Europe

A French Muslim law student was forced to remove her hijab during an oath ceremony for the institution’s students to mark the new school year.Sarah, a 28-year-old student, said three men approached and asked her during the ceremony to accompany…

The French Le Monde newspaper revealed that the French authorities have adopted, since the beginning of this year, a package of political and religious measures prepared throughout the past year, to become new laws governing religious life in the country.The…

The French government confirmed this week the formation of the “Islam Forum in France” with the aim of replacing the “French Council of the Muslim Faith” whose record has been criticized after 20 years of its formation.The head of the…

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the removal of Iraq from the European Union’s list of countries with high risks in the field of combating money laundering and terrorist financing.The Foreign Ministry said in a statement, that the European Commission…

Green party politician and Germany’s new agriculture minister, Cem Özdemir, condemned the recent Islamophobic attack on a Muslim cemetery in the country’s northwest, the German Embassy in Turkey said on Tuesday. The embassy was referring to the tens of gravestones…

Unidentified persons sent postal letters containing caricatures of Islam and the Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him and his progeny, to a number of mosques in the Netherlands.The Netherlands Religious Endowment (HDV) condemned, in a statement, sending such letters to…

French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin condemned the “hateful acts and contrary to the values of the republic” against Muslims in the country.In a tweet, he called on his Twitter account, to support Muslims, following the targeting of a mosque in…

On Tuesday, December 28, 2021, the French authorities closed a mosque in the city of Beauvais, in the north of the country, on the pretext that the mosque’s sermons “incite hatred and violence and glorify jihad,” it said.The administration of…

Five MPs from France’s Republican Party have introduced a bill aiming to “make the signature of the Charter of Principles of Islam in France mandatory for all mosques in France.”The law also proposes “closing any mosque in case of refusal.”According…

The UN said Tuesday that its investigators had not been granted access to the Belarus-Polish border but their probe had uncovered “dire conditions” for migrants camped there.A UN rights office team had travelled to Poland from November 29 to December…