Europe

A United Nations panel has ruled that France discriminated against a Muslim woman who was prevented from attending a public school apprenticeship with a headscarf, according to a UN document. In 2010, Naima Mazhoud, now 45, was due to train…

The International Nonviolence Organization, Free Muslim, called on all official and popular parties in the Republics of Serbia and Kosovo to contain the current political crisis and work to end strife and remove the specter of war from the two…

The Muslim rights organization, CAGE released a report titled ‘We Begin to Spread Terror: The State-Sponsored Persecution of Muslims in France’ which covers in detail what it describes as “unprecedented repression against Islam and Muslims in France under the government…

The Danish capital, Copenhagen, witnessed a Husseini banner raising ceremony on the occasion of the month of sorrows for the family of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon them. The official website of the Shirazi Religious Authority stated in a news…

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…