peace be upon him, has been published in the Italian language. The book, titled “Grandini Di Luce (stairs of light)”, also offers explanations about the supplications. It was published…

The Italian capital hosted a two-day international conference under the title “Catholics and Shias Facing the Future” in the presence of scientific and religious figures from the world’s Shias from Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, France, England, and cardinals from…

Amsterdam has admitted the role that Dutch peacekeepers played in massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica, offering apologies for this failure. The Netherlands offered its “deepest apologies” for the role played by Dutch peacekeepers in the Srebrenica genocide during the…

In yet another incident of anti-Muslim violence in Germany, a woman wearing a headscarf was physically attacked in the capital Berlin, local media reported Saturday. According to the daily Der Tagesspiegel, a 37-year-old attacker tore off the 39-year-old victim’s head…

Activists say the refugee crisis on the EU’s eastern borders is not over and will not end. The road to Europe via Belarus has become fixed, and is taken by migrants not only from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen, but…

A school principal in France insulted two veiled Muslim students for allegedly spreading Islam, according to a video clip published by the Coordination for Combating Islamophobia in Europe on its Twitter account. The video published by the Coordination indicated that…

The Labour MP, Apsana Begum, who has been signed off sick amid a “sustained campaign of misogynistic abuse”, is now facing a vote over whether she will be allowed to stand in the next election. The party confirmed the threshold…