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US Report on International Religious Freedom monitors harassment and discrimination against Arab Shia and Muslim minorities

US Report on International Religious Freedom monitors harassment and discrimination against Arab Shia and Muslim minorities

The US state department’s Report on International Religious Freedom monitored harassment and discrimination against Arab Shias in some Gulf countries and North Africa, as well as against Muslim minorities in countries such as India, Myanmar and China. The annual report…
Tunisia drafting new constitution with no reference to Islam

Tunisia drafting new constitution with no reference to Islam

The legal expert charged with rewriting Tunisia’s constitution said Monday he would present President Kais Saied with a draft devoid of any reference to Islam, in order to confront Islamist parties. The first article of a constitution adopted three years…
Austria Mosque targeted in Islamophobic attack

Austria Mosque targeted in Islamophobic attack

An Islamophobic and racist attack targeting a mosque in Sollenau municipality, Austria, was reported on Monday, according to media sources. The words “Go back home” were written on the walls of the Yesil Mosque in Lower Austria by an unidentified…
U.S. lawmakers make efforts to stop their country’s support for Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war

U.S. lawmakers make efforts to stop their country’s support for Saudi Arabia in the Yemen war

Nearly 50 members of the U.S. House of Representatives introduced a resolution on Wednesday seeking to end any U.S. involvement in Saudi Arabia’s war on Yemen, with plans to introduce a similar measure in the Senate. Among other things, the…
McDonald’s intentionally sold Muslim family bacon

McDonald’s intentionally sold Muslim family bacon

A civil rights group says workers at a McDonald’s restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children. The Council on American-Islamic Relations announced Wednesday that it had…
United Nations: Ukraine war ‘aggravating’ existing global food crisis

United Nations: Ukraine war ‘aggravating’ existing global food crisis

As the cost of food soars around the world, the United Nations warns that the war in Ukraine risks aggravating inflating prices and causing a full-on global food crisis. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) food price index, a…
France: Bank accounts of four people from one family close after donating to a mosque

France: Bank accounts of four people from one family close after donating to a mosque

The dean of the Villeurbanne mosque, Azzedine Kasi, said that a French bank closed the account of citizens of Moroccan origin because they donated ten euros to a mosque under construction in Lyon, in the Rhône-Alpes province in southeastern France.…
Over 1,000 anti-Muslim attacks reported in Austria in 2021

Over 1,000 anti-Muslim attacks reported in Austria in 2021

Austria saw 1,061 incidents of anti-Muslim racism and Islamophobia last year, according to a new report released on Thursday. According to the 2021 Report on Anti-Muslim Racism released by the Austrian Documentation and Counseling Center for Muslims (Dokustelle Osterreich), the…
British MP launches petition to demand the release of Al-Singace and prisoners of conscience in Bahrain

British MP launches petition to demand the release of Al-Singace and prisoners of conscience in Bahrain

British MP Wendy Chamberlain called on the UK government to urgently intervene and pressure the Bahraini government to release the detained academic Abdul Jalil Al-Singace, after more than 320 days of hunger strike. The MP said during a parliamentary petition…
Shia Rights Watch issues monthly report on human rights violations against Shia Muslims

Shia Rights Watch issues monthly report on human rights violations against Shia Muslims

Shia Rights Watch released its monthly report on the most prominent human rights violations committed against Shia Muslims in May 2022.The report reviewed many of the terrorist operations carried out by terrorists against Shia Muslims, as well as the repression…
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