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Austria’s government is facing backlash for launching an “Islam Map” that shows the locations of more than 600 mosques and Muslim associations across the country.The map is intended to “fight political ideologies, not religion,” Integration Minister Susanne Raab said Thursday.…

UNICEF has condemned a terrorist Boko Haram suicide attack in the Central African country of Cameroon that killed at least 15 civilians, including five children ranging from age 3 to 14.“I condemn this horrific act and call for the immediate…

The Council of Europe on Monday called upon Austria to withdraw the controversial “Islam map”.Publication of the map is hostile to Muslims and potentially counterproductive, the top European human rights body said in a statement.Countering extremism and ideologies that spread…

Shia Rights Watch released its monthly report on the most prominent human rights violations committed against Shia Muslims from May-June 2021.The report reviewed many of the terrorist operations carried out by terrorists against Shia Muslims, as well as the repression…

The Mayor of Vienna, Michael Ludwig, criticized the government of Chancellor Sebastian Curtis for launching a website called “The National Map of Islam,” noting that the site promotes apartheid in Austrian society.Ludwig explained in a tweet via Twitter, that the…

For two consecutive days, the Al-Husseini Islamic Center in Peterborough, eastern England, hosted the temporary mobile testing center for coronavirus tests.A statement by the center, made available to Shia Waves, said, “The Islamic center, in cooperation with the mobile testing…

The British Middle East Eye warned against the return of ISIS terrorist families from al-Hol camp in Syria, describing their return to the city of Mosul as a time bomb.The report stated that “about 300 people or 90 families of…

Nigerian police said that armed men kidnapped, yesterday evening, dozens of children from a Quranic school in the north of the country.There are fears that up to 200 children have been kidnapped.Gunmen attacked the Saliho Tanko Islamic School in the…

The Islamic Religious Society of Austria (IGGOE) has revealed that it intends to file a lawsuit against the government of Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for launching a controversial website called Map of Islam.IGGOE, an intergovernmental organization representing Muslim interests in Austria,…

Niger authorities announced that army units repelled, with heavy weapons, a major attack by the terrorist group Boko Haram on Diffa, the large city located in southeastern Niger near the border with Nigeria, without announcing the outcome of the losses.A…