Europe

A Glasgow woman has been elected the head of Britain’s biggest Muslim organization.Zara Mohammed was voted in yesterday as the secretary general of the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), making her the group’s first female leader.Zara, a master’s graduate in…

A new decision by politicians in the ruling Christian Union in Germany has angered a large number of Muslims, because of their demand for mosque registration work aimed at opposing Islamic activities in the country.Media sources, followed by Shiawaves, said…

The British Lancashire Telegraph newspaper said that hospitals in Lancashire Province received donations of portable Quran players to provide psychological relief to Muslim patients.The newspaper added that the digital Qurans were donated to five hospitals in East Lancashire. They are…

The number of Islamophobic incidents in France, home to Western Europe’s largest Muslim community, rose sharply last year amid controversy over the government’s stance toward the religious minority, the head of a monitoring group said Friday.According to the head of…

Several prominent human rights organizations have filed a lawsuit against the French government over racist and discriminatory acts by the police against Muslims and minorities, which recently sparked angry protests across France.“Six NGOs, including Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International,…

Leader of the far-right in France Marine Le Pen said she would present her party’s National Front vision to fight what it claimed was “political Islam”.During her first electoral rally, after announcing her candidacy for the 2022 presidency, Le Pen…

A parliamentary committee in the French National Assembly has approved the controversial bill “Principles for Promoting Respect for the Values of the Republic”, which was first known as “combating separatist Islam.”French Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin announced, in a tweet through…

A mosque near the Denmark-Germany border suffered an Islamophobic attack when someone wrote insulting articles on its walls, an official at the facility said Saturday.Hursit Tokay, the president of the mosque association, told Anadolu Agency that he left the Aabenraa…

Members of the European Parliament sent a letter to the European Union Minister of Foreign Affairs Josep Borrell before his meeting with the Bahraini Minister of Foreign Affairs next week, in which they expressed their concern about the deteriorating human…

A group of lawyers, NGOs and religious bodies from 13 countries have submitted formal complaints to the United Nations Human Rights Council (OHCHR), calling for action against France’s “breadth of state abuse against Muslims” stretching back more than two decades.The…