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India’s Supreme Court said it will consider a legal petition calling for the prosecution of several Hindu religious leaders who delivered inflammatory speeches against Muslims in a closed-door meeting last month.Three of the Supreme Court justices said they had issued…

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…

Indian police arrested a Hindu youth, and a number of suspects in creating an application containing pictures of more than 80 Muslim women for “auctioning” over the Internet last year, an incident that previously sparked widespread controversy.Police said that the…

An investigation by the American Time magazine revealed that the Reddit platform is spreading hate speech and calls for the extermination of Muslims.Reddit’s problem is a global one, say current and former moderators. Indian subreddits like r/chodi and r/DesiMeta include…

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…

An estimated 200 people were killed and 10,000 displaced in attacks by armed bandits in the northwestern Nigerian state of Zamfara following military air raids on their hideouts last week.A spokesperson for Sadiya Umar Farouq, minister of humanitarian affairs, said…

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…

A Russia-led military alliance announced late Wednesday that it will send peacekeeping troops to Kazakhstan, where massive riots stemming from nationwide protests over high fuel prices have led to a state of emergency and the resignation of the government. Armenian…