INTERNATIONAL Muslims who challenged the constitutionality of the “no-fly list” were removed from it after they sued the government, prompting concerns that the programme wants to evade legal scrutiny. “The government removes people from their secret lists only when they fear that a court might impose restraint on their lawlessness,”[…]
INTERNATIONAL The Islamic community of Salvador, in Brazil’s Bahia state, has pushed Harvard University to repatriate the skull of an enslaved man who allegedly took part in a famous uprising of African Muslims in the city in 1835. The skull is part of a Harvard collection of human remains of[…]
INTERNATIONAL Parents in the deprived region are encouraging their sons to fight out of fear that local authorities could retaliate if they refuse. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s partial mobilisation last month to deploy troops to Ukraine has created disarray in its Muslim-majority Caucasus territories and led to violent protests. But Circassians and other Muslims living in the[…]
INTERNATIONAL It’s late afternoon, and silence has replaced the hustle and bustle in the restaurants and clothes shops on Leicester’s celebrated Golden Mile along Belgrave Road. Premises that would typically be full of customers riffling through saris and buying Indian desserts are now nearly empty, with old Diwali signs and[…]
INTERNATIONAL Local community leaders called for calm after a renewed disturbance among young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu residents in Leicester, in the English East Midlands, despite a strong police presence in the area. The latest incident broke out on Saturday and into Sunday, with police responding[…]
INTERNATIONAL Many British Muslims have been reduced to “second-class” citizens as a consequence of citizenship-stripping powers introduced by the UK government since 2002, according to a new report by a race equality think tank. The report by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), entitled “Citizenship: from right to privilege“, follows the recent extension[…]
The South African Muslim Network (SAMNET) says that people shouldn’t have to resort to the courts in order to have their religious practices respected. This was in response to a Grade 11 Greytown High School, in KwaZulu-Natal, pupil who was suspended for growing a beard for religious purposes. A beard[…]
INTERNATIONAL Muslims are five times more likely to experience police harassment because of their religion compared to those of other faiths, a study by Rice University shows. More specifically, Muslim adults who identify as Black, Middle Eastern, Arab or North African are more likely than Muslims who identify as white[…]
INTERNATIONAL When three Muslim men were killed over a 10-day period in Albuquerque, New Mexico, many members of the close-knit community feared there was a racist serial killer on the loose. The attacks, which saw some of the victims shot at point-blank range in the face, shocked the more than 3,000[…]
INTERNATIONAL Hate crimes against Muslim communities across Canada increased by 71 percent in 2021, according to a newly released report by the government agency Statistics Canada. The study, released on Tuesday, found that the number of recorded attacks against Muslims rose from 84 incidents in 2020 to 144 in 2021. The jump[…]
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