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Green-domed mosques still dominate the skyline of China’s “Little Mecca”, but they have undergone a profound change — no longer do boys flit through their stone courtyards en route to classes and prayers.     Green-domed mosques still dominate the…

Lancashire council in the UK has voted to stop supplying schools with halal meat from animals killed without being stunned, in a move described as “discriminatory and Islamophobic” by Muslim leaders.   Lancashire council in the UK has voted to…

French President Emmanuel Macron said Sunday night that work on the “framework and rules” would start in the coming months to ensure that Islam “will be practiced everywhere in accordance with the laws of the republic.”      French President…

A mosque has opened its doors in Laingsburg, a town in the Western Cape province in South Africa, following a battle with the Friends of Christian Community Church, who objected to the construction of the mosque. They argued that the…

The UN health agency has warned about the “critical” conditions of civilians in Yemen’s Hudaydah, which has been subject to a Saudi-led offensive for weeks, saying military operations in the key port city threaten over 70 percent of the population…

Two Muslim Albanian men from Tetova city, the capital of the Albanian province in Slavic Macedonia (FYROM), are now filming their lifetime journey of Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca by bicycles.      Two Muslim Albanian men from Tetova city, the…

The trial in South Texas Mosque fire has begun with the main suspect in the hands of the justice at the federal courthouse in Victoria before Judge John D. Rainey.    The trial in South Texas Mosque fire has begun…

A Sunni hardliner and seminary teacher who beat his pupils “until it became normalized” has been jailed for 17 months after CCTV footage revealed up to 109 assaults on children attending his Islamic study classes in a Rochdale mosque.  …

A controversial German author is taking Random House to court over the publishing house’s decision not to release his latest book on Islam.      A controversial German author is taking Random House to court over the publishing house’s decision…

Belgium’s Muslim groups on Friday strongly condemned a recent Islamophobic attack in the country.      Belgium’s Muslim groups on Friday strongly condemned a recent Islamophobic attack in the country.  In a joint statement, the Belgian Muslim Executive Body (EMB)…