Europe

The International Nonviolence Organization (Free Muslim) has expressed its strong condemnation of the racist acts that targeted the Takhteet al-Islam Mosque building in the Dutch city of Veldhoven, calling on the authorities to prosecute the perpetrators and arrest them to…

Former Swedish Foreign Minister Jan Eliasson has called for putting an end to the Quran burnings by the far-right, noting that such an act amounts to crime under Swedish law. “Quran burning should be seen as incitement against a group…

The South Wales Argos daily newspaper, published in Newport, western Britain, reported that the oldest Husseini mourners in the city held the Ashura ceremony of Imam Hussein (peace be upon him) in a remarkable and significant way. Newport is the…

A Muslim woman of African descent documented the moment she faced a racist attack by a female administrator in a special center for the elderly in France because of her hijab. According to a video clip posted by a woman…

Due to lack of services, jobs and human rights violations, the number of immigrants leaving their countries is dramatically increasing. The French website “Mediapart” said that deaths are increasing among illegal immigrants without this provoking a slightest reaction on the…

 The Fatima al-Zahra Islamic Cultural Center in Winterthur, Switzerland, one of the centers affiliated with the Office of the Supreme Religious Authority, Grand Ayatollah Sayyed Sadiq al-Husseini al-Shirazi, may Allah prolong his life, hosted the mourning ceremonies for the year…

Shias of the Ahlulbayt (peace be upon them) in Greece are now able to revive their various religious rituals and mourning activities, in the new Mahdia Center, which was recently inaugurated with the efforts of followers of the Supreme Religious…

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…